The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-03
TURNER
MAY RUN
For Governor if Mcbride
is Turned Down,
SAYS OREG0NlAN INFORMANT
The Former Senator Favors Makjno
Railway Commission the Para.
mount Issue.
IS OREGoNlAN INFORMANT

The Olympia correspondent of the
Oregonlan writes: Ex-senator George
Turner has been credited with the
statement that he would accept the
democratic nomination for governor of
Washington next year, but the lead
ing democrats of the state now assert
| that, in the event conditions so shape
themselves that the democrats can
! make the railway commission fight
their fight and the paramount issue of
the campaign, and with the further
proviso that Governor Mcbride is not
candidate for governor, Senator Tur-
| ner will accept the nomination.
The assertion comes from the same
quarter that Governor Mcbride has
been quietly approached to ascertain
what he would do in the event the re-
publican convention refuses to again
lndOrse his railway commission ideas.
| and names another man for governor.
| and the answer has been that, no mat
| ter how ruthless his turning down may
| be, the governor will not desert the
| party or consent to head an indepen-
| den anti-railrOad ticket.
| Plans Of Campaign.
| w Ill ClliS Sui duCc DIT UdUu. dIlu
with a cruel conviction that the rail
way commission fight, to the extent OF
being an internecine fight of the re
publican party, is a dead one, the
democrats have formed plan of cam
paign by which they hope to carry al
least a portion of the state ticket
Their idea is to hold the democratic
state convention soon after the date Of
the republican convention, then follow
up the expected defeat in the republi
can convention of the railway commits
sion plank by adopting a strong com
J nilsson plank in their own platform
name Senator George Turner for gov
ernOr. and concentrate all efforts tow
| ard electing Turner and democratic
! Legislature. The slate also includes
the nomination of l.. c. Gilman. of thu
| Seattle law firm of Preston. Carr
| Gilman, for lieutenant governor, ant
! then, if the commission plank gives
I the democratic ticket the impetus
hoped for and a democratic legislature
Is elected, it Is planned to send Tur
| ner back to the United States senate
| and let the lieutenant governor, whom
| they, Of course, anticipate to be Gil
| SUSCt6u L uSi dS SONSIuO1
| This, it might be stated, is planning
| out a good many details, one or more
Of which the likely to fail, even under
| the most suspicious circumstances
but the outline Of the plan includes
| come statements important in Wash
| ingtOn politics. For instance, there
| has been a number Of predictions, per
| haps by people who do not know the
strength of McBride's loyalty to party
| that, in the event he loses in the con-
vention, he will head railway com
mission party, which would fuse with
| the Democrats and nominate him for
| governor
! 1t was the predictions which impel-
| led the democrats to ascertain the gov
ernors exact intention before they laid
their own plans, and the chance they
now think they see to win has ap-
| pealed even to Turner, whose declina-
! ton heretofore to allow his friends to
| count on him as a possible candidate
| has been ascribed by the public 10 a
| belief on his part that the fight would
| be a hopeless one.