The daily Alaskan., 1904-08-20
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UNFAIR TOWARD SENATOR
 TURNER

That the extreme bitterness and ul- fra vipdietiveness which cut short tEe political career of the brilliant John l., Wilson in ,he state Of Washington are still characteristics Of the eS-senatOr is being made evident by the unfair at tscks which his Post-IutelliGeneer is making against Ex-Senator George Turner, a candidate for the governor ship of that state.
 In his zeal to defeat the aspirations ofMr. Turner, Mir. Wilson has permit ted the Post-Intelligencer to misrePre- sent the leading citizen Of his state in such palpable manner that it cannot fail 10 work to the injury of the paper rather than the man misrePresented.
 Among other mlsstatemeuts in one editorial in the POst.IutelHgencer was the charge that Mir. Turner had to change his politics from a silver repu6- liean Co a populist in order to be elect ed to the United States senate in 1897, and the further charge that he never announced that he was a democrat until he became a candidate for the uomina- tion for vice-president by that party, and that he then became a conserve tive democrat Both charges were ab- soIutely false.
 In 1897, after he had been nominated for United States senator by a caucus of democrats, silver republicans and pop ulists. a combination which had swept the state a, the elections iu lS96, NIT. Turner announced that he was a mem Der of the great peoples party of the state of Washington, which he defined in the same speech to mean the demo cratic, the populist and the silver re- publican parties, or the fusion combt- nation which had made his election pos sibIe. During the session Of the legis- lature, before which Mir. Turner was a candidate for senator, he and Governor Rogers repeatedly said that the demo cratic organization was the great ua- tional party which was represented in their state by the combined parties named.
 Before the conventions of 1900, long before the reorganization of the dem Ocratlc party on a conservative basis was dreamed of, Senator Turner and Governor Rogers allied themselves with the democratic organization iu their state, and Senator Turner was the candidate of the Rogers forces before the democratic convention for the tenn porary chairmanship. Both ezerted their influences toward changing the name of the fusion party from peoples party to democratic party that year.
 The present is not the first time the personal hatred of Nr. Wilson for Mr. Turner has lead him to misrepreseut the latter. Once, while NIr. Turner was iu the senate, the present editor of the Post-InteIugencer, as the represen- tative of the Seattle chamber of com merce at the national capital, was com pelled to call the Post-Intelligeucer down in a signed article for untairuess and untruthfulness in its attitude to- ward NIr. Turner.
 Ex-Senat0r Turner is a big man, the biggest in his state, the people of which, irrespective Of party, are proud of him, and that they will resent the malicious misrepresentation of the Seattle POst-Intelligencer is as certain as is the approach of election day. As a democrat Mir. Turner is subject to att tack by republicans on account of his political faith, and those interested in republican success would do well to let their case rest upon the strength Oi the principles and policies of their party rather than to attempt to make the per- sOnality and the record of Washing tons only statesman the issue.