The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-04
pEp,lR, IcAN PARTY IN KING
COUNTY BADLY DEMORAL-
lied AND BROKEN UP.
~Poxersv of Several Different Kinds
Are Out With Knife for Will
sons Candidate.


Mead meeting last Tuesday evening
demonstrated as nothing else couid
have done that the republicans Oh
King county are "all shot to pieces
ca much so that it was necessary to
hold two large public meetings in order
TO show all factions are participating
in the campaign, it having been found
impossible to induce them all TO take
part in the same meeting.
The Mead meeting was participated
IN nv the small Mead following, the
Wilson forces, and the railroad forces
owing their first allegiance to the
Great Northern interests, while the
south district organization was rep
resented in the chairman selected Tor
the meeting, DR.. J. j. Smith. Samuei
III. Piles, who has the Endorsement OF
the county for senator, was openly
snubbed and sat through the meeting
= spectator in the audience, and the
Young Mems republican club, having
refused to participate because Dr.
Smith was to preside, took no part IN
the meeting, although they organized
the street procession.
Tonight the Piles faction and the
yonne Mems republican club will have
their turn in a meeting held under the
ausnices of the club and addressed by
Mr.. Piles.
Tuesday nights meeting put a wet
blanket on what little Mead sentiment
there existed here prior to that time
since it carried the conviction to thou
sands that Mead is in reality the Will
son candidate, in addition to being the
railroad candidate, while the attend
ance upon the meeting Of j. D. Farrell
and Judge Thomas Burke, under the
e,spionage of Chairman E. B. Palmer
of the Wilson railraod state commit
Zee. placed the stamp of railroad ap-
proval again upon the proceedings OF
Forces are Shattered.
The cash in the side of the King
1,ounty republican harmony indicated
by this cleavage of factions is but
surface indication of the shattered
condition of the party's forces in the
county. 1t is currently reported on
what appears to be the best of author
sty that Sam Piles is indignant at
John L. Wilson for the insolent man
ner in which Mr.. Wilson has crowded
himself in the front in violation of the
agreement entered into between them
that Mr.. Wilson would not enter the
senatorial race until it had been de-
nonstrated that Mr.. Piles could not
be elected. In addition to assuming the
position of special sponsor for Mr..
Mead in that gentleman's canvass for
governor, Wilson has circulated all
over the state the report that he is
King county's real candidate for the
senate, and that Mr.. Piles candidacy
was only put forward to unity the del
egation in Wilson's behalf This i'm
preston has completely undermined
whatever strength Mr.. Piles might
otherwise have gained in outside coun-
ties and left him practically without
serious consideration as candidate.
Eric dc of of =
fude OF the ex-senator even more in
Gignantly than does Mr.. Piles, and
their mouths are not closed by the ne
cessity of refraining from over acts
of unfriendliness. In no portion of the
state is the unfriendliness towards
Wilson felt more intensely than in this
county. This is due to several causes
but the chief of them is his own po-
litical selfishness and his inordinate
personal ambition which obscures all
other considerations, even the welfare
of his county, state and party
Supporters of Mr.. Piles displayed
this feeling towards Wilson when they
caused to be distributed at the doors
of the Wilson-Mead meeting anony-
nous circulars attacking Wilson TO,
betraying Harold Preston in the last
senatorial contest and advising the
King county senators to vote for q
Walla Walla candidate.
Honeycombed With Boxers.
The King county republican organi-
cation is honeycombed with Boxers
until the men who are managing the
hight do not know whom they car
trust to carry out their instructions
loyalty. The state committee is in the
hands of the Wilson-railroad forces
who have abandoned all else to save
Mead and the election of such leeisla-
i've candidates as will support Wilson
while the county organization is in the
hands Of the south district" rine
which is more determined upon the
election of Lou Smith for Shor;Ae &..