The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-01-18

later elected Ankeny VIII history
repeat itself. and viii King county
T n itH enduaNur 60 lit Piles into tho
+ senatorial chair. clear the way for
an outs De CHaad latu 10 win au easy
T vlttSrvf
It saEsaa 90.
F'OF &aAR county will not listen
F I" TIE Usefsufpz OF oFaea candidates
ffsaaa its Uaa prodness 10 n snch a
| candidate has a. Sotss IN pa lrride
porkct. exclusive Of che Kise ooua
" vote.
At q eecret eoucun the kiup ruun-
y delegation last night decided 10
stand by Piles 20 the last ditch. ana
net to consider nor even to listen 20
the advances Of any other KInn
county man until he was prepared
/ 60 ON the provisions stated above.
Il viii do no good for any King
county man ether than piles 60
come 20 the delegation with the talk
that be has So or even 80 votes and
I that with the King county votn the
band wason VIII do tho rest.
The delegation f. from Missouri
and it will have % be shown how a
man can be elected before Il will
help elect him.
AZ least thas Is the talk nov
Yesterday. after the hallaung. Mr..
I Wilson received the fifteen memhera
Who recorded their votes I'm his fgy-
or. and WAS Informed BY them that
they would remaia With him until
he ia elected. The call was In the
nature % surprise 90 the former
senator. and ne expressed his deep
appreciation Of their manifestation
Of lJyauY.
There were surprises all around
Ia the first ballot cast yesterday.
not only In the nmbvr ~ votes raat
for the respective candidates, but IN
the personnel Of the support given
To each In the first place. prus-
Ideally all OF the candidates fell from
three % sisht votes short Of their
uWu estimated strength
fuater. whose strength had been
variOusly estimated hy his managers
at from Is Co So received but g..
Piles. Tor whom his managers had
claimed from 81 TO IS votes re
erived but 81. Wilson. Who las
claimed from Is 20 25. received bat
Is aud Sweeny. who has claimed
from % - IS. received but e. A
portion Of the votes rcpFeseatsI In
the difference between the number
east and the number expected by
the several candidates Is represent
81 IN the scattering vote - n east
Ter Caszruye and Jones. which. IL
distributed pro rata among the tour
leading candidates. would siys them
almost three votes each.
n the personnel % the haltot. a.
Weil ~ In the number Of votes cast
tur each candidate there were many
surprises The Foster managers
had some reason to feed dlaappdluf-
u4eut at not setting ths vote ct
keyrs. 81 Mhatcum. bat were com
nsuaated hY receiving the unexre,t-
90 vote % Griffith. Of the aame cauu-
-. who has beeu placed hy some
observers In the SWseuy column
They had a small dlaappairImrnt
be- sfurr Tor them Ia rot setting a
ainElc vote from either Lewis couu-
IS ar Clarke county. but they re-
relved two FROM ChehalIa. Sumner
from snohnmish and shuta OF san
Iuau. all threa % whom had been
claimed hy rival candidates Foster
aIan failed 10 get the vote % stan
cell. q Stevens. Who had very
strongly intlmatrd on several oeca-
Fiaus that Be woui1 vote for the Ia
ruma man.
The piles managers bad several
appointments In store f8r them.
ThrF failed % get either tho Henas
tor Condon. or the representative.
Davis. from kHaan county. both %
whom voted for Wilson. They Did
not land senator sumner. u SuO-
humish. In whom they expressed
much confidence. and they lost
shulfs. 81 san Juan. and Dyke. u
Claliam. the furSnrr % Foster and
the latter q Wilaun on the other
hand they had two surprises Ia
store for their opponents The first
~ these vas the vote ~ Kennedy
% Lincoln. Who voted for the Seat
tie candidate On the teeth % a sps-
eific instruction Ia his county plat
form not to do 50. and In the ssc-
Odd place they received all THREE Of
the votes from Clarke county. which
bad been variguaiy claimed b. and
credited 20 other candidates. De
spite these votea. however. the
showing made by and for Mr.. piles
Is iar from beins a favorable ouc.
in consideration % the fact that he
has been given the Enforcement and
the united support Of the strongest
delegation IN the legislature.
sweeny surprised hls opponents IN
several places. among them hia ar
QUESTION 81 the votes ~ HutHon and
Panty In TIRE senate. both Aukeuy
men. s,ansell. heretofore presum-
ably a Foster man. and Eeness. Who
bad been claimed By Foster because
be IL a large igmbermnn Hut even
with these votes he fell short Of his
e8fimata on account - tho 'art that
four OF five men claimed BY him
voted for either Jones or CosErove
Wilson evineed his genius for per
souai political organization IN hiH
acquisition Of the votes 81 O'Dou-
nell 81 Chehalls. and Ruth. 81
Thurfon. IN the senate. Practical
/ ~ al of the other votes given him
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