The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-10-02
CLAIMS WILSON IS BEHIND
SEATTLE TIMES ASSERTS PENl.
TERTIARY ROW WAS IN.
SPIRED BY WILSON.
Saws Perennial Candidate Is Seeking
to Secure Control of the Prison
for Political Purposes.


penitentiary and the controversy that
has arisen over the responsibility OF
the present typhoid epidemic, the Sc
attic Times claims to have solved the
real reason for the agitation That is
being carried on Throughout the
state. The paper asserts that the
trouble was originated by the boxers"
of Walla Walla county, who are simp-
ly doing the bidding of John L. Will
son, former ex-senator and at present
the owner of the acknowledgements.
This is The way the Times puts it in
an article printed Saturday:
Strenuous efforts are being made
by the anti-Ankeny faction in Walla
Walla and by the Wilson crowd
throughout the state to discredit the
administraD ion of Warden KEGS at the
state penitentiary and force him out
A Wilson ring in control of the peni-
perennial candidate, is sought to give
the foundation for an organization
against. Ankeny in his own county
at is thoroughly understood by
politicians that Warden KEGS stays in
as warden because Mead is afraid to
dismiss him. Wilson has never for
given Mead for naming KEGS in the
first instance, and the personal repre-
sentative Of the perennial candidate
insists THAI Mead broke a pledge to
give KEGS the place. Wilson wanted
the appointment to plant a disturbing
element in Walla Walla county, where
under present conditions, he has about
as much chance of winning out as
friendless coolie in the hands Of an
immigration officer.
There is no lie between Mead and
Ankeny that is founded on the basis
of friendship. Mead fears Ankeny and
to stay-that and the fact that KEGS
was backed by campaign interests
Mead is not in a position to ignore.
Politicians know that after Mead
dismissed the guards VINO registered in
Walla Walla he anxiously sought out
Senators Piles AMI Ankeny to know
whether they were displeased. Mead
was desperately anxious to know
whether Senator Ankeny was dissatis-
fed with an arrangement that kept
him IN control Of the penitentiary. and
he was just as eager to know how
Senator Piles would take it. The only
satisfaction he got was an ultimatum
from both senators that If Mead was
seeking a ignk he could have it,
Neither senator would give Mead the
satisfaction Of knowing how they re-
garded his penitentiary attitude. But
from the fact that Ankeny and Piles
have a close working agreement and
the unanimly with which the two
senators were acting caused the gov
ernor to wake up. That is why his
hand is not apparent in the present
penitentiary fight.
"Ankeny men insist that the stories
spread from Walla Wal1a TO the eff
feet that the penitentiary is filled with
typhoid fever patients are sent out in
the interests of the Wilson clique,
struggling for a foothold. This and
charges Of maladminiS ration on the
part of KEGS in recent punishment
cases, together with the incidents
connected with the dismissal of two
guards, has been responsible for the
cry against KEGS. Guard Colegrave
resigned, but he was not compelled
to leave on account of poor sanAa-
ton. Turnkey Berry was dismissed
and left the country because of his in
timacy with discharged female con-
Wet.
There has been an epidemic of ty-
phoid in Walla Walla, the hospitals
being filled with patients, and several
deaths have occurred. But at the
penitentiary out of 12O cases. not a
single fatality has been recorded. The
close attention given by DR.. Y. c..
Blalock and DIR. Martiny has kept the
penitentiary free from any seriosu
cases.
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