The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-27
WILSON IS ENEMY OF PILES
Said That Seattle Publisher VIII
Fight Junior Senator
HAS COMMENCED WORKING on PLAN
PERENNIAL CANDIDATE WILL
MAKE ANOTHER ATTEMPT
TO GO TO SENATE.



considered as factors, or in any way
save as hostile agencies, by the man
ayers of Senator Piles in the coming
campaign, is the story printed in the
| Seattle Times.
The campaign in which the re-elec-
ton of Senator Piles in 1909 is in
volved. will be in the hands of the
! close personal and political advisers Of
the senator, who carried the brunt of
the fight during the fall of 1904 and
the winter following. The general lines
! of this campaign have, within the
past few days, been agreed on. All
details, save the very smallest of pre-
cinct preparations, have been submit
ted to Senator Piles and will be ap
proved by him. The support of VIII
son is not expected, his advice is not
sought and his presence is not desired
at conference in Piles behalf.
No Faith in Wilson.
me UldUdStIS Oh SendtoI
Piles do not regard Wilson's declara-
| ton that he is not a candidate for Of
| flee as being honest or truthful. They
place as much faith in his sincerity
as the Trojans entertained for the
Greeks after that memorable wooden
horse incident They do not expect
Wilson's help in the fall campaign, nor
that of his paper. They will ask, on
Senator Piles behalf, and with his
knowledge, that the republicans of
King county select as candidates in
the legislative districts men who are
pledged firmly to the Piles legislative
program. They will point out that
only by allowing Senator Piles to con-
troll absolutely will King county's hold
on a senatorship be made certain.
In carrying out this program, in
which Senator Piles political future is
the big factor, the only hostile influ-
ence which the Piles managers fear
who is the ostensible head of the morn
ing paper. Senator Piles has been
told that if he wishes to leave no
loophole for the entry of a traitorous
interest he must see to it that in every
legislative district his friends shall
control.
The appeal to the King county re-
publicans will be patterned after that
made so successfully by Senator Piles
and his manager, Frank Twichell, in
the summer of 1904 In the campaign
prior to the nominating convention,
the Piles men went into every pre-
cinct and picked the men for offices on
Ia showing that such a procedure was
of King county's fight for senator.
That Twichell and the other leaders
associated with him were right subse-
quent events proved.
Recall Old Hostility.
In the conferences between the init
mate friends of Senator Piles since
his return from Washington, these
matters have been canvassed at length
and in every detail. AS throwing light
on the situation, the Piles managers
recalled the stormy interview in 1904,
in the editorial office of the Post-In-
telligencer, when certain of Mr.. Piles
supporters and managers asked John
L. Wilson to lend the support of his
paper to King county's fight for sem
ator
At that time Mr.. Wilson became fu-
rious and declared that his visitors
were impudent and even audacious in
! their request. Certainty of a reasser-
| ton of this attitude should Piles ask
| favor of the publisher of the morn
| ing paper is felt by the advisers OF
the senator.
Senator Piles advisers too. have re-
called how shrewdly Wilson sought to
tie the hands of the King county dele
cation to Olympia and to prevent
Piles success by insisting on the ia
nous agreement made after an all
1 night conference in the private office
of the MacDougall & Southwick store.
BY the terms of that agreement the
King county delegation was to sup
port Wilson when it appeared to
board of arbitration that Piles could
not win.
| How Wilson Knitted Piles,
In the recent discussion of plans for
Piles'control of King county, his man.
ayers have recalled how Wilson. be-
fore the legislature met at OLYMPIA
caused the news Of that agreement