Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-06-25
1RICKERY CHARGED
some INSIDE POLITICAL HISTORY
WORTH CONSIDERATION.
The Old Saying, "When Thieves Fall
Out, Honest Men Get Their Dues"
is ExempIified. AnOld Story Told
by One of the Participants In An.
keny Election.

SeCTetdry 10 Lne State "A. Y. r. COM
mission and former secretary to SEN
atOr Piles, when asked today if there
is a written agreement whereby Sen
ator Piles pledged the support of
King county to Senator Ankeny in
the coming senatorial contest. said:
Il do not believe there is any such
agreement. Why should there be?
Mr.. Ankeny wired from Washington
that personally he occupied neutral
position in the contest between Fos-
ter, Piles, Wilson and Sweeny A
brief resume of what took place prior
to the convening of the legislature
that elected Piles will convince you
as to the truth of my assertion.
Immediately after the business
men of Seattle put Piles in the field
as candidate for United States SEN
atOr, Mr.. Crocker, representing Mr..
Ankeny, sought an alliance with
Piles, and l was appointed to carry
out the negotiations which finally
ended in an agreement to the effect
that King county would support Mr..
Crocker for governor in the state con-
ventiOn, and in return Ankeny would
guarantee Piles twenty-five votes,
twelve of which were to be given on
the first ballot. Mr.. Stevenson at the
same time offered his services, but
Mr.. Piles was not able to pay the 'ex-
penses' required.
1.-The record of the convention
shows that Piles kept his promise.
The record at Olympia shows that Mr..
Crocker U will not say Ankeny)
broke his, as he has every promise
made us before and since. Crocker's
one chief object is to destroy Piles.
Shortly after Mr.. Piles election had
Mr.. Crocker and Stevenson meet the
senator in his office. At that meeting
| had both CrOcker and Stevenson
promise to keep their hands off King
county politics. This promise they
repeated three times during the meet
ing. My anxiety to prevent their in
reference in this county arose from
the fact that l was working to bring
Piles and Wilson together and thor
oughly heal up all factional strife in
this county, to the end that Piles
might be able to make good his asser-
ton that he would be senator for
twenty-four years.
"Within a few months Mr.. Crocker
was here Offering money to defrey
the campaign expenses of certain
candidate for office In this county.
At meeting at the Diller hotel in
this city Mr. Crocker also gave King
county a candidate for governor. In
addition to Mr.. Ankeny's candidate
for governor, we have a candidate for
nearly every state office. Who is re-
sponsible for this state of affairs?
The real significance and its effect on
Mr.. Piles chances to succeed himself
may be better understood when it is
known that agents have been circu
lating all over the state prOclaiming
that Piles can carry King county for
a yellow dog if he so Wills
'In the late primaries for the cleo
tion of delegates to the county con-
vention to elect delegates to the state
convention, headquarters were open
ed up in downtown hotel, where
arguments were distributed to see
that mo Jones men were allowed on
the delegation. The delegation to the
Spokane convention was called a
piles delegation, headed by Piles
campaign managers. 1t put Piles in
the attitude of opposing the local op-
tion plank. OF course, Mr.. Piles has
had nothing whatever to do with the
naming of the delegates to the Spo-
kane convention or the bringing out
of candidates for state offices.
"In labelling Mr.. Mcbride, Ankeny's
candidate for governor, Mr.. Crocker
foresaw that if Piles declared for An
keny he would be declaring for Nc
Bride as against Mead, who has been
loyal, true friend, and from whose
home district were elected the only
Piles votes in the state outside of
King county. Snohomish county gave
Piles two votes. He will now be ask
ed to support Mr.. Preston's law part
ner for attorney general, as against
Mr.. Bell, Snohomish countys candi-
date. Neither Whatcom nor Snoho-
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