The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1908-03-20

The city election being over, the polite
ians are beginning to turn their mlnds TO
the nominations for the county election,
and Judging from the various announce
ments appearing from day to day In the
daily papers, ere the closing hour comes
round, the number is going to be legion Tor
each of the nominations the Republicans
will be called to name candidates Tor. ASIDE
from the judges, of whom something Will
be said in a subsequent issue, the most I'M
portant position in the county is the office
of sheriff, and for the nomination for that
office there are already number of candl-
dates looking up their friends believing
that with concerted action on the part OF
themselves and their friends it will be an
easy matter to win the prize. Among the
already announced Richmonds for the
shriveality nomination are: ex-County
Commissioner Pete ]. Smith Of lssaquah
Jack Stringer, the well known National
Guard man and at present Deputy Uulted
States Marshal Of this district; DR.. {. b.
Hoye, ex-County Coroner, who halls from
the south district and who for the past four
wears has had charge of the hospital at
Ravensdale; James P AgneW, present
County Auditor and political boss There
are also host of other would-be candidates
who are watching the cat jump and il they
think the Jump is favorable to them, they
too will announce themselves as candl-
dates for the shrivelaty nomination.
DIR. Hoye, Pete Smith and Jim Agnew of ,
course are the leading aspirants for this
nomination. and unless the Pie-maker is
sadly mistaken, one or the other Of them
will get it. Perhaps of the above three,
Pete Smith, owing to a well organized po-
litical machine is the strongest, with Jim
Agnew, from machine standpoint, astrong
second. How strong Pete Smith is depends
solely on how we'll he can organize the
county districts If he be able 70 deliver
to himself at the primaries the solid or
practically SO the north district and large
slice of the south, through the influence OF
the political machine of which he is an IN
fuential member, then he is almost certain
of getting the nomination, as the sam,
machine is now all powerful in the city.
Pete Smith would not make bad sheriff,
and once in office he would make many
friends On the whole, the Ple-maker
thinks him good man and would make
a safe and sane official.
Now jim Agnews is in part hooked up
with the same political machine as Pete
Smith, and if the machine does not suppore
Smith, it will support Jim Agnew and,
in the opinion of the Pie-maker, AgneW is
not a bonifde candidate for Sheriff, but
will be kept in the race in order to keep
the city vote that naturally would go to
Agnew were he candidate, but which
would scatter if he were not a candidate.
While Smith is the choice of the machine,
the makeup thereof would not weep wells
of water if Agnew, by hook or crook,
should get the nomination. In fact the
machine is for Smith or Agnew.
No candidate is worrying the machine
so much as that of Dr. Hoye, because 1T re-
alizes that he will split the south dlstrlct
vote with Smith and will even break into
til north district where Smith lives and
get number of votes, and every, vote
Hoye gets in the country will weaken Smith