The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1908-04-17
POLITICAL POT PIE

There is still considerable talk about
the iron-clad agreement between Ankeny
and Piles, which was responsible for Piles
being elected to the senate. When the ex-
istence of such document is being serl-
ously questioned every day it would seem
that the parties so vitality interested IN the
contents of said agreement would<see to 1t
that it come to light that the business men
of Seattle may know just what is expected
of them " If King county had to pledge
herself in writing to support Levi Ankeny
for senator this year in order to get Piles
four years ago, then [ am for Ankeny
when have been shown the signed, sealed
and delivered document to that effect,
said a prominent business man one day
this week, but am from Missouri" he
continued, and you must show me. :"
Hundreds of voters feel as the above busl-
ness man and it is up to the Crocker-Stev-
enson bunch to either put up the documen-
tary evidence or shut up and UNANIMOUSLY
nominate Wesley l.. Jones to succeed Lew
Ankeny in the United States Senate
M. E. Hay, the merchant prince Of VIII
bur. Washington, passed through Seattle
en- route to Alaska on hunting trip.
While in the city he gave it out that he was
in the hands of his friends and if they
thought it advisable he would be candi-
date for lieutenant governor. He himself
will be gone some five or six weeks, IN the
meantime his candidacy will either have
been launched or dropped. 1t will be re-
membered that he was candidate for the
lieutenant governOrshipfOur years ago and
was juggled out of it by the gang. He
claimed he represented the people while the
gang represented the corporations which
explained why he lost If he decides to go
into the coming fight he will have an op-
portunity to prove that he represented the
people four years ago as he claimed. He
is being backed by the friends of Governor
Mead and if he enters the fight it will mean
Mead will sweep Lincoln county bya 10 to
l vote.
There will be more for the coming state
convention to do besides elect ten delegates
to the national convention, which has to an
extent either been lost sight of or over
looked in the mad struggle to get to Chi
-cago. The convention must nominate five
presid entail electors and choose a cam
Daign committee. Generally speaking not
much Importance is attached to the nomin-
alton of presidential electors, which is more
or less mistake as an unpopular man
might be named as one of these electors
and get skinned at the polls as happened
IN other states, IL therefore DenOOVeS Cne
delegates to the state convention to select
good men for presidential electors nomina-
tions and much discretion should likewise
be displayed in selecting the localities from
which they come. The Pie-maker would
suggest that two of these electors come
from the third congressional district, two
from the second and one from the first,
and that one not from Seattle.
AS was forecasted in The SEATTLE Re-
PUBLICAN some two weeks ago |. M. How
ell of Tacoma has announced his intention
to make fight for the nomination of secre-
tary of state subject to the vote of the direct
primary. Mr. HOWELL is one of Pierce's fav-
orite sons, and she has twice honored him
to official positions, each time giving him
the largest popular vote of any one on the
ticket. He will receive the undivided sup
port of all the daily papers of the county