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1. The Party Says Not Guilty—and Cheers the Man It Removed

   Seattle Democrats put their scandal-scarred administration on trial at Haake's Hall, buried a First Ward delegate fight, and sent David E. Durie into the mayor's race while J.M. Wolfe got the ovation.

   Feb 28, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall · Scandal

2. A Gavel, a Roar, and a Populist Ticket Born in Chaos

   King County's People's Party convention at Turner Hall turned into a shouting, proxy-fighting, faction-splitting marathon—and buried Dr. J. Eugene Jordan and Jack McDonald on the way to nominating a ticket.

   Sep 7, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

3. Col. Patrick Henry Winston Bolts the Populists — and the P-I Pounces

   The Post-Intelligencer gleefully dissects Patrick Henry Winston's letter renouncing the People's Party, calling it less a conversion than the squirm of a politician who has run out of options.

   Jul 24, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

4. A Seattle Expedition Sets Out to Map Mount Rainier's Glaciers—and Find a Hidden Volcano

   Major Ingraham's party leaves Seattle for three weeks on the mountain, hoping to name glaciers, test mineral springs, and locate a smoking volcano seen from the foothills.

   Jul 13, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

5. The Night They Slept in Rainier's Ice Caves

   A Seattle climbing party returns from Mount Rainier after a storm-bound night in the summit ice caves—and Tacoma greets them like a circus.

   Jul 25, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

6. The Great Blaine Betrayal: How a Few 'Carpet-Baggers' Humiliated Washington's Republicans

   At the North Yakima convention, local leaders rejected a resolution honoring James G. Blaine, sparking outrage and accusations of political conspiracy.

   May 17, 1888The Seattle Post-IntelligencerNorth Yakima, Yakima, Yakima CountyCity Hall

7. A Jury Called the Franklin Mine Fire Arson. Thirty-Seven Miners Were Already Dead.

   A coroner's jury found that someone deliberately set the fire that suffocated 37 workers in the Franklin mine. The only survivor described how one opened door and one stopped fan turned the gangway into a death trap.

   Aug 26, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerBlack Diamond, King CountyWork & Pay · Disasters

8. They Climbed Rainier First—and Slept in a Sulphur-Scented Ice Cave

   In 1870, Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump reached Mount Rainier's summit after a brutal 10½-hour climb, then spent a freezing night beside volcanic steam vents.

   Jan 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

9. Sixteen Seattleites Climb Rainier, With Carrier Pigeons and a Night on the Crater

   Two members of a Seattle climbing party return from Mount Rainier after the rest push on to the summit, where they plan to camp amid volcanic steam and signal the city with bonfires.

   Jul 21, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

10. The Independent Candidate Who Fought the Party Machine

    After suffering a broken arm, a local editor decries the 'spoils system' and the grip of party caucuses over Washington Territory's first constitutional process.

    Mar 30, 1878Puget Sound DispatchSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

11. The Senator Who Came to Bless the Canal

    Illinois senator Shelby Cullom tours Seattle's proposed Lake Washington ship canal, flirts with a presidential run, and tells boosters their city needs 'a little Chicago push.'

    May 17, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyBoom & Bust · City Hall

12. The Dug-Eaters of the Yukon: A Philadelphia Man’s Starvation Story

    H.C. Reifsnyder arrives in Seattle with a harrowing tale of survival on the Edmonton Trail, where his party subsisted on dog meat and dugouts after losing their provisions to the brutal wilderness.

    Jun 24, 1899The Seattle StarSeattle, King CountyDisasters

13. The Hungry Democrats of Adams County

    A local lawyer files a mock legal complaint humorously detailing the political squabbling over patronage and power in late 19th-century Washington.

    Mar 9, 1898Adams County NewsRitzville, Adams CountyCity Hall

14. The Senator’s Seattle Sojourn: Fairbanks Tours the City Before Heading North

    Vice President-elect Charles W. Fairbanks and his entourage spent a whirlwind day in Seattle, touring the Great Northern terminal, Lake Washington, and receiving a civic welcome before departing for Alaska.

    Jun 12, 1899The Seattle StarUnion Station, Seattle, King County

15. Six Men Climbed a Smoking Rainier in Midwinter

    When Mount Rainier seemed to erupt in 1894, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent Maj. E. S. Ingraham and five companions up the Carbon River in deep winter to find out what was really happening.

    Jan 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

16. The Political Allegiance of the Black Voter in 1892

    In an era of rising racial violence and disenfranchisement, H.R. Carroll makes an impassioned case for why the Republican Party remained the only viable choice for Black citizens.

    Oct 24, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyExclusion & Resistance

17. Seattle Democrats Bolt Their Own Party Over the Lake Washington Canal

    Furious that the state convention caved to Pierce County and denounced the Lake Washington canal, King County Democrats vow to vote the Republican ticket — and to knife their own party from top to bottom.

    Aug 28, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

18. The Railroad Lobby's Quiet Plan to Buy a Governor and Kill the Commission

    A Walla Walla editor warns that railroad interests will avoid an open fight over regulation by nominating a friendly, colorless candidate—then using him to veto the commission bill.

    Nov 27, 1903The Evening StatesmanOlympia, Thurston CountyFollow the Money · City Hall

19. Miles Poindexter Takes On the Party Bosses

    The Third District congressman launches a U.S. Senate campaign in Spokane, promising to break the grip of Cannon and Aldrich and return the Republican Party to its voters.

    Nov 25, 1909The Newport Miner (Newport, WA) 1899-CurrentSpokane, Spokane CountyFollow the Money · City Hall

20. The Price of Loyalty in 1880 Seattle

    As Seattle went to the polls in 1880, local editors warned that political fealty to the Republican party was the only way to secure the University and future federal favors.

    Nov 2, 1880The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

21. A Christmas on the Ice King: The Climb That Saw Rainier Smoking

    In 1894, Major Ingraham led six men, seven homing pigeons, and a camera onto Mount Rainier’s glaciers. They came back with frostbite, a story of steam and smoke rising from the crater—and one pigeon missing.

    Jan 6, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerMount Rainier, Pierce CountyStrange But True

22. The Railroad Contractor Who Thought He Could Boss the Republican Party

    Nelson Bennett's Tacoma Ledger refused to back John H. McGraw and the state Republican ticket after a canal fight. A Pierce County senator told the party to stand by the convention—and warned that one wealthy man was not bigger than the party.

    Aug 25, 1892The Seattle Post-IntelligencerTacoma, Pierce CountyCity Hall

23. The Judge, the Stenographer, and the $2,000 Bill the County Refused to Pay

    A Yakima County water-rights trial dragged on for weeks. When the judge tried to stick taxpayers with the stenographer's tab, the state Supreme Court stepped in and said no.

    Mar 14, 1892The Olympia TribuneYakima, Yakima CountyCity Hall

24. The Politics of Personal Attack in 1872

    A century and a half ago, a Seattle newspaper reflected on the toxic state of political discourse and the dangerous habit of substituting insults for policy debate.

    Jan 8, 1872Puget Sound DispatchSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

25. The Governor’s Gamble: McBride Pledges War on Corporate Corruption

    In the wake of Teddy Roosevelt’s fiery Spokane address, Washington Governor Albert E. McBride declares his intent to uphold the law against wealthy corporations, signaling a shift in state politics.

    May 30, 1903The Evening StatesmanWalla Walla, Walla Walla CountyCity Hall

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