Democratic Party Feuds in the Young State of Washington

George Hazzard, one of the central figures in Democratic politics in this state, arrived here this evening from Langley. Mr. Hazzard said, 'I was invited to go to Olympia to be present during the senatorial contest, but I chose to travel in the opposite direction. I am not in accord with the distinguished Democratic gentlemen from Pierce county who are now in the capital city. I was opposed to having the complimentary vote for the United States senator given to any citizen from Pierce county. I told Chairman Drum I was opposed to it, because I could name three Democrats in this state who have spent years of active work in the cause of the Democratic party—Benjamin F. Shaw, John Collins, and B. L. Sharpstein.' Regarding Hugh C. Wallace, Hazzard remarked, 'Wallace is a superior young man, but he ought to be delivered from all his friends who propose to rush him into a gait he cannot keep up. To have elected him to the United States Senate at 31 years of age would have been to have given him something twenty years ahead of his time.' Hazzard concluded by naming Thomas Burke, Daniel H. Gilman, and John Collins as the men to whom the party owes the most, noting that without their investment in the Seattle Telegraph, the party would have no voice in the state.