The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-24
"LOYALTYv DOwNED.
The Pro-Chtnese, Martial Law Outfit of
Seattle Beaten at the Polls by
the WOrkingmen.

SEATTLE. W. T., July 81 must write
you now in regard to our city election
which took place Yesterday and resulted
in complete victory for the working
men; and as my time for writing is only
fifteen minutes, please excuse haste.
The election contest was one Of the
most Ihotly, contested ones we have had
for year., The corporate element, the
miiitsnaen5 the professional politicians
and tShe ;afuential' classes generally
united in political organization which
they named the 'Loval Citizens Party"
and squarlv drew the issue of loyalty to
be decided by the success of the one
party or the other. This issue grew out
of and culminaUed from the insensate cry
Of treason, Anarchy and Socialism,
which the politicians and the capitalist
classes have kept up here for the past
six months. The most sensational artl-
cles frequently appeared in their papers
as to reports of conspiracies to assassi
nate, to carry red flags and to burn and
pillage, without the least foundation for
them.
Every utterance of myself and other
friends of labor was distorted and mis-
construed into the widest propositions
imaginable; military drillings have
been kept up at lively rate the cry of
patriotism has been constantly used to
stir up the young men to military en-
thusiasm reports now and then thrown
out that secret efforts were at work to
put out the Chinese again. The grand
jury was worked so as to report that
dangerous Socialistic society prevailed
here, bent upon murder, arson and ra
pine; all manufactured for the special
occasion. So that with patriotic enthu-
sasm aroused, fears Of public disturb
ances excited, 8 cial ostra ism threat
ened and disloyalty charged upon all
who refused to JOIN with them against
the workingmen, the political tricksters
and corporate plunderers imagined they
would be able to carry the election and
snow US under forever.
They placed very strong ticket in
the field, with Arthur A. Derry for
mayor-an ex-congressman at present
a wealthy banker and gentleman whom
all classes respect. The loyalist mana
gers exercised every imaginable techni
cal advantage in registration of voters,
which, with marked partialitv shown to
their own voters, excluded several hun
dred of our voters from registration and
of consequence from voting. They also
used intimidation.
Social ostracism threatened to close
down extensive works if the loyal
ticket should lose, and threw out slurs
and bitterness against all who would not
vote with them. The fact is that our
people have been intimidated to such an
extent that many of them dared not call
their souls their own. With all this
work and influence they did not sup
pose for an instant that their ticket
would lose aud they were worse than
crestfallen when the count last night
revealed the fact that their candidates
for mayor chief of police, city attorney
and four councilmen, out of eight, were
defeated by very decided majorities
They elected two councilmen each in
the second and third wards where all
the wealth resides.
Never was there more distinct divi-
vision of classes than was made by the
election Yesterday. Anyone acquainted
here could have stood at the polls and
counted the respective party votes bv
the character of each individual who
voted. The lawyers, corporate mana
gers and their clerks, the moneYed men,