The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-25
SOUND POLITICAL ADVICE.
Pierce County Republicans Will NOT
Redress the Grievance of One Man.

Pierce County Republicans Will Not
Redress the Grievance Of One Man.
The Olympian.
Senator L. F. Thompson, of Pierce, has written
Q letter to the Republicans OF that county when
appeared in yesterdays Ledger. The senator de-
plores he recalcitrant attitude OF Mr.. Bennetfs
paper. and urges the party in that county to
stand by the work OF the convention, whose re-
suits were favorably and honorablJ won, and to
indorse the action OF the Republicans in Novem'
ber The senator says: 90" The nomination
of Hon. John H. McGraw was fairly won.
Now that we have secretary OF state ana mem
Der of congress may Pierce county be satisfied,
and come forward like men who were fairly
beaten on the canal and help elect the state
and national ticket Hon. John II. McGraw Is
without doubt one OF the best organizers In the
state, and will in my judgment make al able
governor, and will be an honor to the grand OLD
party, and discharge his duties faithfully ana
honestly. wish to impress It upon the minds
OF all loyal Republicans to stand by the action
OF the convention, and cast your oailots ZOE
your state candidates"
This advice il sound to the ere. 1t is upright,
manly, direct and fair. If the Republicans OF
Pierce county will take counsel OF such loyal
sentiments aud good politics, and now that q
Clean, strong ticket has been named, will come
up to its support as one man, they will be doing
a service not only to their party, but be further
ing their own interests as we'll
As Senator Thompson says, the fight was
fairly won. There was not one feature that
could reflect upon the integrity and sincerity
OF the convention as q whole. Pierce county mas
nothing to gain by fighting the ticket, and
much to lose. Antagonism, dissensions and
Republican defeat are not going to help Pierce
county, but such result would turn
against that county, and Tacoma espe-
cially, an overwhelming majority of the Re-
publicans of this state. If the kickers imagine
that King county is arrayed against them. what
could they expect II, through their desertion'
the state should by any possibility be thrown
into the Democratic column? What would Mr..
Bennett and his friends expect FROM the Repu0-
lican party?
The Olympidn has every confidence in the Re-
publican majority in this state. as it has every
faith in the men who were nominated by its
representatives fairly and sQuarely in this city
last week: and it cannot believe that the Der
sonal warfare that is now being waged against
Its work in that county will gain momentum or
seriously imperil its prospects.
The Ledger is governed by jealousy and pique.
1t is not a Republican paper any further than
the ambition and wishes OF Mr.. Nelson Bennett
may lead it. Its open hostility to the ticket
must be accepted as positive proof that 1t Is q
personal organ, conducted tor the purpose OF
recording the opinions and encouraging the
ambitions OF one man.
This is q late day for any boss to imagine that
he is greater than his party; that his will can
turn aside and thwart the recorded wish OF an
organized and intelligent majority, or that the
public is so great fool that he can long deceive
1t by fighting his own private battles on the
public campus.
Mr. Bennett is q man OF wealth who has bored
a big hole through the Cascade mountains, but
he has apparently yet to learn that successful
politics and successful engineering are widely
different pursuits.