The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-22
IN SPITE OF NELSON BENNErT.
The Pierce County Republicans Are
Making q Winning CampaiRn.


TACOMA. Sept. 2l.--TSpecial. l-E. W.
Taylor is getting the county Republican
organizations in good working order. On
September q meetings will be held in all
the precincts to organize clubs, and these
clubs will come together here at the Re-
publican League headquarters September
30. Mr.. Taylor reports plenty of funds on
hand to defray the usual expenses of Or
ganxation.
OF the league meeting last night the
Ledger today says:
The rally held at the City Republican League
headquarters last evening was attended by
about 100 persona
This is false. It was not rally, and
100 was not the number present. 1t was a
meeting of the league managers. Out of
l55 invited by postal card to be present,
1856 were there. Routine business was to
be considered. Lee Fairchlld and Col.
Eddy were not invited to address a rally,
but they were requested to come up to the
league headquarters and address the
league. Republicans complain that the
Ledger has monopoly on Ananias' busi-
. ness. Democrats seem outdone in this
respect. They are letting the Ledger run
the Ananias end of the campaign. Al
ternately the Ledger plies Ananias' voca-
tion for the Democrats and the Peoples
party.
Complaint was made that BENEFITS
Mugwump Phalanx is composed of more
than the two dozen allotted to it by the
Posr-ISTELLIGENCER. An investigation
followed. The phalanx, 1t appears, has
just two dozen windmill fighters, making
Just twenty-five, including the boss him.
self. That's just what the PosT-INTELLI-
GEEcER stated-that Mr.. BENEFITS Mug
wumps numbered two dozen.
H. G. Clement is president and A. r.
Jitlow secretary of this Mugwump Pha-
lanx. The Ledger does not publish the
proceedings of the phaianx when it meets
TO fight out imaginary battles and terror
Ire imaginary enemies. Mr.. Clements
and Mr.. Titlow's friends are heartily
ashamed of them for their zeal to emulate
the boss, cognizant of their ridiculous po-
sition. Mr.. Clement deserves. however, to
b president of the M1kwump Phalaax.
He has been given any amount Of double
loaded" space on the editorial page of the
boss paper. the Ledger. to smite the evil
which Bennett imagines Senator John B.
Allen is breeding. Ii Bennett didn't want
Mr.. Aliens seat in the United States SEN
ote, Mr.. Clements Mugwump literature
might have some weight.
Mr.. Bennett, Mr.. Clement, Mr.. Titlow
and the twenty-five other little Mug
wumps who are secretly conniving with
them to confound Mr.. BENEFITS bug-a-boo
enemies also imagine they represent
enough votes to throw the county to the
Democrats. They are woefuliy and blindly
mistaken. They represent orly themselves.
Sven the Democrats spurn their councils.
To defeat gentleman whom they inn
ssined would be nominated by the Repub-
leans Of Pierce county, the Bennett Mug
wump phalanx made overtures to the
Democrats. They promised great things
II the Democrats would hold their county
convention before the Republicans and in
corse the bar nominations for superior
Court judges. I'VE sized them up" one of
the Democratic workers said today, land
We didn't want none of it: seer"
The Democrat referred to is one OF sew
eFsi who propose TO control the state
patronage il the Democrats ever get into
power in tins state. They seem to know
ey their sizing up" process that the ex-
section boss doesn't represent any body but
ais two dozen zealots.