The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-03
Star Chamber Session of Nelson
Bennett and His MinionS.
THEY FIX UP COUNTY estate"
Rule or Ruin Will Be Their Motto in
the Pierce County Convention.
Tacoma Inventors Electric Elevated
Road-Puysllup Hop Growers Esti-
mate OF State Crop-Drunkard Takes
. Dose Of strychnine.

TACOMA, Oct. Especial. Nelson Ben
nett and his two dozen bolters held a
secret meeting today and arranged TO bolt
the action of the Republican county con-
vention, provided they cannot put through
their slate. Sunday was spent by the
traitors OF the Republican party of Pierce
county in comparing the memorandum of
traitors to the party employed to ''spot"
any Republican who will not stand in
with the bolters. The boilers have
money. They have made house TO
house canvass of the city, to the end that
any man who would not obey the ukase
of the boss bolter might be turned down
at the Republican primaries or at the Re-
publican county convention.
The bolters propose to carry their point,
which is to pack the Republican county
convention, by using hired heelers from
the Democratic party to carry precincts
for them. Charley Kennedy, ex-tireman,
ex-policeman and now a curbstone Demo-
cratic politician. is to carry two precincts
himself and lead the hireings who are in
the employ of the twenty-five bolters.
Nelson Benefits secretary, Mr.. Black
wood. is to carry another precinct. ]. ID.
Caughran another, II. c. Clement, presi-
A. r. Titlow another, and so on. BY
money expended in hiring Democrats, by
appealing to the prejudice of the people,
by threats and coercion. Nelson Bennett's
bolters hope to pack the Republican county
convention. They may succeed. 1t is very
doubtful, though.
Ii they do not succeed they will bolt the
action of the Republican county conven-
ton. 1T Nelson Bennett's two dozen bolt
ers cannot have their own way, or rather.
If Nelson Bennett cannot have his own
way and dictate according to the incon-
sistent views of his personal organ, the
Tacoma Ledger, then the action of the Re-
publican convention will be bolted.
Republicans of Pierce county will not
bolt the ticket. Boilers will bolt. The
Republicans of this county will prove
themselves Republicans; they will not
bolt. Should Nelson Bennett succeed in
packing the convention, by the aid of
Democratic hirelings, threats and the in-
timidation of the weak, the Republicans
who go to the convention will abide by the
action of the majority. They will not dis
grace Republican convention.
Nelson Benefits boiters, after heaping
personal abuse upon the heads of all who
would not obey the ukase of Bennett,
have prepared slate. They finished their
slate today-on Sunday. They will toler-
ate no one not on that slate. They are
stubborn, ::and will not permit any deviation
from the plan of the boss bolter, which is
to attack anybody who does not stand in
with him and his two dozen boilers.
These boilers are suspicious. They are
continually looking for daggers and trait
ors. They have secured the assistance of
men who have been boiters through friend
ship. through love of gain, through fear or
cowardice, and have accepted such assist
ance until time when they had no further
use for it, then the giver of the assistance
has been kicked out and dropped
Nelson Bennett is unpopular In Tacoma.
He and his twenty-four bolters represent
only themselves. Charlie Kennedy and
his gang, the hirelings of the boiters, may
serve purpose at the primAries tomor-
row. They, too, and all their kind will be
dropped when there is no further use for
them.