The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-07
King County Is All Right.
Seattle Press-Times

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1t has become necessary to disillusion the
Tacoma Ledger and the ~rokane Rsrietn. From
their remote points OF view they have voluu-
teered the assurance that the Kin, county dele.
CATION will be divided os the senatorial contest.
The Lager says: "The support of King county,
Notwithstanding his (,9uasor AIlen'sl support
OF the canal and his SO bservience 20 the ring,
is neither unanimous neg hearty, for the reason
that the members of It's delegation are not all
subjects of the ring"
The Rtrisuo and Le11r evidently have not
gained that improvement OF the faculty OF OBJ
seTvatiou which is supposed TO result from ex-
perience. The King colt5Ity Republicans aspire
neither to stand out trcin the party organiza-
ton as a despotic faction nor to compose a ring
within it
But they are agreed on Quo proposition. They
are determined not to submit to the bossism of
the appropriation sIab5ers of Portland, for
whom the RsrlcsH speaks authoritatively; they
have served emphatic notice in convention ana
at the ballot box that they are not TO be tarneiy
dubbed and coerced by Selson Bennett and the
Tacoma crowd. Their representatives in the
joint assembly will be found united and in
separable In promoting a cause which the
voters Of King county have favored unani-
mousiy.
For having fearlessly performed his duty to-
ward King county Senator Allen was made 10
county by a combin ion of men wao are jealous
OF Seattle's growth ami envious OF the success
attending the party discipline the Republicans
OF King county have promoted.
Because Senator Allen labored to secure for
the ship canal the appropriation asked by sue
cessive legislatures AMI recommended by the
Federal engineers, he was reviied, wherever
these enemies of King counsy could make them
selves heard. as tie aoiecs tool Of ''ring" and
the ageEt of a band OF conspirators who had
planned to loot the United States treasury. HIS
friends and supporters throughout the state re-
senred this infamous attack on him, and rally
ing to his defense sent to the state convention q
majority OF its delegates
That majority proclaimed in the platform il
adopted that Senator Aliens course had been
just and honorable; thai the ship canal was a
proposed public improvement deserving the
consideration OF the government
When the returns wers counted it transp!red
that the ring represents d by Seattle, the con-
epirators in whose interest Senator Allen had
taken TO the national CAPITAL d set of burglars
tools, number 15,e0) sogis, for every voter n
King county voted for every legislative eandi.
date on every ticket on a canal Platform. All of
Us IN King county are liz this grea. ring; mem
bers OF this terrible conspiracy.
The men elected TO the legislature were sen,
there, so lar as the canal and Senator Alien are
concerned. by solid Constituencies; and the
only Democrat among ting elect openly Endorsed
senator Allen and declarst ne was for the canal
before ne was for any party. Us did this in the
Democratic convention, within the hearing Of
The whole state.
Bennett and Moore. or zae Portland Oreaontra.
could spring 10 senate-isi candidate III the
legislature who would net be opposed by agree
Inent 10 the construction OF the Lake Washing
ton ship canal.
To their county, therefore, every man sent 70
Olympia from King. rs he IS bound By ons
imperative duty, tie nrsE 20 De discharged. and