The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-19
LEE & HUSON TICKET.
Would Run On the Platform,
@We Won't Do 1t Again"
Mr.. M'eRioE's PLACER CLAIM
A RsTsisnA 8ehsoi Closes By DspAsAsria
Lewis Cssnsy repslists Divided
Late I've Factions.

TACOMA, March Ia-gSpeciaLE IA care
fui canvass Of the delegates 70 the Repub-
iicsn city convention Tuesday shows that
the anti Huson, anti-Les and ansi-boodle
men bold the balance OF power. This sitn-
alton fsyors . dark horse, ~ intsmated in
today's Posr-IsTELLISEScKR. with Ed s.
Orr against she neid. Many, while not for
Caughran, are everlastingiy against
Huson. Lee and Boggery. Neither Huson
nor Lee can handle . majority Of the men,
and, even If they could. they could not by
joining forces secure . sufficient number
10 nominate. The Huson-Lee combine
defeated Caughran in bis own precinct,
bat the anti-Huson-Lee contingent de-
feated the Huson-Les element in many Of
their supposed stronghoids. Huson and
Lee are trying desperately to corral enough
anti-boodie delegates to insure nomina.
ton. The Boggs coterie came out Of the
primaries in worse shape than any other
contingent.
For the sake Of protecting the reputa-
ton OF the city's finances there is grow
ing disposition to shield boodiery. as has
already been suggested in the Posr-IsrKL-
LsEscEA provided the speculation in
warrants with the city's money is stopped
with the inception Of the biennial admin
istration, April 10. The possible election
Of Popuiist administration seems to be
q bugaooo, because there is an impression
that If the Populists were in power it
would be one Of the greatest Tnisfortunes
that could happen to the city from .
financial standpoint 8. B. Pettengill il
on; in an article In which he says:
Admitting that the worst suspicious in
regard to the financial condition of the
city are true, IL 10 not best that We should
employ the doctor who was death on
fits The condition cannot DO cured by
throwing the city into fits. II. to be
entirely plain in my references, any
large part Of the city funds is held
Importance that the credit of the
city should be maintained. It is
the interest Of everyone also who has any
stake In the city that the banks in
which the funds have been deposited
should not De discreditcd by any revo-
lutionary action. In other words. the sit
uatior demands considerate and wise
treatment. Ii may need nursing. By no
means should II be thrown into fits, as it
might be, and probably would be, if the
Popu!ist party should secure the Offices
and then attempt to do what some Of their
representatives have asked the present
government to do As / do not intend TO
Fcucct uuJustiy upon these people, VIII
say that think they would be more con-
sentative under the responsibilities Of
managing the city government. as most
people are when so placed, than they are
on the outside"
1.-THE boodler will 20 and sin no more,
matters will be cheerfully hushcd up, but
more footing will not be tolerated. STILL,
there is no guarantee that the old ways
will BE- cast aside IL the boodlers are not
ousted.
At present Country Commissioner Tur-
key Fawcett seems to have q call ON the
Democratic nomination for the head of the
ticket. but whatever the Democrats do at
their convention Wednesday will be based
upon the action taken by the Republicans
on Tuesday. After the nominations are
made it Is possible that the Democratic
partisans will open fire on the Doodle ad-
ministration and Boggery. If somebody
In power pulls the string the partisans
will make trouble.