The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-07

support of the electorate, given by reason
OF what is in the heart and mind OF the
electorate do not want TO remain in the
government of this country"
Wants Hi. salary.
There now seems every probability that
the Conservatives will find themselves
hoisted on their own petard Curfously
enough, three days ago II became public
that the chief Conservative organizer,
Mr.. birmingham, OF Toronto, has been
demanding an amount long due him for
salary from the leaders OF his party.
Ihs not being forthcoming he tele-
graphed Sir Charles Upper that II not
at once settled he would expose the de-
hatchery Of constituencies by Conserva-
yves since 1882. Sir Charles wired back
a defiance, and there the matter stands
at present. This quarrel has created great
CONSERVATION among Conservative MEM
bers OF parliament, as they well know that
birmingham Is In a position to make dis
closures of the most damaging character.
which would ruin any possible chance
or Conservative success in the coming
elections. Strenuous exertions are now
being made TO patch up the breach be
tween the leader and his chief party
worker and prevent the betrayal of party
secrets, but the judicial investigation will
lay bare every system of electoral cor
ruption practiced by either party in re-
cent years, and the ministerialist party
NldiilS tiidt nDtulNR OF a seriously repre-
hensible character can be proved against
II. much less implicate the government.
United states Press Approves.
The approval with which the press OF
the United States appears to regard the
sentence of the Welland canal dyna-
miters. and the publicity which Ameri-
can papers are giving to the case and
their comments on II, are highly pleas
ing to the people of Canada Canadians
nd haf ba 6yp Ito
resent a combination which Americans
not disposed to encourage or tolerate
within the borders of the republic. The
evidence against the two perpetrators
of the dynamite outrage was clear and
direct. and the chain OF circumstances
revealed in court left no doubt as to the
completely OF pullman and that he was
the master mind OF the diabolcal plot.
The political motive behind the ofrense
was speedily discovered and although
the acts are not on record in the evil
dence. they are known to all who have
interested themselves in the AFFAIR.
The crime OF the Weland canal dyna-
miters is unique in Canadian criminal an
nails and the terrible possibilities of its
success have awakened feelings OF deep
indignation and resentment. not only
throughout the Dominion. but In all parts
of the British empire. The veil OF mystery
surrounding the prisoners has not been
firms the belief that the crime was an
attack. idiotically criminal, upon the en-
pire of which Canada forms an integral
part. II was evident that the crime was
planned so as TO accomplish not the de-
struction of the canal, but the destruction
OF life and property. and its successful
issue would have been accompanied with
the most appalling results.
In view of the statement of one OF the
dynamiters, while en- route to the peni-
Tertiary at Kingston. Ont. that other at
tempts would soon be made to commit
dynamite outrages In Canada, the Ontario
government will leave no stone unturned
to discover the principals in the recent
AFFAIR Inquiries are being made in Bos
ton. and the vicinity, and photographs of
pullman are being circulated in every cor
ner of New England. The crown authori-
ties believe that the man known as Dull
man ia one OF the leaders OF the Clan
na-Gael In the United States, and that
the discovery OF his identity will fright
en- the other leaders into inaction. thus
preventing a continuance OF the dynamite
campaign. In a notebook carried by
pullman. and which WAS taken from him