Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-09-12
THE BOXERS WIN
ABERDEEN REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
ELECTIONS HANDS DOWN.,
The Benn- Sherwood Hood Forces Put the
Holy Rollers Hide on the Barn Wall by a
Three to One Vote. A Heavy Vote PolIed
Holy Rollers Garry Cosmopolis.

Holy Rollers Garry Cosmopolis.
Something doing" in Aberdeen re-
publican circles Saturday does not
fully express it. In fact several some.
things were doing at once. and the pri.
mary elections Of 1904 will 60 dow in
tradition as one OF the political struggles
to refer to. Both sides of the factional
fight had lined up squlrely; each used
every effort known to the manly art of
ward politics to bring out the vote, and
both were surprised at the result. 1t
was not simply defeat for the Holy
Rollers, it was a political revolution, the
magnitude of which dazed the winners
and paralysed the losers.
The interest manifested is made plain
by the fact that total vote ST Gil was
cast, of which the Boxers received 45S to
1873 for the Holy Rollers-a three to one
proposition. When it is considered that
but 500 republican votes were cast in
Aberdeen at the general election in 1902,
the activity of the boosters Saturday be.
comes evident. Twas about the same
story in each Of the four precincts, three
Boxers to one Holy Roller.
FIRST PRECINCT.
In the first precinct Chas. R. Wilson
headed the Boxer ticket, and ran like
prairie fire, receiving SO out Of The 104
votes cast in the precinct, the entire
ticket being elected by an average vote
OF IS to 26. The following are the names
Of the delegates elected from the first:
G. II. Wilson, G. F. Jansen,
Il. Flyte, l.s J. G. Pearson.
j. Broderick, VIM. Ashley.
SECOND PRECINCT.
Here it was again almost repetition
of the first, The ticket was headed by
Samuel Benn, who poled 169 out OF a
total vote of 203, the average for the pre-
cinct being 154 to 40. Those elected are
named below
Samuel Benn, w. w. Anstie,
B. +. Johnson, A. Spahr,
Chas. McDermoth, l.. ]. Koltz,
A. l.. Rector, Eugene France,
\. :, Goats, Ed. Dolan,
John Myles, a. d. Wood,
w. II. McWhinney.
THIRD PRECINCT.
In this ward there we're Il names on
the Benn-Sherwood ticket, and but 10 to
be elected. The extra three names re-
ceived nearly 100 votes, thereby reducing
the average for the ticket to so as against
an average for the opposition of rs. Ed.
B. Benn received the compliment OF los
votes in this. his home ward. The dele.
gates are as follows:
Ernest Block, w r. Macfarlaue,
g. =. Clerin, Joan )hnson,
T. b. Benn, Thos. Morgan,
NJ. L. Pearson, w. II. White,
John Lindstrom, j. G. Weatherwax.
FOURTH PRECINCT.
In the fourth it was the same old
story. The Benn-Sherwood forces swept
the field with vote of 146 to SO, f. f..
Boner and F. A. Hart receiving Isl votes
each, while John G. Lewis, Benn's OPP
ponent for the legislative nomination,
received GO, the highest on his ticket,
The following are the delegates from
this precinct:
DR.. w. B. Paine, A. J. Anderson,
NJ. f. Lucas, c. J. Bertholf,
f. f. Boner, f. A. Hart,
ii III. Carter, u. 5. Locke,
r Scott Weatherwax.
This result gives the 80 Aberdeen votes
in the convention to Benn for representa-
tive and Sherwood for commissioner,
yet. although it should, generally speak.
ing, give them the nominations sought,
that result by no means follows. The
convention will consist of 159 delegates,
and, as the Boxers have confined their
efforts to Aberdeen, and their opponents
have done vast amount of still hunting
throughout the county, the chances for
control OF the convention appear to be
with the latter. However, one thing is
certain, they will not win without being
aware that they have been in scrap.
CosMoPoILs.
At Cosmopolis the result OF the primary
was as big surprise as at Aberdeen.
albeit the result was directly opposite.
The Boxers shot off their big gun too
quick over there, and received the ak in
the neck as consequence. At the eau.
Gus the Boxers were so largely in control
that they assumed the fight was won,
and adopted resolution condeming the
Grays Harbor Commercial company for
its mess house system, and abuse Of the
employment agency system. As might
have been expected, this put the opposi-
ton to work. Resolutions are all right
in their way, but it requires work to
carry an election, as the Cosmopolis
Boxers doubtless recognize by this time,
as the Commercial company walked
away with the primary and elected the