Seattle Voters Break the Ring—and Olympia Cheers

In a long dispatch in the Oregonian of Wednesday from Seattle, the following occurs: The storm which burst last Tuesday had been brewing for nearly two years, but it centered just three months ago, when the mayor was forced by the Post-Intelligencer to resign the office in order to save the party from disgrace; but the fatal mistake was made of withholding the real facts and trying to make the public believe the mayor's bad health made it necessary for him to give up office. In the face of exposure, which the Post-Intelligencer itself had made but a few weeks before, it endorsed during the campaign without reservation the entire course of the administration. The logical result is shown by the official results. Votes. Ronald, Dem. 4,667 Leary, Rep. 2,871 Ronald's plurality 1,896 On a strict party vote, Seattle is Republican by all the way from 900 to 1,200 majority. This puts the defeat exactly where it belongs, on the Post-Intelligencer, and the despicable ring which it controls, and now the ringsters are pressing ahead to go to Minneapolis as representative Republicans. Take a back seat, please, where you won't be seen. Everybody except the P.I. and John H. McGraw says the Seattle uprising was against the ring. How would it look for the Seattle convention to send the leader of that ring to Minneapolis as a representative Republican?