The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-11-01
COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIAL PRESS
Friday, November l. 1878.
REPUBLICAN MEETING.

The meeting at Yesler's Hall on
Wednesday evening, as per previous
announcement, was well attended as all
political meetings during the present
CANVASS bave been. Hon. j. J. McGil-
vra called the meeting to order, and on
motion Roswell Scott, Esqr., was called
to the chair. Mr.. Dillis B. Ward was
the first speaker and commenced by
modestly saying that he had no expe-
rience as public speaker and would
not detain the audience long. He ear
nestly endorsed the Republican plat
form adopted at Vancouver and mildly
dilated upon some of its special fea-
lures. including the plsnks on the Ia
Dor question. the railroad question and
the Chinese question, all of which he
treated with becoming modesty, with
out shocking the audience with any
startling ideas. He distinctly dis
claimed having any hobby. was willing
to submit the local option measure to
the determination of the people
In passing upon that special
clause to the constitution. He thought
himself capable Of representing the
people of this county iutelligently and
pledged himself. if elected, to do 30
honestly and earnestly, especially in de-
Tending the rights of the laboring men
with whose interests he had been asso-
ciated during twenty years residence
upon this upper coast.
Hon. l.. d. Andrews commenced by
saying that in nearly all his speeches
in the country places be had assailed
tie record of Mr.. White in connection
with the revenue law, and had only
learned since his return to the city that
the information upon which he had
made these statements was not correct;
and he would take this public occasion
to retract what he had said rejecting
upon Mr.. White in that connection.
He then proceeded to deliver a well-
considered and carefully prepared ar
gument in favor of the adoption Of the
constitution, discussing its various fea-
lures. presenting its merits and apollo
giving for its defects. in an able and
logical manner. keeping in view the
great advantages Of State government
as paramount to all other considera.
lions. He concluded by simply allud
ing to the fact that be was a candidate
for County Auditor; that his opponent
Mr.. Booth was q respectable and re-
spected citizen and he hoped no had
the same reputation among bis fellow
citizens. and he would cheerfnlly abide
BY their decision.
The irrepressibls John j. McGilvra,
then entered upon the role which he
had volunteered to assume in the pro-
grsmme, to "ventilate the character of
William H. White" He laid the venue
of the early boyhood of his subject at
Harper's Ferry. in western Virginia"
and made it conteuporaneous with
John Browne raid upon Harper's Ferry
in Eastern Virginia, with little regard
to geography. He next enlists the boy
in volunteer military company rails.
ed in the neighborhood of Wheeling,
three hundred miles from the FIRST
point. to repel an expected invasion
headed by one Msnah GiddinRs. of
Ohio; grouping al these events together
IN one neighborhood. OF Mr.. Whites
military record in the civil war, Mr..
McGilvra said. II is said he served
during the war of the rebellion, but in
whas capacity, or on which side your
humble servant is not informed" A
regard for decent discussion constrains
us a. to remark here. that Mr.. Whites
record as . soldier in the Union army.
his being wounded in battle aud con.
fined in n Confederate military prison,
while yet minor. entitlss him to
more respectful treatment from loyal
Union man, who Immediately after the
first call for volunteers to defend the
Union. packed his carpet bag and came
to this Territory with commission in
his pocket for civil Office. Volunteer
service aud sacrifice in the defense of
the Union is hardly . q subject for
ribald ridiculs by those who profited
thereby. The specimens of Mr.. Nc
Mc6ilvra's speech to which We have
referred are sufficient to show its animu,
without quoting . vile paragraph
which il interpolated in the printed re.
port. relating TO Mr.. Whites personal
habits. than which nothing in the way
OF political discussion could be vilcr,
and the exhibition Of copy Of the
Police Gazette which Mr.. McGilvr,
avowed his purpose Of using through
the canvass.
The balance OF the speech Was de-
voted to Mr.. Whites public record, in
which there were several glaring mis-
statements. which We will leave Mr..
White to deal With In his own way.
Our readers will bear us witness th.,
in thu pr..out ,>o,st;S.l