, 1888-03-15
NAMES
Tacoma Versus Port Townsend.

The most casual observer cauuot
fail to see that the whole struggle
of Tacowa in the University affair is
q deliber ately planned and carefully
executed slap at Port Townsend. The
terminal city not only desires to
grow, but she desires to monopoIize
every enterprise on Puget Sound and
crush out every other city. She has
a powerful antagonist in Seattle
whose enterprise and thrift is the
greatest menace to Ethe future of the
"hungry wolf" of the terminus. 1t
is recognized upon every side that
Port Townsend has a very superior
location as to the whole Sound. Her
position iand location are second to
none, and vastly better than Taco
mas. This, Tacoma recognizes as
well as any one else, and the thought
of a second rival is the one that
spurred Tacoma to action. Port
Townsend had awakened from her
long slumber and had legitimately
secured the location of an eduea-
tional enterprise that must start a
new current of life in her veins. This
enterprise must be killed if Tacoma
would keep her second rival in her
power. The enterprise was easily
worth to Tacoma twice what Town
send was to pay for it, but it was
more important that Tacoma crush
her rirdl The boomers. of Tacoma
commenced their work Unfortu-
nately there are some black sheep in
every fold, tand two or three mem
bers of the contracting conference
were directly interested in Tacoma.
These men, the boomers proceeded to
manipulate and then to use their ne
farious scheme. Various motives
were devised by which to handle
these men. None of the three are
the smartest nor the best of men.
They were deliberately victimized
and then they proceeded to victimize
the conference. Mr.. Hanson is not
OF this number, and he positively
says now that his whole conference
action was based upon misrepre-
sentation by these men. MIR. Mas
sey was Tacoma's preacher, and had
become proprietor of some real estate
and was offered certain reward If he
did his part we'll He is to be the
financial agent of the Tacoma con-
cern, with heavy salary and light
duty. So of the others. The most
false and misleading statements pos
sible were written and told every
where. The conference was led to
believe that Port Townsend was Il
huge shark just ready to gulp down
any luckless body in her way, and
that her Board of Trade were her
teeth that spared neither bone nor
sinew. The conference was Uictinl-
lied. When the final vote was taken,
W. d. Tyler, with eight picked lieu
tenants from Tacoma, were on the
conference floor al working like
beavers to secure their result. One
hundred copies of the Ledger with
vast headlines were distributed among
conference members announcing that
a $4,000 bonus was in hand awaiting
the conference acceptance, and that
every dollars worth of land would
be redeemed with a dollar in gold if
desired. Most of the conference are
newcomers, and are not acquainted
with Townsend's values nor her loea-
lion. The success of Tacoma is the
shame of the conference. Tacoma
is a pirate. She jauntily announces
after a struggle of twelve months
that she has conquered, and in her
estimation her rival is at her feet.
She will do now just as she pleases
about fulfilling her pledges. Hap
pening to know positively, ace affirm
that Tacoma has not the location of
the Methodist University. She may
get it, and probably rUill, for she has
actually yictimized two bishops and
subsidized third