The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-26

SEATTLE, March q.
To The EDfToE: II Is high time that certain
men and two newspapers OF this city cease their
TRADE against our mayor. our chief Of poiice
and city officials IN general.
A. far hack ~ last October when the dsfunct
Journal Was writing in the agony Of III conceit
= began mapping and sHarling At the heels Of
Mayor White, and when It chcked to death BY
attempting to swallow It's own gall the Telegraph
took mp the polsoned wad and ground II into
wjcnerNufst pills, which II has ever since Deen
dfing on ~ random hit or miss
Later On the Press Tfass assumed . goody-
goody roe, and il too has been spcwinz and
erawring upon our cfty officials the lowest kind
OF billngsgatc
The Posi- ExTyLLscgxcER Is the only news
paper that has been fit to send abroad In honor
OF the good government OF our city and It's I'M
paralieled prosperity
During the holidays last winter the Telegraph
published a special edition In which it pof-
tfxyed the ruarveiers growth Of Washington in
general and It's qacen city in particular. and
since then II has IldoHe all Ct that good work
by wallcwing in the diYticst kind OF abuse of
our mnnicipai government II the Pros. 7fsafs
and the Telegraph are TO be believed. this city 10
not nj place for decent men and women TO call
their homo. No city on the face OF the earth
ever hed n more honorable or duty performing
chief Of police than George G. Monroe has been
TO the city of sessflr. Harry White rs its mayor
IS az far superior to his defamcrs rs Tnoose is
TO jack rabbit. George G. Monroe IL not law
make, neither IS Mayor White. Yet they are
he'd ameuabie by these wouid-be reform jour
nais because the courts of this city have not
hung oil the gamblers and qtisrtered the in
mates Of WhitechapcI and buried them in .
heap.
Both the TYmss-prcs and Telegraph have in
cited the clergy aud other good citizens into
organizing law and order society for the pur-
pose Of enforcing las that according to good
lawyers il no las IT ALL
And strange to say, the law and order COM
snittce OF 100 aud the gamblers ere pceping
through the same goggles yet they see the same
object in 4 different light. The gamblers are
opposcd tn George G. Monroe because ne has
almost, II not entirely, destroyed their business,
while the Law and order league oppose him be-
cause ne doesn't destroy the gamblers and their
business. And stranger still. the law and order
committee Of 100 want certain man appointed
chief Of police who they think will close mp
every gambling house in the city. while the
gamblers want the same man appointed because
they know thar he will let them severely alone.
George G. Monroe has been faithfully and
fcnrlessy fulfilling his duties chief of police,
and it Is contemplate outrage that has been,
and 10 nov being imposed upon him by the two
papers above named.
Chief Monroe wants to do. has done, and will
sNbtissttS ~ Hu " nat Is Is his WnO3e
duty. and for that reason he Is entitled To the
support OF every good man in Seattle Being
sensitive man. perhaps impetuous as well, he
preferred sending IN his resignation rather than
10 remain III ofsicc public target for newspaper
blackguardisrn. George C. Monroe is an honor
able, courageous and deserving man. His resig
nation should not be accepted lie should be
continued in his service Of weil-doing His
Grand Army comrades are proud of him, and
will stand By him regardless of every malicious
insinnafion against him.
Let the law aud order committee disband.
Seattle Is not in danger. What we need TO dc a.
a people is TO fill our city with vigorous popu-
lGtion, and find something for our mechanics
and other laboring men TO do. We never can
increase our population by publishing to the
world how mean We are. The Press- Times and
Telegraph can redeem themselves by adhering
strictly to the province OF true journalism:
Build cities and goyernments-never destroy
them. Pro Bono PUsLIco.