, 1891-12-07
LIQUOR DEALERS
AGREE TO SUPPORT MURPHY AND
GRANGER TOMORROW.
A Satm Meeting Held i'm n. "
Ford's office, at Columbia
Hall, On Sa turday
NSUhH
-Night.

Night.
The saloon men will not figure SO prom
inently in tomorroW's election as Of yore.
They feel their power waning and in order
to fortify themselves some of them propose
to form liquor dealers association for
their mutual protection, and for the pur-
pose Of working as a unit in the accom-
plishment of any one object they have in
view This, at any rate, was the intention
on Saturday, when each person who held a
license for the sale of spirituous or malt
liquors was served with the following no
tice:
TO LIQUOR DEALERS:
"A meeting of the liquor dealers will be
held at 7. N. Ford rs office, Columbia hall,
at 8 O'Clock p. m. Saturday, December 9th.
Important business is ON hand and all
are requested to be present.
THE COMMITTEE.
But some of them were more discreet
than others, and profited immensely by
the result of theira interference last year.
At that time, with but one or two excep-
tions, they turned out in a body to defeat
O'Brien for mayor, and worked teeth and
they forgot about the city council, and
paid but little attention to who was elected
to that body, feeling confident enough that
their interests would be guarded by their
old Standby John Miller Murphy Muir
phy, by the way, was for O'Brien, his col
league in the old council. And strange
enough too, every member ofthe new coun-
ell was an O'Brien man. Even Sickles,
then a seemingly harmless, quiet, unas-
Stunning individual, had supported 0'Brien.
About all he did for the first month or two
in council was to vote yes, or no, taking
the opinion of the majority as guide. But
he is changed now, as we all know.
To return to the subject. O'Brien's de-
feat was attributed to the united efforts Of
the saloon men, and the new council were
not unmindfuI of it. They were in for re-
form and a good clean city government.
Shannon and Murphy. Shannon was alb
sent on that memorable first evening, when
Root introduced his resolution for the
strict enforcement of the Sunday law and
the closing of all gambling dens. Murphy
fell in line, turned his back on those who
had elected him and voted for the resolu-
ton. That was the only thing which sur
prised the people, and was the first time in
Olympia's history that Murphy was known
to go back on the saloons. But they took
him to task for it the next day, or, putting
itin more expressive phase, "they jumped
on him with both feet." At the next
meeting, in the hopes of healing the
strained relations with his brethren, he
moved, in a tone that would have touched
the heart OF sparrow, to reconsider the
resolution, stating that it had been sprung
upon the council on the impulse of the
moment, and that he acted little hastily
His tale of woe would not work, and since
then he has been endeayoring to convince
the saloon men that he is their froiend.
Some of them soured on him, however
and nave continued sour since.
1t was this condition of affairs that was
accountable for the slim attendance at 7.
N. Ford's office, on Saturday evening, only
Phillip Hiltz, e. t. Young, Fritz Arnold
x. Hosneider, Pat Dolan, Joe Sanford and
Robert Foran being present The others
had determined to have nothing to do with
it. One gentleman, who was among the
absentees, said: ''If those fellows know
when they are well off, they'll keep out OF
this. They are divided against themselves
anyhow, and ought to profit by last year.
We have no such power now as under the
old system of voting. Why, it used to be
that could control from forty-hve to fifty
votes whenever they were needed. For in
stance. on Friday, 1875 loggers came to the
City. Under the present system, they can t
vote, because they are not registered, but |
have seen the time when [ could run half
of them in" The speaker continued to
denounce his brethren, in rather emphatic
terms.
Several of those who attended the meet
ing refused to divulge any of the business,
but one of the number was more talkative.
He said: "Some of the saloon men thought
we were going to meet in Mr.. Ford office
for political purposes, but [ tried to con
vince them that that was not so, our one
object being to combine for our mutual
benefit. We attempted to elect officers for
the evening, but each man declined, and SO
we went into general discussion on poll
tics. This year we will let the mayor take
care of himself and will look more closely
to the council We want Granger for
councilman-at-large and Murphy from the
First ward. These two we endorsed at
the meeting and will work for
them with all our might. Then, with
Sickels and Phipps, that Will give us four
men, which is majority, and our inter
ests will be protected in the council.
Before we came together we decided to
have nothing to do whatever with the
fight for city treasurer. Of course, between
the three men, we would prefer to see
Glover, but we don't care so much about
who gets it, as we do about defeating Chill
berg. In fact, we prefer to have Glover out
OF 1T altogether, as he will only cut up the
vote with Henderson so that Chilberg will
be elected. 1t is just as Phil Hiltz said at
the meeting. What we want is the town
board. We've nothing to do with the
treasurer except to defeat Chilberg.
Hiltz acted as chairman of the meeting, al
though he protested that he was no longer
IN the business. After general discussion
he said: Now we want Murphy and
Granger. All what favors dem, say yes,
and what's agin dem, say no. There was
a unanimous response in the affirmative,
and adjournment followed"
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