The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-29
KING COUNTY CLUB.
Republicans Meet and Complete
Organization.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NAMED.
Meeting Last Night at tho Opera House
Ratification to be Held on the
Night of the Nomination.

The King County Republican Club held
a meeting at the Seattle opera-house last
night with President Frank G. Haddock
in the chair and with Harry w. Carroll and
2. ID. Hughes as secretaries. The first
business was the announcement by the
chair of the following to form the ex-
ecutive committee.
The only business to be transacted was
the announcement Of the executive COM
mittee, all campaign work being deferred.
The chair announced the executive COM
mittee as follows:
Twenty-fourth senatorial district - james
Hart, Slaughter.
Twenty fifth senatorial district-Charles F.
Reitze, First ward.
Twenty-sixth senatorial Districts. l. Craw-
ford, Fourth ward.
Twenfy-seventh senatorial district-E. Brain.
erd, Fifth ward.
Twenty-eighth senatorial dis.rict-George e.
de Steiguer, sixth ward.
Twenty-ninth senatorial district-Thomas Mel
Hgan, Renton.
Thirty-eighth representative dis;rict-W. W..
Mott, West Seattle; Alex Turnbuil, Black Dia-
mond.
Thrty.ninth representative district-Frank A.
Steele, FIRST ward; George NJ. Holloway, Sec
ond ward.
Forticth representative district. NJ. West
ling, Fourth ward; Henry L. sizer, Third ward
Forty-hrst representative district-Frank p.
Lewis, Fifth wari; j. Loring Wilmington, Sew
euth ward.
Forty-second representative dist-ict-K. G.
Facgre, Eighth ward; Frank NJ. Davis, Eighth
ward.
For;y-thrd representative district-John H.
Gibson, Gilman; Fred W. Carter, Ninth ward;
DR.. J. H. Rinehart, Ballard.
DR.. Z. W. Young presented letter from
c. S. Tilton, of Vashon. announcing the
formation of Republican club on the
island and asking that speakers might be
furnished for their opening meeting on
June s. He said they had no one there
to lead in discussing the topics of the day.
II. G. Ward and Oliver Van Oiinder are
the other members OF the committee with
Mr.. Tilton.
The letter was referred to the executive
committee with power to act.
Joshua Wrestling moved that special
committee be appointed to arrange Tor a
ratification meeting on the night of June
Z, when the nom nation for president will
probably be known.
After some discussion Boyd J. Tallman,
who thought the executive committee
sufficient, moved that it be left to them
with instructions to proceed.
The amendment was carried.
Lee Fairchild said the executive COM
mittee was scattered all over the city;
action on the application of Vashon island
might be taken at once, bu; it was decided
to leave it with the local members
q. S. Bailey, Of Franklin. whose deep,
sonorous voice is often heard at Repub-
lican gatherings. responded to call and
addressed the meeting in earnest terms,
euloglzing the principles of Republican
ism. He spoke chiefly of the obligations
the colored race, to which he belongs, was
under to that party. He warned them
that the colored men in Seattle
were constitutionally weak and he
had hoped to meet some of them in
order to do some missionary work.
[Laughter.l The Democrats have made a
bid for the colored vote; but he asked if
they ever knew the time when the Demo-
Gratis could ever pick up colored man
who could bear comparison with the best
of his race? He wished to hurt nobody's
feelings, but fattery could sometimes sue
coed when an appeal to intelligence failed.
The Democratic party of today is the
Democratic party of 1860; there is no
CAldlIScy al iitdTl III 10 TIE StIue. lCneerS,
He branched off into local matters and
kept his audience in roar of laughter.
winding up with an earnest exhortation to
the members of the club to whet their
swords without delay
The chair announced that Franklin had
sent in 800 names as members of the club.
Cheers.
The meeting adj burned to be reconyened
at the cali of the chair.