The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-03
PARKER'S sun SINKS.
Republican Party Without q
Break in the Ranks.
GREAT MEETING At TACOMA.
Huson Makes Pledges to the Ministerial
Alliance-Two Per Cents Chinese
Record Can't BE Hid.


the zenith of his power about the time
Candidate Huson was named by the Reps,
and that the latter has been making
effective use of his spurs. The Blue Label,
the official paper of the Trades Council,
says editorially today, regarding the soap
and water preamble of the Democratic
remnants of the famous committee of fif-
teen which attempted to take the spots"
out of Mr.. Parker's pro-Chinese records:
The Trades Council was bored with political
matter Thursday night, but it was all laid on
the table. The council does not NEEDLE with
politics.
To some extent a successful attempt has
been made by INSCRIPTIONS Democrats to
excuse Mr.. Parker on the Chinese ques-
ton by alleging that Candidate Huson
was guilty of what to Tacomans are high
crimes on the same subject. Mr.. Huson's
testimony before Senator Squire's joint
investigation committee of the Senate and
House of Representatives has been gar
bled into a semblance of one antagonistic
to the absence of Cinnamon at Tacoma.
s. B. Pettengill, who has been an anti
Chinese man during his nine years. resi-
dence on the Coast, contributed to the
Squire committee paper on the Chinese
only resident of Tacoma possessing copy
of the report. Mr.. Pettengill has re-read
the report to refresh his memory, and to-
day said:
1t would be pity IL any false impression
should be created outside of Tacoma with refer
ence to the prevailing opinion upon the Chinese
question by the charges on either side in this
municipal campaign. / have a copy of the re-
port OF the select committee of the Fifty-flrst
congress, which visited this Coast and began
taking testimony ON the subject at Spokane on
November "a, 1890 1t is a volume OF nearly 600
pages, the bulk of it filled with a stenographic
report of the investigation In submitting the
report the committee says:
"The universal sentiment OF all the testimony
taken at the different places mentioned is that
the Chinese should be excluded"
Referring to the testimony taken at Ia
coma 1 find in the statement of Isaac w.
Anderson, manager of the Tacoma Land
Company, the following:
Q. Do you think the practical exclusion of the
Chinese from this place has been beneficial to
Tacoma? A. Yes, sir; on the whole.
think the community is better of. tits
indisputably q fact that the city has not suf-
fered.
''In the statement of H. s. Huson find
the following:
1t is not necessary for them to be here, and it
is an undesirable element at the present time
The present restriction law is a good thing
and should be enforced, in my judgment
1 don't employ them because
am prejudiced against them. O. You do
it out OF respect to the sentiment
OF the country? Ayes, ,sir; respect for the
sentiment OF the country and labor at large
There will not be any Cinnamon, or
enough Cinnamon here to make any disturbing
element in the labor field in three years more
at the present rate they are decreasing. ION the
Pacific slope). In answering another question
he said: "The Chinaman is a very lazy creature.
He likes to be employed, but don't want to work
hard"
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company, he
said, employed at that time, under him, very
few Chinese; there might be $50, perhaps,
mostly In Idaho, some in Montana, but none in
this state.
A careful reading of all the testimony
taken at Tacoma justifies the statement
of the committee that 1.-the universal
sentiment is that the Chinese should be
excluded"
The Chinese cry thus being disposed of,
the Democrats have only the corporation
cry to fling at Mr.. Huson. He has squared
himself on the water question, and the
Light and Water Company is in the field
for itself, working like a mailer for its
favorites to the city council. And yet, if
every man that company can reach were
elected, it would not have the influence
desired by it in the city council. 1t looks
like cold day for the Light and Water
Company. 1t does not want to go out of
business, but it looks as if the candidates
on both sides understand that the tax
payers want wholesome supply of pure
water, and have pledged themselves ac-
cordingly
One effect of the corporation cry is that
the laborer who couples corporation with
corruption is apt to bolt Mr.. Huson. Be-
sides many intelligent thinking people are
opposing him on that ground, and argue
that corporations will keep the town
from growing This seems il
logical. The Tacoma Land Company, for
instance, pays one-sixth of the Tacoma
city taxes, or nearly 60,000-last year it
paid, to be exact. $5S, 224.65 in taxes on a
valuation of S., 063, 013. Its county taxes
rolled up to $4,000 Therefore, the con-
clusion is reached that, in protecting its
own vast interests, it will also protect those
of its neighbors in the same town. The
Light & w alter Company pays only about
5000 taxes, which is about similar in
amout to that paid by w. II. Fife, who is
the heaviest individual taxpayer in Ia
coma. He fayors Mr.. Huson. So does the
land company, and both seem satisfied
with the man.
But Mr.. Flies vote may Offset that of a
man who sells to the highest bidder. Some
certificates are held in the city by both Re-
pGblicans and Democrats, but it seems
there is little inclination to try to vote
them. The saloon and gam bling elements
are just now the most doubtful. A beer
man who controls thirty-four out of the
1l5 saloons in the city. has been trying to
deliver the barrooms over 10 Mr.. Parker.
Thus far he has not succeeded.
Candidate Huson has gone on record to
the president of the Ministerial Alliance
to enforce the law if elected mayor. This
means that the alliance is getting ready to
begin their fight anew on the violation of
the Sunday law by keeping saloons open.
Mr.. Parker was playing for the church
vote" but some good church people"
who admired Candidate Huson dug I'm
the past, Haunted Mr.. Parker's petition for
= saloon, and now the church vote" is
scattered, and Mr.. Parker's enthusiasm
over the work of Francis Murphy goes for
naught.
Everybody is guessing on the result.
Still no process of reasoning will concede
the palm to Parker-but votes count.
Many shrewd laborers who have families
and homes, and are employed by the vari-
GUS large corporations, do not talk much.
Here and there one will say, ito - with
the corporations" The majority nose "a
Huson men, but they may and may not be
sincere. The employees on the city i'm.