The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-03
KIDNAPPED BY TACOMA
Editors Were Not to Be Al
lowed to See Seattle.
BUT THE SCHEME DIDN'T WORK
Whereupon the schemers Revile Seat
tie, It's Mayor and People-Curses
Heaped Upon Portland Also.

TACOMA, June Especial. THE man
agement of the National Editorial excur-
sion from this city to Seattle yesterday
has aroused no end of serio-comic discus
sion here. The following is the most I'M
biased and amusing statement OF the affair
heard by correspondent of the PosT-lN-
TELLrGENcER. 1t was made by Tacoman.
He said:
In the first place generally understood canon
OF good breeding is to allow your guest ITO nave
his say" TO put 1t laconically. Iu this case the
editors wished TO visit Seattle before dark 10
take them to the Port Orchard navy yard would
be equivalent to kidnapping them, yes, simply
kidnapping the whole crowd, because 1t would
have been contrary to their wishes to
spend the entire afternoon aboard the boat,
crowded az IL was, and 1t peing
wretchedly unpleasant day for this portion OF
the state. While Tacoma planned well, It's plan
TO visit the navy yard, az printed on the pro-
gramme, was simply out OF the question, when
1t Is known the guests, or many OF them NJ least,
OF the occasion expected to be taken direct to
Seattle from Tacoma. At one time one might
have expected to see the boat run ashore to al
low those who were responsible for the travel
ing by rail comforts of the party to land ana
walk to Tacoma or Seattle to complete arrange
ments while the Tacoma committee galiivanted
shout the Sound with their guests. Admitting
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noyed the Tacoma managers, there was no ex-
cuse for refusing to allow the Seattle reception
committee to come aboard on nearing the Seattle
harbor. The Ledger accuses the Seattle COM
mittee of instructing the pilot of the Multi
nomah to stop to allow the committee
aboard the tug Mystic to come aboard. Only
lack of courtesy on Tacomas part, as look at
1t, compelled the Seattle committee to give the
orders This is simply because the Taco
mans did not give the orders themselves And
worse, tho iutimation that the Seattle commit
tee bribcd the Multnomah's captain with 500 in
order cause the orders of the Seaitlcites to be
respected! Between two such ardent lovers,
what could the editors debut look and act
modest? Tho editors were wooed pretty zeal
ously, to put it mild. The two lusty sons OF the
Sound should profit by genuine politeness. In
this case Seattle wins, If politeness is the win
ming card. Seattle's roliteness shown all. in
GLIDING the Tacomans, was surprise to many.
A tinge of shame mingled with surprise when
some of the Tacomans thought of their treat
ment of the Seattle gentlemen at home felt
ashamed. frankly confess it.
Objection is now raised to the city coun-
Gil having suspended the rules at last Sat-
urday's meeting to appropriate $500 to en-
terrain the editors. 1t is held by the OBJ
jectors that the editors did not leave the
amount appropriated, and will never do
the city that amount of good. If this APP
preparation is countenanced, the directors
say the chief of police must dispense with
his clerk, and other expenses must be cut.