, 1892-04-06
TERMS OF sUBsCRIPTI0N
TIE TACOMA ELEorloN.

Herbert s. Huston was elected rnavor of
Tacoma yesterday. The rest Of the repub-
lean city ticket was elected, except Heilg.
OF comptroller. The council ticket Is
safely Republican. The republicans
made by far the best nominations on the
city ticket, and a majority of the people
sustained them, notwithstanding the fact
That the cry Of firing, !" monopoly" oorpo-
ration, /" high taxes" ETC., was rung on
the ticket. The democrats, it is conceded,
made great mistake in nominating Par
ker for mayor. IA little man, with elbows
nall aklmbo, red face, small eyes that
-unconsoiously size up your financial con-
dltlon whenever they rest upon you, gray
chin whiskers ornamented with a rich
brown trimming that meanders down from
the corners Of a puckered mouth which
When at rest, naturally assumes the posi-
tlon used in articulating the word too'
OF 'tWo'-per cent possibly plug hat Of
the style affected by the Bowery toughs, a
voice which, when not saying two per
cent is saying. You press the button,
I'll do the rest See p"
The people pressed the button and Mr..
Parker will take rest from the exciting
scenes of the last few days, SO foreign to
ms nature. Tacoma is the leading repub-
lean city Of the state, and Pierce county
can always be depended upon to roll
up good sized majority for the
party of progress. The victory Of YES
terday was a severer blow to the
democracy of that county than is
generally known. Not long since. Stephen
o'Brien, young lawyer not yet ~ years of
age, who has been in Tacoma scarcely
three years, and is a member Of the state
central democratic committee from Pierce
county, president Of the central democratic
club of the county and chairman Of the
democratic city committee, obtained pos
session Of the machinery of his party and
along with the democratic organ of Tacoma
the NeWs-began to play dulcet tunes
for Steve and his wing Of the party. III
fact Steyes wing turned down old demo-
cratic stagers like Henry Drum, M. Nj.
Taylor, Grattan II. Wheeler, George @.
Kelly, Charles Catlin, George w, Van Fos-
sen, M. p. p. Anderson, John "A. Parker,
B. Bertleson and others. At the last
moment Steve and his heelers had arranged
a programme to defeat Col. Chauncey
Griggs as delegate to the national CON
vention and run the young and handsome
Tammany editor Of the News as a delegate
to Chicago and also for congress in place Of
Tom Carroll. The most astonishing thing
about this put up job of the News wing Of
the party, is the fact that O'Bren is. not a
citizen Of the United States and can
not vote for president at the fall election,
The precocious impudenee of this young
foreigner disgusted the better element of
his party and the Kilkenny cat light across
the democratic clothes-line in Tacoma will
grow hotter and hotter until fall. when
there will be but little left of those politi-
cal cats. In the meantime, the friends of
the defeated candidate for mayor will
doubtless tremble for his health. 1t is said
that he was required to put up $500 and
that he bet $2600 on his election.
If this is true, it is quite probable that
Mr.. Parker's nerves will be so unstrung
that he will never be able to press another
button. That is more money than he
ever frittered away before in his life with
out getting 2 per cent a month on the in
Testment, and it may be the means Of un-
dermining his strong constitution.
Tacoma is to be congratulated upon
electing an able, young, progressive citi-
zen at the head of its affairs and turning
down mossback who never drew a be-
neYoIent breath in his life.