The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-31
POLITICS IN TACOMA.
Huson Has Not Squared Him.
self on the Water Question.
BITTER ATTACKS ON PARKER.
Colonel Jim Steele Denies IN Inter-
ing Tremendous Enthusiasm.


imagine they can tell which way the wind
blows by keeping tab on the bookmakers. Bets
OF the usual assorted sizes are being made on
the result of Tacomas city election. Here are
some samples:
On Huson-sloo to SIS; 81 to 81; spring suit
against plug hat: round trip ticket to Worlds
fair to q season ticket of admission to Tacoma
League base ball grounds; - restaurant meal
ticket against a dozen quart bottles OF beer; SlO0
on 800 majority, between contractor and .
leading Democrat. The contractor failed to get
a taker on a bet OF $500 that Huson would have
800 majority.
On Parker-$250 even no: SIS to $50: French
dinner, imported wine, against Chinese supper
FLOR party OF three, TO be served at o ieaoing
restaurantl.
Morris Gross has wagered twenty-nine hats on
Huson, and nearly every maj in town hasa hat
or two in view, or to pay for, whichever way the
cat jumps.
Those who are betting on Huson would like
to run the campaign their own way, Of course.
Here is what some of them would do:
Set forth by affidavit that Byron Barlow and
the city hall crowd hasn't fiuger in the pie,
and that the Republican ticket was nominated
by Republican taxpayers
That the so-called extravagant city hall coterie
was warned before the nom ination seed WINS
sown that none OF them could be nominated,
neither could their friends be nominated, and
further show that this was the a,e because the
aforesaid officials had been weighed and found
wanting. This would give the ticket q clear
title
Compel Superintendent Hurley, of the Light
and Water Company, to take southern trip,
and DO absent until after election, because,
while he may mean we'll in working SO earnest
ly for Huson, Huson is being hurt thereby, as
the rather large crowd of incfedulous ones will
not believe Mr.. Hurley electioneers without
method and motive.
Have Huson's record raked for and aft, be-
cause his is horse-sense record and Will stand
Investigation.
Show up Boggs as an efficient city treasurer.
and not, as the opposition has its mouthpiece
twang 1t, ring man, whose consideration OF
and favors bestowed upon heavyweight AK
payers saved him from Punishment together
with the rest of the city hail officials.
Show the incredulous that Nelson Bennett
will secure municipal ownership OF light and
water; that he favors Huson. and-just before
the Amen-that he did not visit c. B. Wright for
the purpose of negotiating for the Tacoma Light
and Water Company's old plant
Huson men want many other side lights, but
OF all their wants they must make the people
understand that he is square and with them"
on the water question. Some may not know
why, and a reply made this afternoon by Presi-
dent Theodore Hosmer, of the Light and Water
Company to an inquiry put By Posi- -INTELLI-
GENCER man, will explain. Mr.. Hosmer was
asked to state how the proposed municipal own
ership OF water aud Light would affect his COM
pany, and he said:
ii the city owns its own light and water there
won't be any business for us.
Remember, Mr.. Hosmers company is making
money, and will prospectively make much more
II Tacoma does not own its own plant. Mr..
Hosmer was at the Republican convention when
Mr.. Huson was nominated, and was described
Is wearing "a smile as long as your arm"
Yes indeed, people will imagine a Niger in
the fence until Mr.. Huson cuts clear of Mr. Hos
mer's company in a way that will not give vot-
ers chance to mistake or pervert his position.
''We have no strings on him." Mr.. Hosmer says.
"He is Republican; l am Repu blican; most
oil those interested in our company are Repub-
iicans, therefore we favor Mr.. Husou. He is the
best man. Our company is not in politics."
Mr.. Parker's friends and those who have aud
are betting freely on his election think there
would be no doubt about his getting under the
wire first by neck or nose If Tacomans
would not say such mean things about him.
For instance, w. B. Coiner tells Of pioneer days
in Tacoma thus
Parker was wcll-known Character in those
days. He used to sit around stores whiting
and cursing the people who were trying to drive
the Chinese out OF Tacoma. He was q bitter
pro-Chlnese agitator and while / am not GER
tain, think he was one of the crowd who tried
to indict the citizens that drove the Cinnamon
out of the city. had the honor OF presiding at
the first anti-Chinese Meeting held in Tacoma.
Parker was very bitter toward the men who
wanted to drive the Celestials out of town. He
gained the cognomen of Two Per Cent Parker,
not because he was the oaly one who lent
money at per cent, but because he was an
ideal, grasping Shyiock-one who believed that
he owned the man because the man owed him
money. There were several money lenders who
loaned money at per cent. but the only one
the title stuck to was Parker.
Cinnamon, cues and joss sticks are as a red
rag in the eyes of Tacoma yoters-that is, tho
great bulk OF them. Those who do not snort
and paw the earth at the sight of this rag be-
lieved and still believe Mayor Weisbach shou Id
have been jailed for leading the people to drive
the Chinese out of town.
But about the betting, it is not so lively now
as it was three days ago, and the Significance of
this as said by both sides is the assurance OF
election OF both candidates!
The lie OF the political species is being given
right and left The Ledger this morning pub
lished an interview with Colonel J. NJ Steele
rejecting on "Chinese Parker's' record. In the
Nt,rs this evening Steele denies the sentiments
in the interview and calls upon two gentlemen.
John II. Mitchell and Engineer McHenry, to cor
roberate his statement, they having heard the
conversation. They, however, verify all that
was published and say Steele said much more in
the same vein.
Several brass bands and the Bynum Cleo Club
drew the largest mass meeting of the Campaign
at Germania hall tonight, held under the aus.
piccs OF the Democrats. The music and songs
draw larger houses than the ebe speechmakiug.
The Young Mems Republican League tonight
began the campaign with local colored warblcrs
and brass band Their songsters poke fun at
Seattle. A eolored quartette is EMPLOYED by
the Democrats, but there is no bad blood as vet
between the dusky campaign choirs.
Ocosta News.
ocosTA. March 2o'-Gspecial. Colonel B. ".