The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-04
RALLYING IN FORCE,
Republican Z, Ranks Are Steady
All Along the Line.
ZEAL IN SECOND AND FOURTH.
Enthusiasm shown for Jonn -
a'' o. MS Admirable speeche.
Largely Attended Meetings.

The meeting OF the Fourth
~ the Russell house last nipb, :. nepuo iicans
success. The room was pactod =. -, ~ 80.
All tho seats being taken and al, 49,, .''s
space occupied. Though the Ia, ,,,
nol closo until after 10 O'clock tho n-S,rd ~.
tsrest. ~ ssfonR was the IN
George B. Kittinger, tho nr..,s.. :, a..
Fourth ward club, introduced :. ~ c.s. =. se
captain 6eorgeW. Bullenc He dwaIt 49,, 10 on.
u.pllse ana pubic spirit OF John Ieary-a mnn
whose money was always being xne,, IN .one
large Undertaking for the deveIonme,t of the
si'y OF tne country tributary to it, Mr.. Ieary
. .au pesn tne mover for the erection of
Tre ~. CLOCK, since destroyed by
~. e' ms nne building wss in its day
the best structure OF the bind &; The
northwest. and was BY MANY considered
lar IN advance OF the city's need. or rrocress.
MI. Leary had also been one OF the fore,nost in
organizing the Seattle & waila Walla railroad
~ time when the Northern Pacific was threat
nans W cIusn THIS place out of existence But
year OF TWO ago Mr.. Leary had spent betwesn
10000 and 100000 on the steamer Rafiey Cat.
xert-a vessel built close to Seattle and used to
carry hcr traffic. In these and conntIess ether
Undertakings Mr.. Leary had shown himself
progressive and public-spirited, jus. the man
Captain Builene was followed by lee Fair
ycin until interrupted by the entrance of the
band, together with Mr. Leary himself and
Judge orange Jacobs As Mr. Lcary came in he
was greeteo with tremendous burs. of cheers
larity. Pr
In brief speech he said he was not much of
apolieician, though he he considered himseIf a
eood business man. He had led his party to
victory in one municipal campaip and he was
connoent OF doing 90 again Both his sup
porters and his opponents did him
the honor to say + that his. former adj
ministration OF municipal affairs was
the best the city had known, and ne felt he
ceHd give another term equally oredita
bic, for he took the nomination unpledgcd TO
any ring or faction, but simply pledged to do
MS best for Seattle lie told his friends no must
De independent or he would refuse to allow his
name to be put up.
There had been talk about the city's tremen-
dous debt. but the fact was that the ciry's liza
piiities were not large considering its financial
strength, and for the money expended there
nad been return in the form of sewers water
works, street improvements. etc, worth all the
city's debt In the year 1900 there would be
population of 10000 In Seattle. To meet the
needs of the future the work OF improvement
must go on, and employment must be given to
she hundreds of workmcn who come to the city.
There must be more sewers, a city hall. moro
with growing trade is bound to increase his
facilities il he wishes to remain in business
The reform and retrenchment must come in
the public corporation as in q private one.
Every man. from the manager down, must give
days work for days pay, and there must be
no loafers. If there Is fraud or corruption"
Mr.. Lcnry concluded, al pledge myself to in
vestigate 1t to the bottom and stop it,"
Judge Orange Jacobs in forcible address de-
clared that the problems before the city were
financial not legal. aud accordingly financier
and net q lawyer should be elected mayor. Mr.
Leary was a financier, Mr.. Ronald WIS lawyer.
In giving an instance of the retrenchment
under the present charter, Judge Jacobs cited
the instance of the city engineers Office, now
run ut an expense of from $1,000 to 5000 annu-
ally The former cost had been $4,000 year,
but then the money was taken indirectly instead
of directly from the city treasury.
In touching upon the Democratic platform,
Judge Jacobs called attention to the fact that
the Democrats promised to abolish White
chapel and crush out gambling, yet they
also promised to turn the revenue from these
two extinct institutions into the city treasury
palpable inconsistency.
After an address by Joseph Shipper, John W.
Corson closed the meeting with an effective
statement OF the city's finances. When the
present administration went into Office, October
H. 1890 the interest bearing debt was ST. $50 COS,
and the contingent debt $47s,00o, total of sis-
p59003. On February ], 1892, the total indebted
ness of the city was s2,S65,00o or just
s305,S97 more than in 1890. This was.
then, the much-talked of "plunging the city into
debt" Yet this $so5,So7 was wisely expended in
public improvements whose necessity none
deny. Mr.. Corson told how the Democrats few
weeks ago put an expert on the city books. and
promised to make terrible revelations of fraud
before election day. These revelations have
never come for the fraud does not exist Tho
books OF the city are in perfect shape, and it
needs no expert to see that the city government
has been success.
The band played. and the meeting adjourned.