The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-17
WISE MEMS TICKET.
1t Will Be Unveiled to Citizens
Meeting Tonight.
IT ONLY NEEDS LAST TOUCHES.
Second ward Republicans Indorse J. n.
Frink-Harbor Line and Charter
Agttation-Ward Mcesings

Agftatf0n-Ward Meetings.
The seven wise men viii report ticket
for the Endorsement of the Citizens Mu-
nicipsl League at its Meeting this evening,
and the league is expected to respectfully
swallow it whole. The seven have not
yet quite prepared their ticket. but they
have picked out number of sticks of tim
Der and discussed their size and shape,
their grain and knots with view to their
symmetrical arrangement in the form of
ticket. This preliminary work was done
at . meeting in Judge Thomas Burke's
office yesterday afternoon. and another
meeting will be held this morning at
which the finishing touches will be given
to the work of art.
The mem bers of the committee decline
TO say who are their selections, giving as
= reason that sundry wicked and iil-dis-
posed persons whom they call Rspnb-
iicans no sooner learn that John Smith
has consented to take place on the Citi-
gems ticket than they begin to work on
the prejudices of Mr.. Smith and to show
him that he is only inviting defeat by
listening to the voice of the seven night
taEoAcS WGO nave iulSu rum
seclusion. So that Mr.. Smith timidly
withdraws his blushing consent and the
seven have to go forth again with their
lenterns in search of another honest man
of the clan of Barkis Another
reason for their reserve is that
they do not know which hole
to stick any particular peg into.
Smiths angles may better fit the
mayors chair in the estimation of the
seven, while another of the wise ones
thinks he would be more becoming in
the mud-bespattered boots of Letter-writer
Carson. One thinks that round man
ought to succeed man Of Mr.. Ronald's
angularities. while another wants him in
the thorny seat that Mr.. Krug left vacant.
Then. even in the serene atmosphere
in which tho seven move, the politics of a
candidate have to te considered. They
are afraid that the vulgar and unenlight-
cned populace will say that they have too
many Repu blicans or too many Demo-
Gratis On the ticket, and that it is only q
tail to the Republican or Democratic kite
and, strange as it may seem, even the
superfne seven are sensitive to criticism.
But tonight the anxious people shall
know all. The seven will this morning
arrange their various sticks of timber so as
to make an artistic whole; they will plane
them, and sandpaper them. and varnish
them, and make them look neat and trim,
and spick and span. and this evening, at
the Chamber of Commerce, one of the
seven will pull the string and remove the
veil which hides from their gaze the ticket
made by the seven sons of D.ogenes.
The Fourth Ward Republican Club held
q large and enthusiastic meeting at its
hall on Third street yesterday evening.
twas called for the purpose of selecting
sixty candidates for delegates to the
primaries, but on motion the principal
business OF the evening was postponed
until next Tuesday evening, and the re-
mainder of the time devoted to speech
making. The feature Of the evening was
the speech of r. c. Washburn, who roasted
the Democratic city administration in a
ten minute speech. He announced that
he was not there to mince words, and he
didn't. He called things by their every
day names and when he was thoroughly
warmed up made . witty arraignment of
the city administration which set the
crowd wild with laughter. He also paid
considerable attention to the citizens
movement, which he said was sure to be
short-lived.
p. Q. Robbins and E. c. Hughes also
made good speeches. and George Lafay-
ette made a humorous and vigorous in.
dictment of the .'reformers." Mr.. Hughes
spoke at length on the citizens movement,
and denied emphatically that ne had ever
been connected with it in any way. In
- .ya . n
resormers. aud made great nit by saying
that the Democracy in Seattle in two years
grew from little acorn planted by Mayor
Ronald, into q great oak, under whose
wide-spreadiag branches the candidate for
mayor invited people to come and listen
to his eloquenee while the birds sang
above them. ''The mayor Is asking you to
come and hear the birds sing again this
year. but don't you forget 1t, the mayors
canary birds are crows, and they'r about
done sanaking." concluded Lafayette,
and the house came down. Brief talks
were made by J. b. Copeland. Capt Mil
roy and Mr.. Chaplin.
The Second ward Republicans held a
large meeting in the old Market street
schoolhouse last night and selected list
of sixty candidates for delegates 10 the
city convention and . number Of candi-
dates for aldermen and delegates TO the
city council. A resolution indorsing J.
II. Frink for mayor was carried unan-
imousiy. The names proposed for alder
men were: J. W. Mcdonald, of the Sec
ond precinct; NJ. II. loung, of the First;
DR.. W. A. Egbert, of the Fourth;
Alexander Anderson. of the Fourth; e.
". Somerindyke, of the Fourth. The
names proposed for delegates were:
Thomas o. Lindsay. A. KistIer. r. Nor
ford, Fred Miles and T. S. Wineheil.
s. FL. Plies made handsome speech in
which he favored J. NJ. Frink for mayor,
and John T. HUMPHREYS made good
speech on local issues He was followed
by Dir. Frink, who spoke briefly in the