The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-07
A CITIZENS TICKET.
One Will Be Nominated Next
Saturday Night
SEVEN MEN WILL NAME II
A Meeting OF Taxpayers Forms NUM-
eipai LeaGae Tor the Campaign-
Biaine's Exclusive List.

Known t1I~areFs AZ me tnafn osE % eoiAa-
nerce last night decided 20 place cifs-
gems ticket IN the ield for the campaign.
The selection OF this ticket vas delegated
to committee of seven, which viii report
to another general meeting Of taxpayers
on Saturday evening The meeting was
quite select Z. r.. Blaine and two big
policemen standing st the door and refus-
ing admission to all who would not sub
scribe TO the call. which read as follows:
We the undersigned toter. and tsxpay-
ers of the city of Seattle hereby associate
ourselves together rs q municipal league.
subject 10 such rules and regulations as
may hereafter be established. Tor the pur-
pose of securing and na!ntaing an honest,
economical, efficient ana non-partisan
government in and for said city. ana NE
hereby pledge our honest endeavors 10 ac-
complish this purpose.
At least 30 citizens who had supposed
the meeting would be open to all found
they could not enter without signing the
call. Some who were quite willing to sign
were refused permission. being considered
undesirable by the guardian of the door.
Rev. William Carnes vouched Tor one or
two and they were admitted. About 100
of those who could not get IN went into
another room IN the same building and
passed resolutions denouncing citizens
movement from which many citizens were
excluded. Those who were present or
had signed the call are:
Robert Abrams, George B. Adair, c. M.
Austin, J. f. Akin. W. G. Armstrong. J.
ii. Alien, A. Amunds, Il. W. Andrews. }.
NJ. Z. Atkinson. b. f. Briggs, T. B. Bur-
reil. c. II. Black, W. r. Ballard. Thomas
Burke, NJ d. Ballard. w. T. Boyd, II. b.
Bagiey, f. J. Burns. II. Butter. w. 7.
Boone, Ed Bowden, ID. c. Brawiey, X. W.
Barto. Fred Bansenian, Amos Brown. A.
V. Bell. b. W. Boardman. Charles Bruhn,
T.. f. Blame. j. B. Bowles. DR.. +. Ii. Coe.
William Carnes. ], NJ. Colman. L. J. Col
man, NJ. J. Carkeek. +. c. Cheasty, Her
man Chaplin. Will Carson. n. Chilberg,
Josiah Collins. Austin Chadhourne.
Jerome Catlin, J. A. Cathcart, w. ID.
Conner, George r. Carter, Irving I. Cole,
T.. NJ. Carr, Isaac Cooper. w. NJ. Calhoun.
John Collins. A. A. Campbell. A. CHI.
berg, A. w. Coleman. c. ID. Chamberlain,
Isaac Dohson. o. o. Denny. J. r.. Dona-
hue. George Donworth. r. E. Dunlap, L.
Diller. Arthur Devoe, Lee DeVries, 9.
Davies, G. ID. Emory, J. NJ. Epler. J. II.
Elder, J. 4. Fox, NJ. J. Frye. jacob Furth.
B. B, Freed, Joseph Green, E. o: Graves.
+. III. Guye. Roger $. Greene. ]. 5. Cold
smith. ]. w. George, L. c. Gilman, David
ii. II. Greene. j. w. Goodwin, w. A. Har-
rington. +. c. Hughes, Dexter Horton,
Theodore N. Halter. A. +. Hill. Charles
Hopkins, ]. A. Hatfield. II. w. Higgins,
Andrew Heinrich, Frank Hanford, NJ. {.
Hervey. l.. HuIsether, ]. NJ. Hubbel, DR..
Ter, W. A. Hardy. D. B. Jackson, George
Kinnear. Philip II. Kelly. George H.
King, d.. +. c. Kilbourne. Daniel Kel-
leher, W. w. Kirkwood, r. H. Lind
sey, ]. NJ. Lang. N. II. Latimer.
W. b. Larimer. J. d. Lowman. John
Langsson. F. r. Lee, |. J. Lichtenberg.
Swan Lewis. August MeIhorn, T. B N.
docks, w. II. Middleton. w. A. Melon
aid, J. J. McGilvra, J. B. MscDougall. J. Il.
Mcdonald, j. F. MeElroy, J. ID. MCINTYRE.
Wallace Sutting, \. Nelson, Adam 0rth.
Terence o'Brien, w. II. Pnmphrey.
James Parke, ]. J. Post, ]. II. Powell,
1. J. pitnsr. James IL; Perkins. T; ".
Price, DIR. Randell. w. Ii. Reeves, HI. g.
Struve. George J. Smith, Everett Smith.
J. ii. Sanderson. Ben Il. Snipes, @. +.
Stone. +. L. Stinson, J. A. Stratton. r. Z.
Strudwick, John Schram. {. ID. Stinson,
l.. ID. w. Shelton, John Sullivan, w. A.
shannon, c. c. Shorey, ii. A. Smith. r. r.
Spencer. l.. T. Turner. w. G. Stetson, Ed
l.. Terry. l.. 4. Thompson. +. Van Tuyl,
T.. F. Witer. Albert Wilton. G. A. Weed,
III. w. Wheeler. +. II. Whitworth, II. P.
Walton, w. II. White, W. I. Wickware,
w. ID. Wood, +. III. Winslow, J. $. Win
dell. NJ. II. Young.
When. at $50 O'Clock, Everett Smith
called the meeting to order the hall was
nearly filled with men representing the
wealth and business interests of the CITY.
| happy selection was made for chairman,
the father Of Seattle, Hon. A. A. Denny.
being chosen with hearty acclamation.
| Everett Smith was made secretary.
Mr.. Denny in taking the chair stated
| that the object of the meeting was to cor
| rect abuses in the conduct of the munich
| pal affairs OF the city. He and many
others had waited patiently. hoping in
/ vain that their various political parties
would correct these abuses. For his part
/ he was not in favor OF partisan munich
| pal government He hoped that the meet
| ing would be able 10 select men for their
/ known integrity. ability and fitness for
| the positions they were expected to oc-
| cupy. To meet together in ward assem-
b.ies and discuss national politics, the
| trritf the silver question and Hawaiian
| affairs vas as useless aud Improbable as
! TO speculate on the mountains OF the
| moon.
Judge Thomas Burke on being called
/ came forward and said: II suppose that
| everyone understands that this should be
a meeting of action as we'll as of words
| Everyone here knows why We have met.
/ This question of economical aGministra-
| ton OF municipal affairs is agitating other
communities. The standardization ex-
/ listing in the municipalities of this country
| is a standing disgrace. If the same in
| efficiency existed in other affairs of
| our daily life nearly every business ins,i-
! tuition in the country would 60 into bank.
/ ruptcy. A good administration should
/ give us protection 10 life and propertv
/ good streets, clean streets properly lighted
| watered and drained. And vet in this city
/ OF 1000 inhabitants no one looks out upon
( our streets who does not blush for them.
! Not one of them is paved; they are not
/ clean; they are not drained. We have no
/ public buildings and yet we are
threatened with bankruptcy. There il
/ not business man here who. if he had
( one-haif of the money collected for civ
/ expenses, bat what could give US what we
( should now have but have not. The reason
Tor tins state OF affairs IS that We apply the
! wrong methods. Instead of adopting
/ business methods We let the political nsr-
ties run our affairs. Political parties are
F useful and even necessary in national
/ affairs. but they are neither useful por
necessary in city affairs. If the stoekhold-
ers OF any of our banks should
| IN choosing n president or director,
! Tor ikelE institution. question whether
+ the candidates were good Repub. leans
( o. good Democrats we would think then,