The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-04
THE POLITICAL POT.
Bubbles Which Boiled Over at
Ward Meetings.
DID BOIL FOR DEMOCRATS
Two Wards Masssr Fifty ut . Meeting
Cam and Carson Shoot vida
knights Of Labor Address.


The alleged Democratic italian Club
meeting a, Red Mems hall last evening
Vas about as much anything else a. an
Italian one. out of the thirty or forty
present the majority being OF other
na,ionali,ies. II was thoroughly cold and
lifeIess. the fervid utterances of the orators
producing a chill. if anything. on the
hearers. and long before the meeting was
half over it required great deal OF effort
to hold even the few that had assembled.
To anyone who attended the Italian meet
ing the evening before it was very evident
that the Democratic ticket would catch but
few Italian votes in the coming election. 1t
Was veritable you pays your money and
takes your choice affair. as each succeed
ing speaker assiduous!y set himself to the
task of tearing down and denying what
his predecessor had said. T. II.
Cam, the Democratic nominee for
delegate from the Fourth ward. in
his frantic endeavors to counseract
the effect of the genuine Italian meeting
of the evening previous gave exceedingly
wide latitude TO his promises Of what
would be done for the benefit OF the labor
ing classes and especially for the Italians.
were the Democrats continued in power.
All streets in the city would be paved,
the sewerage system would be extended
on a scale that would astonish the world,
and every scheme conceived of that would
require labor would be pushed to COM
pletion. He referred, with tears in his
eyes, to the extreme honesty of the Demo-
Gratis. and pitifuiiy portrayed krug as an
exceptionally honest man, but one who
had unfortunately, In his guileless sim
plicity. been led astray by his scalawag
associates. He also told an incident of
Candidate Durie's heroism which served
to bring out in glowing colors his own
past services, and wound up his harangue
with a story of newly welded Irish
couple, which created the only en-
thusiasm of the evening. T. NJ. Car
son. the city comptroller, took occasion
later in the evening to emphatically annul
Mr. Cams promises in regard to increased
municipal work and said that the Demo-
cratic party was bitterly opposed to the
creation of any debts whatever. and that
were the reins of government again in
trusted to its fatherly care rigid retrench-
ment in all departments would be the
watchword Of the times. Mr.. Carson also
attacked the public school system in a
covert way. ridiculing the expenditure Of
public funds for kindergarten supplies and
other necessary aids to successful school
work. He juggled figures in q manner
that showed him an artist in that line and
appeared to demonstrate, to his own salts
faction as least, that the only honest men
in the city were Democrats. He also
defended Kruggery. and unblushingly
informed his hearers that within six
weeks from the date of Krug's flight
every dollar had been covered back into
the city treasury. He did not, however,
explain about that ST. 800 loan. Benjamin
+. De Bow charmed his audience with ex-
tended allusion to Kruggery. the Cherry
street ring. the canal and other matters.
but signally failed to excite any en-
thusiasm. II. 7. Stowell, the Democratic
nominee for delegate from the Sixth ward.
confined his remarks to thanking the peo-
pie for the honor conferred on him. Frank
Borzoni, voter In Ballard. and the prime
mover of the meeting was the last and
only Italian speaker of the evening. He
vain.y endeavored to show that the
Democratic party had performed great
things tor the Italians. and produced files
printed at the time OF the New Orleans
trouble two years ago to substantate his
statements. As the articles read were
principally Associated Press dispatches to
the two papers, aud one effusion purport-
ing TO be his own. they fell short OF the
mark.
James Hamilton Lewis addressed the
anti-Considine faction OF the First Ward
Democratic Club last evening at the club
rooms on South Third street, but the
meeting can truth!ully be said 10 have
been dismal failure. There was no en-
thusiasm, no warmth and apparently no
hope in the $50 odd worAingmen who had
strolled into the hall 10 get warm. The
colonel used honeyed words. cajoled and
entreated the club 20 preserve harmony
and ali work for the good of the party; he
held the members of the club whom he
faced responsible if harmony was not at
tanned.
Mr. Lewis and Col Riley Boyd. the tall
cs..iope from Kentucky" as Mr.. Lewis
characterized him. were advertised 10
speak at the club. but owing TO ship in
the management Col. Boyd WAS switched
of and assigned to address another meet
ing The room was cold and dreary
enough, but a coIorsd quartette which had
been hired for the occasion warmed up
things a lit,le by singing a plantation
melody, eacn verse of which concluded
vita the chorus.
GOD made q Il ggah,
An lie Ease in ia do dark;
lie inside Im ia hurry, an
Forge; 10 make In white
For some strange reason the lines ap.
pea.ed 10 the Democratic heart OF the
audience, and the Jolly quartetie received
more applause than Lewis himself. Mr..
Lewis said that he Was in no condition TO
make a speech. but he proceeded. how
ever, to entreat the anti-ConsIdine e!e-