The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-08
THEY DID NOT SIGN.
How the List of the Citizens
Meeting Was Padded.
AL INVITED WERE INCLUDED.
Many Refused to Join the Novemsnt-
Repubiie.n Ward Club Meetings
ssatcsman Considine's Club.

was nOs as generally alseE1eu ~ fepsc-
sentative citizens as Was reported A large
number of those whose names appeared in
the morning papers as having either
signed the cAI for the meeting, or as hav-
ing been present. yesterday denied any
and al! connection with the movement.
The lis, published in the Posr-isTElLIsrs-
CIR vas furnished bv Z. T. b .aine. leader
in the citizens movement. and Everett
Smith. secretary OF the meeting. Mr..
Blaine vas after the meeting asked by q
reporter OF the Posr-lxrxlIgsEscEa for q
list Of those who had signed the call. Mr..
Blaine asked Mr.. Smith to furnish the
names. but himself brought typewriter
list 10 the Posr-ISrEi LiGESeEa Office
and gave ii 10 the city editor. NJ. Smith
tine IN a few minutes later. having in the
meantime gone TO his office TO get the
original lists. and gave the names OF sew
eral persons not on Mr.. Blaine's LIST.
which. he now says. he al that time sup
posed was lis. Of those cnly who had
either signed the roll or accepted the in-
visation TO be present. In fac. the list
gwen By Mr.. Blaine included many who
mel her signed the roll nor attended the
meeting and several who had positively
refused 20 be identified with the move
ment in any way. Those whose names
appeared on Mr.. Biaine's list but who did
not sign the call are:
A. Amunds, ]. NJ. L. Atkinson. Charles
Brnhn. j. Is. Bowies. Will Carson, Josiah
Collins jr., Austin Ciabourne, T. NJ. Carr.
Isaac Cooper. John Collins. A. Chiiberg.
George Donworth. l.. Dller. Arthur De-
Voc, q. Davies. Jacob Furth. Jesse w.
George, Capt. Gilmore, Fred Gasch, w. III.
n. Green, W. A. Harrington. K. G..
Hughes. A. f. Hill. Charles Hopkins. IL.
w. Higgins. Andrew Heinrich, DIR. s. j.
Holmes. Charles b. Hills, g: o.. Halter,
w A. Hardy. Capt: d: b. Jackson.
Col. Lindsay. J. NJ. Lang. |. j. Liehten-
berg. Swan Lewis. August Meihorn. +. B.
NJ. Miller. Angus Macintosh. NJ. Nc
Micken. W. A. Mcdonald. J. b. Mac
Dougan. Wallace Nutting. Adam 0rth.
James Parke. ]. j. Post. l.. J. P.tner.
James II. Perkins. f. W. Price, Dr.. Ran
dell. W. III. Reeves. VI. G. Struve. c. ID.
stimson. L. ". ID. shelton. John Suili-
van, X. X. Spencer, w. {. Stetson, T.. l..
Terry. L. +. Thompson. f. Van Tuyi, +.
+. Whittier. w. III. White (of Knapp, Bur-
reiiD. ". ID. Wood, f. II. Winslow. NJ. II.
Young.
A few OF these named in the above list
did attend the meeting. and several took
part in il: but majority had no part in
the matter further than being the recipi-
ents of the following invitation, which was
sent out to select few by Mr.. Blaine's
committee:
SEATTLE Feb. s. 1894
"Dear Sir: There will be a meeting of
the s.gnets to the proposed Citizens
Municipal League on Tuesday evening,
February d. at 2. m. at the rooms OF
Merchants and Manufacturers exchange,
Seattle National Bank building. You are
earnestly requested to be present.
"a. A. DENNY, THOMAS BURKE, DEXTER
Horror. j. NJ. CoLMAN. q. A. NEED,
HrLLoRY BUTLER and others
DR.. s. J. Holmes said: THE pabiica-
ton of my name as one of those who had
signed the call for the citizens meeting of
Tuesday evening, or wa. present at it, Is
erroneous. because | neither signed the
call nor attended the meeting. |, how
ever. received an invitation TO be present.
Now. while | sympathize with the ulti-
mate object desired by all those who did
attend that meeting, namely. a clean,
economical and honest government of
city affairs. am too much of a Repub-
licau to do anything which would hinder
the efforts of my party in that same d.
rection."
J. b. MacDougail said mo. did not
sign the call, but | received an invitation
to attend the meeting and | attended it
| ont OF curiosity. to see what would b, pro-
| posed. When they askedme to sign the call
| tod Them that ! was too much identi-
| fed with my party's affairs in the Fifth
ward to do anything which would tend to
weaken the party. told them. however,
| that il there was any way of joining in a
! movement of that kind which would not
hurt my party, | would gladly do so''
Jacob Furth, T., l.. Terry. N. McMicken,
| T.. c. Hughes, Fred Gasch, DIR. Randell,
/ X. X. Spencer and Others whose names
| were used, say they positively refused TO
| join in any premature movement toward
nominating u citizens ticket Others who
| did sign, say they did so with the distinct
| understanding that the movement was for
| the organization of citjzens' league. the
| object Of which was to be to securs the
| nomination of good men on regular party
| tickets. Mr.. McMicken remarked TO the
| Democrat that solicited his name tina, two
| years ago he did not find any Democrat
| running around booming a citizens move.
| ment, and he did not see why a Rspub-
/ Ican should be doing SO now
| Charles +. Munday. who was reportea
| by the Press Times as being one of the
| sctive circulators of the call, denies con-
/ nec;ion or sympathy with the movement