The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-12-10
PADDED THEIR LIST.
Advocates of Water Ordinance
Full of Fine Frenzy
ORGANIZATIONS ALL AROUND.
Speakers Pour Forth Torrents OF Wrath
But Avoid Argument on the In
creased Debt Question.
DENUNcIATloNs ALL AROUND.

The excitement incident to the closing
OF the water campaign drew large crowd
at the Armory mass meeting last evening,
people hocking in regardless OF whether
they favored ordinance 1880 or not Hon.
John Leary presided. and at TAO invited
the vice presidents and speakers TO take
their seats on the platform. There was an
Indifferent response to the invitation,
and but sixteen citizens, among
them Alonzo Hull, Scion T. Will
Jams, John c. Whitlock, John ]. McGilvra,
E w. Craven, Henry w. Stein, III. ]. Car
keek, William II. White and w. V. Rine-
hart, came forward, although the pub
lished call for a meeting announced fif-
teen speakers and seventy-nine vice presi-
dents. After the call TO order Richard
Winsor and two or three members of the
city council took seats before the audi
ence-
Their Names Were stolen.
Among the seventy-nine vice presidents
selected were many citizens who had not
authorized the use of their names. Presi-
dent Daulton, of the board Of aldermen,
said last night that his name had been
written on the list without any authority
whatever, and that he had been placed in
a false position by the fraudulent use OF
his name. Alderman Miller said that his
name had also been used without his
knowledge, and that he had no intention
OF acting as a vice president at the meet
the list without his authority, for he is |
opposed to the ordinance. But the most
pointed Reputation of the meeting comes
from Charles +. Munday, who yesterday
wrote follows as to how the LIST was
made up:
Seattle, Wash, Dec. 9, 1895.
To the Editor: 1 noticed in an adver-
tasement published in this mornings edi-
ton OF your paper of a mass meeting TO
be held at the Armory this CMoDday) ev-
ening by the friends of ordinance No. 1880
TO discuss the water question, my name
appears one Of the vice presidents of
the meeting. The use Of my name IN that
connection was without my knowledge or
consent, and was wholly unauthorized.
am not one OF the friends of ordinance
No $780," but on the contrary am opposed
to said ordinance, and shall vote against
tho proposition set forth therein. Very re-
speCtfully. CHARLES +. MUNDA1.
An Array of Vacant Chairs.
After the meeting had been called to or
der the audience was aroused to some pitch
Of enthusiasm by the appearance Of Rich
ard Winsor, who took seat on the plat
form. He was followed later by two or
three members of the city council, and
>great number OF vacant chairs indicated
that a large majority Of the seventy-nine
vice presidents selected for the evening did
not sit.
In general the speakers lost no oppor-
tunity TO cry monopoly and to attempt to
demonstrate that the city was in danger
of being bound hand and foot and deliv-
cred helpless into the clutches OF mo-
nopoly. The Post-Intelligencer was bit
terly attacked for its direct and emphatic
opposition to the scheme TO load the city
down with 81, 250, 600 increased debt; and
this phase of the discussion formed so
heavy a burden OF the speeches that to
omit mention OF Il in a report would be
like listening to Hamlet with Hamlet
left out. The speakers were vehement in
their denunciation and at times touched
a responsive chord in the audience so
strongly as to arouse wild cheers.
Leary Put to the Question.
Perhaps the most moderate speech was
made by Mr.. Leary. who before turning
the audience over 10 his associates, could
not resist an inclination TO go into Stats
tics He made final appeal TO the pat
riotism Of the audience, but had no sooner
finished speaking than he was interrupted
by W. II. Wilson. ex-superintendent OF
water works, who said that 10 extend the
mains in the northern portion OF the city
would cost $4,000. and TO distribute the
water would cost S250.000 more. What I
wish 10 know is where this money is COM
ing FROM" he said.
w II. White was on his feet In an in
slant. and during a howl OF approval
asked answering question as to how
the people were TO get the water IL their
rights are handed over to a corporation.
Mr.. Leary stated that he could see no DIFF
hculty.
McGilvra's Walls OF Wrath.
The next to take the platform was John
J. McGiIvra, who, Polonus-like, stated that
he wanted to be brief but never express