The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-04-07
The Tacoma Republicans Have
Made an Excellent Fight.
NO WEAK POINT IN THEIR RANKS
An Absurd Attempt to Make the Chi.
nese Question an Issue.
voters to Choose Between Turkey
Fawcett. ex Nice-Presideat of the
Doodle Loan and Trust Co. :. and ex-
County SCOTSMAN and Mayor Orr,
Who Has Governed Tacoma Wen
for Two Years.


Tacoma, April s.-Speciai-T last gun
IN the municipal campaign was fired to-
nlsht. All that remains is TO see that u
dusi vote is poiled tomorrow. and the Re
po3iican ticket Is safe. The central COM
mitfee has been hard at work arranging
Tor the work 10 be done tomorrow by the
precinct committeeman, and the party
managers tonight express confidence in
the success of the whole ticket 1t IL
now only question Of The size OF tho
majority.
The final Republican rally at the Ninth
street theater tonight was a splendid sue
cess. The greatest enthusiasm was dis
played, and the meeting was largely al
tended by the business element. that pre-
dominates in the Second ward. and 10
which q. w. Van Fossen paid his compii-
ments at his lecture yesterday The fol-
lowing well-known Republicans were seat
Ell on the stage and were heard in short
and pithy addresses during the evening:
c. NJ. Easterday. II. W. Cainer. +. w.
Cushasn. c. O. Bates. Thad Huston. john
son Niekeus. W H. Smell, w II. Harris.
John A. Shackeforj, \. Il. T'itlow. Il. w.
Tayler. A. Z Joab. James Wickersham.
g. n. Stone. O. l.. Holmes. 4, W. Ballard
and the candidates on the ticket.
Turkey Fawcctt spent most of today in
consultation with the saloon men. He -
reported 10 have made the rounds of the
city. including Old Tacoma, and to have
used every argument In his power to get
this element TO support him al the polls
tomorrow The Tawcett managers have
had men at work all day In the south end
OF the city. spreading false stories re-
rarding the stand taken hy Mayor Orr In
tho late Chinese agitation. fawcetts
agents have tried to make Il appear that
the mayor was In sympathy with Riggs.
and his resclute stand IN favor OF uphold
ing the law ard the measures he took TO
prevent violence. were used as arguments
to support their statements.
This is what is left Of the fuslonst Argyll
ments The Democratic lawyers who dis
graced their party hy going about among
the populists and telling such stories a.
these found that nothing would so affect
their audiences as twisting the chinese
pgtau They found that their reflections
o., tho mayors official record were met
with complete and positive denial based on
facts that were indisputahle as rapidly as
they could make them from the platform.
and that no one was being de-
ceived into believing them. There mas been
nothing said about Mayor Orr that mas not
been public property for months past The
f,sIon,sts have left nothing u'idone In
their efforts TO find something which was
not creditable to the mayor In hts ofheiai
record and the fact that they have had
10 RELY on the thin and worn-out Chinese
fable is nroof that they have failed com
pIetelv to connect Mayor Orr with the
Ieas, thing not pralssworthy
The Fawcett speakers tried TO appeal 10
,bs nassions ~ the foreign born voters by
deliberately lying about the mayor Thev
have told their hearers that Mayor orr
was a member OF secret society that
was opposed to naturalized citizens befd-
inc office. This is bold falsehood. ard
i,s prompt ani emphatic contradiction
made IL act as n boomerang.
In contrast with Mayor orr's record In
office is that OF Fawcett, whose biunders
az county comrniss3 orer and his deliberate
attempt 20 uniawfuily divert the funds
of the county "a corporation in which
he was stockhoider and vice president
have been fully exposed. Fawcetts thrift
in office has become campaign saving.
JIIs attitude toward the working classes
was so well known that the fusion speak
ers d,d not dare appeal TO the wage-esrn-
ers The taxpayers have been acquainted
with Fawcett's violation of the law IN
selling 81 zoo worth OF farm machinery
and seed 10 the county while be occupied
the office of chairman Of the board OF
ccrpfy commissioners and was the coun-
tvs chief purchasing agent II ~ not
Iifely that tte property owners VIII vote
10 put this man I'm public Office again at
this critical afage i'm the city's history.
There Is one thing that Faweett has
done that his admirers have not said
much about but that should have weight
with certain class. When the anti-fehi-
uesc committee OF fifteen was reorgan-
ized during the Riggs excitement faw-
Get, had himself elected TO nii vacancy
~oa the committee He doubtless had In
MIND the spring campaign. and beihouRht
him that this measure would bring hin
mary votes he might not be able 10 get
in any other way. II Is hardly probable
that this act Of the fusion candidate VIII
have much weight at least with business
men.
The campaign Just ended has been no;a-
h. for the quiet bat effcicnt and profit
able work that has been done IN the pre-
clnctg throughout the city. The Repub-
i'can central committee had had we'll
organized force Of men NJ work quietly
among the voters in every precinct Of tbs
city. and the results Of their systematic
and weH-drected ias,ors are already ap-
parent
The final Republican rally was an over
wheInlng success. The Ninth street the
ater was packed and hundreds turned
away Not less Than ! en- people were In
the building The enthusiasm displayed
made the meeting the most remarkable of
its kind in the clty's history. The Wal
haila and Harmony bands played martial
music in the parade, which ended with
a bz5Ilfaut display of fireworks When
Chairman Swift called the meeting 20 or
der All the seats were fiiled. and hundreds
- persons stood In the aisles and foyer
AZ The candidates were named BY the
as,aakers cheer after cheer was given. and
tho enthusiasm continued TN the last
speech was made.
Less than f.o19 fusionists gathered IN
Cerrnaria hail tonight 10 listen 20 the last
addresses by Democratic speakers. Tom
Carroll presided. Candidate Favee't. IN a
-no-renssrv giearn Of intelligence. advised
~. s.srArs not to be too confident crow
instead OF turkey might be their fare To-
morrow.