The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-02
The GOLD-BUCS AVOIDED A CONTEST
A Mass Meeting Called by Them for
Monday Night IL Abandoned, and
They Hold a Second Convention
Tuesday Night.

The appearance of this dodger was the
signal for a good deal of hard work on
the part OF the various candidates, and it
soon became evident that the silver forces
were doing the hardest rustling. Ac-
cordingly the word was passed along the
line by the gold bugs, for their people not
to attend, and the result was very few Of
them were there-those who issued the
call being especially conspicuous by their
absence.
At 7 O'Clock large number OF citizens
were in attendance at the city hall in
response to the call, and the meeting
organized by electing W. A. Cox as chair
man and RobeYt Fraker as secretary. A.
E. Howard and A. b. Flint were named
as telers, and the meeting proceeded to
nominate candidates for the various city
offices, with the following result:
Mayor-Willam Lee, Sr.
Treasurer-Richard Strobach.
Clerk-Frank L,ggett.
Attorney-E. B. PEBBLE.
Health Officer-Dr. P. Frank.
Councilmen AT large, B. F. Vaughn;
first ward, two years, Tim Manahan;
second ward, one year, ]. X. Ward; Sec
ond ward, two years. j. P. Nation;
third ward, one year, ]. G. Liggett; third
ward, two years, s. o. Ewing.
The ticket as q whole is a strong one
and the candidates named are too we'll
known to need any introduction to the
people of North Yakima. The men
whose names are thus placed before the
voters are men into whose hands the city's
interests can be intrusted without fear.
They are all taxpayers and business men
Of the city and are representative citizens.
The meeting adjourned in time for the
council to convene, being the last Mon
day in the month, but as there happened
to be five Mondays in last month there
was no council meeting for that night.
and if this fact had been known the con-
vention would have been held later in
the evening. There were about 200 citi-
zens present, and the best OF feeling pre-
vailed throughout the entire meeting.
The ticket was named the "Citlzens'
Ticket"
On Tuesday call was made for an
other mass meeting to be held that night,
and this convention was organized at
Z 80 o'clock by placing DR.. Hare in the
chair and Fred Runyon at the secretary's
desk. J. D. Cornett and DR.. Hill were
appointed tellers and the meeting pro-
ceeded at once to business.
F. q. Hall and A. SCHNEIDER were
nominated for councilmen from the first
ward. Mr.. Hall declined and Mr.. Schin-
deler was nominated by acclimation. Mr..
SCHNEIDER was not present.
Hugh Sinclair, w. B. Dudley and
Frank Bartholet were placed in nomina-
ton from the second ward. Mr.. Sinclair
declined, and the other two were declared
the nominees by acclimation. They were
both absent.
The further along the meeting got with
it's order of business the harder it seemed
to find candidates that would stand. A.
R. Sinclair, W. j. Aumiller, DR.. Fletcher
and w. l.. Jones all declined to be nom
mated as councilmen from the third ward,
and the convention finally fell back on
the method used to secure candidates in
the other wards and named A. ii. Wilgus
and w. d. Scott, who were not present.
They were nominated by acclimation.
When it came to securing somebody to
run against B. F. Vaughn as councilman
at large the meeting had a big job on its
hands. L. E. Sperry led off by nomi-
mating W. l.. Jones. He declined Phil
Otter, w. l. Llnce, A. s. Paul, Alex.
Miller, H. B. Rigg, w. III. Redman, J.
d. Cornett, A. L. Dilley, F. NJ. Spain,
Richard Curry, l. P. Englehart, W. A.
Bell, U. F. Diteman and Robert Crory
were all nominated in turn, but they were
all present and everyone of them declined.
At this point in the proceedings a new
departure was taken. A. E. Poole was
placed in nomination. He arose and at
tempted to decline, but was forced to his
seat and compelled tn remain silent by
his nelghbors while he was nominated
by acclimation. They tried to make him
think it was a joke.
Henry Pressey was selected az candi.
date for treasurer, II. B. Doust for clerk
and John Rudkin for city attorney
There was only one candidate for each of
these places and the nominations were
all by acclimation. For health officer
pr. Frank and DIR. Rosser were placed in
nomination and ballot taken, which
gave DR.. Frank Of votes and DR.. Rosser
%, the total vote cast beingsl. DIR. Frank
is thus the nominee OF both conventions
o. A. Fechter, our present mayor, was
yenominated for that Office.