The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-13
FOR A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN.
MAYOR rAwcETT SEEKS TO MAKE
STREET RAILWAYS aS IsseE-
Fu.saus.ts Believe m Improved Car
service To he . Popular Move
R~pusIican Members of the TOM
ell Playing for u Checsmnfe.

saeeIal D.npa.ch 70 the Post-In'ei1se' ac 81
TACOMA Ian l3--Tse WORK OF @fss
street es4-yry.stsce Of the city COUNCIL Naiea
xss il esesfoa this Afternoon, made pan
the sart that an EFFORT vii be mace OF inc
1,arf e sae fuslonists ~ me coming ~
election 70 make for or against 1lS
,orns Railways Company" prominent
tsxf5a Fer several weeks past Mayor raw
~etf has used his best en6eayors 20 push
t.afere tks council an ordinance intended
- rsyulase the city street. car service, ara
IA ofs. way and another tals matter was
net brought 70 q definite issue before tae
streets eognruittee. 70 which IL had been
referred until today.
TIE fEsii committee was IN attendance
ard General Manager 3. z. Mitchell, also
Ix,sal Superintendent T. l.. Dame. spent
s~e nasur Or more before the committee IA
ex8isIainx the iatTieaeIaE Of railway mar
agegnaut and why affairs on this point are
in the condition complained OF Dy the
mayor Manager Mitchell expressed an
unqualified desire 10 Meet the city nast
way and 70 DO anything within business
leasen 70 crafty the wishes OF the city
<asherk No end Of pertinent questions
we're answered by AF. Mitchell and MS
FufleF.Hs eudent. Including explanation OF
sae safety appliances ia use upon the com
fany'z lines. goiag 70 ss4o@ th@t the road
i ordinarily well equipped 74itn modern
accommodations
The f4rar move made by the mayor in
ihls matter was. at the time. declared TO
.es not aing more than 4 political one. u
being charged that the mayor hoped 10
sr0aSe the Republican majority OF the
eyUneH to oppose this ordinance, prevent
its passage. and thereby create starter
I9T a campaign slogan for or against the
street railway" TIE maSor haS ali along
held that ne VAS acting simply in the in
segesf Of fie taxpayers and the people gen.
orally ia .e4faagfdlng- certain concessions
fF8f4 the TACOMA Street Railways Com
pAnp ard FROM time 10 time be has pre-
scented complaints senf 10 him by residents
% the city against the service furnished
las the Tacoma Street Railways Company
along the lines tapping The suburbs. lie
believed Judging from his action. that ne
had adopted a popular movement, and that
public opinion generally Iaeors his En-
deaYors III this direction.
Nos IL transplrcs t!Iaf the Republican
members OF tHe council are of the opinion
that the mayor and his following are
framing a mir WiEh which 10 wage war
asaiust the Republicans at the April cleo
ton. Tie play as yet ia uudeveloped. The
council committee concluded 10 postpone
action on the mayors ordinance for thirty
days. la view % the repreae utatl9ns OF the
company ard from this date 10 the end
81 ghis thirty days some lively prediction
SNfF3His}sItg VIII probably be d1ne. From
y hai certain Republican leaders In the
eeuneil Say. they intend to see 10 II that
the mayor and the fuslonists do not profit
~ the scheme under way, and while they
oo not grow explicit in their remarks on
thls point, they hint that they may teach
tRt mayor and his cohorts a trick or two
bef9re they are done.
just what may follow In this little issue
Is prob.eniatlc, but the affair so far has
assumed tome which leads 20 the belief
mat the mayor Is driving the initial pegs
tor a popular issue at the spring election,
and also that this Republicans will be
found Ia uowlsc backward when ii comes
TO checkffa,ing his honor.
IL - not impossible that the council
may pass the mayors ordinance In a
modified form. should 1t be shown that
the demands made therein are reasonable
and in this way prove their good inten-
tons and at the same time put a klnk
IN this particular rope, which Is said TO
Rave been so carefully stretched by the
tasioass;s. Those spoken 10 on the mat
Ter are ehary OF giving their views, but
IL seems quite plain that a pretty fight
viii result the outcome OF which may
nave considerable bearing upon the cleo
ton OF eight counc.isnen and "A mayor In
April next.