Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-11-30
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FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 80. 1906.
The CITY Election .

The City Election.
This has been week OF local con-
ventions, and as natural result, one
o; much heated presentation and dis
cussion ef issue, presumptive and real,
that has at times led 10 much i'll
feeling and heated debate. 1t is in
remarkable contrast with thu prciimi'
naricS Tor city election last year, when
there was but one ticket--a Citizen 4
tickct-in the zelda, and nobody was
bold enough to sound the tocsin OF
alarm to rally the party OF revenue
and graft to face an encounter. 1t is
doubtful whether there would have
boen any response had the call been
issued, for the party had lost its more
brainy leaders 10y the change OF resi-
dence OF Scobey. Madge, Ray and
Henry, and there was no issue to base
action upon. The'ci.y had been run
in the same old ruts and there was no
organization against such errors as
may have been committed by lax OBJ.
servance OF law, for a majority OF the
citizens had for many years approved
the open-town methods which had es.
tablished the axiom that the spirit OF
the law is embodied in the will of the
people.
This time, however, when the call
was issued for a Citizens convention,
some interested parasites and grafters
having axes to grind, concluded to
make an issue against the Light and
Power Co., and the Water Co., for the
want of some more plausible object on
which to base action. It necessarily
results that Companies which have been
dealing with the public for long term
OF years must necessarily have . few
patrons who felt agrieved at some act
OF the corporation, and it is very easy
for grafters who are always waiting for
a chance TO fleece by falsehood, mis-.
representation and appeals to prejudice
to awaken spirit Of resentment. This
plan the Tacoma.owned papers adopt.
ed, to lead the old and hitherto hon.
ored Republican party to the precipice,
OF destruction. They have by abuse,
alienated some OF its most honored and
trusted leaders, and the polls will show
next Tuesday night, that it has cracked
the party wide open.
Were Democrats bound by the mar.
row partisan spirit that actuates the
professional pie.biter or the habitual
CRATER, they would probably only re.
joice in the discontinue of Q class
generally regarded on matters of polity
ss relentless enemies, but that party
is generally able to rise enough above
partisanship to accord fair deal, and
having seen the situation precisely as
1t was seen through Republican eyes
before some Of its leaders were gagged
and bound, they manifested that spirit
by adjourning q party convention
called by some enthusiasts who did not
see clearly . paramount duty Of citi.
zenship implied by . union of forces
on the Citizens ticket. That duty
is however, just as strong to act in an
Independent capacity, without any i'm.
pairment Of party prestige.
All We have to say of the trumped
up issue against the Light and Power
and Water companies is, that they
inaugurated those enterprises at q
time when it required courage and
capital to attempt any new enterprise
in our little city. Mr.. Horton did not
amass a fortune, or competency, by
giving the community . water supply
and it's stock was on the maaket at Is
ceuts on q dollar just before it was
taken up by Mr.. Heermsns. The
house car service instituted in 1890 by
Mr.. Savage paid no more than ex-
penses, and when it developed into an
electric services few years later, it
soon bankrupted few of our leading
citizens who made "the wheels 20
round" 1t is not now paying divi.
dends large enough for boarding and
the stock can be bought, in small or
large blocks, at less than par. There
is absolutely no truth that it has
been mismanaged, or that an attempt
has been made to give the public any.
thing but square deal. It is only the
attempt to make the company pay for
silence that has constituted the ami.
mus of the opposition. It 10 that dis.
position of hostility against established
enterprises that has kept several pro.
jectors from considering our natural
advantages for investment OF capital.
The ticket nominated Monday
night, by the Citizens Convention, is
as follows: For Mayor, Dr.. N. J.
kedpath; Clerk, J. R. Dever; Treas.
urer, ]. ]. Wilson; Attorney, E. N.
Steele; Councilman.at.Large. c. B.
White; Ward Councilmen were nomi-
mated az follows: Second, E. J..
Berneche; Fourth, ]. H. Meays.
The Republicans. Wednesday night
nominated Thomas McLarty for
Mayor; George Bigelow, City Attor.
nsy; George Blankenship, Clerk ;
Theodore Brown, Treasurer; Health
Officer, r. Kincaid; Councilman-at.
Large, w. A. Weller; Second ward,
Gordon Mackay; Fourth, &. A. Stew.
ems; Sixth, c. d. King.
The two platforms, briefly stated,
free from the verbiage which polite.
ians Involuntary use to throw dust