The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-08

WOMEN HEAR ISSUES Of
CAMPAIGN DISCUSSED
MAYOR FAWCETT TELLS FEMININE AUDIENCE ANTI.
TREATING LAW CAN PASSED IN
- COMING ELECTION. -

s"Carry this anti-treating ordi-
nance; put the law on the books
and l will see that 1t is enforced. /
will hire men to get evidence and
we will prosecute every saloon
that violates it and then | will
make a motion in council meeting
to revoke the license. With this
law on the books l know you good
people will see that it is enforced
and no administration will ever
come in that will dare not to en-
force it,
Such was the statement of May
or Fawcett to the women of the
Voters Educational league at
their meeting yesterday afternoon
at the st. Luke's parish house.
The mayor had been invited to
; speak, but he came late.
III. G. Rowland was speaking
when he arrived. Rowland was
giving the mayor and the whole
commission particular fits. He
told the women how he had gone
to Commissioner Roys a dozen
times and demanded and begged
that he enforce the law against
blind pigs, gamblers and the red
light district. Roys had refused
and had stated that with the help
of god he would maintain the vice
district.
But Rowland declared the other
commissioners were also to blame
because they had done nothing to
compel Roys to enforce the law.
He thought them equally guilty.
Takes Issue.
Mayor Fawcett took issue with
him on this.
"You say you went to Roys and
/ demanded that the law be en-
fforced. Why didn't you come to
me and to the other commission
ers If we were just as responsible
and had just as much to do with
1t as Roys. You never came to
see any of us except Roys and yet |
you say that we are just as much |
to blame as he is. If you thought |
that why did you not bring the
!matter before the commission or
Say something to the rest of us?"
The mayor also declared that |
he had but one vote in the COM
mission and that Roys had rerus-
ed to allow him to have anything
to do with directing the police, so
he had no means of looking after
the details of police regulation
and that he had never been able
to get enough commissioners to-
sether to remove Roys from Of
ice. ]
He declared he had tried to get
the other commissioners TO re-
move him but never could get
votes.
y The women and several men
present piled the mayor with ques-
lions. r. w. Wilkeson asked why
the anti-treating ordinance was
not introduced sooner by the may
or.
1.-THE reason was that Roys
went back ON his promise and re-
fused to support it," said Fawcett.
He agreed with me before he was
elected that he would stand by me
Ind help me to put 1t through.
A l.,
After the election 1 went to him Il
and asked him to put the ordi- t
nance in and he refused to sup \
port it. 1 did not introduce it C
pntil l got Lawson to promise to n
support it; then we passed it." v
Mrs. e. H. Hammond wanted to
fnow why voters do not stand by u
ne mayor when he is trying to j.
snforce the law. I
1 The mayor said it takes three =
Fotes to do anything against the .
laloons and Freeland is the only 3
>ne he can always count on. A
Mrs. Shores Suggestion. n
Mrs. A. e. Shores suggested
bat the women would go down II
|nd put the saloons out of busi- b
less. o
Mrs. Shores asked the mayor If
here was saloon in his building. C,
rhe mayor said there was and has b