The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-12
WALLS STORY

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Continued From Page Seven.
| view what due elaboration means.
| Admiral Glover, you remember,
thought Vancouver was the first
to sail these northwestern waters;
that he was really a discoverer;
the first to survey the coast; he
thought Peter Rainier was a first
lord of the England admiralty
and had commissioned Vancouver
for his enterprise. Huh!
The Beer Ad.
Eminent and fair-minded men,
forsooth, Is not G.. Hart Mer-
riam, on this same board, hear
ing this same case in 1917 that
was decided. in 1890 with such
due deliberation-is he not an
eminent and fair-minded man?
You remember how he had read
all there was to read on the other
side and was brazenly Indifferent
as to and ignorant of the evidence
on one side. Eminent and fair
minded men, forsooth.
The two others on that board of
1890 that decided the matter
were Henry Gannett, then chief
geographer of the geological sur
vey, and Marcus Baker, geograph-
er of the geological and coast sur
vey. They are both dead.
| The man who on the present
board succeeds Henry Gannett-
the chief geographer of the geo.
logical SURVEYS Robert d. Mar
shall Mr.. Marshall it was who
told me that the brewery inter-
ests of Seattle, manufacturing
Rainier beer, were behind Watson
G. Squire-then senator-and
that their combined influence Sc
cured the adoption of the name
Rainier; that the present board,
he was sure, only needed some
warrant and they would gladly
make the change, since the pres
ent name was reflection upon
our taste, judgment and patriot
ism, and should not stand.
One Other Geographer.
The only other geographer (by
title) on the board, is Charles S.
Sloane, geographer of the census
bureau. 1t was he, you remem-
Der, who, as secretary, wrote me
specific directions how to proceed
II we would accomplish what we
: desired and who, when we full
filled his directions voted to de-
feat the object. Huh!
Nearly all of pages s and 9 of
this statement are devoted to lit
tie irrelevancies which are set
forth as answers" to alleged al
legations by Tacoma representa-
tives' which allegations were sim
ply not made and are nowhere to
be found in the record, of which
| have the stenographic transcript
before me. They may appear in
Charles Tallmadge Conover's pa
per-whieh it will be remembered
alleged a number of things of us
that we didn't door say. DIR.
Merriam evidently familiarized
himself with all that stuff-very
much of which Mr.. Farrar had the
decency to repudiate-said he
was ashamed of it.
Negro Issue.
But the most remarkable por-
tion of the statement is reserved
for the concluding page-an-a-half.
Here DR.. Merriam consumes con-
siderable space to sneering ref
J erence to one of these alleged al
! legations that Peter Rainier be-
lieved in slavery" Two or three
, times he refers to it.
: We (from Tacoma) were down
, there at Washington on a mis-
| sion the dignity of which we felt,
and which mission We conducted
with dignity. No member of our
party made any reference to Pc
ter Rainier touching the slavery
question. DR.. Merriam finds that
in Conover's mysteriously num-
bled and subsequently secreted
paper tsecreted from u.s. or he
dreamed it. None of us ever
thought of such a thing-if any
of us knew anything about Raj
nier's beliefs on such subject,
which is doubtful-and certainly
said nothing remotely limiting
such thing. | have the record
. before me.
, Amazing"
The Statement" devotes a part
of page and page 10 to a dis
cussion of "the accusation" that
Rainier was an enemy of America
in the war of the Revolution.
, This accusation" is character
lied in the statement as the most
Amazing" thing we did down
there: / will quote the exact lam
guage in a minute. But first
want to tell you about 1t and then
you may join in the amazement.
At the risk of repetition that
may become tedious | must re-
mind you again that this particu-
lar drive for justice to the
mountain had its inception in an
interview with Robert B. Mar
shall, chief geographer of the
geological survey, successor on
the u, s. geographic board of
Henry Gannett of 1890.
| In that interview, given for
publication, Mr.. Marshall said
that the retention of the name
Rainier for the mountain was a
reflection on our patriotism, since
Peter Rainier, TO honor whom the
re e was bestowed, had been an
IN e Bst country during the,
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