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47 stories matching grover
- The Rule That Told Workingmen to Keep Out of Politics
Everett's Labor Journal goes after Roosevelt's civil service order, arguing that machinists and mechanics in government shops are muzzled while partisan appointees run the machine — and quotes Grover Cleveland back at the administration to prove it.
- The President and the Timber Thieves
A political scandal erupted when President Grover Cleveland fired a federal prosecutor who had successfully taken on a powerful railroad monopoly for illegal logging.
- The City Under Martial Law: Seattle's 1886 Expulsion
A presidential proclamation from Grover Cleveland arrived in Seattle, authorizing the use of federal troops to suppress 'domestic violence' and restore order after anti-Chinese mobs took to the streets.
- The Price of a Lost Limb
A teenager files suit after a gruesome factory accident left him permanently disabled while working on machinery.
- A Child’s Tragic Afternoon on the Flats
A six-year-old Seattle boy drowns in the harbor while fishing for crabs, exposing the perils of the waterfront mudflats for the city's youth.
- Seattle's Silver Crusaders Packed the Armory and Demanded a Free-Silver Senator
Populists, Democrats and Republicans found one thing to agree on in 1895: unlimited silver coinage—and a Legislature that would send a silver man to Washington.
- A Fraudulent Promise of Work
Employment agents defend their reputation after sending laborers on a fruitless, costly trip to British Columbia.
- The Settlers' War Against the Land Office
How the administration of Grover Cleveland turned homesteaders into outlaws, sparking fear across Washington Territory.
- Federal Troops Sent to Seattle to Quell Anti-Chinese Violence
President Grover Cleveland’s 1885 message to Congress highlights the deployment of federal troops to Seattle and Wyoming to protect Chinese laborers from mob violence.
- The Martial Law Panic of 1886
As armed vigilantes patrolled Seattle, labor leaders turned to the President of the United States to stop a coup by force.
- Anti-Chinese Rally Held at Pioneer Square
Local populist orators gather to denounce the Geary Act's suspension and demand the expulsion of Chinese laborers.
- Vigilante Sentiment Grows After Sunday Violence
A wave of fights and assaults by 'tramps and toughs' on Harris Street leaves the town calling for better policing.
- Tacoma Petitions to Throw Open the Puyallup Reservation
Businessmen, railroad men and politicians circulate petitions to oust the Puyallup Indian agent and dismantle federal restrictions, arguing the reservation's lands and rail routes should be 'opened' — a dispossession dressed as progress.
- A Fisticuff Over Politics at the Hotel Spokane
Tensions over the presidency lead to a public brawl in a Spokane hotel lobby between two political figures.
- The Chief Who Just Wanted to Be Left Alone
While Washington settlers braced for potential conflict with Chief Moses in 1878, a local merchant argued the indigenous leader was being provoked by a political usurper, not a desire for war.
- The President Takes the Side of the Homesteader
In an unprecedented rebuke to a powerful railroad corporation, President Grover Cleveland defends a Washington Territory settler's right to his land.
- The Great Assessment Scam: How King County Taxpayers Were Fooled by 'Blunders'
A local reporter exposes the absurdity of county tax assessments, where landowners receive notices for huge back-taxes on property they already paid off, forcing them to chase down exhausted commissioners in a cycle of bureaucratic error.
- The Democracy of Seattle Lights Up Pioneer Place
Torches, bonfires, and fiery rhetoric define a raucous political rally for Grover Cleveland.
- The Scramble for the Customs House
With a new President taking office, candidates are fighting for the most lucrative federal post in Washington state.
- When Seattle's Taps Ran Dry, One Citizen Took the City to Task
A resident of the city's eastern heights petitions the Seattle City Council over empty pipes, fire risk, and water bills—with sarcasm aimed at every authority from City Hall to the White House.
- The Ballot-Box Stuffing of '92
When Tacoma's young reformers clashed with the political establishment, the result was a chaotic primary election featuring disappearing ballots, saloon-gang repeaters, and a hole in the ballot box.
- Who Gets to Dig Seattle’s Sewers? Knights of Labor Accuse City Hall of Hiring by Party Ticket
A labor committee charges that Seattle’s sewer crews were filled with nonresidents and Democratic loyalists while taxpaying workmen were turned away—and that some men were paid for less than they worked.
- The Outlaw Who Robbed a Colonel: A Seattle Man’s Wild Tale of Army Gold
A former quartermaster recounts how he and fellow officers were held up at gunpoint in Kansas by masked bandits who demanded government funds.
- The Wealth of the Nation Trapped in the Vaults
A century and a half ago, President Grover Cleveland grappled with a modern-sounding crisis: federal budget surpluses causing economic panic, skyrocketing costs for common goods, and the crushing weight of a tariff system on working families.
- The Republican Machine Keeps Washington
While the nation pivots to Democrat Grover Cleveland, local Seattle voters secure a decisive win for Republican John H. McGraw.
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- The Great Carpetbagger Grievance
In 1888, Seattle residents fumed as the federal government ignored qualified locals to fill territorial offices with politically connected outsiders.
- Spokane’s Thunder: Four Thousand Voters Demand John L. Wilson Be Retired
A petition drive in Spokane turns the U.S. Senate fight into a referendum on silver and railroad pooling—and boosts George Turner as the people’s choice.
- The Hurdy-Gurdy House on Main Street
A Seattle neighborhood erupts in a formal complaint against the raucous music and nightly disturbances of a Main Street 'hurdy-gurdy house.'
- The Railroad That Couldn't Steal His Home
How a local homesteader outlasted the Northern Pacific Railway in a decade-long legal battle over land rights.
- The Street Preacher of Tacoma Avenue
A laborer’s attempt to sermonize on Tacoma Avenue leads to a swift arrest and an insanity hearing.
- Puyallup Elders Defy the Wilson Bill
Indigenous leaders on the Puyallup reservation gather to protest government efforts to force the sale of their tribal lands.
- The Forgetful Pioneer: A Seattle Character Remembered
Before he became a fixture of the city's early business history, Isaiah Waddell was known for his generous spirit, his roller-boy antics at the local press, and a legendary inability to find his own place of business.
- The Lieutenant Governor’s Moral Steamroller
Lieutenant Governor M. E. Hay asserts his influence in Olympia, taking a hardline stance on public morality and political accountability.