The Last Rally: How Seattle’s Republicans Tried to Buy the Vote with Prima Donnas and Quartets

AT THE ARMORY The Republicans' Last Rally to Night

YOU ARE INVITED Bring Your Family With You By all Means MAYOR BLACK WILL BE THERE Miss McKinney Will Sing on the Occasion— An Excellent Quartette Will Discourse Some Choice Selections Special Arrangements To Entertain Ladies.

The last and grandest rally of the present municipal contest will take place this evening. This meeting promises to be the most interesting and best attended meeting that the Republicans have yet had, and that is saying a great deal. The committee has given the preparations for it their special attention and they hope to be rewarded for their labors by seeing the hall more than full of guests. The committee is very desirous that a very large number of ladies will be present, as the programme will be interspersed with some choice musical selections.

Miss Marguerite McKinney, Seattle's favorite prima donna, will be on hand, and will favor the audience with some of her most well-selected airs. Seattle has long since learned to appreciate and adore Miss McKinney for her musical ability and hundreds who have ever heard her can do so tonight only for the trouble of walking to the Armory.

The committee has done more. It has engaged the Tyrolean quartette, one of the best, it is said, on the Sound, to render some choice selections, which they will do in the very best style. The evening will not be devoted to long speeches entirely, but the exercises will be interspersed with an interesting as well as entertaining programme, which will be pleasing to all who intend to attend, and for this reason it is especially desired that the ladies will be out in force.

The vice presidents for the committee are as follows: L. E. Atkinson, Ira A. Scott, J. A. Frank Little, Jacob Fuson, J. P. Draper, Alfred T. Villars, Fred Palmer, D. H. Carr, O. J. Carr, Frank Griffith, H. M. Levett, William Copesticks, Dr. James Shannon, Frank Goodhue, H. R. Clise, Dr. E. George Newlands, Philip Kuhlman, Lawrence J. Coleman, L. W. Bonney, Louis Schoenfeld, John E. Humphries, Charles Dean, E. H. Guie, Boyd J. Tallman, Frank P. Lewis, Harry Bigelow, J. C. Parsons, Robert Abrams, James Weir, George Collins, Thomas P. Carter, E. L. Blame, H. Struve, E. P. Tremper, P. Pearson, H. Morden, Julius Stratton, George W. Fisher, C. L. Webb, E. Neufeldt, J. Crawford, William Martin, I. D. McCutcheon, J. S. Taylor, Gen. E. M. Garr, Dr. J. Holmes, George M. Stewart, Dr. E. V. Young, A. W. Hastie.

REGGERS TO GO. Frank D. Black will not appoint Bolton Rogers as chief of police if he is elected mayor of Seattle. Baldy Rogers is a thing of the past, and he has run his race in this city. Mr. Black realizes that to carry Bolton Rogers as chief of police through his administration would mean more than he would dare or care to undertake and he will not attempt to do it. This will of itself make Mr. Black 500 votes, and also make his election as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow. Let no one doubt it but that Frank D. Black will sweep the city of Seattle tomorrow like a Kansas cyclone and be elected mayor of this city, not by a plurality, but by a large majority.

At the regular Sunday afternoon meeting of the A. P. A. yesterday the prevailing sentiment was that the Republican ticket would be elected by an overwhelming majority. It was the consensus of opinion with the members of the order that a vote for Gilman was a vote directly almost for Dr. Jordan, and the order would be responsible for the election of Jordan should it in any great numbers vote for Gilman, as there was no possible show of electing him. Having thus reasoned the thing out, it was practically unanimously decided to support the Republican ticket and make sure of the election of Frank D. Black and his associates by those present at Ranke's hall yesterday. This order having thus endorsed the Republican ticket, it will be elected from top to bottom, as it is without any factional fights in its ranks now. They were right. A vote for Gilman is a vote for Jordan, and do not think there is any hope to elect Gilman.

THEIR FAULTS. Neither of the Populist tickets mean any good for the Republican ticket. It was gotten up to deceive and to make the Republicans think that the Pops are divided, when they are practically unanimous in everything but for Jordan. Mr. Gilman has been used as a catspaw to rake A. P. A. chestnuts out of the fire, or in other words to draw off so many Republican votes from the old party and make certain of the election of at least the city council. With control of this body these wild Populists would not care a tinker's damn for the mayorship, for they would raise so much devil that any decent mayor would be almost tempted to resign from the position to get rid of such pests.

Go to the polls with your minds made up to turn down Jordanism, anti-Jordanism, and in fact, every ism that is not Republicanism, not so much that you are a dyed-in-the-wool Republican yourself, but that the Pops are endeavoring to hoodwink the voters into electing Populists to the various positions in the city by the meanest and most underhanded tricks and sculduggery. They have been successful in capturing the Democrats, and partially successful in capturing a part of the Republicans, and now they hope to make sure and certain of their work tomorrow by having enough Republicans vote for Gilman and his followers to defeat the Republican ticket. Do not fall into the trap, my Republican friends, but vote the Republican ticket from top to bottom, and you will show these fellows that to swallow up the Republican party as they have the Democratic is more than they can get away with.

A POP. IS A POP. There is another singular thing about the two Populist tickets in the city at present, and it is that in most of the wards the Populist Association ticket for aldermen and delegates have been withdrawn, and both the sides have united on the Jordan nominees for these places. The voters of this city may not be being hoodwinked by the Populists and being caught in a populist trap, but it begins to smell that way. If those Gilman men are honest in their fight why do they suffer their men for aldermen and delegates to withdraw in favor of the Jordan men? If one man on the Jordan ticket was fraudulently nominated, the whole ticket was fraudulently nominated, and why support a single nominee on the ticket if you are fighting for principle? The fact of the matter is that the Populists are endeavoring to have Populists elected in sufficient numbers to have control of the council, and then they will forget all this Jordan and anti-Jordan and raise the devil with the affairs of this city. This delusion and Populist Association ticket of which so much has been said, was put forward to cause a boomerang in the Republican ranks and split the party, and the Pops have attempted to use the order of the A. P. A. to do it with. What difference to the best interests of this city would it make whether a Gilman Populist or a Jordan Populist were in control of the city council? They are now counting noses in each of the wards, and tomorrow they will go to the polls well understanding to cast their votes for the strongest Populist, whether such Pop be on the Jordan or the anti-Jordan ticket, and unless the Republicans are on the lookout these cunning politicians will show them a Yankee trick for councilman.

THEY ARE UP A TREE The Pops are truly up a stump in this city, for neither wing of them has a simon pure candidate for mayor. Jordan has been alderman for four years as a Democrat, and Gilman a fire commissioner and a machinist in the city employ, as a Republican. The middle-of-the-road Populists are most confoundedly scarce in these diggings now. It does not seem reasonable that either Republicans, Democrats or Populists with any party respectability at all would vote for such mongrel candidates as Jordan and Gilman. Good, pure straight Republicanism is the elixir now for good municipal government. So vote for Black and the entire Republican ticket.