Snohomish to Everett: ‘We’ll Teach You a Lesson in County Politics’
A cannon-call mass meeting at the Cathcart Opera House rallies Snohomish against the county-seat removal campaign, with cheers loud enough to reach Everett.
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SNOHOMISH, Sept. 4.—[Special.]—At the call of cannon a rousing county seat mass meeting was held tonight in Cathcart Opera House. The meeting was presided over by the Hon. E. C. Ferguson, father of the city of Snohomish, and as he walked up the aisle to take his seat upon the platform he was greeted by cheers so loud and prolonged that they might well have been heard in Everett. Patriotic speeches were made by about a dozen of the prominent citizens of Snohomish, and the rounds of applause that punctuated each speech clearly evidenced the fact that our people are thoroughly aroused upon the county seat removal proposition and, in the language of Mayor Ferguson, “they propose to teach the Everett fellows a lesson in county politics before they get through with them.”
“They propose to teach the Everett fellows a lesson in county politics before they get through with them.”
County-seat fights were battles over courthouse jobs, public spending and civic pride, and the Snohomish-Everett rivalry still shapes how the two cities see each other. The same dynamics — regional identity, public investment, and which town gets to hold the power — surface today in annexation and transit fights.
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