272 HISTORY OF PASADENA, 



' ' 3 Resolved, That we believe the resolutions in the so-called Citi- 

 zens' platform are in part untrue ; that their continued publication in our 

 daily paper is detrimental to the interests of our city ; and that the so-called 

 citizens' movement would in fact, if successful, lead to the introdudioyi of the 

 retail liquor traffic into our midst. J. D. Gil,CHRIST, chairman, 



M. M. Parkkr, secretary, 

 W. T. Clapp, Committee. 



" On motion, a central committee was appointed, consisting of C. C. 

 Thompson, J. G. Shoup, R. H. Pinney, G. Roscoe Thomas and A. F. 

 Keyes." 



This was on Saturday evening. On the next Tuesday evening a great 

 ratification meeting was held in the Tabernacle ; and from reports published 

 the following day, I quote the main points specially pertinent to this nar- 

 rative : 



" C. C. Thompson, chairman of the central committee, presided. The 

 nominees were all called to seats on the platform, and also the following 

 gentlemen to sit as vice-presidents : Gov. L,. A. Sheldon, Hon. A. G. 

 Throop, D. Galbraith, Rev. Dr. Ormiston, A. R. Metcalfe, Jason Brown, 

 Geo. F. Kernaghan, ly. F. Miller, Dr. Davis, James Cambell, W. T. Clapp, 

 A. F. Keyes, P. G. Wooster, Rev. Solomon Dunton, M. M. Parker, T. J. 

 Martin, John AUin, Rev. ly. P. Crawford, John Habbick. The first speaker 

 called was Senator Delos Arnold, candidate for trustee-at-large, who spoke 

 briefly of the points of agreement and of disagreement between the two 

 parties now contending for the control of our city government. As to the 

 question of economy and discreet management, there was no division. But 

 the so-called Citizens' ticket stood for a policy which must in the very 

 nature of things open the way to the liquor traffic being re-established in Pasa- 

 dena, while the People's ticket stands for a policy which will prevent 



THAT THING." 



Other candidates were called in turn, and made brief responses. Then 

 A. R. Metcalfe, Esq., who was city attorney at the time, and had been at- 

 tacked in the daily Star, was urgently called for ; and from the published 

 reports of his speech I quote, because it is one of the waymark points in 

 the history of this whole matter. Mr. Metcalfe said : 



"The editor of the Star had advised a search of the records, and he 

 had done so, with the result that he had found a petition on file in the city 

 clerk's office (presented in September, 1888), expressing the belief that or- 

 dinance 45 (since changed to 125) was detrimental to the best interests of the 

 city, and asked the council to call an election for its repeal and the adoption 

 in lieu thereof of a high license system. He glanced at the names signed to 

 it, and the third name to it was Webster Wotkyns, now the candidate on 

 that side for city clerk. He found also the names of C. M. Simpson, their 

 candidate for trustee from the first ward ; T. Banbury, their candidate from 

 the second ward ; Jas. Clarke, their candidate from the fourth ward ; S. 

 Washburn, their candidate for city treasurer ; A. Wakeley, their candidate 

 for city marshal. The names of two of their candidates, Lukens and 

 M'Quilling, were not signed to it; but six out of the eight men on that 

 ticket had signed their own names to a declaration that ordinance 125 was 

 in their belief "detrimental to the best interests of the city," and they 



