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Title: Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, Charles H. (Charles Hinckley), b. 1864
Subjects: Baker, William Taylor, 1841-1903 Electric power-plants
Publisher: New York, The Premier press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ng that night to changeits attitude can be guessed fairly correctly. The ownerof the News soon acquired the Ledger, and we weredaily bombarded through their news and editorialcolumns by shots which invariably came from thedirection of the camp of our enemy. The most artisticiies were invented for news items for the purpose ofdiscrediting our service and keeping us from gettingfranchises and power contracts in the City and County,while our opponent was given a most saintly charac-ter, that became it as well as would a halo on thehead of Satan. It was of vital importance to the citizens that weshould live in order that the opposition to us shouldnot override them with its arrogant monopoly. Andso a political issue crystalized out of the situation 236 LIFE OF WILLIAM TAYLOR BAKER which had a run of about two years, in which at theelections the people offered their ticket familiarlyknown as the Baker ticket against the corruption or SNOQUALMIE BAKER LEADING THECHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
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Tacoma Ledger cartoon during power fight. President C. H. Baker isrepresented as riding his hobby horse Snoqualmie in theinterest of Seattle as opposed to Tacoma, while MayorCampbell and the other officials of Tacomajoin the procession. ring ticket put up by the E. Company. The ringticket was invariably defeated, which event the citi-zens usually celebrated by hanging in effigy from a POWER DEVELOPMENTS 237 telegraph pole in the business center the dwarflikeowner of the Tacoma papers whose warfare had beenso bitter upon us. I was cartooned daily by bothpapers during the campaign as a tyrant and a hypno-tist who had corrupted the esteemed Mayor Campbellwith whom I was represented as conspiring to sapTacoma for the benefit of Seattle. This free car-tooning was worth more to our Company than anypaid advertising could possibly have been. The opposition to our various franchises took theform of undue influence, and we believe that con-siderable corrupt money was spent to defeat us.Tainted

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