Seattle Republican

The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical Society VOL. VII NO. 10 Political Pot-Pie. It is at the primaries that candidates are really nominated and by no means at the conventions. Unless you go out to the primary elections and there vote for delegates who will to some extent represent your ideas of candidates for office, you will see men nominated for office in many instances who would make a much more befitting candidate for some state prison than they would for a county or state office. There is as much depending on voting at the respective primary election as at the general election, and especially to those citizens who are anxious to see good governments in both county and state carried on. The "vicious" are always on hand at every election, and the minute you weaken they snatch the reins out of your hands and drive off with the air of a royal prince. You can always depend on it that "de gang" will be ever on hand to get their men in, and for that reason the citizens are compelled to keep an equally vigilant watch. The agents of gamblers, houses of ill-fame, bunco men and murderers are ayways on the lookout to capture strongholds, from behind which they can defend their masters in deviltry, and no stronger hold can be found than the fort behind the primary voting places. --- Next Monday every voter in King county will be given an opportunity to express an opinion as to whom he prefers for governor of this state, for whomsoever King county unanimously decides on for the governorship, that man will, in all human probability, be the choice of the next Republican state convention for the place, and he will likewise be the choice of the voters at the polls next November. While any number of men may be voted for yet three candidates have been decided upon by the various factions in the Republican party and you are expected to cast your ballot in the endorsement of some one of the three. Who will you have, Frink, Humes or Guie? The candidacy of Mr. Frink is a business man's candidacy. He himself is a business man. He represents business men and business men's interests. He represents property owners. He represents decency and morality. He is backed by decent men and endorsed by every religious body in the county. He is advocated by the educated, learned and refined. He, therefore, must be a good man, and it would be to King county's everlasting glory and honor to elect such delegates to the next county convention, which convenes Wednesday next, that will send a unanimous delegation to Tacoma in his behalf. --- Mayor Humes' candidacy is a selfish, greedy ambition to hold office and live from the public crib. Humes' candidacy is that of a figurehead in the interest of outside influence, which parcels out what King county is to have by order of a man living in Walla Walla who happens to have more bullion than brains. Humes' candidacy is the agency of the vicious endeavoring to place a pliant tool at the head of the state's affairs, that they may be more safely protected in their criminal perambulations. Humes represents the political tricksters and jugglers. Humes represents slumdom in general, which is made up of gamblers, bunco men, pimps, women of easy virtue and all manner of vice and crime. While he himself may not be an actual participant in such, yet he is their agent, and the city of Seattle, of which he has been mayor for the past four years, is a brilliant illustration of what is herein charged. Instead of being endorsed by the moral and religious element, he will meet their united opposition. Every man that attends any form of church in this city is against putting Tom Humes in the governor's chair. He therefore is not the proper man to be governor of the state of Washington. --- Mr. Guie's candidacy is, it is very generally conceded, a duplicity candidacy, being conducted in the direct interest of Tom Humes' candidacy. This is denied by both Mr. Guie and his friends, but the actual facts do not bear out the general denials. For an example, in the precincts in which Mr. Guie shows some strength or more than Humes, only Guie slates will be put in the field, and these will be unanimously supported by the Humes followers. On the other hand, in the precincts where Humes is the stronger, the Guie men are working like Trojans for the Humes ticket. Now, if Mr. Guie is not in political collusion with Tom Humes, it looks as if he is to-a man up a tree. --- A prominent Humes worker was entrapped by a Fifth ward politician one day this week into the admission that the Guie move was done in the direct interest of Tom Humes' candidacy. "There are quite a number of good people who are opposed to John L. Wilsondom who will not vote for Humes. Now, to catch that class of men Mr. Guie was brought out. Such delegates, however, will be selected who thoroughly understand the situation and will cast their votes for Humes, when there is no show for Guie. The friends of both men are looking after the slates in every precinct so that a perfect understanding as to delegates will be fully agreed upon, and it matters not from which headquarters you get your orders they are all right." Of course that is not political collusion with Tom Humes on the part of Mr. Guie, but it is so near it that you can all but smell it. O O O Prof. Smith, a prominent German of this city, declares that an overwhelming majority of the German voters in this city are strongly in favor of the candidacy of Senator Frink and they will vote for him almost to a man at the primaries next Monday. When such Germans as E P. Edsen declare themselves as favoring Tom Humes, no wonder that all other Germans will vote just the opposite. The Pie-maker is of the opinion that Prof. Smith is quite right in his assertion that the Germans would all but unanimously support J. M. Frink next Monday. --- Here is a striking illustration of the trend of the primary campaign in this city, which is being so vigorously waged at the present time. In the sixth precinct of the Fifth ward every property holder in the precinct is out supporting the candidacy of J. M. Frink. Now, who knows more of the needs of the country than the men who own the property in the country? Further still, it is also a fact that every man in that precinct that is the proprietor of any kind of business in the city is endorsing the candidacy of Mr. Frink. When the business men and the property owners all center on one point as to the needs of the government it's more than a passing fancy. It simply means that the men who pay the taxes want some one at the head of affairs that will not run things as though the entire state of Washington is a resort for the sports and vicious characters. It is likewise a singular fact that all men of leisure and idleness and living off the earnings of others who labor are supporting "honest" Tom Humes. If "honesty" is not in a hole, it's almost. --- "Geo. E. Morris and E. B. Palmer are making a house-to-house canvass against Guie in the Seventh ward. Palmer is the man who helped to elect Senator Foster. The Argus will try to find out who Morris is and let their readers know as soon as they can find anybody who knows him."—The Stroeller Morris and Palmer have found out exactly who the proprietor of the Argus is, and he is none other than the man who deserted the candidacy of Tom Humes because he (Humes) would not dig up $1,000. He had the promise that $1,000 could be gotten from another source, and so he deserted the man he had been working with for the past three years, and the man who had been instrumental in the editor of the Argus getting hold of quite a few chunks of dishonest money. Palmer and Morris are doing nothing unfair in making a house-to-house canvass against Guie or any one else, and they are doing no more than Capt. John Taylor is doing for Guie, and no more than is being done by the friends and supporters of Humes and Guie all over the city and county. When voters are warned by a house-to-house candidacy on the part of reputable men to go to the primaries and vote then you can look for good men being nominated. didacy of any man that is unanimously endorsed by gamblers, bunco men and cutthroats in general? o o o While Dr. Calhoun was examining a patient in the court house one day this week as to his sanity a rather laughable dialogue took place between the two. "How long have you felt as you feel now?" asked the doctor. "Just about four years," came the reply. "Then you went wrong just about four years ago?" Yes, I did, came the prompt reply. "But, doctor, there were more men besides myself who went wrong four years ago." The crazy evidently did not mean to be personal in his answer nor to wring politics into a law case, but, somehow or other, the court, the other physicians and the attendants smiled all over their faces at the answer, and the doctor blushed like a girl just sweet sixteen when she received her first proposal. Politically speaking, Dr. G. V. Calhoun did go wrong four years ago, but two years later he repented of the error of his ways and came back to the Republican fold and has ever since been happy. It is to be hoped that the unfortunate man will be as lucky in his going off and coming back as was the doctor. --- Chehalis Bee: "The claim has been put up by the friends of Mr. Scobey that he will have all of Southwestern Washington back of him in the gubernatorial race excepting possibly Chehalis county. We think Mr. Scobey's friends are mistaken. Another county we do not believe he will get is Lewis. Personally Mr. Scobey is not objectionable, but the farmers of Lewis county will not forget that by electing a Thurston county man to the governor's office they are in great danger of allowing the capital to be built and the state to be plunged into debt for the work. When the lands set apart for capitol purposes have been realized upon it will be time enough to build a capitol. For the present it is better that some one else than a Thurston county man sit in the gubernatorial chair." The above to some extent verifies the Pie-maker's state ticket forecast, which created so much commotion in political circles last Saturday. The Northwest interview appearing today adds more strength to the prospective ticket. Q Q Q Said a prominent Northwest politician one day this week: "In my opinion the Northwest will be a unit in the Republican convention for Sam Nichols. Snohomish will go to the state convention determined to nominate Mr. Nichols. Should he be nominated, he will make an exceptionally strong candidate and will add much individual strength to the ticket. Well, yes, I really believe Judge Henry McBride will be nominated for lieutenant governor. Judge McBride is a very strong man and will be a very valuable man for getting votes for the party. If King endorses the candidacy of J. M. Frink, I truly believe he will get pretty nearly every vote in the Northwest, except Jefferson county, which seems politically married for weal or wee to Levi Ankeny. I re- gret to see so much bitterness among Republicans in King county, and I trust Senator Frink will win out overwhelmingly enough to settle the dispute once for all. The attacks being made by the anti-Wilson men against Hon. G. M. Stewart for no other reason than because Stewart received his appointment at the hands of Senator Wilson, seem to me puerile as well as political spite work, and the petition will not receive the least bit of consideration when it reaches Washington City. Such may be politics from some men's standpoint, but it strikes me that their standpoint is a rather low one. Such actions as that, if carried too far, might defeat the Republican nominees in this state, which would mean a loss of not less than $10,000,000, and perhaps twice that much. This is the year that Republicans want to fight Pops and Democrats and not fight Republicans." o o o Neither Frink nor Guie will get any votes from either the First ward or any other ward or precinct in which the slum element predominates. Do the good people think it a safe proposition to endorse the can- didacy of any man that is unanimously endorsed by gamblers, bunge men, and cutthroats in general? How do you feel, Mr. Good Citizen, when you are placed by the side of the gambler,-pimp to march up and down the streets in ratification of the nomination of a man who is completely under the influence of the slum element of vice's lowest resorts? Ere you vote for a Humes delegation next Monday to go to the county convention think of such a condition. Think of being bedded and boarded with the worst characters of the First ward, and perhaps you will refrain from voting for a Humes delegation. Oil and water will not mix, nor will good and bad citizenship mix. It, therefore, stands to reason that the good citizens in this city having families, can not consistently support any candidate that the First ward is anxious to see elected. They want no man for governor that is right, hence they will not support J. M. Frink and not Humes' gubernatorial candidacy. ```markdown ``` In the late Democratic contest between the Lee Hart forces and the J. W. Godwin forces in this city, it was generally understood that George U. Piper did what he could toward helping Hart to turn Godwin down (and that was no little), with the direct understanding that Hart and his friends were to return the compliment when the Republican scrap came on. Now it is reported that Frank Randolph, a Humes Democratic appointee, is colonizing his Democratic forces in the Second ward with the view of carrying it for Humes in the Republican primary election next Monday. As Randolph is doing in the Second so are the Hart forces doing all over the city. The Daily Times' political editor, who is a Hart man, has endeavored to make all of his political stories read so as to give the Frink candidacy all of the worst of it, and he, too, will do all in his power to help Tom Humes win next Monday. Let Republicans be on the lookout for such a couple and act accordingly. ```markdown ``` The horrors coming from China of the wholesale slaughtering of the Christian missionaries are only equaled by the horrors coming from New Orleans, our own "land of the free and home of the brave," of the wholesale slaughtering of Negroes, for no other crime than that they are Negroes. In China the Boxers have determined to free themselves and their country from the reign of Western Angle-Saxon civilization, because such is obnoxious to them, and in New Orleans the Caucasians are endeavoring to free themselves and their community of the black man, who is very objectionable to them. Both the Chinese Boxers and the New Orleans Caucasians have taken the extermination route to accomplish their purposes, and today human gore is flowing in both places like mountain water. The world stands aghast at the Chinese atrocities, but has naught to sayat the Caucasian hellishness in New Orleans. If such be the fruits of Christian civilization, then no wonder the Chinese are doing all in their power to drive Christian influence from their land. If Pierce county would maintain her political prestige, Cushman should be given an absolutely loyal delegation to the Republican state convention. The trimmers and traders should be left at home. The next senatorial fight is not an issue now. Cush may be depended upon to cut out the Judases who would sacrifice Pierce county for a mess of King county pottage. The Cushman strength should be given to the state ticket and not to the King county slate.—Tacoma News. O O O In case you need advisory tickets bring them to this office, 612 Third o o o Supporters of J. M. Frink should see to it that Frink delegateions are voted for next Monday. If a would-be delegate is not for Frink he is against him, and should be so considered. --- Do not consider any compromise delegation, but send a Frink delegation straight and strong. --- Advisory tickets printed at this office: 612 Third. HOLMES SUCCEEDS In Having a Spokane man Bound Over to Await the Action of The Superior Court After a Most Bitter Fight—Colored Barber Takss Exceptions of an Article—If he Refuses His Own Nationality His Own Nationality Should Taboo Him—Other Race News. Mr. E. H. Holmes, the well-known Spokane colored man, who is prosecuting a prominent restaurant keeper of that city for refusing to serve himself and wife as other guests, has drawn first blood, jugulistically speaking, for he succeeded in having his man bound over to the superior court after a stubbornly fought legal battle before a local justice of the peace, which lasted a whole week. The justice held that the restaurant keeper had broken the law of the state, and therefore held him to answer to the superior court for the offence. That the restaurant keeper will lose in the superior court is the consensus of opinion, and should he be fined but a nominal sum for the offense the criminal case will have cost him fully $500 or more. But this is not all. Mr. Holmes has instituted a $5,000 damage suit against him, and the restaurant keeper is even more likely to lose this suit than the criminal one, and though the jury award Mr. Holmes but a nominal sum the court costs, attorney fees and other expenses will make this second case cost Mr. Restaurant another $500 or more. All told the round sum of $1,000, all because he refused, when in Rome to act as a Roman. While many of his customers may not be stuck on eating with colored folk, yet a majority of them would pay no attention to it, and those who urged him on to do the dirty deed are now laughing in their sleeves at him for bumping his head up against a brick wall. Better serve them and get rid of them than to throw away good money trying to establish a precedent that by no means meets public approval. To our ears it has come that certain Afro-American barbers in the far Northwest who make a practice of refusing to serve men of their own color in their shops, were not pleased with a former article touching on that point which recently appeared in these columns. It is not the intention of this paper to be unfair, but, can any man, regardless of his color or nationality, point out a single instance where the business men of any other nationality, whether in their native land or on foreign soil, that ever refuses to accommodate his own nationality, save and except the Negro? The Negro does so, and is not satisfied in the mere doing so, but he boasts of it among his white customers for no other reason than to curry favor with them. Not only is such a man a "puke," as previously said, but every other Negro in the community should scorn him as a viper. Pimps, macqueraux, cutthroats and murderers should not be as objectionable to the Negro race in general as the Negro who will open up business in a community, where race prejudice is so foreign to the general make-up of the dominant race as it is in the Northwest, and practically speaking, write over his door, "All coons look alike to me." The laws should be used on those of the dominant race who persist in such cussedness by the Negroes, and those of the Negro race who try the same should be tabooed socially by the Negroes as though they were in the last stages of leprosy. As badly as the Jews have been treated in this country, Jews always accommodate Jews, Clinamen, Japanese, Indians, all accommodate their kind, but the Negro refuses to accommodate his own kind. The sooner the Negro race turns such skunks down socially by shutting their doors in their faces the sooner will such be a thing of the past. Only colored men ignorant, illiterate and still troubled with the relics of slavery days in their bones, handed down from sire to son, are guilty of such, and to eradicate that spirit the most positive steps should be taken.. Now colored men who run barber shops do not have to refuse their own color, if the colored customer will come in, get accommodated and pass out as other customers, and no one but the prejudiced barber himself would ever pay any attention to it. As an illustration, those shops that invite colored patronage, one day with another, week in and week out, have more white men than black men, and often some of the patrons of those shops that refuse to accommodate colored men line up and wait their turn. If a Negro barber in this city were to depend for the half he makes to come from Negroes, it would be a rather poor dependence. Then, if those shops that say, "You next!' without regard to color, and white and black men take their turn one and alike, and yet these men make good livings from white patronage, does it not stand to reason that the white men for the most part are not as much averse to shaving after colored men as the colored barber feels that he has fallen in dignity at shaving a colored man and brother? The reason the colored barbers are here singled out is because it is so out of all human reason to hear a Negro refuse his own color and then expect to shine among the Negroes as one of their foremost men. It is not fair, and Negroes, one and all, should resent it. Let such go to the men they pretend to be the mouthpiece of for their social recognition. Mr. James Green writes from Nome and warns his friends to not come thither. "This place is overdone in every way and everything, and there are thousands of disappointed men here. The beach upgings have been completely worked out and the country for miles around is staked. Lots in town are held at enormously high prices, and you must buy or you cannot go into business, as you cannot rent. Restaurants and saloons are doing well. Meals one dollar and upwards. There are twenty men for each job of work. I succeeded in getting a place on a friend's lot and am getting enough 'whiskers' to eat on. I am going to one of the outlying camps soon, and if I do not do any better than here, I will leave for the great and only town—Seattle. Men unaccustomed to work you can see earnening their living at the hardest kind of manual labor. Seattle men in general are disgusted with the camp. There has been no rain here yet, and for that reason the tenters are somewhat comfortable, but when it does begin to rain it will be h—l here. Tell my friends to not think of coming here; though it is maintained by some that times will be good in this camp as soon as it rains and water can be had to wash the gold out, but I do not see it that way." Mr. Green ran and still owns a barber shop at the Union depot, which is now being operated by Mr. W. H. Henderson. He looks for Green to show up on most any boat. The famous fighting Ninth cavalry (colored) has been ordered to China and is now quartered in San Francisco awaiting transportation. Perhaps under Gen. Dodds' command their bravery in battle will not be so belittled as it was at El Caney hill by one of the leading generals after the war was over and he became a noted political leader. Grand picnic, at Bellevue, on August 1st, 1900, given under the auspices of the Fraternal Order of Hawks. First boat leavesLeschi park at 9 a. m., 12, 2:30, 5:30 and 9 o'clock p. m., returning at 11 p. m., in time to catch last car. Everybody invited to come and have a gala day. The best music for dancing; baseball, swings and other amusements. The following committee wil guarantee all a good time: Frank Kincaid, Frank Bellamy, Carson Miller, Charles Kincaid. Round trip, 60c. W. H. Henderson's tonsorial parlors are located at the corner of Railroad avenue and Yesler way. You are invited. Go to Spinning, 1206 Second avenue, for bike repairs. Your work will be done right and youh trade appreciated. A. M. E. conference August 15th. PRICE FIVE CENTS UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 28 1952 UNCLE SAM'S MEN That Could Be Sent to the Front In Case of a General European War-A Strong Organized Militia in Every State WithFifty Times as Many More Un-organized No Other Nation Could Put in the Field So Strong an Army. In case there is a general European war, in which the United States is actively engaged, the annual statement of the adjutant general's office of the organized force of the United States, as well as the men available for military duty, is as follows: The grand total of organized militiamen in the several states and territories at last report was 106,339. Those unorganized, but available for military duty, aggregated 10,343,152. The organized strength of the militia and the number of men liable for service by states are as follows, the first figures given being the organized strength and the second the unorganized: Alabama ... 2,471 ... 165,000 Arkansas ... 1,903 Not given California ... 4,202 211,900 Colorado ... Not given ... 60,000 Connecticut ... 2,774 ... 106,498 Delaware ... 521 ... 28,098 Florida ... 1,072 ... 70,008 Georgia ... 6,506 275,000 Idaho ... 508 ... 20,000 Illinois ... 8,490 750,000 Indiana ... 2,703 500,000 Iowa ... 2,444 281,759 Kansas ... 1,244 Not given Kentucky ... 2,250 410,000 Louisiana ... 2,693 155,000 Maine ... 1,863 106,042 Maryland ... 1,935 265,866 Massachusetts ... 5,785 448,919 Michigan ... 2,005 260,000 Minnesota ... 1,941 180,321 Mississippi ... 1,325 263,880 Missouri ... 2,647 500,000 Montana ... 657 27,514 Nebraska ... 1,810 111,925 Nevada ... 359 6,100 New Hampshire ... 1,452 34,000 New Jersey ... 4,911 385,737 New York ... 13,900 800,000 North Carolina ... 1,685 245,000 North Dakota ... 455 30,000 Ohio ... 6,962 645,000 Oregon ... 1,435 58,886 Pennsylvania ... 9,222 839,528 Rhode Island ... 944 67,000 South Carolina ... 2,653 100,000 South Dakota ... Not given Not given Tennessee ... 14,000 200,000 Texas ... 2,834 300,000 Utah ... 468 26,715 Vermont ... 755 44,764 Virginia ... 275z z 285,405 Washington ... Not given 90,000 West Virginia ... 1,903 125,000 Wisconsin ... 2,745 734,951 Wyoming ... 328 10,000 Arizona ... 520 12,000 District of Columbia ... 1,389 50,000 New Mexico ... 539 Not given Oklahoma ... 500 50,000 Michael G. Mull, a noted statistician, has been doing a bit of predicting as to the final report of the 1900 national census, which runs as follows: gave the United States a population increase of 3,100,000 in the next two years, making a total population of 77,500,000 for 1900. But Mr. Mulhall believes the actual total will fall short of this figure. After considering the number of school children in 1897 and the natural increase from the excess of births over deaths, he estimates the population at 76,000,000 to 76,200,000, an increase of 13,578,000 in ten years. This includes the increase due to immigration. The birth and death statistics of Mr. Mulhall differ from those of Dr. Billings, made in the census of 1890. Dr. Billings estimated the birth rate at 31.4 and the death rate at 15 per thousand yearly. Mr. Mulhall observes that certain states and cities, with an aggregate population of 19,600,000 in 1890, or 31 per cent. of the total population, showed a death rate in that year of 466,000, or 20.8 rate of 14 per thousand for the rest of the Union and we get a rate for the whole Union of 17 per thousand, thus demonstrating that at Dr. Billings' death rate percentage was not 118,000 births over deaths is shown birth rate ranges from 31 to 33, the death rate from 16 to 17 per 1,000 inhabitants. Because of the civil war the death rate was higher between 1860 and 1870, while in the ensuing decade the birth rate rose—a condition noticeable after wars and demonstrated in England after Waterloo and in France and Germany after the war of 1870. Mr. Mulhall's conclusion is that the United States is a tribute to the splendid condition of the national health and therefore to the favorable climate. He estimates the increase of births over deaths in this country at 14.6 per 1,000 inhabitants. Canada is the only country approaching this. It shows 14 per cent. In Italy, Austria and New Zealand the increase is but little over 10 per 1,000 inhabitants, and in France the increase is hardly noteworthy, the death rate there being 22.1 and the birth rate 22.4 per 1,000 inhabitants. If you are for Frink, vote for a Frink delegation. Negroes In Old Mexico (Medical Record.) Sir: An article on the American Negro in a recent issue of the Medical Record led me to examine into the condition of the Mexican Negro, and I send you herewith the result of my inquiries. Bishop Bartolome de las Casas, seeing the pitiable treatment the Mexican Indian was subjected to by the Spaniards, and moved to compassion, brought about the introduction of the African Negro, whom he considered an inferior being and better fitted for hard work in the mines. Slavery, not only of the Negro, but of the Indian likewise, existed in Mexico until 1813, when the first national congress at Chilpancingo, on a motion made by the Priest-General Morelos, abolished slavery forever. In no one of the Spanish-American countries was there ever to be found proportionally so large a number of Negroes as in the Southern states of the United States. It is to be noted that the Negro is much less reproductive than the Mexican Indian. It is utterly impossible to give even an approximate estimate of the number of black people in Mexico. According to a census taken in 1835 there were then six thousand Negroes in the republic. I have not found in any other census any data with regard to the number of inhabitants of African descent. In fact, any black man, if asked his race, will hardly call himself a Negro, but will hold himself to be of dark complexion. Yet in an old book by an Englishman, who travelled in Mexico some one hundred and twenty years ago, I have read that then in the City of Mexico there were such a great number of Negroes (over forty thousand) that they were considered a dangerous factor. I estimate, however, that in this country there live over ten thousand Negroes and numberless individuals in whose veins some African blood flows. Those Negroes live mostly in the state of Vera Cruz, in the south of the state of Morelos, and in Guerrero. They enjoy perfectly equal rights with the white man and the Indian, not only by law, but practically. No man is slighted because his skin is black; even career is open to him. We have seen black generals (that does not mean much), black lawyers, congressmen, professional musicians. I confess never to have met with a Negro doctor or priest. Yet there is no doubt that a black boy would be admitted to either profession if he wished. The Negro in Mexico lived in general under a milder rule thain in the north, and after the abolition of slavery he was not treated or regarded as an outcast and an inferior being. All the Negroes in this country are farmers, many of them well off. One hardly ever sees a Negro girl serving as a domestic, or a Negro craftsman in a workshop. Their number increases, though more slowly than that of the Indian, as they are less prolific. They are somewhat industrious, and not remarkably immoral. No case of fetishism or cannibalism among them has ever been known. Their social condition improves visibly, When slavery was abolished in Mexico, the Negro was certainly not better prepared for freedom than he was in the Southern states. Consequently if we try to find a reason for the difference in their development and for the different use they made of their liberty, we must look for it elsewhere than in the sudden transition from slavery to liberty and their unpreparedness for freedom. There must be some other cause for the different development in two different countries and under much the same circumstances. May it not have been of the greatest moral effect that in this country the Negro, from the day he was freed, was held to be a man and a citizen and anybody's equal? Sir Spenser St. John, who had lived as British minister in Hayti and later on in Mexico, in his book on Hayti, gives a most pitiable description of the blacks of that island, who fell back into all the horrors of savagery of their native Africa, into a condition toward which, according to some American authorities, the North American Negro is drifting. It might be used as an argument against the black race, that in Hayti nobody interfered with the development of the Negroes, and that their actual condition in Hayti is only their natural one. But I wish the friendly reader to consider that the Negro of Hayti obtained his liberty only after a cruel and bloody struggle which quickened all his atavistic instincts, and that the civilizing influence and example of the white man were completely withdrawn from him. F. SEMELEDER, M. D. Cordoba, V. C., Mexico. Bring your advisory tickets to this office, 612 Third. COUNTY TREASURER At the earnest solicitation of my many business associates and friends of this city and county I have decided to permit my name to go before the next Republican county convention for county treasurer. JUSTICE OF PEACE Having endeavored to do my duty as a justice of the peace of this city in the past, I seek a renomination at the hands of the voters, subject to the approval of the Republican county convention. JUSTICE OF PEACE. Having served the city of Seattle in this capacity for the past two years, I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election, subject to the approval of the Republican county convention. T. H. CANN. JUSTICE OF PEACE Believing that I am thoroughly qualified to faithfully discharge the duties of this office, I hereby announce my candidacy for the same, subject to the approval of the Republican county convention. For Governor Believing that a majority of the citizens of King county are favorable to my candidacy for the governorship of the state of Washington, I announce myself as a candidate for the nomination of governor subject to the ratification of the King county Republican convention. For Governor To the end that the King county Republican convention will endorce my candidacy for the governorship of the state of Washington I hereby announce myself for the same. For Sheriff I am a candidate for the nomination of sheriff of King county subject to the ratification of the county Republican convention. I, therefore, ask the suffrage of the voters of the county to that end. JOHN WOODING. For Sheriff I hereby announce my candidacy for the nomination of sheriff of King County subject to the endorsement of the Republican county convention. If nominated and elected I will do my duty. For County Treasurer At the earnest solicitation of friends I herewith announce my candidacy for the office of county treasurer subject to the endorsement of the Rep- ublican county convention. J. W. McConnaUGHEY. For County Treasurer In announcing my candidacy for the office of county treasurer I do so believing that it meets the approval of a majority of the Republicans of King County. It, however, is left entirely to the will of the Republican county convention. For County Treasurer Owing to long experience in the office of county treasurer as an assistant in announcing my candidacy for the office I feel that I am in no wise imposing upon the tax payers. My candidacy is subject to the ratification of the Republican county convention. BENJ. C. LEVY. For County Clerk I herewith announce my candidacy for the nomination of clerk of King county which is subject to the ratification of the Republican county convention. C. A. KOEPFLI. For County Clark Convinced that a majority of the voters of King county favor my nomination for the office of county clerk and will so express themselves at the next Republican county convention I hereby announce myself for the same. For County Auditor I take this opportunity to announce to my friends that I will stand for the nomination of county auditor subject to the ratification and endorsement of the Republican county convention. County Prosecuting Attorney I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of prosecuting attorney subject to the ratification of the King county Republican convention. I ear-nestly ask your suffrage for the same. County Assessor I herewith announce my candidacy for the office of county assessor subject to the endorsement of the King county Republican convention and ask your suffrage to that end. For county Coroner. I hereby announce that I am a candidate for the office of county coroner subject to the ratification and endorsement of the Republican county convention. DR. C. E. HOYE --- The Seattle Republican Telephone, Main : (.) This Popularean Pub. Co., Publishers OFFICE 012 THIRD AVENUE H. R. Cayton, Editor Susie Revels Cayton, Associate Uncle Sam is shifting his seats of war rather rapidly these later years. From Cuba to China his soldiers are rapidly rushed. If the "superior race" has been looking for trouble, it has finally succeeded in finding what it was looking for in China. Who dares dispute but there is a nigger in the wood pile in the Chinese embroglio, and he is sawing wood at that. Silver Republicans may have flourished in some age, but they are quite defunct at present, and only the faintest traces of them are to be found. Adams County News: "With thirty million bushels of wheat raised in the state of Washington this year the farmers feel like expanding." And on the McKinley plan at that. It has often occurred to us that the average politician is something of a genius in the way of getting votes, but we take off our hats to the following version of him: Lee Hart predicts Bryan will win. It occurs to us Lee made a similar prediction concerning himself not many weeks ago and didn't do any such thing. Perhaps he is wrong again. Perhaps the silver issue is not dead, but if it is not, we are sorry to say that it has been buried alive. However mean and stinking one is we always feel bad on hearing of him being buried before he is dead. Portland Sunday Sensation (Welcome) gives evidence of doing a most lucrative blackmailing business. "Hush money" to newspaper proprietors keeping tab on other people's business is always ready money, as well as plenty money. --- Unless we are sadly mistaken, it was not Frink that made Guy of E. Heister, but it was the Piper-Humes aggregation. Guie ought to have known that he would be politically guyed when he first attempted joining issues with George Piper. Idaho fusionists had a monkey and parrot time for fully a week, trying to fuse, and finally refused to fuse. For Mr. Bryan that's worse and still more of it, and makes Idaho a cock-sure Republican state. One by one they drop away. Continuous hot weather in Seattle, which has driven the women to the bathing beach, has opened up new fields of observation for the average man about town, who spends the most of his time guying women in some form or other. Opposition papers to Republicanism dub President McKinley as "William the Wabbler," and Republicans point to Bryan as "William the Jay." Between the two parties it would appear that William will boast of a "wabbling jay" for his curiosity shop this fall. J. Frank H. Paul Oom Paul may have been badly whipped by the Bobs, but he has not been caught as yet, and he is leading them a merry chase. If only he, Aguinaldo, Billy Mason and Webster Davis could get together what a nasty scrap Johnny Bull and Uncle Sam would have on their hands. Dollars to doughnuts that ninety per cent. of the men who pronounce expansion as imperialism do not know the true definition of the word imperialism. Some men seem to take special delight in discussing things that they do not know a cussed thing about, and this is one of the instances. Carter Harrison's declaration that no official recognition would be given the G. A. R. encampment at Chicago soon unless Bryan was invited to speak the same as President McKinley, should in no wise discommode the G. A. R. encampers. We imagine that the members of that organization would not appreciate the presence of a man at one of their encampments who shot their comrades in the back during the entire period of the great civil war as did Adlai Stevenson, Mr. Bryan's running mate. The politician is my shepherd; I shall not want for any good thing during the campaign. He leadeth me (the night before the election) into the saloon for my vote's sake; he filleth my pockets with good cigars, and my glass of beer runneth over. He prepareth my ticket for me in the presence of my better judgment. Yea, though I walk through the mud and the rain to vote for him and shout myself hoarse when he is elected, straightway he forgetteth me; lo, when I meet him in his office he knoweth me not. Surely the wool hath been pulled over mine eyes all the days of my life and I will kick myself forever. From the Blaine Journal the following is clipped: "The Republican editor says that he accepts the will of the majority. That means that he is the majority, that he is the Republican party, and that all must bow to the dictates of his stupendous brain. He is the personification of crooked politics, crooked as a worm fence, so crooked that should he start around a block he would meet himself coming the other way." Of course, we are pretty crooked, but we really believe that the above refers to the Northwest Republican, who is too crooked to lie on the ground. Editors have troubles like distinguished folks. One of these who presides over the destinies of a Western newspaper is mourning the loss of two subscribers. One wrote asking how to raise his twins safely, while the other wanted to know how to rid his orchard of grasshoppers. The answers went forward by mail, but by accident he put them in the wrong envelopes, so that the man with the twins received this answer: "Cover them carefully with straw and set fire to it, and the little pests, after jumping in the flames a few minutes, will be speedily settled." And the man with the grasshoppers was told to "give them castor oil and rub their gums with a bone."—Welcome. JOHN H. McGRAW ROOM B, BAI ROOM B, BAILEY BUILDING ROOM B, BAILEY BUILDING TELEPHONE. MAIN 695 REAL Fire and Ma EAL ESTAT Fire and Marine Insurance FOR SALE A modern 9-room lighted by gas and convenience; splendid under whole house cost $5,000. Proven over $6,000. Beautiful two car lift from Pioneer Squareful flowers and sho sewered, very s Will sell for in modern 9-room house, with heated by gas and electricity; or enrience; splendid repair; or a whole house. House cost $5,000. Property stands on $6,000. Beautifully located on two car lines, eight miles from Pioneer Square. 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