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The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical Society VOL. VII NO. 11 POINTED PARAGRAPHS POINTED PARAGRAPHS Touching the Present National Campaign by an Observer. MR. BRYAN IS SCORED For His Inconsistencies and Failacious Statements. McKINLEY IS THE MAN That Has Given the Entire Land General Prosperity. (Special Correspondence.) The small boy whose representations concerning the jam closet have been discredited naturally wants to paramount some other question. The protection of American life and American honor without the consent or advice of yawping politicians is the duty of the administration. The McKinley administration has a pleasing way of performing its duties without pandering to the cheap element in politics. The Hon. Adlai Stevenson possesses a keen faculty for adapting himself to changed conditions. He now refers to Democrats as "Bryan men." Mr. Croker declares that the people are ignorant. He might submit the Tammany control of New York as exhibit A in support of his declaration. Mr. Altgeld has pronounced Mr. Bryan the greatest man in the civilized world; and Mr. Bryan has all along contended that Mr. Altgeld is one of the best judges of greatness extant. Fifty years ago Southern sentiment was rapidly crystallizing in favor of a government-aided American merchant marine, which sentiment is rapidly reviving in that section, notwithstanding the denunciation of the ship subsidy bill in the Democratic national platform this year. Jerry Simpson predicts that the nomination of Mr. Stevenson will give Kansas to the Republicans. It looks as if Adlai was nominated in order to have a good-natured person upon whom to blame the unpleasant happenings. Of the several nominees for the presidency, Mr. Bryan is far the wealthiest, and he made all of his money during the prosperous times brought about by the McKinley administration. Chairman Jones thinks one may be able to pick enough Democracy from the Kansas City platform to stand upon. There are a great many distinguished Democrats who are not inclined to the Jones way of thinking. Those who vote for Bryan vote to abandon a condition more prosperous than ever before enjoyed by any nation, for the purpose of trying a financial experiment condemned by all nations. William J. Bryan has exchanged his lecture called "What I Know About Wheat" for a new one entitled "What I Know About the Republic." At all events Bryan can collect material for another book. But in place of calling it "The Second Battle," it would be well to acknowledge defeat as gracefully as possible, and call it "The Lost Cause." The first ship subsidy ever passed in the United States was a Democratic measure. It became a law fifty-five years ago, and under it some of the finest ships of their day in all the world, built in American shipyards, were paid several millions of dollars from the national treasury under ante-bellum Democratic administrations. Ship subsidies being favored by Republicans now, are, of course, opposed by latter-day Democrats. The Democratic party never pointed with pride to any business measure that it ever enacted. Bryan sees danger in our national prosperity, and those wishing to do nim justice must admit that, should his opinions prevail, such a source of danger would be speedily removed. From the silence of the Democrats on the tariff question it would seem that they have decided to take the views of one of their former candidates and call it a local question. Bryan insists on being taken on trust by a political combination, because he is opposed to business trusts and combinations. The Democratic candidate for the presidency has persuaded the Populists, Democrats and Silver Republicans to pool their interests. In short he has formed a political trust for the express purpose of destroying competition, yet stands on a platform which declares that such methods are destructive to personal liberty and dangerous to national life. The Democratic utterances against the ship subsidy bill in their national platform only states one-half of the Democratic proposition, the other half, which they were too cowardly to declare themselves publicly in favor of, being in favor of foreign instead of American ships for the carriage of American foreign commerce. The Democratic delegates at the Kansas City convention were parties of the first part, and the voters to whom the platform is addressed are the party of the second part, while the platform itself is the instrument setting forth the respective duties and obligations of the two parties to the contract. Yet the party of the first part is telling the party of the second part that 16 to 1 obligation means nothing, and that if they will present votes they may be assured that the monetary standard of the country will not be tampered with. And this is the party of reform that invites the country to indorse promises unfulfilled and condemn obligations faithfully performed. If the silver question is out of politics, why was it hammered into a political platform? In one breath the Democratic orator ill assure his hearers that McKinley has no backbone, that he is a creature controlled by those around him, and with the next breath will accuse him of shaking the republic to pieces in order to erect a throne on the ruins thereof. The Democrats favor a stable government for the Philippines. The sultan of Turkey has a stable government, the czar of Russia has a stable government, China has had a stable government for twenty centuries; which kind does it favor? Not a single Spanish colony that ever threw off the Spanish yoke ever possessed a stable government within fifty years after declaring independence. The Philippines today would have a peaceable and just government were it not for the encouragement afforded to the insurgents by the hostility here in the states to the efforts of the army to conquer the rebellion. If it be true, as the Democrats assert, that ships can be built in the United States as cheaply as they can anywhere, how is it that out of 400,000 tons of ships built in the United States last year, all but 2,000 tons were for the coastwise or domestic trade? Bryan would give absolute independence to the Philippines. This of course means that the flag should be furled and the army recalled. Will he explain how this can be done? Is there any constitutional provision for alienating American territory? If there is one constitutional argument against acquiring territory there are a dozen against abandoning territory. The rebellion settled that question one for all. As well talk about abandoning Texas, Alaska, Kentucky or Ohio. Methods of administration are legitimate questions for party differences, but to deny a fact solemnized by treaty and ratified by congress is to betray unpardonable ignorance of the powers and functions of a government. Mr. Bryan has much to say of "imperialism," an "emperor" and the abolition of the Fourth of July. Yet he was the first man to inaugurate and maintain a supreme dictatorship over an American political organization. If the 16 to 1 proposition is not an issue, why was it placed in the Kansas City platform? If that plank is dishonest and doesn't mean what it says what must the public think of the remainder of the structure? The Republicans are thoroughly committed to the shipping bill now pending before congress. Commanding the party's support, it is the only measure that could be put through congress. Without proposing any remedy for the lack of an American merchant marine the Democrats content themselves with merely opposing the pending shipping bill. The Republican party had demonstrated that self-government is not only possible, but honorable and full of glory. The leaders of today take counsel of the wisdom of the past. They are the distributors, not the hoarders of liberty. They gave free- The platform of the Kentucky Democrats makes them accessories after the fact. Ex-Senator Gorman boldly proclaimed the other day that the Kansas City platform is "a well-written document." He declines, however, to touch upon its hair-trigger contents. Mr. Bryan made the platform upon which he desired to stand. The gentlemen who are trying to twist its meaning by the "paramounting" process are acting wholly upon their own responsibility. The Republican national platform declares in favor of legislation for the upbuilding of American shipping in the foreign trade. The Democratic platform opposes such legislation, and suggests no remedy for our present maritime decadence. The Democratic attempt to haul down the Fourth of July will be every bit as popular and successful as the Democratic effort to haul down the flag in the Philippines. Mr. Croker has instructed Tammy orators to appeal to the young men. He evidently hopes to make headway with those who don't have to pay the ice bills. "I was a Democrat and a bolter in 1896," declares the Hon. Thomas M. Waller, of Connecticut," and as the situation has not changed, I am a Democrat and a bolter still." The Democratic editors have devoted many columns to abject failures to answer this Connecticut Democrat. The Hon. James M. Beck, of Philadelphia, one of the leading lawyers of that city, announces that "I am no longer a Democrat. I don't believe in free silver, nor do I believe in hauling down the flag in the Philippines." It must be conceded that Mr. Beck has executed a very intelligent and business-like exit from the party of Bryan and Aguinaldo. Those Democrats who control the party machinery favor the registry of foreign-built (chiefly British) ships as a remedy for our present insignificant merchant marine in the foreign trade; but they did not have the courage to so declare in their national platform, so they contented themselves by opposing the only bill that has any chance of passing congress for the upbuilding of our merchant marine. Some of Mr. Bryan's injudicious friends are trying to show that his support of the Paris treaty, like his 16 to 1 plank in the Kansas City platform, didn't mean anything. Mr. Bryan's friends should step to one side and permit their candidate to appear as a candid man in some matters. Mr. Croker and Mr. Hill are so busy watching each other in New York this year that Mr. Bryan may have to send one of his Nebraska friends to look after his interests in that state. A political party that puts forth a platform and then tries to explain that it doesn't mean what it says naturally invites the suspicions of the voters. A Boston judge fined a "divine healer" $1,500 the other day. Yet the orators who go about the country predicting the downfall of the republic are not molested by the law. In case Mr. Croker fails to rally the young men of the country, the work might be turned over to the Tammany ice trust. It has a business-like way of going after things. The Hon. James Hamilton Lewis has been doing a little "paramounting" on his own account, and announces that he holds the administration responsible for the attitude of the Boxers. The Republicans are thoroughly committed to the shipping bill now pending before congress. Commanding the party's support, it is the only measure that could be put through congress. Without proposing any remedy for the lack of an American merchant marine the Democrats content themselves with merely opposing the pending shipping bill. The Republican party had demonstrated that self-government is not only possible, but honorable and full of glory. The leaders of today take counsel of the wisdom of the past. They are the distributors, not the hoarders of liberty. They gave freedom to Cuba and Porto Rico, and will give that freedom to the Philippines which will best protect individual rights and guarantee the respect of other powers. This is the imperialism of true freedom, the royalty of justice, and will soon be recognized as the crowning glory of national achievement. What Lincoln accomplished for the black man, McKinley is doing for the brown man, and as the African has erected monuments to the memory of their great emancipator, the Filipino, when he realizes the work accomplished for him, will build monuments to the memory of his librator. The civil service reform plank and the income tax plank and the calamity plank and the anti-supreme court plank were all omitted from the Kansas City platform. This makes the structure so full of holes that some vigorous patching must be done at once or the candidates who try to stand upon it will find themselves falling through, much to the detriment of both their shins and dignity. The confessed wisdom and justice of America's position with regard to the present Chinese trouble is a tribute to the ability of the administration, whose purpose is justice, guided by firmness and tempered with mercy. There is not a free trade newspaper in the United States that does not warmly commend the Democratic national platform plank which opposes the passage of the shipping bill. With the exception of two years, years productive of distress, hunger, bankruptcy and panic, the destiny of the nation has been partially or entirely under the control of the Republican party ever since the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1861. During these forty years the country has advanced by leaps and bounds in population, wealth, material, social and intellectual development. The trans-Mississippi region has been converted from buffalo ranges to imperial states, bridges have been thrown across mighty rivers, railways have been built over the mountains, millions of homes have been erected, schools without number have been built, colleges have been endowed, human liberty has been extended, the verdict of the ballot has been respected (in Republican states), and the republic has a deeper hold on the affections of its citizens than ever before, and compels respect abroad. What the political editor of The Times of this city would do, should The Republican cease to be published, for political news is a hard question just now. Twice has it run a prospective Republican ticket published by this paper three weeks ago, and neither time has it given The Republican any credit for the same. The Times absolutely refuses to exchange with The Republican, because it does not hesitate to pronounce the editor of The Times one of the worst political montebanks that ever reached Seattle outside of a coffin. It also refuses to subscribe for the same, pronouncing it too insignificant, but when the editor thereof wants the political news he sends some one of his men to a subscriber of The Republican and either borrows or begs the paper; and then Mr. Editor proceeds to rehash the political news therein and sends it out as original political gossip. The old man, who has built up a great evening paper by selling out to first one aspiring politician and then another, has some pretty low traits about him from a journalistic standpoint, and if some of the depositors in that Minnesota bank would be given a word, he, perhaps, would be branded as having some pretty low traits from other standpoints. Morgan's for a clean shave. Proved a Pleasing Holiday for All Those Attending. EMANCIPATION DAY OF Great Britain's Slaves in the West India Islands. KISSED BY PRES. LINCOLN Was Daniel Murray, the Present Negro Assistant Congressional Librarian. Newcastle, this state, held its annual Fourth of August picnic and barbecue last Saturday, which the colored folk in this community attended in large numbers. These festivities have become rather famous at this camp, where there are so many colored folk, and all other places which have large colored populations have tacitly given way to Newcastle, owing to the fact that it does things up so nicely on such occasions. The features of last Saturday's holiday were the setting up of a Grand United Order of Odd Fellows' Lodge among the colored folk in Newcastle, the parade of the members in their new regalia, a splendid game of baseball between a Seattle nine and a Newcastle nine, all-day outdoor dancing among those who enjoy such amusements and a sumptious dinner of a number of well-roasted beeves, sheep and pigs. Barbecued meats well barbecued form a repast that will tempt the gods, hence man can be excused when he shows his weakness for such. It was a splendid day's outing, and all who took advantage of the opportunity were well pleased with their trip. Seattle sent up a large delegation to swell the crowd. Franklin lent liberally of her white and colored citizens, while many from here and there came in, making it one of the largest turnouts ever at Newcastle on such an occasion. Daniel Murray, the Negro assistant librarian of congress, has the unique distinction of having been kissed by Abraham Lincoln. While Lincoln was president William E. Murdock, the celebrated tragedian, engaged to read for the benefit of the sanitary commission, the most beautiful, human organization growing out of the civil war, and the United States senate chamber was chosen as the most fitting place to house the great throng that was to attend. The president and Mrs. Lincoln, followed by a footman bearing their wraps, arrived late. Murray, then a boy of 11, with bright skin, large eyes and an unusually intelligent expression, stood in the doorway leading to the rear lobby. The president saw Senator Wilson of Massachusetts seated in the audience, and, wishing to speak to him, called young Murray to his side, and, designating the senator's seat, asked the boy to call him out. When the lad returned, bearing an assent from the senator, the president drew him forward, and, after thanking him, imprinted a kiss upon his forehead. The undemonstrative Lincoln, who even then saw a way of lifting the heavy mantle of servitude that hung over the race, was touched by the eager delight with which even this small representative devoted himself to accommodating others. Young Murray, though delighted, was unable to realize the great honor bestowed upon him until it was impressed upon him by those who witnessed the act.—Selected. This Fourth of August celebration is in commemoration of Great Britain freeing all of its black slaves, which occurred in 1837. Many of the European nations at that time were dealing in African slaves almost as extensively as Great Britain herself and it was a lucrative business among the Britons, especially in their West Indian possessions. England proper, for some reason, did not approve of fastening perpetual slav- LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 28 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS ery on any people, and after continuous agitation for over a third of a century, African slavery received its deathblow in British possessions at the hands of parliament in 1837. That, of course, meant that African slavery received its death knell wherever it was being carried on in the Western hemisphere. Other nationalities followed in the wake of Great Britain and quietly set such slaves free and went a step further, and endeavored to make men and women out of them, in which they have most admirably succeeded. The United States held out longer than any other nation, and only broke the shackles from her African slaves after a most bloody internecine war. That the Negroes of this country feel grateful to Great Britain for taking the initiative in this matter goes without saying, which fully explains why they try to make the Fourth of August a general emancipation holiday, in preference to the day on which the immortal Lincoln's emancipation proclamation went into full force and effect. Mexico, however, set her African slaves free in 1813, and not only set them free, but at once set about to absorb them into her nationality, which has resulted in some 40,000 Negroes in old Mexico completely loosing their race identity. PERSONAL. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hawkins left for the mountains last Thursday and will be absent from the city for some three weeks or more. Miss Elsie Palmer, one of Seattle's most efficient teachers, left for her old home in Kansas last Monday. While Miss Elsie has not resigned her position, yet it is believed she does not intend to teach any more and that a Kansas Jayhawker is responsible for this state of affairs in her mind. Mrs. Palmer, mother of Hon. Edward B. Palmer, who has been visiting in this city for some time, also left for her home last Monday. Quite a few of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. Gayton enjoyed a picnic outing last Wednesday at Madrona Park, of which they were the central figures. Lola Williams, a notorious lowered colored woman, within the past week has been three times arrested for grand larceny. She seems determined to have a free ride to Walla Walla. Arriving from Nome last Wednesday were fully 1,000 passengers, disappointed gold seekers, and in the neighborhood of $450,000. "Nome is not what it was cracked up to be," came from many of the returning passengers. Mr. D. W. Griffin will be among the King county delegates attending the state Republican convention at Tacoma next Tuesday. The train carrying the delegates will leave at 12 o'clock Tuesday and it is hoped by Chairman Paul that every delegate will be on hand and go to Tacoma in a body. Mr. George Donworth, who has been a prominent Democratic leader in this city and county for a decade and more, has renounced Democracy and in future will cast his vote and influence for Republican success. OPENING OF THE THIRD AVENUE THEATER. After five weeks of darkness, theatrically speaking, the Third Avenue theater will open next Sunday, August 12th, with last season's great Eastern success*"Just Before Dawn." The play is a melo-drama, written on the lines of "Lost Paradise," and deals with the conflict of capital and labor in the mining districts of Pennsylvania. It depicts strongly the necessity for mutual concessions and a proper understanding between these powerful elements of modern society. Dramatically the play is strong and requires a good company for its production. The management of the Third Avenue theater has secured all of the members of the company which produced "Quo Vadis," "Sapho" and the "Silver King" last season and have augmented the cast with several other actors of merit. The scenery and costuming will be appropriate to the play and the prices of admission will remain the same as last season. The coming state convention begins to look Frink-like. Li Hung will get his Chang hung if he keeps hanging about Pekin. Republican state convention next Wednesday, at which time Ankenyism is to be buried. It is remarkable that not a single man who was in the legislature two years ago from this county was given a renomination. Sie transit gloria mundi. Bryan, a protege of Southern Democracy, may be dead anxious to "save the country," but if he does he differs most widely from the men who are boosting him. It was an error on the part of last week's Republican to say J. H. Shively did not win out in his precinct. He not only won out, but was a power in the county convention. * If Mrs. Potter Palmer does not capture French royalty it will not be her fault, as she is trying hard enough. It begins to look as if all Europe will soon be Americanized. "The G. O. P. is owned by trusts," sagely remarks a Democratic sheet. Then the Grand Old Party has at least one winning feature over the Democratic party, as even trusts will not have it. The ringing hammer in Seattle, which is heard from morn till night, is one of the strongest proofs that General Prosperity continues to dwell among us, despite the prediction of Weary Willie to the contrary. And now the Northwest Republican, a slanderous publication which has been issued at Blaine, this state has gone to the "bone yard." Such things are soon ripe and sooner rotten, and the sooner rotten the better for the community. Chinese extinction can now be put down as an absolute certainty. It is as much impossible for it to withstand the combined opposition of civilization as it would be for the Indians to still oppose civilization in the United States. Who doubts but there is a "nigger in the woodpile" over in China just about now? Not only is there one already in it, but within a few days more there will be many others, as the Ninth cavalry regiment is now headed for China as fast as steam and wind can take it thither. Weary Willie has now seated himself on his front porch to write you a few lines, "hoping when these few lines reach you, they will find you well and doing well, as they leave me well and doing well," owing, of course, to the liberality in the way of salary from the silver kings of the West. Fred H. Lysons is just the boy to make such a turn as was made in the late county convention in this city in his futile attempt to rule the convention in the interest of "Honest (?) Tom Humes," and, if you do not believe it, just look up his Snohomish county record on the county seat fight. King county is now well rid of bad rubbish, as it has sent the Piper hirelings to lands unknown. For three years they have given the good citizens of this county a merry chase, but, thank God, they have finally reached the end of their rope; and there will be no tears shed over their defeat unless it be by one Levi Ankeny of would-be senatorial fame. "Levi Ankeny has money to burn," said a politician not long since, which, by the way, was no joke, for the Piper-Humes combination burned it in lump lots during the late primary contest in this county for party supremacy. If it were not uncoath, we would say in this connection that "a fool and his money soon part." Hon. Frank P. Lewis may have a right to such a title, technically speaking, but the most of the citizens of this city and county are inclined to think he permitted it to be trailed in the dust last Thursday morning, whe nhe accepted the temporary chairmanship of the Republican county convention, which he knew to be the result of a most flagrant fraud. Whoever S. C. Anderson, of Blaine letter-writing fame is or may be, he is a character that the American people do not hesitate to pronounce an unmitigated cur. Bravery is an American characteristic, and the man who succeeds by any other methods than bravery and independence is put down as a scoundrel and a deceiver and totally unworthy of owning such a proud title as a United States citizen. Perhaps you are right, Mr. Democrat, in declaring that the silver issue is not dead, but the party that advocates it is not meeting with very much success at the polls these days. The civil war issue in some localities is not dead yet, but such localities are themselves dead. Any party or locality that will stick to a dead issue will sooner or later find itself in a dying condition from that very fact, so Democracy had better take warning. THE NORTH SHOULD ACT. Let a bill reducing congressional representation from the South be one of the first acts congress takes up and passes when it convenes in December. At present Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina and North Carolina have legally disfranchised half of their voters within its borders who bears the brand of Cain. If half the voters of those states are not permitted to vote, then it is wholly unfair for those states to get representation in congress for a numerical vote which they themselves declare they have not got. No Northern Republican in congress will be true to his country, true to his cause or true to himself, if he does not stand up and vote to reduce the congressional representation from the Southern states at least one-half of what it now is. We believe that Northern state conventions would do the wise and proper thing to pass resolutions instructing their congressional nominees to work and vote for such a measure. The disfranchisement laws in the South are aimed and directed against the Negro voters and by no means against the illiterate voters. The Negro in the South will never get intelligent enough to vote from a Democratic standpoint, though the wisdom of Solomon himself be given to each and every one of them, and the Caucasians will never get too ignorant to vote, though a great majority of them so lapse into illiteracy that they cannot mark their own ballots. Now, since the Negro can expect to gain nothing by having this matter of cutting down the base of representation from the South longer deferred, he should ask his Republican friends at the North to strike a body blow at the monster that is responsible for the condition and the laws which have taken from him his constitutional rights. Neither Mississippi nor Alabama casts as many votes as does the state of Washington, and yet each of those states has nine members in congress—two senators and seven members of the lower house—while Washington has but four members of congress—two senators and two lower house members. As in Washington, so in every other Northern state, it requiring twice the number of voters in the North to get a congressman as in the South. Statesmen from the North have been hoping against hope that the voters one and all would get a fair shake at the ballot box down there, but they can but see the futility of such a hope, as Southern states go bravely on disfranchising Negro voters. There must be a remedy for all this. There is a remedy for such public high-handedness, and the remedy is to reduce the number of congressmen from the section that disfranchises voters for no other reason than to reduce them to a form of moderate slavery. If the Negro is to be partially disfranchised then so long as he remains in the South let him be wholly without representation. "No taxation without representation," is a fundamental principle of this great government, and when the South demands representation for men whom she declares are not men in her state governments, then it wants to tax the North without giving the North representation. 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Magnificent View of Lake Washington and the Cascade Range "All's well that ends well," is an old but wise saw. The King county Republican convention may have started out very stormy, and wholly on the wrong foot, but before it had proceeded very far it fell into the right groove and did a most charming piece of work. Few persons in King county would have thought that I. B. Knickerbocker would have ever permitted himself to become a party to the slick piece of political sculdugery that was attempted by the Humes men to capture the chairmanship of the convention, and none ever thought that Frank P. Lewis, who has stood so fair in this city in every particular, would have even desired to have carried out a sculdugery scheme so well planned, but from the Pie-maker's way of thinking each of those men did so, and did so knowingly, and further discussion of it but adds insult to injury. It was a stormy convention, and one that will be remembered for many years to come. The Frink men lead by such intrepid workers as W. H. Morris, ex-Governor John H. Mecraw, J. H. Hartman, J. D. Jones and others, showed to the opposition that chicanery was no match for ability and right. They lead their men to victory without any violence, which, to say the least, was remarkable, for the opposition expected violence of the worst kind, and, if reports be true, went there prepared to meet violence. There is no doubt but that the figures which Chairman Knickerbocker declared elected Frank P. Lewis were agreed upon by the men managing the Humes fight the night before. It was an unfortunate predicament in which to place the Republican party, and the men responsible for it should drop out of public sight for all time to come instead of hankering for more notoriety. On a test vote J. M. Frink was endorsed for the governorship and a delegation selected to go to the state convention that will leave no stone unturned to accomplish that purpose. Since King county has held its convention many other counties have held their conventions, and all have endorsed Mr. Frink. From the Northwest comes the report that Jefferson county is for Frink for governor. Next comes the report that Skagit county is in the Frink line. Then Whatcom county, not to be outdone by her neighbors, has declared for Frink. Snohomish is for Frink and Sam Nichols. Kitsap county had a warm time, locally speaking, but sent a delegation to the state convention to vote for Frink for governor. Pierce county is holding her convention today and the probabilities are that Mr. Frink will get a solid delegation from that county. Lewis county has also held her convention, and it is for Maynard and Frink. Chehalis county is not having to say, but it looks Frink-like. While the emissaries of the Walla Walla money barrel are doing all in their power at present in the southwestern counties to prevent them from coming to Frink, yet it looks as though their efforts will be without success. Western Washington will doubtless give Mr. Frink at least 90 per cent. of her entire vote, and with some aid from the eastern side of the state J. M. Frink will be unanimously nominated. Tom Humes' name will not be placed before the convention. The Piper Humes-Ankency combination is now using the name of J. O'B. Scobey as a stalking horse for their deviltry, but before they will have gone very The San Diego Fruit Company 415 PIKE STREET Has Double the Stock. The Greatest Variety and The Best Fruit of any house in the fruit line in Seattle. PRICES ARE ALWAYS RIGHT Come and See Us When in Need in Our Line. far on that line Mr. Scobey will catch on and call a speedy halt. Victory, victorius victory, has finally crowned the three years' efforts of The Seattle Republican in its endeavor to shatter the power of the Pipers in this city and county. When it opened up the fight on the Oregon tramps, the Turner hirelings and the political boodlers its friends thought it was a great big mouthful for it to try to swallow, and truly believed that the paper would be ruined for so doing. In fact the Pipers did declare that they would have the business men withdraw every cent of patronage from it. They made the effort, and the editor of this paper has been practically ruined, financially speaking, because he dared oppose the Pipers and their great political machine. Nothing, however, succeeds like success, and it continued to hammer away at the Pipers, always telling such a straightforward tale that it soon began to convince others and then others, until a real storm had been kicked up and resulted in their utter defeat. Months ago the Pipers made herculean efforts to take The Republican into the Ankeny fold, but at that they had poor success. Knowing the facts as this paper does, it is very gratifying to it to now let loose a few hurrahs over the defeat of the Oregon Tramps. "When Greek meets!"—While the battle of the primaries was on, the quiet observer witnessed scenes at the polls, running from grave to gay, from the pathetic to the comical, some verging upon tragedy; of the latter was the contest in a certain precinct of the Seventh ward, where two fierce and grizzled veterans of the civil war led the warring factions in the contest. The war cry of one was, "I fights mit John Frink!" Of the other, "I do battle for Guy Humes!" Each of these leaders of the clans wears an empty sleeve, each having lost an arm upon more bloody, but not more sanguinary fields. Each veteran's face was stern and grim as he marshaled his forces for the fray. Each valiant soldier of the rank and file seemed imbued with the spirit of war and marched boldly, in solid phalanx in battle array. The brave commanders waved high in air imaginary swords with imaginary right arms, and the fierce battle was on from high noon to dewy eve. The silent observer at times "viewed with alarm" the bloodless conflict, lest these heroes of other fields, again smelling the smoke of battle, should engage each other in more sanguinary conflict. One proclaimed that he would lose his other arm, if need be, fighting for Frink and the public weal, while the other, equally brave but in milder tones and with more modest mein averred that he stood well in the council of his city and close to Humes; that he loved Guy for his youth; that he would not allow any member of the opposing clan to Guy Humes unrebuked; that he stood upon this field to do battle for Guy alias Humes, notwithstanding the alleged devious and subterranean methods of the sappers and miners of his clan. And thus the war was waged by the clans until the recall was sounded. When the sun went down the field was strewn with the wreckage of war, advisory tekets, snipes and shells of peanuts; the atmosphere was charged with the odor of stale smoke commingled with that peculiar and indescribable aroma emanating from an overtaxed and deranged digestive organism. While the dead were being buried out of sight and the wounded condoled with, a defunct Dakota politician gave voice to the following query of the multitude: "Oh, captain dear, please tell me why Do you wear a Human and fight for Do you swear by Humes and fight for Guy?" In the silence an echo answered: "Why?" Not one word of complaint has been heard against the ticket named by the Republicans in their late convention in this county. Every nominee bears the mark of a personal gentleman and boasts of a spotless public record. The Pie-maker has nosed about ever since the convention adjourned and has failed to catch one unfavorable comment on the ticket named. On the other hard, all Republicans speak in the highest terms of it, and the Democrats openly declare that it is a very hard ticket for the opposition to beat. The Pie-maker accosted Hon. James Hamilton Lewis the next day after the convention, and he at once said: "The ticket named by the Republicans for this county is one of the cleanest that I have ever seen since I have been in the county. The rivalry for party supremacy and the rivalry for factional supremacy have prompted the dominant Repub- lican faction to name a ticket that they need not be as ashamed of for a single minute. I am glad to see such rivalry, for when it is so the public's interest will always be most carefully guarded." The defeat of F. M. De Moss, from a Frink-combination standpoint, is the lamentable thing of the convention. It is true that Mr. Frink's friends could have nominated Mr. De Moss if they had stuck together, and that would have been good politics, but Mr. Frink had no cinch on the delegates whereby he could force them to vote throughout the entire convention proceedings as he would have them do, and to blame either him or any one else for the defeat of Mr. De Moss is puerile. George B. Lamping is a young soldier fresh from the battlegrounds of the Philippines, and it was utterly impossible for either Mr. Frink or any one else to stem the tide that at once loose for Mr. Lamping as soon as his name was mentioned. Even at this late date it is almost impossible to keep a convention of Republicans from nominating an old veteran of the civil war, though such personage be totally unfit to hold the office to which he aspires. The man who stands before an enemy's bullets in defense of his country somehow or another gets a good deal more consideration than the fellow who stays at home. The Pie-maker has been informed that Lamping is not only a soldier, but is also a well-educated gentleman and has all the qualifications necessary to conduct the office for which he has been successfully and fairly nominated with credit to himself, to his country and to his party. That being true, he is justly entitled to the full support of the Republicans of this county, including Mr. De Moss and his entire Ballard constituency. A gentleman writes from Clark county that Wappenstein, the notorious Seattle crook detective, who is charged with getting a divvy out of every trick that is turned by the crooks of this city, accompanied by Meredith, an official associate, is now in that section of the country trying to buy up delegates to vote against the nomination of Senator Frink. It thus appears that the "foreign devils" turned down by the Republicans of King county last Friday are still pursuing their villainous work. The thugs of this city have contributed bags of money to bribe the Republicans into making "Honest" (?) Tom Humes the gubernatorial candidate, and most signally failed. If it cost them a dollar it must have cost them not less than $30,000, and yet they failed. Now they are out in the smaller counties continuing to carry on the criminal work. Botin of Seattle's detectives had better be at their posts of duty trying to catch the hundreds of criminals that are robbing houses nightly in this city, instead of being out in the state themselves playing the criminal act. Big Bill Morris should be named for chairman of the county central committee. He proved himself to be one of the best organizers that King county has ever had when he was chairman, and had not petty jealousy on the part of the Piper-Humes combination stepped in, he would have succeeded himself and the likes of Knickerbocker would not have been forced on the party. Hon. J. H. Schively may at one time have pursued a course that did not meet the approval of a majority of the Republicans of the state, but the manly fight he made in the late King county contest has again popularized the man. He made a mistake, acknowledged the corn, fell into line, worked for lost honor and succeeded in finding it. He will go to the state convention next week backed by the entire King county delegation and will prove one of the strong men in that convention. "Don't worry about Pierce county," said a prominent politician one day this week, "for I have been very creditably informed that her forty-four votes will be for King county's choice for governor. Ben Grosscup will not run the Pierce county delegation, and that being a fact, Levi Ankeny will have no more show of turning the Pierce county delegation from King county than he will to turn the King county delegation away from J. M. Frink." If the above be true, and why should it be debuted, there will be no other name presented to the convention for governor but that of Mr. Frink. The strong candidate for state superintendent of public schools is J. M. Layhue, of Puyallup. Mr. Layhue has the united support of the teachers of both Pierce and King counties, as well as that of many other counties, and it is very apparent that they propose to land their man. As an educator no man in the state stands higher than Prof. Layhue, and he will be an honor and a credit to the ticket should he be nominated. On a canvass of the delegation from King county it has been found that an overwhelming majority of the delegates favor Prof. Layhue's candidacy, providing it does not interfere with that of the governorship fight, and it will not, hence it looks now as though he will be nominated on the first ballot. Prof. Taylor, of King county, might have stood a very good show for the nomination had not King county been boosting for two places on the state ticket—governorship and one of the members of the supreme judgeship of the state. The Democrats of this city held their primaries last Wednesday evening and are holding their county convention today. Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats decided to hold two county conventions. The one in session today will simply elect delegates to the state convention and the one to nominate county officers will be held in September. A fight for supremacy in the county convention between the Godwin forces and the Hart followers will be the feature of the convention. If Godwin is successful, it means J. T. Ronald for congress, and if Hart wins it means J. F. McElroy for congress. If Godwin wins it means the endorsement of John R. Rogers for the nomination of governor, and if Hart wins it means that Rogers will not get a single vote from King county. 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