The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-14
Dir. Temple Urges People to Go Il.
the Polls.
SHOULD EXERCISE elaTHR.oAT
what she ynSsous PuIpats Of the City
Had 20 Soy Yesterday About shc
Pending City Ei~ettoa-Au Coed
Citizens Exhorted fo Vote and
vicfous and Criminal Elements

Tho henpeeked husband who occasion
ally goes OFT win tbs boys. and the
young man who a&pirss 10 lead a double
life on so q week ~ere well represented
at the churches yesterday. In facs. inter-
est conferred in the pulpit owing to the Ar
nouncemenfs which bad oeea u,ade from
a Large number 81 puiplfs <hst special
sermons would be delivered yesterday on
gambling and kindred evils. and their
bearing Oh municipal politics al the pres
ent time. Thoae who expected educational
revelations from the pulpit were dizap-
pointed. however. for sensationailsm was
eonspscueusiy absent from all the ser
mons preached on the subject.
The old story Of Esan selling the birth
. meas OF potsage gave the theme b Rev.
W. II. @. Temple for his sermon at Piym-
outh Congregation! church yesterday
evening. The text. from Genesis XIV. "a.
was: "Esau dsspised his birthright.'' and
from It SIR. Temple preached a foreible
Of these. no said. was the right OF tree
speech Honest criticism was the best
censor for public men. and agitation
against evil the highest duty Of the citi-
zen. An unshaekled press was the second
political birthright aud this the United
States mad above any country on earth.
Yet there were too many newspapers
which were silent when they should
speak. and Oh the fence on moral ques-
tons wftn they should be do~n from II
ard hghting HE believed the press of
Seattle would aid In the tighi for pure city
government. II IL did not. II would be
time 10 erticlse. But tie third and most
hoy political bsrthflght OF ghe American
people. said Mr.. Temple. was 4 gree. Ia
dependent and untEsmme!ed ballot The
ballot box was the ark Of the cove nalt
Of the American people. as had been apt
ly said. Let us lift IL in this eosaing csty
election said Mr. Temple. and declare
by II that We viii not have In city offices
In Seattle. however unimporfant, any
man who viii not absolutely keep his oath
Of Office and administer and uphold the
law"
Continuing Mr. Temple told how he
had. prior 10 his coming 20 Seattle been
interested in a high against low license
campaign tn Boston. ia which thu moral
element had been defeated. BY compiling
few statistics, Mr.. Temple WIS able 10
show that the a.0se majority for the anti
church element was due not 20 the vote OF
low. ignorant and vicious masses. but TO
$1,000 stay-at-h homes or non-reEistered vot-
srs who included enough OF the men vino
should have voted with Mr.. Temples par
~ 10 cause It's defeat at the polls. They
desplsed their hlrthright.
"Tbe law here requires you TO register"
said ar. Temple in closing. in other
words "a ask for the privilege OF voting.
In which to do this practically hut forty
eight hours remain. III you don't register
you can't vote. IL you don't vote you
despise your hirthright. II is is foolish
ness no; to vote. il Is the height OF insan-
ity not to register.
After the registration books were closed
a thousand things might arise which
would cause an unFegisterc n voter "a ht
teriy regret his failure. even though he
at present felt no interest IN the contest
and Nj. Temples final sxhortatten was
that every voter register and preserve and
use inteligently his highest political birth
rixht--the ballot.