The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-06-29

| OranQ ARMY Hat dnu W0uG AROUND
posing as an cold soldier" to gain
public sentiment And many a
man in King county has cast his
vote for Tom Humes believing him
to be Union soldier veteran, and
that he lost his arm In the army
fighting for his country to latre
learn the fact that he lost it in a
threshing machine before he got
office struck. His imposition on
the public under Grand Army
hat could be no less despic-
able than his present imposition
on the public as a Seattle bene-
factor, when he and his followers
are today responsible for Seattle
not having a United States senator
in Congress-, when he and his
gang are responsible for the Re
publicans not nominating and
electing from King county a
supreme judge two years ago,
when he and his gang have sue
ceeded in sending divided delega-
tions to the Republican state con-
ventions, which so manipulated
things as to keep any one from
being nominated from King
county, and, finally, when he and
his gang of private and public
looters have placed Seattle at the
mercy Of her rival Tacoma.
Holding up John L. Wilson as a
political scare-crow to drive Sc
Athletics into the support of such
political renegades is not strength
ening the Piper-Humes-Ankeny
combine very materially in King
county, and, from reports from
other sections, not very materially
outside of King county.
It occurs to the Pie-maker that
the intelligent and refined citizens
of this state will have reached
very low state of political degre
dation when they submit to be
ruled by a "barrel'' of money,
placed at the free disposal Of
few fellows for political corrup-
ton, which fellows seek as asso-
ciates the lowest and vilest ele-
ments Of humanity to be found in
the slums of Seattle. As mayor
Of Seattle has Mr.. Humes sur
rounded himself with the influence
of the business men of the city as
he promised he would do before
he was reelected? Not much, but
it is the men, who hail from the
slums, that say to him what must
be done in running the affairs of
the city. Is it not bad enough to
have one city in this state run by
the 'Fslum element" besides trying
to have the state house likewise
placed under the same political
gang? What a figure Tom Bevan,
Dave Argyle, Boss Munroe,
and the directors in general of the
lower end hell holes of this city
would make cat court" as they
bowed and courtesied in the pres
ence of His Excellency, Governor
Thomas Humes, the chief Mogul
of the tribe?
A few more circular letters like
unto those recently sent out by the
gang and it would seem to any
reasonable man that Levi Ankeny,
Tom Humes and George Piper
would be the deadest ducks ever
in the pond and all self inflicted.
Give us political harmony in King
county, but for Gods sake give us
a few grains of political decency
along with it. Not content with
trying to defeat the will of the
people in King county the rene
gades have joined with B. S.
Groscup of Tacoma and propose to
defeat Cushman for denomination.
1t seems that more INSCRIPTIONS
gang of politicians never plotted
the rule or ruin of state Republi-
can party than the one in this
state at present headed by Levi
Ankeny and backed by Senator
Foster, B. S. Groscup and the
renegades in King county. who
work in harmony with them. Will
you stand it? is the question for
you and each of you to answer
Ii you love the Republican party