The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-08-17
Political Pot-Pie.

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Most Of the local Republican poll
ticians, including the Pie-maker,
have been sojourning in the City of
Destiny this week, attending the
state convention, and if you know
anything about state conventions, it
Will not take much to convince you
that the most Of us are unfit for work
the closing days of the week.
Senator Billie Mason, of Illinois,
is altogether too mouthy for his own
good To the average Westerner he
Is trying to blow hot and blow cold
at the same time. If Mason is going
to support Mckinley he ought to
quit talking through his hat to Pop
papers, and if he is going to support
Bryan he should come out like man
and say So God hates coward, and
the man that blows hot and cold on
political questions is political cow
ard. But a few days ago The Times,
a Pop paper, published long inter
view from Senator Mason, which in
directly denounced the Mckinley ad-
ministration; a few days later the
Post-Intelhgencer published an In
terview from Senator Mason declar-
ing that he was hurrying homeward
to stump the state Of Illinois for Nc
Ainley. Mason must like to see his
name In flaming headlines, which ac-
counts for him rushing into print on
first one side Of the public question
and then on the other. Take a
stand, Billie, and then stand as long
as the stand stands.
Perhaps some Seattle folk were
inclined to think that the Pie-maker
at times criticised too severely one
Thomas z. Fisk, Of this city, sent
here by Levi Ankeny to run the Re
publican politics in the interest Of
Ankeny's senatorial candidacy, if so,
the following from the Cowlitz Ad-
vocate, from whence Mr. Fisk came,
may throw some light on the situa-
ton:
The Hon. Thomas Polonius Fisk,
who from his obscurity as country
lawyer, yentured out upon a sea of
glory" as an Ankeny booster and was
carried by the tide INTO some proml-
nence as a politician, moved to Sc
attic, and has been laboring for
Humes, now finds bis 'high-bIown"
bladder has been pricked, and he is
likely to be left naked before his
enemies. Alas for Thomas! Alas
for all young men Of modest talent
who would seek fame and-fortune in
politics.
1t begins to look as though even
Seattle folk are waking up to their
sense Of moral duty from political
standpoint, and do not propose to
continue to elect men to office who
nave no other fitness for the place
they seek than that they are able to
swing a certain tenderloin vote.
Men who cater to such lot Of vot-
ing cattle should be let severely
alone by the good citizens Of any
city or community, for you can rest
assured that they never support any
man without first obtaining from
him promise or pledge that so far
as they are concerned such officers
of the law will do all in their power
to always be looking the other way
when tenderloiner is trying to
escape the clutches Of the law.
While it cannot be said that only ten
derloiners supported Mr.. McElroy,
yet it can be said that tenderloiners
almost unanimously supported him.
Mr.. Ronald is something of church
man and allies himself to that class
of citizens in preference to the ten
derloiners, and in the late primary
contest it was the moral element that
pulled him through. In other
words, it was not that the Democrats
loved McElroy less or Ronald more,