The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-01-25

pers, and though she has gotten one
thing she went after, she does not
| feel that she has gotten very much
after all, in the speakership of the
house of representatives, because he
traded away everything that wuold
have been of service to King county
to get that honor crowned upon his
head. Too much individualism,
personal ambitions and self-glory
have been shown in this matter at
the expense of King county and
King county's commercial interests.
Generally speaking, Edward Clay
| son, ST., is, in the opinion Of the
Pie-Maker, quite a political fanatic
and his ideas are generally quite
erratic, so much so that no legisla-
ture could ever think of adopting
them either in whole or in part, but
he is advocating measure at pres
ent that strikes the Pie-Maker as
having considerable merit in it. In
stead of endowing the various state
institutions of learning with i'm
mense sums for high falutin educa-
tional purposes, Mr. Clayson be-
lieves that each school house in the
state should have a small library
given it for the express purpose of
the pupils and the parents of the pu
pills to get books therefrom for read
ing information 1t is quite true
that more children of the state new
er see any of the normal schools and
state colleges than do. That is to
say, more of the state pupils gradu
ate from the common schools than
from the higher institutions of
learning, and it is nothing but right
that something be done for the pur-
pose of expanding the minds of
those children from reading stand
point as well as those who are able
to attend the normal schools and col
leges. The country boy should
have the same rights at the hands of
the legislature of this state AS the
city boy or the other country boy
who has means to give him a higher
course Of learning It seems per-
fectly right that each of the schools
in the state have something Of lib
rary at the states expense, and such
would not only be appreciated by
the pupil, but the parent as well,
and while millions of dollars are
being expended upon the libraries of
the normal schools and colleges, let
some go to the far-away district
school houses, where the farmer boy,
the mining boy, the logging boy
and the laboring boy in general will
reap some of the benefits of the
states money.
Much discussion is being indulg-
ed in at present over the proposed
Legislative districting of the state,
and as the bill now stands that has
been introduced in the house by
Jones, and in the senate by Will
shire, it is the subject Of much dis
cussion in Seattle and King county.
1t is thought that the districting Of
King county will give the legislature
much trouble before it will have
been divided up to suit all parties
concerned. The United States SEN
atorial question is becoming quite
factor in this re-districting matter,
especially in King county, and I'M
less decided change is taken toward
the bill, it viii never become a law,
owing to. the bitter factional fight
that will come to the surface over
that point 1t is said that Sen
ator Wiltshire has reconsidered his
proposition to put a part Of the
Ninth and Seventh wards together
and thereby cut the Hon. +. B.
Palmer out in the cold, and has
agreed to make both the Seventh
and Fifth wards senatorial districts
within themselves, and throw the
Ninth ward in with Ballard, and a
few Of the adjoining precincts. If
this is done, it is very apparent that
Senator Wiltshire has been to the
legislature his last time, because the
Seventh ward has twice set down on
him since he was elected in 1897,
and it is generally believed
that no great change Of
heart has come over the
voters of that district since that
time. The Fifth ward, as usual,
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