The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-10-18
POLITICAL P0T-PIE


Let it be distinctly understood
that The Seattle Republican has no
political respect for a man who will
bolt his party nominees after the
convention has been held and such
person has tacitly pledged himself to
abide by the result of the conven-
ton. Most persons Of this commun-
ity believe that Tom Humes and his
followers bolted the party nominees
last year so far as Mr.. Frink, Mr..
Vandevanter and Mr.. White were
concerned and Mr.. Humes is there
fore not deserving Of any more polit-
ical success in King county or the
state of Washington. If any office
holder whether federal or otherwise
bolted any part Of the Republican
ticket last fall he is just as bad as
Mr.. Humes, and the Republican par
ty owes him no official consideration
whatever and he should get none.
The mayoralty question is still up
permost IN the minds Of the politi-
Clans Of this ;lty and especially the
Republicans, as they have been I'M
able up to this writing to fix on a
candidate that would prove satisfac-
tory to both of the great factions.
As said in last weeks issue there is
no doubt of the fact that Mr.. Humes
is a candidate for reelection and
that his friends are working day and
night for the same. If Mr.. Humes
is nominated he will be defeated,
and the PIe-maker therefore hopes
that his friends will not further urge
his nomination as it will but add
fuel to the flames between the two
great political factions in Seattle.
The faction that has opposed Mr..
Humes ambition in the past is not
particularly anxious to have a candi-
date nominated for mayor from
their ranks, yea, they do want one,
but they do not propose that Mr.
Humes shall be nominated for the
place without desperate struggle,
and the Pie-maker fears that it will
go even beyond the convention
floor if Mr.. Humes should be nomi-
mated. And then again, the church
element Of this city should not be
overlooked, and if it should so hap
pen that MIR. Humes would get the
Republican nomination, the church
vote almost in body would bolt his
nomination and work for the Dem
ocratlc nominee, providing such
nominee had a scintilla of moral
makeup about him.
Mayor Humes labors under false
belief when he thinks he can COM
mand enough Democratic votes to
elect him, the opposing Republican
vote to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. There is no doubt but that Mr..
Humes received quite strong Dem
ocratic vote when he was elected last
year, but 1t arose from the fact that
the Democrats thought Mr.. Cotter-
Ill possessed too many political
whims to be elected to the mayoralty
OF this city, and while Mr.. Humes
ran thousand votes behind Mr..
Paul, it is estimated that fully ESQ
Democrats deliberately voted for
Mr.. Humes, but voted the balance of
the Democratic ticket, but if a man
like ). W. Goodwin or Judge VIM. II.
Moore gets his party nomination, ev-
cry Democrat and his brother in the
city would vote for him, and the
Ple-maker predicts that great
many many Republicans would like
wise vote either for Goodwin or
Moore shoul either one of them be
nominated for mayor next spring.
Hence under such conditions it
would be utterly impossible for Mr..
Humes to be elected though he sue
ceeded IN getting the nomination.
The White River Journal, owned
and operated by John W. Pratt, a
Seattle attorney and politician, is
booming MIR. Pratt for corporation
counsel in Seattle. Modesty, it
would seem, would suggest to Mr..
Pratt to allow some other paper,
even if he had to subsidize it, to do
the booming Of him for corporation
counsel, IN preference to his own pa
per. Mr.. Pratt would perhaps make
as good a corporation counsel as any
other lawyer IN Seattle, and in as
much as he has had previous exper-
fence along this line, he perhaps
would make a better one than the
average lawyer, but the Pie-maker
believes that Mr.. Pratt should some
time or other strike out for himself,
and quit nursing the public teat. At
present Mr.. Pratt is drawing from
the city OF Seattle $105 per month
IN salary and sos per month for in
cldentals, making on a whole $3.50
per month paid to him, which is
equal to the amount paid to the cor
poratlon counsel, and yet he is not
satisfied with this and wants to be
corporation counsel as well and
thereby add another $4,000 to the
sum that he is already drawing from