The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-04-05

POLITICAL P0T-PIE !


municipal elections in this state. it is
very evident that Republicanism is
very much in collision with political
success, and that there is no danger of
the state again going against Republi-
can doctrine for many years to come.
The Pie-maker predicted this same
thing after last falls election, and, if
the Republicans will themselves do
politics from a Republican standpoint,
and not from a factiOnal standpoint.
there is every reason to believe that
they will continue to hold their own
and elect every man that their conven-
lions name for office for the next dec
ade or more. Be true to yourself. is
what every Republican should careful
ly observe in the coming political con-
tests in this state
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Speaking about municipal elections
prompts the Pie-maker to comment at
length on the political situation and
outlook in this city in its present con-
ditions. 1t is very apparent just now
that the next mayor of Seattle will be
non-partisan one. There seems to be
no other way to rid this city of the vice
and evil with which it is now infested
but to elect some man as it's mayor
conduct of it's affairs. Heretofore the
voters Of this city have been blindly
partisan, and have preferred to vote
for the proverbial yellow dog" should
such get the nomination on their party
ticket, rather than vote for the oppo-
site party nominee; but the affairs of
the city have been so loosely as well as
Illegally conducted for the past three
years that patience has ceased to be a
virtue, and in the opinion of the Pie
maker, next year the citizens of this
city Will revolt from party faiths and
vote for some good man, regardless of
what party he has previously affiliated
with either in state or national cleo
tons. A municipal reform ticket will
be the result of all this agitation of
the wide-open policy, and the nomi-
nees Of that party will be overwhelm-
ingly elected.
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Those persons who have watched the
municipal affairs of New York City
will remember that all of the reforms
that it has ever had have come through
non-partisan administrations. Affairs
there always went from bad to worse
until the citizens would tire of the
whole and rise up in their might and
overthrow partisan influence, and then
for a while thereafter that great city
would enjoy decent government; but
no sooner did it fall back to it's parti-
san blindness than it became crime
ridden once more. The success Of
Tammany's candidate for mayor of
that city some two years ago, meant
the return perhaps of all the evils ever
praceiced by Boss Tweed and his gang
under Boss Croker and his gang There
is perhaps no other city in the world,
and especially in the United States in
such horrible municipal condition as
is New York City, save and except Sc
practiced by Boss Tweed and his gang
rule the rOost 1t will, therefore, be
plainly seen that in large cosmopoli-
tan cities it is absolutely necessary to
have nOn-partisan municipal admins
trations in order that the citizens may
be protected from crime and vice,
which are so often the fruits Of parti-
san administrations, and that, too, re-
CARELESS Of the party that is elected.
Ex-Chief of Police Charles S. Reed,
of this city, has been appointed to the
long term on the board of audit and
control of this state, and though that
appointment was dictated by the
Humes faction, it is by no means meet
ing the approval Of the factions politi-
cal followers in the past. The Pie
maker has been informed that this
position was intended for ex-State
Senator John Wooding, of Auburn but
no amount of pressure brought to bear
on Mayor Humes would make him con-
sent to name Mr.. Wooding for the
place. Some time ago, it will be re-
membered the Pie-maker intimated
that Gov. Rogers and the Humes-An-
keny factions were in political cOllu-
sion with each other, and wherever a
Republican was to be appointed Gov.
Rogers made that appointment from
the Humes-Ankeny side. The subse-
quent appointments substantiate the
theory then advanced, but just why
Mayor Humes should turn Mr.. Wood
ing down is a question that is hard to
be explained, for it is certain that no
man did more yeOman service for Mr..
Humes than did Mr.. Wooding in the
last campaign.
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Now, on account of Mr.. Reed instead
of Mr.. Wooding getting the appoint
ment mentioned above, it is declared
by men who seem to k0nw that there
is an awful row on in the camp of the
HumeS faithful, and as a result the
men who supported Mr.. Wooding for
the place have declared war to the
knife, so to speak, on the Humes fac
ton, which played them double in this
appointment. The Pie-maker has
learned that even George U. Piper has
declared war on Mr.. Humes and his
followers, and will do all in his power
to defeat him, or any candidate he
might name, in the next campaign.
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Washington state has at last a state
capitol. The court house of ThurstOn
county has been bought for $3.50, 000
and the same will be converted into a
state house at once. The voters Of this
state truly hope that this is a final set
tlement of this state house question
and that no more legislatures will
waste time discussing capital removal
bill. 1t is to be regretted, however,
that the $3.50, 900 was not expended on
the present foundation, which was
started for the capitol building, which