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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15

Superintendent Youngs of the light
ing and water departments Of this city
has been criticising the Sunset Tele-
phone Company. Perhaps no one can
unduly criticise the Telephone Com
pany for it apparently deserves all the
censure that can be heaped upon it,
but for Superintendent Youngs to cri-
ticise either the Telephone company or
any other company whether right or
wrong seems SO utterly out of place
that it is qualified to make even a mule
laugh. Perhaps no man having similar
duties devolved upon him in any city
in the United States is deserving Of
more public criticism or censure than
Superintendent Youngs, and, if he
were not willing tool of Mayor
Humes and few of the councilmen,
such as James and Parry, he would
have been bounced out Of the office
years ago, and if he had the city would
now be many thousands of dollars bet
ter off. Mr.. Youngs at present is al
lowing the city to be dupped out Of
thousands of dollars by Mr.. Parry's
Continued on page 4.
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BROTHER IN BLACK
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being officially snubbed by them. If
there is any honor or respectfully in
serving on the police force of this city
with the class of men that generally
make up the force and who are the pro-
nounced guardians OF peace and dig
nifty of the city, then the writer hereof
fails to see it. The editor of The
Seattle Republican is willing to wager
$4,000 against a five-cent piece that
ninety per cent of the policemen of
Seattle can't write their own names
correctly; are not able to add uD a
column of figures and correctly write
the result, nor can not tellt the difference
between long and short division. Fur
ther, he will make the same wager
that ninety per cent of the policemen
OF Seattle don't know the difference
between noun and a pronoun, in
fact, do not know the difference
between an English grammar and
a Latin lexicon. He will wager
$4,000 to a five-cent piece that seventy
five per cent of the policemen of Seat
tie are men that the average American
citizen, white or black, would absolute
ly refuse them permission to enter
their houses unless it be on official
business. Now if such a class of men.
generally speaking, are the ones to
say whether respectable Afro-Ameri-
cans, who doubly discount them in edu-
cational qualifications, and equally as
good as the best of them in moral
qualifications, are to say to the Ameri-
can people whether such men are to be
employed for public duties or not then
the general citizenship of the United
States has lost much of it's dignity,
and individuality. where ignorance
is bliss it is folly to be wise," and in
Seattle police force ignorance sits up
on the top rail of the fence and grins
at wisdom because forsooth wisdom
has not been allowed to enter it's por-
tails.
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Continued on page 8.
Peanut Vender.

Peanut Vender.
One would hardly expect to find a
man who had won the enviable title
of professional farmer" in Seattle
running a lemonade stand, where, to
say the least, not more than a couple
Of dollars day come his way, and
yet that old gentleman, who is known
throughout the entire Northwest as
Farmer Todd, can be seen sitting in
front Of little lemonade store every
day down in South Seattle waiting for
Overheated persons to wander his way
to spend a nickel for a glass of ice
cold lemonade. At one time Farmer
Todd was said to be a prosperous
farmer of Mason county, but he turned
political and for years galavanted
about over the state looking for an
office and incidentally advocating poll
teal reform and as a result he is now
neither farmer nor politician, but
peanut vender. Ninety-nine times
out of hundred such befall all men,
who forsake their chosen professions
to enter the political arena.
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Republicans At 1t.

Recently at meeting of the state
Republican executive committee of AL
ALBANIA it was decided to admit no dele
gates to the state convention, which is
to be held in Birmingham September
the 18th to nominate a. full state ticket,
except legal voters, that is to say, le-
gal voters from an Alabama stand
point. In case this resolution is car
rled out to the letter it will mean that
even the Republican party has gone in
to the Acknowledgement of the Ne
groes Of that state and have adopted
the ideas advanced by Henry C. Paine,
the organizing of a white Republican
party in the South. Whether or not
the elimination Of the Negro from the
Republican party in the South will
bring about a better state of feeling
and divide up the southerners on politi-
cal matters, remains to be seen, but
though it does do so it looks as though
the Republican party has tired of try
ing to make citizens of the Negro and
will join issues with the Negro's
worst political enemy and completely
crush him out. In those states where
the Negro is given the same elective
franchisement rights as other men he
seems to do just about as vel from a
voting standpoint as any other nation
ality, and it is barely possible that not
only the Republicans of Alabama, but
the Democrats likewise are making a
sad mistake in trying to prevent any
orderly well behaved people from be-
coming citizens and exercising all the
rights and privileges that are given to
other men whether they be white or
black.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15

The politician who thinks that Mr.
Ankney will not be powerful factor in
the next legislative senatorial scrap
reasons without his host Mr. Ankney
will certainly go to the legislature hav-
ing more first call votes than either of
the other senatorial aspirants and he
is backed by some of the shrewdest
political manipulators in the state. And
again, If it be true as has been charged,
that he is the railroad candidate, he
certainly will make a strong pull for
the election by disrupting as soon as
possible the Preston forces. Of course
great many politicians, who are in
the politics for what there is in it,
and who have supported Mr.. Ankney
for United States senator in and out
of season, are not so anxious after all
to see him elected because the politi-
cal COW that has been giving such
large measures Of milk, which has
been distributed among the faithful
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15
Spokane, August 13.

During the week Presidents Hill,
Mellen and Mohler, of the railroad
companies, have been jollying the
farmers of the Big Bend and Palouse
countries and have attempted to show
that the roads are doing everything in
their power to benefit the ranchers and
are willing to make all manner of sac
rifices even to a reduction in their own
profits if it will assist the farmers to
derive greater revenues from their
crops. The railroad magnates empha-
sized their former statements that they
wanted nothing to do with the pOliti-
clans. They went further and conf
dentially assured their new friends
that the politicians were rascals and
legislators were a useless lot of poll
ticians who didn't want to help the
farmers and couldn't help them if they
did want to and that no amount Of
legislation would reduce rates. Then
-
really were the only true friends the
farmers had, they agreed to reduce the
rate on wheat to the Coast over a cent
a bushel; that this would be done in
spite Of the fact that the roads al
ready were hauling the grain at very
low rate and that the reduction granted
might seriously lessen the dividends.
The ranchers cheered Mr. Hill and
the other presidents and cheered still
more vigorously when the reduction in
rates was promised, but they took with
some mental reservations the state
ments of the suddenly developed
friendship which the roads have for
them The reduction granted is only
about one-third what the farmers had
asked and hoped for, yet it is a mate
rial reduction which will be appreciat-
ed. But the question Of interest to ev-
cry one in the state, and of still great
er interest to Mr.. Hill and his asso-
ciates is, what will be the effect on the
coming state convention of the Re
publican party and on the minds of the
legislators who will be sent to Olym-
pia next winter The roads hope the
reduction granted will satisfy the farm
ers so they will not demand action at
the hands Of the next legislature. They
hope it will give them a weapon which
will prevent the coming st; tie conven-
ton from adopting a stro railroad
commission plank. The representa-
tives of the roads will say to the dele
gates from the ranch counties: "Do
not insist on the adoption of a COM
mission plank, or the passage of rail-
way legislation. The legislature ev-
cry session for years has attempted
to do these things but you the farmers
have received no benefits from all this
agitation and never will The rail-
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15
place by him and that the diagram will
lead to the discovery of much of his
hidden treasures.
Consumption Durable.

And now comes Professor Hoff, an
eminent specialist in Vienna and de-
clares that consumption is durable.
The New York Journal, being some
what skeptical on that point has sent
Fred Hammann a patient suffering
with hasty consumption to Vienna to
be treated by the professor. Periodi-
cally some one bobs up and declares
that he can cure the worst stages and
cases of consumption and for the time
being gets a vast amount of cheap
newspaper notoriety, and, perhaps,
makes large sums of money out of his
Misrepresentation, but in a few years.
like Brown Sequard Elixir of life, it
fails Of its own weight and consump-
ton goes right on killing everyone it
lays it's canny hands on. Scientists
may sooner or later discover a cure for
consumption, but it has not done so
up to this writing and the probabilities
are it will not do so for good many
years yet to come.
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SPOKANE POLITICS

Continued on page 3.

roads, however, have repeatedly shown
that they are the friends of the farm
ers, and have repeatedly made reduc-
tions in rates of their own accord, that
they have done this again this year so
that the benefits would be received in
the shipment of this years crops and
that further reductions will be made
whenever conditions warrant it,"
But it is very much of a question
if these arguments will have the de-
sired effect 1t is doubtful if they will
be sufficient to prevent the adoption of
a railway commission plank by the
Republican state convention. Six
weeks ago east side politicians did not
think the Republican convention would
endorse a commission. But since the
Spokane convention opinion has decid-
edly changed and now people in this
section of the state expect the Republi-
can state convention to adopt a strong
commission plank in spite of the bid
for opposition votes which President
Hill and the railroads have made.
Mayor Byrne and his city hall ad-
ministration is still the center of poll
tical attraction in Spokane. AS usual
there is something doing at the city
hall. During the week the police COM
missioner Mr.. Lilienthal, has resigned,
has had his resignation accepted, and
has since withdrawn the resignation;
also a new chief of police has been ap-
pointed According to the Spokesman
Review which induStriously labOrs to
belittle every effort Of Mayor Byrne,
and still more industriOusly eXalts ev-
cry move of Senator Turner's, a row
occurred between the mayor and his
commissioner because the former, it
is said, desired to use the police de-
partment to promote his political am
bitions. Mr.. Lilienthal resigned, but
afterwards withdrew the resignation.
The withdrawal of the resignation
gives general satisfaction because Mr..
Lilienthars administration has been a
credit to himself and to Mayor Byrne,
who appointed him. He is the most
fearless official who ever occupied a
position in the city board of commits
sioners.
The mayor again surprised the poll
ticians and disappointed his political
enemies by naming and having con-
f1rmed for chief of police Dr. ]. F.
Reddy. The appointment of DR.. Red
dy, like that of Mr.. Lilienthal, was
made from entirely outside of the ring
of politicians and from business men.
His appointment to be chief of police
promises to be as generally satisfac-
tory and as much of a credit to Mayor
Byrne as was the appointment of Mr..
Lilienthal.
POPCORN.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15

"Who will be elected United States
senator?" is a question that a good
many politicians in this state just now
would like to have authentically an
nounced, for, if it was, they would
know when and where to jump into the
band wagon in order that they could
get federal job at the hands Of the
successful candidate. Thus far the
honors seem pretty evenly divided be-
tween Ankney, Preston and Wilson,
and numerically speaking they seem
to have pledged to them, providing all
of the nominees pledge to each Of them
be elected, about the same number for
the opening of the legislature. Per
haps Mr.. Ankney will lead Mr.. Preston
and then perhaps Mr.. Preston will lead
Mr.. Ankney on the first ballot as to
the number of votes, but it will be
of no significance whichever way it
is. If Mr.. Ankney permits Mr.. Pres
ton to lead him he will do so to bring
about a result for he will have a re-
serve in Mr.. Preston's ranks which will
come to his support at any time. If
Mr.. Preston leads Mr.. Ankney on the
first ballot he will have reached his
high water mark and will have gotten
every vote that he possibly will ever
Nv %o
prevent a deadlock, which is hardly
probable. Mr.. Wilson will doubtless
go into the fight with about thirty-fve
votes and it can be safely said unless
a Democratic landslide should upset
the Republican calculations that the
other two candidates will have pretty
nearly as many votes as Mr.. Wilson.
Now if the followers Of each Of these
aspirants go into the fight with the
intention Of either electing their candi-
date or deadlocking the legislature and
not permitting any one to be elected
the results will be similar to those of
1895 when John B. Allen was defeated
for reelection by the stubbornness of
the George Turner men, but this is not
expected. There is no doubt but that
the Preston forces will go to pieces be-
fore the forces of either of the other
two candidates and either Wilson or
Ankney will be elected in that case in
a very few minutes after the break up
comes.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15
Cho.era in the Philippines.

While cholera is decreasing in Ma
Mia, the reports received from the
provinces show large number of cas-
es and deaths. Last Saturday there
were COS cases and 525 deaths from
cholera in the provinces. Since the
outbreak of the epidemic there have
been throughout the archipelago a to-
tai of 21, ,40S cases of cholera and 49,
105 deaths. 1t is believed that many
number of cases is estimated at 28,O 900.
FOrty-eight Americans and eighteen
Europeans have died in Manila since
the Outbreak-New York Tribune.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15
POLITICAL POT PIE


see A. G. Foster nominated, because
he was Wilson's choice in preference
to Levi Ankney. Subsequently Mr..
Preston's political manipulations have
all been antagonistic to Wilson, and if
he has turned stalking horse for Will
son he bellies his past political actions
and is absolutely an object for ridicule
and mistrust. There is no denying the
fact, however, but that it is to the poll
tical interests of both Wilson and Ank-
ney to keep Mr.. Preston in the field
as long as possible in order to prevent
the other fellow from being elected.
If Harold Preston has thirty-fve votes
in the legislature at the opening Of the
session that thirty-fve votes will be
his only nominally, not that they have
any intention whatever of betraying
the political trusts imposed in them
by their respective county conventions,
in instructing them to vote for Harold
Preston and to use all honorable means
to secure his election, but the inevita-
BILE will stare them in the face and
they will then attempt to make the
best bargain they can for their county
by joining issues with some man that
will help them get a United States
senator if possible two years from that
time.
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SEATTLE SPIRIT


ances and shipping reports of each OF
these cities. The papers published at
Tacoma declare that the commercial
enterprise Of Tacoma leads that of
Seattle by at least fifty per cent, while
the papers published in Seattle are
equally certain that the commercial
enterprise Of Seattle is double, triple,
and even Quadruple that Of Tacoma.
The Republican is inclined to think
that the stories published by the pa
pers Of both cities are entirely too
much inflated with over-zealous hot air
and if both of them would confne
themselves more closely to the truth
they themselves would get more COM
fort out of it. So far, however, as the
general public is concerned it is not
interested in what they publish along
this line a single iota. Both Seattle
and Tacoma are pushing along as best
they can and the publishing of such
fabulous commercial reports on the
part of the newspapers don't help them
a bit. Because of the fact that Ia
coma ships more grain to the Orient
than Seattle or that Seattle ships more
other material to the Orient than Ia
coma does not attract single settler
to either Of the towns especially when
they read it in one paper and see it
flat-footedly contradicted in the other,
for the reader is led to believe that
either one or the other or perhaps both
of the newspapers have most fragrant
ly lied.
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~W%
Back Yard Mines.

Digging in back yards has proved
a paying proposition in two recent in
stances. A few days ago while a wo-
man in Sunnyside, Washington, was
digging in her back yard she unearthed
$4,000 in gold and silver coins. She
reported the fact and the real owner
appeared and satisfactorily proved to
her that he had previously lost the
money, but he was not bit hoggish
and divided it UP with her. Still more
recently a man was put to digging in
the back yard Of a Wisconsin woman
and after opening quite hole she
observed from a window that he was
examining bottle, which he had un-
earthed, and she too at once became
interested in it and on examination
found that it contained a sum of mon
ey. After convincing the man that the
property belonged to her she continued
the digging and at last reports she had
unearthed bottles containing gold and
greenbacks amounting to $1,000 1t is
thought that there is still much more
money buried thereabouts as a dia-
gram in one of the bottles seemed to
indicate as much. Years ago the place
was owned by DR.. Shuereman, who
was a very eccentric person; he died
without leaving any information as to
his wealth, if he had any, and his wife,
who took charge of the farm, sold it
for $4,000 and she subsequently
remarked. 1t is believed that vast
sums of money were buried about the
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15

On the other hand, the political
workers of Mr.. Ankney, who are super
stitiously inclined, believe that his
third experience will prove the charm;
they believe that he is going to win
next year because he has been twice
defeated for the place. They reason
that he already has more votes than
any one else among the holdover sena-
tors and that he has a shade the best
of it in the nominations that have been
made by thre various Republican coun-
ty conventions. They believe that if
Wilson in King and Pierce counties
and that if the Democrats will defeat
half of Mr. Wilson's nominees in Spo-
kane county Mr.. Ankney stands a
splendid show of being elected.
But the Wilson advocates on the other
hand seldom ever get cold feet in
politics and they believe that Wilson
single handed and alone without mon
ey or means save and except his poll
tical sagaciousness can successfully
measure arms with Mr.. Ankney, not
withstanding the fact that the latter
has money by the bushels to put in
the campaign while the former has
nothing, as said above, but his saga.
ciousness to combat that vast amount
OF money.
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who is the strong man as to Will
son and Ankney?" is the puzzling ques-
tion just now Should there ever come
a break in the Preston forces the
friends of both Wilson and Ankney
claim that each Of the big senatorial
Aspirants will break even with the 9th
or in King and Pierce counties and
then the rub will come in the smaller
counties where both of the men are
said to be very strong. 1t is not be-
lieved by sensible politicians that
Harold Preston is the stalking horse
OF any senatorial aspirant and certain
ly not one for John L. Wilson. It will
be remembered that Mr.. Preston was
so unalterably opposed to the election
of Mr.. Wilson in 1899, that he bolted
a Republican caucus rather than tt
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-08-15
Property Untaxed.

From a statistical report sent cut
from Greater New York it is learned
that real estate of the appraised value
Of $500, 900 in New York county
is exempt from taxation. The follow
ing accurately describes the various
properties and their values, which are
not taxed for neither state nor gov
ernmental purposes:
The valuation of the land of the Ca
thedral of st. John the Divine is $2,-
100000; of St. Patrick's cathedral and
its site, $3,6OO,O0O; of Trinity church
and it's cemetery, $6,0OO,OOO.
The most valuable exempt site in
The Bronx outside Of it's parks is
Woodlawn cemetery, valued at $2,250,-
OOO The Jerome Park reservoir is
valued at $2,OOO,OO0, the New York
university at 100000, the Washington
bridge at $25O,O0O, and the Third ave
nue. bridge at the same figure.
The present custom house is valued
at $2,800,OOO, Fulton market at $780,
00U, the Criminal Courts building at
$1,500,0O0, the Henry Street school at
$35O,OOO, St. Marks church and ceme-
terry on Second avenue at $4,000, the
Astor library at $25O,OOO, Cooper Union
at 100000, the blind asylum at Thirty
fourth street and Ninth avenue at
$S25,000, the Ninth Regiment armory
at $500,000, the state arsenal at Thirty
Fifth street and Seventh avenue at
100000, the Masonic temple at ST.
100000, Bellevue hospital at $1,600,0OO,
Roosevelt hospital at 1926, 900, Normal
college at 100000, Presbyterian hos
pital at $1,2O0,00O; St. Luke's Hospi-
tai at $1,500,vvJ, and the General Theo-
logical seminary at $1,250,000.
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Current Comment.
Cramps shipyard.

cramps SntPyard.
One of the most extensive as well
as valuable manufacturing plants in
the United States is to be found in
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia. The
yard was begun by William Cramp in
1880 and he personally worked contin-
uOusly in it for forty-nine years. The
yard at present covers an area of forty
six acres, while the docks, which ac-
cOmmOdate the output of the plant,
cover six and One-half acres more
making the total area 52.4 acres. The
output from the yard during it's en-
tire existence has been 321 vessels
and 22O engines ranging in horse pow
er from 500 to $4,000 Of the 321 YES
sells twenty-five have been United
States men-of-war. The following are
the various vessels that the Cramps
have built for the United States navy:
Baltimore, Yorkton, Vesuvius, Massa-
chusetts, Philadelphia, Newark. New
York, Columbia, Minneapolis, Indiana,
Brooklyn, Iowa, Alabama, Maine, Colo
rado and Pennsylvania. During the
civil war the Cramps built the New
Ironsides, the Wyalusing, the Yazoo,
and the Chattanooga, and four trans
ports. William Cramp, the founder of
the yard, died in 1897, but some years
previous to his death he Incorporated
his firm changing the name from Will
liam Cramp & Sons to that of William
Cramp Ship and Engine Building Com
pany, which is it's present name.