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The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Perhaps the Island County Times is
correct in its assertion that The peo-
pie of Seattle want wide-open policy,
which accounts for them having three
times voted for and elected Tom
Humes as mayor" but it mis-
takes itself when it further al
leges that the reason for Tom
Humes running behind his ticket
was because of personal enmity and
not on account of his vile administra-
ton; for it was on this point and this
point alone that ninety per cent of the
Republicans who voted against Tom
Humes preferred a Democrat to him.
Granted that the election of Humes is
a decided slap to the boiling Post-Intel-
ligencer and it's owner, ex-senator Will
son, as the Times further says, vet
thousands of Republicans in Seattle
who voted against Mr.. Humes' election
did not do so in sympathy with either
Mr.. Wilson or his paper, but in SYM
pathy with the good of their own fami-
lies, and, we are told, "self preserva-
tion is the first law of nature"
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

A sequel to the late Republican cleo
tiOn was observed in a local restaur-
ant one day this week when one of
the guests asked for a glass of water
and the astonished waitress stared at
him in the face, with I'VE don't keep
water in this restaurant" The guest
was bit surprised at the rather re-
markable reply, but consoled himself
by saying: "Oh, beg your pardon.
l forgot that Mr.. Humes was reelected
on the wide-open policy, and that it is
considered in bad taste to serve water
in restaurant when other LIQUIDS
are so much in evidence"
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Not even Tom Humes himself can
deny this idea, taken from the Tacoma
News: Mayor Humes' majority came
from below the dead line. He was re-
pudiated by thousands of Independent
Republicans" The above is too true,
and no one knows this better than the
Seattleites themselves. Wherever the
low and vicious elements were to be
found in large numbers, there Mayor
Humes ran the strongest; yea, even
to the extent in many places of three
to one. There is no denying the fact
that that vote elected him, but it is a
poor recommendation for any man who
holds any claim to common decency.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

The United States supreme court
has recently handed down a decision
which virtually slaps trusts in the
face and gives them such a check as
will be hard for them to overcome un-
less some new legislation be passed
for their direct benefit. The decision
was handed down by Chief Justice
Harlan, the noted Kentucky jurist,
and was concurred in by majority of
the members of the supreme bench,
though Judge McKenna, who, it is said,
has always leaned toward corpora
tions, trusts and combines, owing to
the fact that he was a paid employe
of them for many years, dissented,
which, in comparison with Judge Har-
lan's opinion, was rather lame affair
The laws of this country as they now
stand on the statute books are clearly
against trusts and combinations and
the success of the republic demands
that they be suppressed and again let
competition be the life of trade"
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

The voters of this city from the fol-
lowing paragraphs and excerpts taken
from many of the leading weekly jour
nails of this state, bearing on the late
municipal election in Seattle, will read
with much interest the various com
ments that these papers have made on
the same. The entire journalistic
fraternity of this state recognize in
Seattle and King county the main
spring of the Republican party of this
state, and naturally the editors are
much interested in it's political battles,
inasmuch as the editors further realize
that, ''as goes King county, so goes
the state" While many Of the quota
tions are factional in their makeup,
nevertheless they offer salient and
effective lessons, which the voters of
this city would do we'll to take into
consideration in the future
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

President Roosevelt in the cabinet
has just occurred and Secretary Longs
resignation has been accepted and
Representative William Henry Moody
of Massachusetts has been appointed
by the president in his stead, who will
preside over the destinies of the navy
department. Mr.. Long, after five
years connection with national affairs,
returns to Massachusetts where he
will again take up the practice of law,
arrangements for which have already
been made.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

If ever the irony of fate fell more
heavily upon man than it did on F.
G. Andrews, the Detroit defaulter then
history fails to record it. Prior to Mr..
Andrews arrest he was not only a
banker, but police commissioner of
his city as well, and was stickler for
his officers being punctual to duty. A
few weeks before arrested the com
missioner had reasons to rebuke one
of the detectives, and it is said he did
so in the most scathing terms The
detective took his medicine and said
nothing. Fate, however, brought it
about that the same detective was
compelled to arrest Mr.. Andrews on
the charge of defrauding the bank,
but instead of retaliating in kind he
made an apology for having had to ar
rest him and treated the police COM
missioner under arrest with as much
respect and courtesy as If he was still
in good standing.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Here is an idea from the Aberdeen
Herald, Democratic in politics: "The
election in Seattle not only shows that
city to possess a strong Republican
majority, but proves the hOpelessness
of an attempt Of the better element to
outvote the tenderloin." 1t is hoped
that the situation is not so bad as it is
pictured in the above quotation. There
is nothing in this world entirely hope
less, for the Bible teaches us that
while the lamp holds out to burn the
vilest sinner may return" and again
there is hope just as long as there is
life.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Judging from what the Whatcom Re-
veille has to say on the late election
it is up to Seattle as to what the city
really stands for in the shape of good
government. 1t says: ''The results of
Seattle's municipal election shows one
Of two things to be true. Either the
Seattle people take little stock in re-
form, or they desire a continuation of
the 'wide-open policy that has been
in operation in that city for the past
four years." Even to the Seattleite
it is hard to decide which of these two
theories is correct, and like the Dutch
man who was asked il 1t was one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine
or ten miles to the next town, curtly
replied: me dinks it is"
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Mayor Humes had a close call, with
but 600 votes to spare laconically re-
marks the Shelton Journal That's
owing to how you figure it, neighbor.
If you take 800 votes from Mayor
Humes and give them to Goodwin he
would not have any to spare, but on
the other hand he in the hole; but ii
you take 600 votes from Mayor Humes
and give them to Judge Winsor then
he would even then be elected by a
plurality of thirteen.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Another excerpt from the Ballard
News says that Thomas Jefferson
Humes has demonstrated one thing to
his own satisfaction-that man can
be elected to an office without the aid
of a newspaper" The Washingtonian
will certainly like that, for it declared
the next day after the election that it
saved Humes' election, but great men
frequently differ, and here is an ex-
ample of it. However, The Republican
would like to say on this point that if
the Post-Intelligencer had have said
just one word condemnatory to Humes
on the morning of the election, he
would have been defeated by a thou
sand votes.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Will some good Democrat reply to
the following from the Sun-Democrat
of Tacoma: ''The Democrats of Sc
attic are asking themselves if their
defeat was not really caused by
Blethen running foul of organized
labor" The Pie-maker is of the opin-
ion that organized labor voted Just
about as did other classes of voters
In Seattle's late election, and if they
happened to be Republican or Demo
cratic in politics they allowed their
partisan principles to lead them to
the polls and voted accordingly, the
same as other voters. Repeatedly has
organized labor threatened to defeat
certain nominees on first one ticket
and then another, but in no instance
in the political history of Seattle has
it ever knowingly succeeded.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

When the Tacoma Spectator says
"Humes' victory in being reelected to
the mayoralty of Seattle was victory
of no political significance to Tom
Tunes himself, but victory for Har-
old Preston's candidacy for the United
States Senate and slap in the face
to John L. Wilson and his P.-I.," it evi-
IDENTIFY went to press before showing
Tom Humes the proof of it's diagnosis
of the results of the late Seattle elec-
ton. Tom Humes thinks he is "it, q"
not only in Seattle but in King county,
and the entire state of Washington for
that matter, and he believes that if
Preston goes to the Senate he will do
SO when he, Tom Humes, the man who
was elected mayor of Seattle, March
4th inst, permits him to do So
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Few men in the United States de-
velOped the faculty to make money
as rapidly as did Banker Andrews.
Twelve years ago he arrived in Detroit
with $3.50 in his pocket and that was
part of a five-dOllar bill that he had
borrowed before he left home. He
was a green country boy and rather
preferred the country to the city, and
it took considerable time for him to
finally decide to cast his lot in a busy
bustling city. He failed almost to
the month twelve years after he land
ed in the city, and when he failed he
was defaulter to the amount of 81 ,5OO,-
900. His parents still live, and when
he was in the height of his career they
thought a great deal Of him, and yet
his father frequently warned him that
he was going too fast and that he had
better let well enough alone
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

According to the Buckley Banner,
the red light district in Seattle kept
the Humes bark from drifting on the
shoals at the polls at the late election
held in that city" There is more
truth than poetry in this remark and,
as has already been said in another
connection, it is to the shame and
disgrace of Seattle that the "red light
district can elect or defeat a mayor
at it's will and pleasure. 1t is GER
tainly not very good advertisement
for either the city Of Seattle or any
other city.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

The paper in Seattle that shouted
bravo" when President Mckinley was
assassinated is of the opinion that the
Socialists gained 200 per cent in the
last election over what they numbered
two years ago. Well, little figuring
along this line might help us out The
Socialists at the last election, all told,
both factions, cast 484 votes out of a
total of $4,000 votes cast by all parties
1t will thus be seen from the above
that Socialism is truly growing in Sc
attic, but, pardon the writer if he adds.
it is growing dimnation slow.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Nations have frequently gone to war
| over trivial things, and after they
had both exhausted their resources
found that what they had been waring
over was matter Of no consequence
whatever. President Roosevelt, in
view of the visit of Prince Henry to
this country, invited Senator Ben Till
man to dine with. the prince at the
White House, but few hours prior to
the international event Senator Till
man and his colleague had a fist fight
on the senate floor, and the president
at once recalled the invitation. This
was an affrOnt that did not set well
on the average South Carolinian's
stomach, SO a nephew Of Senator Till
man wrote the president an insolent
note saying that he had been request
ed by the friends of one Micah J. Jen-
kins, for whom sword had been made
for his gallantry in the war with Cuba,
to withdraw the invitation extended
to the president to present the sword
to Major Jenkins when he, the presi-
dent, visited the South Carolina ex-
position. Then up rose Major Jen-
kins and wrote an insolent note to
Gov. Tillman, saying that if the presi-
dent could not present the sword he
did not wish to have it presented to
him at all. In the meantime the presi-
dent Cancelled his proposed visit to
the exposition, and then up rose the
South Carolina citizens and raised the
Continued on last page)
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Chicago and Seattle being notable
policy" and the mayor of each of these
cities having twice been elected on
such platform, an exchange suggests
that the wide-open policy men, who, by
the way, are, for the most part, semi
criminal in their makeup, nominate a
presidential ticket with Harrison and
Humes as it's standard bearers. This,
however, would be impossible, as
neither Humes nor Harrison would
consent to be the tail end of the
ticket.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Pardon the depression at this point,
but the Pie-maker takes occasion to
do a little observing himself on the
late election from Populist stand
point. Within the past decade the
Populists threatened to engulf the en-
tire state of Washington and especially
King county, but at the late municipal
election they did not poll enough votes
to give them party standing, and it
can be safely predicted at this time
that this peculiar political animal is in
danger of becoming extinct and espe-
cially in this part of the country. 1t
is further predicted that before an
other regular election of any kind is
held in this county and state the Popu-
lists as party will have completely
vanished from sight.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

After drawing an invidious compari-
son between Mayor Humes' vote and
the other Republican nominees. the
Port Angeles Tribune further criticizes
the election as follows: ''The triumph
of Humes and his Whitechapel cohorts
means that for at least two more years
the thralldOm to rampant vice and
crime that for three or four years past
has existed in Seattle, is to be con-
it means that a visitor to that
city is never to know when his life or
his pocketbook is safe from thuggery
and open thievery on her public
streets; it means that the gamblers
and dive keepers will control the va
rious branches of the local govern
ment directed by the mayor: it looks
as if it means that the tenderloin of
Seattle will dominate the Republican
politics of King county during the
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Here is comment from the Enum-
claw Courier, which shows that the
editor of that paper either does not
know what he is talking about or he
was paid to champion the Humes ad-
ministration in Seattle: mo city of
it's class and size is better governed
or more free from CRIME than Seattle.
Few meet with trouble in Seattle who
use average precautiOn, and those who
go below the dead line with their
purses in their hands should expect to
take what they get" On an average
there are about two hold-ups every
night in Seattle and that too, in the
resident portions of the city, and yet
this measely little sheet dares to make
the above remarks. Those persons
who are nightly held up on the streets
of Seattle would use most any kind of
precaution to keep from getting sand
bagged and robbed of their earnings,
but this is done before they can use
any precautiOn. So rar as hold-uDs
below the dead line are concerned,
there are none ever reported from that
section, though men are frequently
robbed down there, which class of
men The Republican has no sympathy
with. If man goes to the tenderloin
for time and succeeds in getting
robbed, he has only gotten what he
was indirectly looking for and expect
ed; hence he got what he richly de-
served, but it is the hold-ups and
thuggeries that are going on in the
resident portions of the city that the
complaint is made about.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Most any Republican sympathizes
with what the News Examiner of Cen
tralia says in a recent article bearing
on the Seattle election: Politically
things are just as they should be in
Seattle-the election of Mayor Humes
and the whole Republican ticket with
one exception" Oh, yes, neighbor,
politically Seattle is just as she should
be, but morally it is just too awfully
awful
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

When the Sidney Independent says:
Mayor Humes was reelected in spite
of the determined opposition of a
large number of Republicans, who did
all they possibly could to defeat him. -
and in another sentence, Goodwin
made a gallant fight, and would have
won out ordinarily, but, ETC." 1t blows
hot and cold in the same article, and
it does so evidently with the view of
playing good Lord and good Devil
with both factions of the Republican
party in King county.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

1t has developed that Thos. ].
Humes is mayor of Seattle only in
name, one John Clancy, a boss gam
bier, being the defacto mayor and
head push, and it has pleased his
royal highness to close all gambling
places until such time as satisfactory
terms are made with him for their
pening.-Ballard Register.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

General Randall, who is the military
head of the Alaska territory, if such it
can be termed, has recommended to
the military authorities at Washing
ton City that work on the Valdes road
from the sea to Eagle City be discon-
tinUed. General Randall considers the
whole scheme impractical and use
less expenditure of government funds
with no probable hope of any good re
suits ever accruing therefrom. 1t is
believed in official circles that the road
will not be built.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Since Mr.. Andrews failure a stats
tician in Detroit has been doing a lit
tie figuring as to the amount for which
he failed, and says: IF Adam had be-
gun to work year after his birth and
had earned $400 a year and had saved
One-fOurth of that he would in all that
stretch of time have accumulated just
about One-third of what Andrews stole
from the City Savings Bank. If a
wage-earner made $400 a year and
saved every cent of it 70 accumulate
sum of money equal to what Frank An
drews stole it would take him more
than thirty-nine centuries of unremit-
ting toll Figuring on the basis of the
weight of a silver dollar, which is
416A grains, Andrews stealings would
have turned the scales at 109014
pounds of silver, or over 600 times his
own weight. If all Of this silver was
melted and made into solid statue
it would be a figure twenty-four feet
high by the side of which Banker An
drews would look like a pigmy That
amount of silver would make sixty
four statues of a man five feet ten
inches high, weighing 140 pounds, and
would have given Detroit a silver
statue for every one Of it's prominent
corners. If Andrews had looted the
bank of that amount OF silver from a
burglary standpoint, it would have
taken 2,180 pals to help him carry
away his plunder and then he himself
would have been compelled to carry
fifty pounds of it. All told, it is per-
haps the most remarkable and gigantic
case of bank wrecking that has ever
occurred in the United States.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14
PASSING
EVENTS.

Another catastrophe has befallen
the British forces in South Africa and
General Lord Methune has been cap
tured by General Delaney, one of the
Boer officers. Methune's four guns
and a number of prisoners were also
taken. 1t will be remembered that
General Methune met with heavy re
verses when the war first began in
South Africa, and was finally reduced
in rank on account of those reverses.
Since that time he has done good SER
vice as commander Of a scouting com
pany. General Methune was succeed
ed in the commandery of the South
African war by General Roberts after
he (Methune) had fought battles at
Kimberly, Belmont, Graspan, Modder
river and Magersfontein, in each Of
these battles he was more or less un-
successful. The capturing of Methune
and his troops caused the widest ex-
citement to prevail in London last
Monday, and those Of the government
officials who proclaimed the war was
over were severely censured by the
general public for such a misleading
statement.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

The Seattle P.-I. nor any other de-
cent paper could support Humes in the
campaign for mayor If the Republi-
can party did nominate him, so much
the worse for the party. Any man
who will league with crime in Seattle
as he has done is not worthy the sup
port of self-respecting paper and does
not get help from that source. A party
that will elect such men as Humes to
office is in league with thieves, rob-
bers and cut-throats and the vilest
dens of infamy.-Washingt Inde-
pendent
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

After announcing that Humes had
been reelected, the Centralia Chron-
1cle comments on the election as fol-
lows: "Mr. Humes is the acknowledged
champion of the wide-open policy, and
we believe this dangerous policy for
any city to follow" And permit us
to add, Mr. Editor, that all law-abiding
citizens are of like opinion.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

The 5000 Republicans who voted
against Mayor Humes at the last elec-
tion were not, as thinks the Chinook
Observer, trying to keep a good man
down." but, on the other hand, they
were trying to keep good party up.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Here's an excerpt from the Pasco
News-Recorder on the situation that
needs no comment: Mayor Humes
skinned his teeth on his third term
but he got there on his gumbs. They
are a little sore, of course, but they
might have been worse if the weather
hadn't been sloppy.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Apropos the recent Republican
municipal victory and the subsequent
success of Clancy closing up gam
bling, a thing the Law and Order
League, backed by the entire moral
element of the city, fatty failed to do
last year, suddenly one day this week
all of the cars on one of the cable
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

lines stopped still for lack of power
What's the matter?" shouted a
chorus of passengers, eager to get to
their dinners. And the conductor
calmly replied: Clancy has COM
manded the cable to close down and
it has obeyed his command The pas
sengers saw the joke az once, and a
hearty laugh was indulged in by ALL
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

coming campaign" While a great
deal of the above is true, yet the ten
derloin of Seattle is promised a good
hard tussel before it will dominate the
politics of King county in the future
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

without the support of the P.-I.," but
what would have come of him political
ly if the P-I. had turned its columns
loose against him? Whether you like
or dislike powerful daily newspaper,
there is no denying the fact that it is
a dangerous enemy to antagonize.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

1t was perhaps the Lenten season
that prompted the Catholic Progress
to laconically remark: ''The election
is over; the public will now be given
a short rest while the fall slate is being
arranged by the politicians" The
Progress, we believe, had Humes on
the brain during the late campaign.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

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WHITE HORSE, SKAGWAY and ATLIN,
this Bank has exceptional facilities for
handling YUKON and ALASKA business.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Accounts of Banks, Corporations, Firms
and Individuals solicited.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Drafts issued available in any part Of the
World.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

The Mckinley cabinet is slowly but
surely losing its identity and new
blood is supplanting the old Mckinley
guards that stood by him for one
term and as much of his second term
as he lived. The third change under
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Seattle Branch D. A. Cameron,
Cor. Sec Ave- and James st. Manager.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

Interest allowed on Time Deposits.
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

AS says the Cotton News Letter,
Mayor Humes did win in Seattle and
The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14
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The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

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The Seattle Republican., 1902-03-14

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