The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1902-11-03
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GEORGE U. PIPER THE
SLUM RULE CANDIDATE

Every business man aud taxpayer of the city OF
Seattle vitality interested in the defeat OF george u
Piper for seat in the state senate.
In itself the office Piper eovets Is ot no very great
importance. The power of any member OF the state
legislature for good evil is limited But considered
in the light OF its effect upon the moral welfare oil the
city, Pipers success would be little less than public
calamity
1t would mean the anal victory of the corrupt First
ward political machine which now absolutely controls
the Seattle police department and is starving tor SUI
premaey in other important branches OF the city gov
ernment
For years the Stun politicians of Seattle. irrespee
tive OF party have been reaching out for the rens OF
city government, and at the present time have all but
attained their object The election OF George H. Piper
would them firmly in the saddle and 60 tar toward
turning the cit yover to be plundered by set OF
boodlers more graspng and more msresss ,han shose
who were recently overthroxn By political upneaSas IN
the cities OF St. Louis and Minneapolis
Already conditions in Seattle are but little less de-
moralizng than in Minneapolis, where wholesale sys-
OF police grating" upon the confidence men and
gamblers uncovered by grand Jury investigation
Already there hints OF corrupt practices IN Sc
attic very similar those which the hrs intima-
ton OF the existence OF organized gang OF hrigands IN
the city council OF St. Louis.
Il is for the people to say at the polls tomorrow
whether the efforts OF men OF the Piper stamp fost
slum rule upon the respectable and iaw-ahidng ec-
mcnt in Seattle. shall be rcbuked.
eAn csfeetua rebuke viii be administered by the de
feat of Piper There is every reasondo believe that
viii be administered.
II is an open secret that the political machine DOM
mated by Mr.. Piper is maintained IN and year out
by the levy OF biackma upon gamblers and other law
breakers far exceeding the petty hnes col
ected from those helpless individuals IN police court
It is open secret truth that the entire hne sys-
BY which the led to believe the present
city administration would control certain forms OF vice,
has been perverted into cloak for secret extor
ton by the Piper political machine
The fight now being conducted on behalf OF George
T. Piper in the First and Fourth wards is practically
nonpartisan The forces OF evil have concentrated up
him their candidate Ii is Tor the forces OF good
TO concentrate against him.
Day by day the citizens who have oblerated party
lines and gone to battle against sum despotism.
have found evidence prove how despera'eis Pip
ers fight Scores of lodging houses in the tenderoin
district filled with foaters who election will be
voted for the slum candidate.
The registration books for the First Second and
Fourth precincts of that ward have been found to be
padded fully 80 per cent in the Piper machines inter
George L. Piper is in no true sense Of the word
party candidate. He is the ward-heeiers' candidate.
Through them he was nominated By the Republican
convention against the opposition Of the most
reputable who attended that gathering.
The opposition to Piper Is not the opposition OF
party faction but OF all believers IN good govern
menf II is in the interests Of good government that
the Star is compelled ask its readers to Join bring
ing about his defeat.
Piper's defeat means the restriction OF his methods
to the sluns OF Seattle
His election means that the slime oi the tenderlon
will be aled through the halls of the state capital II
is for the to say where he shah remain