The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-09-26
TALES OF THE TOWN

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An idea has struck me-" said a vel
known Seattleite one day this week
why would it not be a splendid thing
for the state of Washington to elect
Harold PRESTON United States senator
and to select E. M. Carr, his law part
ner, as his bouncer. To me it would
be a capital idea. If any of the sen
ators should object to any bill pre-
scented by Preston he could call upon
his partner and bOuncer to throw the
Objecting senators out Of the capitol
and the others seeing that would at
once vote for Mr.. Preston's bills and
Seattle might be able by that means
to get very important measures
through the Senate. | am prompted
to say this because | saw by the
morning paper that Gen. Carr cleaned
out a saloon one day this week, single
handed and alone, and then | call to
mind a number of other street fights
that Mr.. Carr has been mixed up in,
and though he frequently gets pretty
badly battered up, yet he, for the most
part, holds his own. I think that Sc
attic couldn't do a better thing than
to elect Preston senator and select
Carr as his bouncer and then send the
brace to Washington to have laws
passed for Seattle's commercial inter
ests.'
Both Attorneys Smell of Tacoma and
Ronald of Seattle have withdrawn
from the Underwood case and they
withdrew under very peculiar circum-
stances. Mr.. Smell made a feeble at
tempt to explain why he withdrew but
it was so feeble that it looked almost
criminal, while Mr.. Ronald has shown
a little better judgment and offered
no explanations whatever. The I'm
derwoOd case has been on tap ever
since early in the summer and it was
supposed by everybody and especially
by the Underwoods that they had en-
ploed the best counsel in the North
west and that the attornes had pre-
pared the case and would be ready for
trial when called September %, but
instead of being ready for trial they
withdrew from the case few days
prior to it's being called in the courts
and new attorneys had to be employed,
who knew nothing of the facts and in
spite of this the case was forced to
trial and the new attorneys were COM
PEELED to do the best they could in the
way of securing evidence, having en-
tered the case at the eleventh hour.
For attorneys to treat clients, charged
with so grave an offense as that which
Paul Underwood is confronting at
present, as did both Underwood's
criminal, and clients should have
some recourse at law to sue attOr-
neys for taking their cases and per-
hitting them to go within a few days
of trial and then deserving the case.
If the attorneys in this case didn't
join issues to hold up the Under
woods and their friends for fabulous
sums of money the facts would seem
to indicate as much and not being able
to bleed their clients they withdrew
from the case and left them at the
mercy of a prosecuting attorney, who
has apparently put in the whole sum-
mer trying to dig up evidence to con-
vict them, whether guilty or not.
1T strikes me that Dugdale is a
complete baseball fakir," said a we'll
known journalist one day this week,
"and the way he has won and lost his
games during the season prompted me
to arrive at such a conclusion. Sc
attic being a splendid base ball town,
Dugdale seems to win or lose as will
bring out the largest number of spec
tators. Of course, the people enjoy
the game, but there is no doubt of the
fact that Dugdale as we'll as the visit
ing team knows when to lose and when
to win in order to bring out the largest
crowds. In other words baseballism
Of our later-day civilization is no less
a fake than yellow journalism and
9th oil fho% do
more for the sake of the money that's
in it than for the real merit that's
in it."
A man named Tisdale recently stat
ed that Seattle is not as we'll posted
on Southeastern Alaska as she ought
to be, and there is some strong proof
to support this contention.
Only a short time ago that able
body of men, the Chamber of Com
merce, passed a resolution favOring
territorial government for Alaska,
which was hasty and i'll advised, and
when Gov. Badly, of that district,
stated the objections to self-gOvern-
ment before that body of loyal citi-
zens, they promptly annulled their for
mer action.
The Chamber of Commerce has, it
is understood, been also resOluting IN
favor of a homestead law for Alaska
when if the law passed on that sub
iect and which went into effect on