The Seattle Republican., 1903-03-27

Richmond on the field for the Seattle
postotfice in the person of Hon. w. A.
Care, late representative from the
41st legislative district 1t is be
lieved that Mr.. Garlic has the endorse
ment of a number of the leading mem
bers of the Legislature from this coun-
ty, who were in the eighth legislature,
and, if that be true, it is likewise
thought that that will give him the po-
litical ear of Senator Ankeny, and that
viii give him the passive endorsement
of Senator Foster which will assure
him the appointment. 1t is further
thought by those friendly to Carries
appointment that Humphrey is not a
very strong Stewart man at best and
when he sees the class of politicians
lined up for Carle he too will early
desert the Stewart cause and also en-
dorse Garlic, and thereby assure
smooth sailing almost from the very
start.
Much of the above article bearing
on the postoffice in Seattle may be
quite true but, if any one thinks for
a minute that the friends of Stewart
are not going to make a desperate
fight for reappointment they are sad
ly mistaken. Mr.. Carle may get all of
the congressional endorsement men
toned above and yet he will still have
fight on his hands, for Postmaster
Stewards greatest strength is coming
largely from the business men of Sc
attic. The Office under Mr.. Stewart is
in better condition than it ever was
before. and on a straight canvass
80 per cent of al of the business men
in the city would readily sign peti-
tion for his appointment. Both
applicants are good men, but Stewart
has the advantage of being in, and he
has made much of it for the past four
years, and the business men are all
we'll pleased with his work and are
not willing to swap horses in the mid
die of the stream.
Congressman Humphrey, as well as
the city of Seattle, is to be congratu-
lated on the success of his trip to
Washington City, in having the pres
idents itinerary changed so that he
will spend two and one half hours in
this city during the middle portion of
the day. With Senator Foster man
ipuating things, Seattle was in a
fair way to be sidetracked, and have
the president here only at a time
when the people could not see him.
Senator Ankeny, who owes so much
to Seattle, helped us, so it seems, not
even little bit, to checkmate Fosters
game; but when Will Humphrey got
on the ground, things came our way a
humming.
Shades of populism! What next?
1t was a severe jolt to the cause of
calamity and fiat money when Char
lie Towne became mixed up with
Texas petroleum and joined the ranks
of the oil magnates, and when our
own Jim Ham. shook the sunset rays
out of his whiskers and became
servant of a sugar trust, but to have
ex-Lieutenant Governor ThurstOn
Daniels, the man whose only qualfi-
cation for nomination or election to
office, was his ability to say more
bitter things about gold bugs, pluto
Gratis, trusts and money combinations
than any other man in the state, de-
sert the traditions and cause of the
"downtrodden" and assume the
agency of trust company, as he has
done, with headquarters in Tacoma,
is Just one too many 1t is time this
Republican prosperity was put an
end to.
1t is said Congressman Jones will
be appointed to one of the vacant
places on the rivers and harbors COM
mittee in the next session of Con-
gress. This is a we'll deserved recog-
milton of the congressman merit, and
will be of great benefit to the state.