The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1903-03-13

Inc E1gnJn legislature dleu ldSC
night Thursday by statutory limi-
tation, and it is now thing of the
islation and perhap passed more
measures than any previous legisla-
ture in this state. Many of the bills
passed are of much general merit,
while on the other hand many passed
are only of interest to a few individ-
ua1s. The efforts of many of the
members of the legislature were
prompted from selfish motives with
the view of becoming more prominent
in the affairs of the state, yet, be it
said to the credit of a majority of
them, they did their work with the
view of bettering the condition of the
state rather than their own. The work
accomplished by the late legislature
will from time to time be discussed
in these columns and that, too, with
out bias or prejudice.
IL rumOrS are true, and, IL seems
that they are we'll founded, the grand
jury has found true bills against
Mayor Thomas j. Humes, Chief of Po-
lice John Sullivan and ex-Prosecuting
Attorney Walter Fulton for malteas
ance in Office In plain English the
officials are charged with looking the
other way while in office when crime
was being perpetrated right under
their nose. 1t was crime against the
statutes of the state as well as
against the ordinance of the city to
permit persons to openly gamble in
either the city or county and yet these
officials made no effort to stop it and
they. therefore. have been charged
with the crime of malfeasance in office
An indictment against Mayor Hunes
and Chief Sullivan has been expected
and looked for for some weeks, but it
was wholly unexpected to see Walter
Fulton included in the list of official
suspects.
The Pie-maker feels like patting
himself on the back and then saying
amen at the Indictment of Mayor
Humes, not because he has any per
sonal motive in seeing a high muni-
cipal official indicted for the sake of
getting even, but because the Grand
Jury after many weary weeks inves-
tigation, which investigation has COW
cred the entire time that Tom Humes
has been mayor of the City of Seat
tie, has finally arrived at the same con-
clusion as did the editor of The Sc
attic Republican some two years ago
and for publishing the results of his
investigation, which put the mayor
and his police officers in very shady
lights, he (the editor hereof was
thrown into Jail and treated in most
brutal and tyrannical manner, and
that, too, it is believed, at the insti-
CATION of Mayor Humes. While the
Pie-maker is not prepared to prove it,
nevertheless he has been creditably
instructions the day before the arrest
was made, while talking to his hench-
men in the Hotel Seattle lobby that it
be made and made in the very manner
that it was. An old saw runs, "Chick-
ems will come home to roost," and
in the case of Mayor Humes is seems
that they have after a great deal OF
wandering begun to return to their ac-
customed place of roosting. When
men can step from poverty into oppu-
lence without coming into the posses
sion of a gold mine in the short space
of five years there is either something
rotten in Denmark or niger in the
wood pile. Chickens come home to
roost.
In the campaign last fall it will be
remembered that Walter Fulton actu-
ally left his party in order to work
for Republican nominees, so solicitous
was he lest George Piper be defeated
for the state senate. His official dig
nifty counted for naught on the election
day, for he and all of his deputies
were at the polls all day long begging
and beseeching Democrats to vote Tor
certain Republican nominees and for
getting completely to solicit any one