The Seattle Republican., 1903-03-06
POLITICAL POT PIE
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Some of the Republican leaders in
the legislature are fearful lest the
passage of the slot machine and the
party at the polls next year, but as a
majority of the Democrats just as well
as a majority of the Republicans in
the Legislature voted for the bills
there is no more reason to believe
that they will initiate against the Re-
publicans at the polls than the Demo
Gratis. Both of these measures were
passed in the interest of public NOR
ais and the law abiding citizens who
would condemn an individual or party
for supporting such wholesome meas
ures is himself criminal at heart
and unworthy of the honor of citizen
ship. The Pie-maker does not believe
that either of the measures will ever
be discussed on the stump in any sub
sequent campaign.
Rumor about the state capital is
flying about to the effect that Hon.
board of regents of the University of
Washington and then Gov. Mcbride
will appoint him to the position on the
board which Col Blethen failed Of
confirmation at the hands of the SEN
ate and then the Governor will appoint
Blethen to the position made vacant
by the resignation of Mr.. Powell and
thereby fling defiance in the face of
the senate after it has adjourned and
powerless to resent the insult. Per-
haps John H. Powell would become
party to such a political outrage,
but those who have known him for
years and have the highest respect for
him to not believe that he under any
consideration would ever he guilty of
such proceeding. Blethen could not
expect any more from the senate than
what he got and he Certainly did not
get as much from it as he deserved.
Public sentiment broke in on the
members of the senate of the eighth
legislature in regard to the passage
of the bill making gambling and gamb-
ling devices as to the operator fell
ony and they hastened to reconsider
the house bill, which it had already
passed with lot of provisos, which
meant the death of the measure, and
passed it just as it came from the
house and in the future, providing the
bill is signed by the governor and
there is no doubt but that he will,
omen gambling will be thing of the
past Gambling ninety days after the
adjournment of the legislature will
be shut down all over the state and
therefore no municipality in the state
will have any advantage in this re-
spect over another. The sin and vice
of gambling have been the curse of
this state for years, and it was car
ried on so high handed that drastic
measures had to be taken to put an
end to it. One would have hardly
thought that the much boasted of
Anglo-Saxon civilization of this coun-
try would have ever permitted such a
state of affairs to have come about,
but it did
Owing to the fact that the state
capitol is not completed and gives
no great evidence of being completed
anyways soon the senate got in an
ugly mood when the names of the
members of the capitol commission
came up for confirmation and the
whole lump lot of them were turned
down, and now Gov. Mcbride will have
to appoint a full complement of capi-
tol commissioners. Constructor Goss
could have completed the capitol in
twelve months from the time he start
ed had he so desired and while the
commission was not wholly respon-
sible for the negligence it to some ex-
tent was direlict to it's duty, and was
not bad idea to let them out even if
they are hired over.
Gwin Hicks, Al Howe, ]. O'Brien
Scobey, Pin Allen and H. W. Hough-
ton all swore before the investigating
committee that they knew nothing as
to the paying of $500 to any one for