The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-05-06


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An attempt has been made by the
Cowles organs to inject into this
campaign a supposedly moral issue.
1t is we'll known in this campaign
that Mr.. Moore is Mr.. Cowies' man.
There can be but one reason for
this, and that is that Mr.. Cowles
is of the opinion that he can con-
troll Mr.. Moore. If Mr.. Cowles is
able to own and handle Mr.. Moore,
let us get some kind of idea from
the morality of Mr.. Cowles' news
papers of what we might expect
from Mr.. Moore.
1t may well be that saloon are
kept open after dark; it may well
be that the town is run literally,
but there is no evidence and no
charges of anything tending to i'll
dicate that there is any dishon-
esty in the police department, or in
any olher department of the city
work.
The only thing that is charged
against Mr.. Daggett is that he is
running a business-like and liberal
administration; but it is conceded
by every fair-minded citizen that
his administration is clean.
Mr.. Moore has conceded absolute
ly that, when he was a grand juror
he made every effort to ascertain
whether any dishonesty existed in
the city hall, and he was unable to
discover the slightest evidence of
it,
Mr. Moore has also stated that
aside from the question Of whether
we shall have liberal or closed
town, the police department are
very efficient BE it remember that
each and every one of the cOndi-
tons now existing existed when
Mr.. Moore was grand juror, and
that Mr.. Moore as grand juror
had much more power than Mr.
Moore as mayor. But Mr.. Moore,
as grand juror, did nothing, and his
course was approved by the Re-
view
Many times during this cam
paign Mr.. Moore and the Review
have attacked in unmeasured terms
the pool rooms. We call the peo-
pies attention to the fact that
these pool rooms are licensed by
city ordinance. that that city ord
nance was voted for by Mr.. Pratt,
the pet of the Review, and that
consistently and continuously the
Review has taken money for the
advertising of these same pool
rooms. If it be true that these
pool rooms are the dens of iniquity
which the Review would have the
people believe, why then is it that
that sheet is so depraved, so low as
to receive money for advertising
to attract our citizens to such plac-
eS.
1t means but one thing, that the
morality of the Review is on high
plane when it costs it nothing, but
when it affects its pocket book its
morals disappear in the distance.
and it would take posse of sher-
ifs and a company of militia to find
them.
In any issue of the Review can
be found the advertisement of doz-
ems of doctors, of dozens of private
disease specialists, of dozens of
remedies for diseases, the nature
OF which is such that no decent
sheet would print them, and that
this committee, in decency, cannot
name and cannot specifically call
them to the attention of the people,
We simply ask the citizens of
Spokane to read the Sunday Re-
view and notice the advertisements,
and then, from those adver-
tisements, say for themselves
which is the cleaner, the Spokes-
manReview or the Democratic ad.
ministration.
1t is a well known fact that in
dozens of homes in Spokane the
children and young girls are for
hidden by their parents to read the
morning paper, and true it is that it
is not fit, from the advertisements it
carries, to be received into our
homes.
The Review has a large force of
reporters. 1t can print each day
in its II to 16 pages, statements in
its news columns which it is inn
possible for the Democrats to an
swer, Suffice it to say that its
stories of disorder in the commun.
ity, of highWaymen, and of burglars,
are, in most instances, wholly with
out foundation. It's stories as to
occurrences in saloons are always
garbled and exaggerated. The Dem.
ocratic party appeals to the people