The Seattle Republican., 1908-12-18

Circulating petition for the purpose of persuadng
Judge Milo A Root to qualify of the supreme
judges of this state to which position
Judge Root he has been elected for the ensuing six
Should Qualify years. should be looked upon as be-
ing born of good intentions, but wholly
uncaed for Judge Root is either legally and ethcaly
unworthy to qualfy-or he is legally entitled to the
office to which he has been elected Judge Root has not
been found guilty of any crime. No has accused him
of having committed any crime and until he has been
charged and found guilty, who has the right to say he
shall not qualify for any office to which he has been
elected His only offense seems to have been bit of
ndiscretion of letter writing to whom he believed
lifelong friend, but who betrayed his confidence with
the hope of hiding his peculaons If such ndiscre
ton that charged against Judge Root be crime then
let him without sin cast the first stone The sgners of
that petition however are not the only that
calling for Judge Root to qualify but hundreds of the
leading citizens of the state writing to him to qualify
as though naugh had happened Judge Roots greatest
ndscretion in the opinion of The Seattle Republican, was
in ever having resigned at all He guilty Of wrong
and he should have stood still and deed the whole world
Nothing short of bluing bulldozers can be said of
the Castro government of Venezuela which is made up
Of treacherous snakes in the grass.
Venezuelan Buffers For the past five years that govern
Getting Bluffed ment under the direction of Castro
has been defying both the govern
ments of Europe and America by the committing of first
one overt act after another until the diplomatic relations
between every civilized power and itself have either been
broken abruptly off badly disturbed to be OF no
force or effect Castro has threatened to go to with
all of them but no sooner had the Dutch menofwar be-
seged his ports and begun destroy his miniature navy
than great and cry goes up and the popuace begin
to whine like whipped whep If the United States had
done her duty she would have spanked Castro some
months ago and forced the Venezuelan to pay
her Just debts whether it pleased dspeased Castro
It's an international mistake for the United States to
nit an European power to wage an American gov
ernment however just the provocaton may be- In other
Words for self protection the United States should settle
all such disputes regardless of what the contendng gov
eminent may have to say on the subject.
It's source Of exceeding regret from end of the
state to the other that the Hon. Henry L. Strowbrdge
died in the very midst of collecting
Haltemans Troubles the states exhibit for the AYP
Are Numerous. exposition, albeit Of wide
acquaintance-the Hon. W. A. Hat
teman-has been named his Mr. StrOwbridge
had been working steadily the exhibit for the past
eighteen months and being of few words kept the
most of his plans within himself and for the most part they
were buried with his remains. With but few short
months more allotted for the work. Mr. Hateman will be
expected to get the states exhibit together and put on
the grounds which, say the least gigantic under
taking If the state puts credtabe exhibit in its build
ing it is up to those with whom the late Mr. Strowbrdge