Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-08-09
from telegraphs. railroads and news
papeiS. still got word of what had

Ih.t CN"p Roosevelt down Mount Mar
o. IN tnr same region. the chrt eXrcu-
tive = our biggest city broke out Of
,h" brush aid took tine ucNt train for
Sc" York. Everybody Knows what
happened The hearing WAS held and
HE bill was vetoed. When the rail
reading process was started to get
The code through during the mid
summer vacation it appears that IN
some mysterious manner provision
was jimmicd in that the measure
should go into effect at once. The
mayor had only intended to kill part
of the code. but that extra artistic
touch decided him to kill it all.
The most surprising thing about this
whole affair is that Mcclellan should
have done so meritorious an act. No
body expected it, How could they:
Here are two good deeds M@ClV!l?n
has performed in the last few weeks
the firing of Bingham and the veto of
this hollow tile building code. The
day of pleasant surprises is not past.
There is hope for the world. If Me
Clellan can rise to such heights of
virtue there IS nobody so far gone that
he cannot he reclaimed. These two
acts of Righteousness mean one Of two
| things: Either that the millennium Is
coming when everybody will be good.
or-with especial emphasis on the
"or"-Georgc Il. Mcclellan is Il candi-
date for reelection. And here Is the
amusing part Of 1t. Everybody in
New York thinks 1t Is becalNe his
| honor wants another term. Nor does
that imply that they are cynics. 1t
only implies that they are acquainted
with Mcclellan.
1t is like Eugene Fields boy Bill,
who lest fore Christmas was as good
as he could be-" Just before election
a politician is also good. 1t may sound
uncharitable to ascribe such motives
to our honorable mayor. but we who
have lived under his government can
naturally he excused from believing In
his sudden conversion to saintship.
And to bear out our Interpretation, Il
Mcclellan boom for mayor Is just now
| being started. This may all be coin
cidence. OF course. but we who live in
the immediate vicinity have suS-
picion that If the face Of the coinci-
dence could be seen 1t would look sur
prisingly like that Of Pat McCarren
McCarrcn wants to get even with
Murphy. also to prevent the nomina-
ton OF Judge Gaynor. also to serve
certain other private and political ends,
all OF which could be accomplished by
the veto of this code bill and the re-
nomination of Mcclellan. SO do not
be surprised if Little Mac" becomes
"A factor In the present fight.
Recurring to Gaynor. the Tammany
candidacy of that gentleman has taken
IL trinc more definite form. Dan COha-
lnn-the same Sachem Cohalan Of the
hollow tiips-rccently visited the
brooklyn justice, 50 runs the story,
and offered him the nomination. The
reply of the justice is not known. One
significant fact about 1t all Is that
Gaynor intended to go to Europe and
announcement was made Of that fact,
but for some reason he changed his
mind. OF course. Cohalan denies the
interview. but the World, the Press
and other papers state with greater or
less positiveness that the tender was
made. Is it possible that the frame-up
is to be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. combination
against Y Mcclellan McCarren comb.
nation? That is the way some keen
observers size up the situation. and
admit that the suggestion is at least
interesting. Personally | do not be-
lieve, however. that Gaynor will ac'
cept Tammany nomination, and
imagine that Murphy's candidate will
be some man like Justice Bowling.
Coroner Julius hamburger, who has
been in Office so long that nobody
remembers when he was not In office
has been saying things. Part of what
he said would take the hair off and
the other part would remove the ski
under the hair. He was speaking OF
the New York police, which accounts
for the caustic quality Of his language
1t is hard for Gotham man to talk
of our beloved police these days anL
contine himself to conventional Ian
guage Yet there was Il day whel
New York was proud to refer to bel
police force as the finest" But lie
us hear Coroner hamburger. who ough
to know what he is talking about:
while | am about it | might just a
well tell you that there have beel
1870 murders in the last two years II
) which the perpetrators have escaped
Put that down. | say there have beel
1870 of them. Doesn't it seem fine 70
, city of this size to have police de
partment that can't catch Il murdere
unless he handouts himself and give
himself up?
"In the last twelve months NOR
murders have been committed In thl
| city and more murderers have ESCAPED
than In any other place on the face o
t the globe Let the police explain thai
il they can"
1t seems bad for an official to tai
= about his own town like that. but 1t