The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-12-02
sEATTLE's INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES
REPORT

The complete findings of the Seattle Lexow Com
mttee will be reported to the city council next Mon
day evening and while two of the members OF the
committee have given very much attentlon 10
what has been going on yet is believed that they
will bring in minority report and if they do they
will be confronted with having voted for the partial
report which was submitted to the council week
from last Monday evening 1t will be remembered
that the unanimous committee made report at that
time recommending the dismissal of the chief OF the
poice and the same was received and adopted by the
city council without dissenting vote. 1t now the
two members of the committee should bring In MI
norty report conflicting with their partial report 1t
will at least put them in very awkward position and
they will be called upon to explain by the council to-
day How much politics will be played in this report
we verify do not know, but hope none at all II there
is anything wrong in the management OF the affairs
of the city, so far as the chief of the police and his
underlngs are concerned, every law abiding citizen
should be ready and willing to see it rectied but no
law abiding citizen should want an innocent man in
jured If there he anything wrong iii any of the com
mercal departments of the city every law abiding ct-
zen should be willing to it rectfied. No member
of the city council should let any personal spleen enter
into this investigation If any member OF the city
council crooks or bends way or the other for the
N sake of future political advantage, then the same
councilman is guilty of high crimes and msdemeanors
and if he cannot be reached by jury of his peers
then majority of the voters Of the city should pro-
nounce him guilty next spring by voting him to stay at
home THE SEATTLE REPUBLIC AN has no knowledge
of any wrong doing in the city and is therefore free
from bias in the matter. If on the other hand the
committee of five after weeks OF investigation is thor
oughly convnded that the city has been made rob-
bers roos and has facts to prove what it alleges then
each and every citizen of the city should stand by the
council committee and to it that there is change
of administration in the affairs of the city as
soon as possible. We do not know that Councilman
Blaine is any more honorable than Councilman Con-
way or that Coucilman Hart is any less reliable than
Councilman Revele Kellogg, but unanimous re-
port was made two weeks ago. and now, if majority
and minority report made the findings of the
committee, it will smell good deal like that there is
a nigger somewhere in the councilmanic wood pile
We are taught in the Bible, if thy right hand offend
thee cut it off, and if thine eye offend thee pluck it
out Now if the council committee finds that some of
the boys have been doing wrong, report it so, even
though it be your best friend for two wrongs never
make right In other words do not play politics
when the tax payers have to foot the bills. To make
a clean breast of the whole situatian may to your
mind injure the commercial standing of the city by
giving it black eye to prospective investors but such