The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-10-14
FIR DAY October ID, 1910
POLITICAL POT-PIE


Howard Taylor of Eagle Gorge is pushing his can
ddacy for speaker of the next house of the Washing
ton legislature with a vengeance
Colonel Alden ]. Humphrey may not be beaten for
election in November but it is fact that he is being
bitterly opposed by a great many of the Insurgents
and in some cases by of the regulars. He will
have hard fight to carry King county.
State Senator Pliny L. Allen who has no opposi-
ton for election in his district has been mentioned
being candidate for the presidency of the senate,
but he will DOUBTLESS support Senator w. H. Paulha-
mus of Pierce county who is avowed candidate for
the honor.
It cannot be said with any degree of consistency
that when Colonel Blethen, Mayor Gill and Chief
Wappensten became bed fellows that politics had
made strange bed fellows for it is commonly reported
that they often in that predcament before Gill
became mayor.
1t be said without fear of successful contradic-
ton that the Times has succeeded in electing
candidate it has supported except Hi Gill and
he is in danger of being recalled, and yet Will E.
Humphrey it is said has designated that paper as his
official organ.
1t is talk that the state of Washington
will be given four members of the house of represent
atves in Congress in 1912 and that Seattle will be in
district all by er lonely and then of COL AL
den j. Humphrey will have show of election
than snow ball will have to fly through hades
The Democrats are hopeful of being able to elect
sufficient number of the members of the legislature to
control that body in order to elect Democrat to the
United States senate but that is hardly possible and
yet it is being said that of the Republican NOM
iees will be violently opposed by even Republicans at
the general election.
THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN would suggest to Colonel
Humphrey that he had better cool off on Colonel Bleth
both the colonies will find themselves out in the
cold The Times is cantankerous vulgar blackmail-
sheet and the politician that pins his fortune to her
sails will sooner later find himself headed for Salt
river on a flying squadron.
Believing that those interested were seeing the
expected to testify before the graft committee
the committee rescinded it's former determination to
hold open meetings and is making still hunt for
information and it is said, it is wonderful the amount
of information it is picking up The secret sessions
have alarmed the editor of the Seattle Daily Times
that he is having double duck fits three times every
day. Be easy, colonel, and, if you cannot be easy,
then be easy can because you are certain of
getting yours and getting it in chunks
And now Sheriff Hodge declares that the ballot box
of the Second precinct of the First ward was stuffed
and something like hunared fraudulent ballots MT
therein and that he proposes to to complaints
against the election officers of the precinct and cause
their arrest To prove his allegation he will cause the
ballot box to be opened and examined by the court
Wonder if the Hon. George u. Piper had any knowl
edge of what going in that precinct If there
are one hundred fraudulent votes in that precinct
those votes alone would have nominated Ramsey and
defeated Piper. All things come to him who waits.
Since6the Insurgents captured tie senatorial plum
from the hntod that Sopo+o, Toro.