The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-08-12
FRIDAY August IL, 1910
PERSONS TALKEDsABOUT

the world sails for Europe next week to begin forty
week vaudeville engagement and for which he is to
receive 49, 500 per week and expenses Heis the high
est salaried theatrical star on the stage.
Powell Clayton, editor of the Little Rock State Re-
publican of Arkansas, says, over his own signature
that something like thirty eight per cent of the white
voters of Arkansas have been dsfranchised by the
Democrats of that state which to his mind is carrying
good thing too far The white Republicans permit
ted the Democrats to extermnate the black Republi
without protest hoping to profit thereby, but in
stead of profting they too, being consumed, so
take your medicine.
William F. GUIDE is heading a movement to make
Washington City the convention hub for not only the
United States, but South and Central American
tries Mr. GUIDE is president of the chamber of COM
merce of Washington City, which is very active
ganization. His idea is to raise sufficient money to
give such conventions free halls and to extent
terrain the members while in the city. To perfect
such movement would give that city world wide
advertisement and the of attraction for
all America.
Francisco |. Modero, who ran for president against
Diaz, is in jail in that country, charged with hav
ing made of seditious utterances in his late
pagn The seditious uterances that Madero made use
of however, to the effect that Daz had used the
office of president of Mexico for his personal aggran-
dizement which Diaz would not stand for. Evident
y Madero had been reading Hearst's syndicate news.
N B. Broward, is the name of one of the senators
of Florida and it is said of him that he started life as
steamboat deck hand. Senator Broward may have
at one time worked on steamboat as deck hand
but if he did, those insFlorda who elected him to the
senate did not know it at the time or they would
never have done The average white man of the
the South is too darn lazy to work himself and he has
no use for any other white man who will make even
bluff at work.
Mrs. Catherine Van Voorhis who has the credit of
having made the largest flag that surrounded the
capitol building at Washington, D. Co. though eighty
years of age recently attended suffrage meeting at
Washington and was received by President Taft with
special ceremonies. She lives in Rochester, New
York.
j. G.. Spooner, former Michigan United States
SENATOR is out with statement to the effect that the
United States is governed to death. What called forth
the remark was the move the part of number of
physicians to have department of public health es-
tabshed in government. He thinks such is abso-
lutey uncaed for and would do good established
except to give few fellows soft snaps at the tax pay
expense. The theory might be applied to the va
rious state governments where all kinds of commits
sions have been established in order to give few
ward clacking politicians good places at the expense
of the public.
Rev. Charles Stezle, New York divine is of the
opinion that the church is losing ground and the
preachers and those who conduct the churches are d-
recty responsible for the condition He argues there
should be less building up of church edfces and more
building up of men, and he might have added there
should be building up Of Christianity of the
kind embodied in the Golden Rule and less of church
hypocracy as exhibited in the Worlds Sunday
School Convention recently held in Washington City
Lyman Abbott the we'll known New York editor.
says the paramount issues in the coming campaign
in those states where the direct primary law i
in vogue is already are: Direct Primaries Con
gressional Organization Railway Regulation and Con-
servaton On these issues the Republicans are almost
as badly divided among themselves as they are from
the Democrats and to settle the vexed questions
great many Republicans will go out of their party and
for the time being affiliate with the Democrats.
Because Paderewski did not need the money he
sold Seattle property which he bought for specua-