The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-01-21
Political Pot-Pie

u;no the leak in the grand jury the other
dav and volunteered the following story: l
do not know now by what means the papers
oct their tips of the grand jury proceedings,
hut in the Pigott grand jury one OF tne
newspapers had sounding board put IN the
ceiling of the room where the grand jury
mot and had a tube connected with the
so1ndino hoard and all the time the grand
i11rv was in session a reporter stood with his
ear To that tube and of course heard every
1rord that passed; and each morning the
work of the previous day was pub
Eshed in full. 1t was a nine day wonder
bow the naper got the news. The members
nf the grand Jury never did learn the secret.
II might be we'll for the present grand jury
to make an examination of the room 1t is
meeting in lest similar trick is being turn
ed by the papers.
sT would not like to see King county Off
o;ols indicted by the grand jury unless they
ore o11ilty of wrong doings in office and yet
euorId o. like to see either the grand jury or
some other body clean out the entire court
house officials because they seem, to put IN
more time making grand stand plays to the
galleries than attending to their ofhclal du-
S;as No two officials in the court house
tnork vnr in harmony, which renders it utterly
;ronossible for the county's official family to
,1ronerlv look out for the best interest OF the
fav navers | hope to see clean sweep at
tbe nc peyt election" Thus spoke one of Seat
t1o,e most prominent Republican politicians
one day this week.
John r. Humphrles boasts of the large
,,oto he oot for supreme judge and points
not vote out as an indicator of what his
vote for United States senator may be. He
reoros to overlook the fact that he was run
r,;no for nudge on non partisan ticket and
not ,,clt On Republican ticket. 1t is notable
foc+ that in Democratic, Socialistic and I'm
ion 7 ahor communities Humphries led all of
the other judicial candidates In other
words he was their candidate. 1t is like.
wise a notable fact that but few! II any OF
this class of voters eyer vote the Repuo1l-
can ticket and, therefore, when he is to only
he % voted for by Republicans all of those
voters will fall away and at best his sena-
torial vote will not hold up to more than a
third of his supreme judge vote. While
Humnhries has always acted in good faith
with the Republican party, yet ne has al
wavs catered to the disgruntled element OF
the party for his support and that element
had an opportunity to work with the Demo-
Gratis Socialists and Union Labor thus ac-
counting for the big showing he made IN a
non-partisan fight.
In the third congressional district polit-
;ca1 wire pulling has already begun for the
Renublican nomination for representative in
CONGRESS to succeed Judge McCredle. 1t is
said that the Tacoma politicians are think
Ir'a ing very seriously of trying to head off any
Tacoma 1Ti@ ma man from filing for the nomination
and thereby forcing the nomination of
Charles E. Claypool, who resides in Olym-
MA. While Charley was boy in Olympia,
Vet Vet he moved to Tacoma where he grew to
manhood and there matriculated into poll
tics and was elected member OF the state
10 Alaska. made bunch of money, returned
to 70 the e state and again took up his residence
in OLYMPIA after, so goes the story, he and
tn the late Frank Cushman and his friends had
entered into an agreement to support Clay