The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-01-20

The political row that has been raging among the
women in the state of Washington demonstrates that.
they have already learned how to over the spois
of the game.
The registration in Seattle is not moving rap
idly it should and unless those opposed to Gill and
Wappy get good deal buster than they have been in
the past there will be no use holding the election.
We shall never forgive the woman prosecutor in
the case in which the first jury in Seattle sat,
for not letting the go to the jury just to see how
many of the six came out with as much hair as they
ent in with.
Dr. Brown, the we'll known dentist, has been named
by the Socialists for mayor Of Seattle in the recall
election. Dr. Brown ought to be able from his extern
sve experience to extract the fangs from the octopus
of Wappyville.
From the number of endorsements State Highway
Commissioner H. w. Bobby is getting just now it
begins to look as if all of the opotton to him in the
past had been murged into Admiration society or
ganized in his interest.
If A. S. Glover is successful in completely estab-
fishing his legal right to that immense English estate
which has been accumulatng for the past $50 years.
he need not be glover any longer, but for the bal
ance of his life be bloated bond holder.
Senator Piles gives out the statement that the
Alaska coal fields and mines must be opened up for
development Of course the coal mines of Alaska be-
longs to Senator Piles personally and for them to be
opened up he has only to say the word
James D. Hoge, the well known Seattle banker has
returned from California trip and is of the opinion
there has not been many days during the present win
that Seattle folk have nospend ST. 900 in the Palace
hotel of San Francisco. Does that explain the hard
times situation in Seattle?
Senator Ruth kept his word and did not vote for
Miles Poindexter for United States senator It seems
to us Senator Ruth is no bigger than his party and
when his party said he should vote for Poindexter
any else it his duty to do as he had been
manded or throw up his job
Bat Nelson having failed to make any showing
with thelprofessonal is doing monologue stunt
in the New York vaudevlles and at the end of it cha
lenges all comers in the audience for bout to finish
Bat always was has BEEN and he is even worse
now than in his more palmy days.
If reports be true Governor Hay is seriourly con-
siderng Harold Preston Judge Rudkin's successor
on the supreme bench. While in another column
hereof the name of John F. Main has been suggested
yet we are inclined to think no better man could be
found for the place than Harold Preston if he will ac-
cept.
The slush fund for the reelection of Gill is said to
be considerably larger for the coming election than it
was before and that is saying good deal. Come to
think this is splendid time to work the slush fund
racket for votes it is said there 5000 unempoy-
ed in Seattle at present Votes ought to pretty
cheap just now.
1t is said of Senator Tlman of South Carolia that
when he started out in politics he was hailed as the
Moses of the Negro in that section and to man
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ceeded and got beyond their gunshot he turned his
guns the that gave him life and vitality in his
inception Unless very much mistaken Repre-
sentative William Wray from the forty third represent