The Seattle Republican., 1911-02-03
VOLUME XVII, NUMBER 36

Everybody in the Northwest now knows that, If
you it in the Times it's damn lie. " That being
an acknowledged fact it means the undoing of any
person seeking political social preferment at the
hands of his or her neighbors to be boosted by the
Times for such honor
Ugly thing are being said about two of the jury
men thai acquitted Mrs Kvashaugh. The characters
of those two certainly known to the citizens
of Tacoma before they returned the verdict of acqut
tai and they should at that time have made the
accusations they making. This hollering af-
ter the devil gets you deserving of very little SYM
pathy
The election next Tuesday will be a straight fight
between decency and indecency with George w. Dill
ing representing the decent folk and Hiram Charles
Gill representing the indecent ones Place an x op-
posite the candidate you desire to vote for The vot
ing next Tuesday will be very simple with nothing at
issue except Gill and Dlling
The Way of the trangressor is hard" so says the
Bible, and no realizes that more than the trans
gressors of the law of the Gill administration because
they have been checkmated by Councilman Way at ev
cry turn of the road until they doomed utter de-
struction. No man in the whole city is more respon-
sible for the overthrow of Glism than Councilman E.
W. Way and the voters should remember that when
they elect the next council
Speaking about campaign gatherings, but all of the
campaign meetings ever held in Seattle the noon day
meeting held at the Grand Opera house last Monday
was the most notable, and all because it was the larg-
est and most enthusiastic. The opera house was filled
to sufocaon and yet not than third of those
desiring to attend could get inside whereupon an over
flow meeting Immediately arranged which filled
Cherry Street from Second to Third avenue The wom
ems meeting Wednesday at the same place and the
overflow meeting in the Seattle theatre was likewise
very notable gathering. If straws tell the way the
wind is blowing Gill will be beaten by ten thousand
votes
Despite the fact that the committee on morals of
the twelfth legislature has introduced bill in the
house of representatives to anull all marriages be-
tween Japanese and Negroes with white folk yet it
will hardly pass either branch of the legislature All
such under the head of freak legislation and de-
serves to be reegated to the realm of nnocuous de-
suetude So far the black man of the state is con-
cerned he is a law abiding American citizen with all
the rights and privileges of the members of the legis
lature, and any such law would be of intolerance
If the black of the United States are not full
hedged citizens then they aliens and have no more
rights and privileges than the Japanese and be not
only disfranchsed and segregated at the will of the
dominate race, but likewise banished from the
country.
When the United States bought Alaska about fifty
years ago for million dollars, and faceous ed
tor referring to its great distance and to it's Russian
origin, proposed to call it Damlongwayoff i" no one
imagined how incalcuably rich in god iron fisheries
and COAL say nothing of vegetable production that
country would bacome. There people but little past
middle age who recolect that part of the country
where Kansas, Colorado Oklahoma and other prosper
GUS states situated, supposed to be desert
utterly unfit for agriculture. great part of Texas
was at that time regarded strife waste but it is
now covered with ci4ies towns and villages Within a
generation Canada has doubled her population and
multiplied many times her wealth, and yet the rich
forest of Labrador and splendid regions about Hudson