The Seattle Republican., 1911-01-27

I'll VOLUME XVII, NUMBER 35
Reginald H. Thompson may have been the brains
of the Moore administration but it looks as if Alden
j. Blethen is the push of the Gill administration.
"A man often deserves praise for doing his duty"
says an exchange. In our opinion that is mistake
To do ones duty should be deserving of praise
from another.
Stanley Ketchels slayers got life Imprisonment for
their bloody act and if the governors of that state will
just forget them, the majesty of the law will have
been fully vindcated.
Killing Socialist on the part of the Japanese or any
government will not stop the cult from spreading, but
in all probability it will only make it spread more rap
idly.
The Daily Times has increased it's membership
club from ten thousand to thirty thousand, all of
which is an easy thing for it to do if it is only
paid money enough The membership of the political
clubs of the Times depends altogether upon how much
money the Times and Murky Matt get from those in
whose interests they organizing the clubs.
While you may be of the opinion that Dillng is not
your ideal candidate for mayor you must admit unless
you are tenderlon habtue that Mayor Gill is total
up mayor of great city like Seattle
Sixty eight men will seek to be one of eighteen,
who will be nominated February 21, from which the
voters will select nine councilmen two weeks later.
The battle is rlready waxing and before it is
it will resolve itself into the greatest kilkenny
cat fight that the city has ever seen.
John Drost the Dutch boy who shot and killed his
fath nd he
ncorrigble youth that has been reared to have his
way about things and if that he true the father
ed to the winds and reaped whirwind, Spare the
rod and spoil the child is still good sound children
medicine for me and mine
The blind chaplain of the house of representatives
of congress received silver shower last Thursday,
the occasion being the thrtyffth anniversary of his
wedding, and it was done at the suggestion of Mrs.
Will E. Humphrey of Seattle. The Humphreys seem
to be liberal with their money in Washing
ton City than they are in Seattle.
In refusing to pass any deficiency bill the house of
representatives Of the twelfth legislature has done
most righteous act. Two years ago public officials
were warned against creating deficiencies in their re-
spectv4 departments and in the face of that large de-
ciency bill pokes up it's head in the very beginning
of the session and has been accorded the treatment
it deserved.
The want to-vote idea on the part of is be-
coming so common that we would not be surprised if
within the next four years every state in the Union
will have enfranchised the women The skunk who
argued, even if given opportunity to vote, the
women would not take advantage of it, must feel like
dog in the face see the of Seattle register
ing almost as rapidly the
'Wappensten's Record Never Beaten" is Times
headline In this the Times and the PostIntelligen-
cer though consttutionay opposed to each other on
all issues are in full accord According to the PI. a
few days prior the record of Wappy is without
parallel throughout Chrisendom but it for.crim-
inalitv Now the Times confirms the statement of the