The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-04-28

IN Cne UnlCeO OCaCeS SeHdCe UeCWeeh Ih0
Regulars and the Insurgents have resulted IN first
blood for Regulars thogh the Insurgents declare they
will keep up the full fight all and then some
unless they get recognition
Religion must be mighty good thing so many
persons trying to get corner on it, says the Sumas
News No not exactly trying to get corner on relg-
ion but trying get the bad religion to corner
the bad mans that they may get a new lease of life.
In forgivng Harry Orchard, the self confessed
slayer of her husband, Mrs Steuenberg must have in
mind pardon for Orchard and makes such move to
the public of her change of heart We suggest
sanitarium for Mrs Steuenberg and nursing bottle
for Harry
Golden Potlatch, the name selected for Seattle's
annual show, strictly interpreted means gold
given away. If any body to Seattle thinking
anything will be given away except hot air they will be
sadly disappointed Gold taken away might be more
appropriate.
When Gov Hay pardoned Rev. E. B. Sutton for
falsely registering woman for which he had been
tried ond convicted, he made hit with good many
people in Seattle and yet when you stop to think about
it, Rev. Sutton ought to have enough not to do
anything so foolish as that.
The citizen of Spokane says its attempt to stamp
out vice in the city the police department has been
making lots of work for the courts To stamp out vice
is no easy undertaking and the administration that
thinks it can do so by the ordering it done is
counting without his host.
When Jacob Furth, president of Seattle Electric
Company voluntarily surrendered the character his
company had been granted to put line through Ran
ier Valley the members of the council had to adjourn
in order to if they Uncle Jake had gone stark
mad. The likes have never before been heard of.
Residents of North Capitol Hill are seriously object
ing to burning the dead the part of the Bon
neyWatson company, in the sixteenth block of North
Fifteenth avenue not because the dead make any
disturbance in that quiet and homelike community
but account of the gruesomeness of the situation
Uncle Sans sons and daughters moving to
Canada at rapid rate this year and English capitalists
are sending millions of dollars of cash into the country
for its development With American by the thousands
rushing into the country and reciprocity almost certain
of passage by both countries it looks if the two will
become one with out either knowing when it really
happens.
That Pennsylvania convict that served twenty
years of his life in state prison for the murder of fe
low man. whose blood he was innocent of, and who
was pardoned by the governor on the dying confession
of the real criminal to have against eth
er the state the prosecutor If prosecutors take
notion they often innocent man severely
they do one they believe to be guilty They think
it feather in their caps to convict whether guilty
innocent The prosecuting attorney that will insist on
a man being sent to prison for life on charge that
even he himself has his doubts to his guilt the
grounds that something may latter develop that will
connect him with the crime is a no less criminal than
the one really guilty of the crime
If j. W. Mcnamara is guilty of blowing up the
Times building in Los Angeles he is deserving of death
more cruel than has before fallen to the lot of
human being There have been good many bastard
y crimes committed in the United States since she has
been country but the blowing up of the Times build
ing by odds the most heinous of them all. May,
perhaps Detective Burns is all wrong in the arrest of
this and public sentiment should be suspended un
til the facts have been brought out Organized labor
is already moved almost to rebellous heat the
rest of the and every organized labor without