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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13
THE STATE IN MOURNING.

Harry Fairchild's death will prove a sad
blow to the administrative affairs of the state
of Washington as he was one of the most
profound expounders of railroad rates in the
whole country He was student of affairs
and when he went on the railroad commission
he gave up all private business and devoted
himself exclusively to that work. and the ad-
vancement he made in it was most remark
able Tt is said on good authority, his knowl-
edge of railroad affairs was so profound
that he was seriously thought of by the
President for the United States railroad com
mission While on the whole he was far
from being popular parsonage among the
rank and file yet when you got acquainted
with him, though you may have in the past
opposed him, you would soon come to the
conclusion that, he was conscientious work
er and not only conscientious, but an effec-
tive worker and always decided things COM
ing before him as he saw them and that too
without regard to who was helped or hurt
by his decision.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13
DID D1LLING PREvARICATE?

When Mayor Dilling makes the statement
that the keep Of the city automobiles only
cost the city $1,400 and never to exceed ST.
600 per month he has either been grossly
imposed upon by some one at the city
hall or he himself is trying to i'm
pose on the general public. There is
not prominent family in Seattle
whose one automobile does not cost at least
$3.50 per month and at the same rate if the
city had but Is automobiles, their keep
would be 81 800 per month"; but the city has
a great many more than that and everybody
knows that it costs more to care for city
automobile than private person. While
we are not prepared to give in dollars and
cents the amount it costs the city each month
for automobile keep, yet we do know it costs
twice, three times and even more than the
figure given by Mayor Dilling. Summing
it all, the city could get along without it
costing her anything for automobile care ex-
cept for those in the fire department be-
cause they are not needed and the city could
get along as well without them as with
them.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13
STRAWBERRY CROP FAILURE.
FAILURE.

1t is declared by those who say they know
the facts that though the farmers of Vashon
Island shipped many carloads of strawber~
ries from the island, yet they actually came
out in debt, when the cost was counted up,
which reminds us of the story Ben Butler
told of the Massachusetts farmer that bought
a hog and paid eight dollars for it. He kept
it for year, in the meantime feeding it ten
dollars worth Of corn, and then sold it at
the end of a year for twelve dollars, an
actual loss Of six dollars. When asked
where did he get off in the transaction, the
farmer replied, "Why. man, I owned the hog
for whole year" Who is responsible for
this peculiar condition in which the straw
berry growers find themselves is more than
the writer is able to fathom, but, if they
continue in that way, they will be like the
school teachers cat "Johnny," said the
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13
THE coLoRED VOTER sNUBBED.

Speaking about the Taft reception in Sc
attic, though the meeting at the Armory Hall
was purely political, yet the committee of
arrangements saw fit to snub the colored
voters of the state by not inviting one of
their number to act as vice-president of the
their number to act as vice-chairman of the
meeting. Whether the committee felt none
of them was able to pay the three-dollar fee
that went with the vice-chairman invitation
or did SO because they did not consider them
worthy of participating in a meeting for the
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13
CURREN0 COMMENT

president the writer verify doth not know,
but he does know that at every other such
meeting in Seattle the colored voter was
recognized by inviting one of their number
to occupy seat on the platform. There was
a growing disposition on the part of the
colored voters of the state to oppose the
election of William Howard Taft and we
would not be surprised if the affront offered
them on the occasion of the Presidents visit
to Seattle, will not be instrumental in the
national Republican ticket led by Taft los
ing every colored vote in the state, which,
to say the least, amounts to something like
5000
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13
HORACE ROSCOE cAYToN, Publisher
SUSIE REvELs cAYToN, Associate

In pleading being crazy, at the time she
killed her husband Mrs Gertrude Patterson
of Denver must think the jury is crazy.
In speaking of the death of a prominent
citizen the P-I says, "he died in his bed .
Is that an unusual place out west for one
to die, Mr.. Editor?
It must be taxing Lucifer's hosts almost
beyond endurance to manufacture enough
turbans for the hatless Turks arriving every
day in boat loads.
Washington apples are said to be very
popular in other sections Of the country.
They, to say the least. are very edible in
Washington.
That Los Angeles barber shop that gives
a meal with a shave must serve blood pud-
ding for dessert, owing to the number of
customers bled therein.
Frenchmen have discovered that bananas
make fine whiskey, which has both the taste
and the flavor that attracts. Why not add
a drop of bourgamont to the concoction and
then it would likewise have the odor.
If Charley was no better Pryor to his
coming to Seattle and going on the police
force than he has been since arriving, then
he has been an awfully ''bad mans" during
his life
Awaiting may not be pre-arranged for sui
ciding but it is the next thing to it, as the
aviator is almost as certain of death as the
man with a gun and bottle of carbolic
acid
President Taft's dining with his former
secretary of the interior in Seattle did not
make him very many votes in the state of
Washington, but votes are not all even
politician is looking for.
Andy Carnegie and Mrs. Russell Sage,
both of whom advertised, they meant to die
poor lead in the New York tax list Of avail
able cash, which amount to $10,O00,O00 each.
To die poor must be a harder job than they
had anticipated
It has been a good many years since
public reception of political nature in Sc
attic was pulled off, that the committee Of
vice-president was lily white, but the one
that received President Taft last Monday
Essho wus''
Magazine stories in order to prove read
able must get busy from the first line almost
through the entire article. The people seem
to be so constituted these days as to want
to read those things that give them the
greatest amount of real excitement.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1911-10-13

THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
Is published every Friday by cayton Publishing
Company
subscriptions, So per year; six months, $3.50;
postage prepaid.
Entered as second-cass matter at the postoffice
at Seattle.
cAYToN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc.
Main 3o5 427 EpIer Block
Seattle, Washington
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02
Editorial Comment
Future Expenditures.
(Bridgton NeWs.)

When the legislature comes to-
gether. unless there be repeal, or re-
submission 10 the voters, this must
happen: Senator Obadiah drops out
with a dull. siekening thHd, The
Statewide primary is put in operation
to nominate Il successor; the iegisla-
ture must be held in session 10 elect.
all through that era of foolishness,
and it may or may not take the pri-
mary-winner, as the constitution of
the United States makes the legisla-
ture the elective body! So there YOU
are. What ever will the executive do
Our advice; repeal the entire budget
of election and nomination laws, save
the enormous expense, and have the
state Auditor in some Way credit the
economy 10 the present administra-
tion,-though as u matter of fact the
expenditures Of this period must be
met by the succeeding administration
They'll be about as heavy as In the
war time, fifty years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02
Express Mysteries.

Most Of us have enjoyed 60 expert
ences of sort to put us in sympathy
with the following from the Boston
Advertiser:
The recent investigation of express
rates has not by any means explained
all of the mysteries, for while express
companies are now subject to the
reasonable rate" provisions of the in
terstate commerce law, the rates which
they charge the occasional shipper of
packages are as much mystery as
ever Not long ago a Boston man had
occasion on different days to ship three
packages. all substantially alike, to the
same point in neighboring state. He
paid three different charges to the
same company for the same service.
The other day man living in a sub
slrb of Boston desired to express a
package to Chicago. He was told the
cost would be 10 cents. but if he car
ried it with him to Boston and sent it
from there, the price would be 30 cents.
| That is, there being transshipment
| from the suburban office to Boston, the
| charge was as great for the three
| miles to Boston as the 100 miles te
! Chicago. All publishers of what the
postal authorities call fourthelass
matter can, by pre-paying charges, eX-
press their publications for practically
one-h half what their patrons would pay
at the other end, If the same package
were sent collect, so one man who dali
ly ships such packages informs us.
The express companies of the land
have been the least molested monopo-
lies of all, and practically authorized
by the government. At the recent
hearing before the interstate commerce
commission it was shown that the eX-
press rates are 16 times as high as
freight rates charged by the railroads.
and that much of the express is sent
by freight. All other public carriers
have had to submit both their rates
and their methods to the investigation
of the commission, while the express
companies have been practically free
from all supervision, until very lately.
The profits have been enormous and
at recent hearing one express official
testified that il his company should
cease carrying business now, that IS
per cent dividends would be paid to
stockholders for years to come, simply
on us outSlue Investments. Coiipeii =
lively little money has to go into i'm
provements and upkeep, as in the case
of railroads and steamships, and there
is no pension system for employees,
such as many railroads have inaugu
rated, nor any rights of way to pur-
chase But sentiment with the public
is becoming so aroused that either the
companies must make an equitable cut
in rates, or the government may be
| forced to take over at least some gen.
| eral supervision of the business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02
Coming Events

Dec. 2-Knox Pomona, South Warren.
Dec. 5-Waido Pomona, Ctr. Montvflle.
Dec 5-7-Bangor Poultry Show.
Dec. 5-7-Maine Dairymen's Association,
Norway.
Dec 5-Oxford Pomona, South Paris
Dec. 6-Androscoggin Pomona, LISBON
Falls.
z Dee 6-No. Waldo Pomona, Monroe.
Dec. &c. Somerset Pomona, PALMYRA.
Dec. 7-Piscataqus Pomona. Abbot.
Dec 7-Cumberland and oxford Pomo-
Dec. York Pomona. Springvalc.
Dec S-Somerset County Veterans and
Ladies' Auxiliary, Madison.
Dec. g-Haneock Pomona. Castine.
Dec 12-14-Tqpsham Grange Fair.
Dec. 12-15--Maine State Poultry ana Pet
Stock, Portland.
Dec. 13-New Century Pomona, Canton.
Dec 13-Kennebec Pomona, Oakland.
Dec. 14-Meetng of Governor and Coun-
Dec. 14-Excelslor Pomona, Temple.
Dec 14-No. Franklin Pomona, Madrid.
Dec. 14-15-Maine Live Stock Assocla-
Dec. is-2S-Maine State Grange In Lew
iston.
Dec 20-Somerset and Penobscot Union,
Dec. 2s-2s-Freeport Poultry Associa-
ton, Freeport.
Jan. "a, 19l2-Western Maine Poultry
Association, So. Paris.
Feb. 6-12-Food Fair, Bangor.
March 27-Maine Methodist Conference
at Lewiston.
ference. Roekland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02

= slsstsF4 aEazsa
no nfuraf right whatever 70 participate
in the Democratic primary in August,
/ Political parties are II good thing: gov
Bernment without them is impossible.
! Even il parties were a bad thing, the
| law recognizes them, and as long rs
| the law recognizes them, the present
condition of affairs is evil. Every cleo
| ton smells of fraud.
The Legislature, at the ensuing spe-
eial session, should provide for an inn
mediate registration of al | voters.
Every voter. on registering should be
required to declare his party alleg
lance. a new registration should be
made every four years IT might be
feasible to arrange the machinery
whereby a voter could change his reg
istered allegiance three months before
any primary. But this would not be
essential, Such registration having
been made, no man would be allowed
on primary day to call for any but the
ticket of his own registered party.
Such a law is in force in Michigan.
1t in no way interferes with the way
a man may vote on election day. II
a Republican becomes dissatisfied with
his party. hes may vote the Democratic
ticket. If a man chooses to change his
politics he may do so, but no harm at
all will be done even if he is required
to vote the ticket of his new party
once or twice prior to participating III
party councils.
Decent Democrats are as much IN
terested in this as decent Republicans.
The majority of Democrats i'll Kansas
now believe in the prohibitory law.
They do not want a resubmission cam
paign. But there is grave danger that
at the ensuing primary the wet Re
publicans will call for Democratic
tickets and try to secure the nomina
ton of Billiard.
The results of primaries, as they
have heretofore been declared, have
been lies. They have purported to
show the will of the adherents of the
various parties. The return said
Smith is the preference of the major
ity of Republicans, by such and such
a majority. This statement was false.
The preference indicated was a prefer
ence of combined Democrats and Re-
publicans No good can come out of
falsehood and fraud. The law ought
to be amended
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02
Canton Grange.

Saturday, Nov %, was Thanksgiving
Day. with Canton Grange. The morn
ing session was taken up with the usu-
al business One hundred and ten sat
down TO the Thanksgiving dinner
which was looked after by the commit
tee: c. p. Sanders, Mrs. Martha Col
man, Mr. and Mrs. l. l.. Hartman.
Miss Carrie Hayford, Miss Clara Bar
rows. The afternoon session was open
to the public during the program
why j am thankful was responded
to by the members. remarks by c. III.
Prince and Henry Irish, of Buckfield,
and j. II. Blanchard, of Auburn; pia-
no duet. Mrs. Winifred Roberts and
Helen Daley, encored: music, choir; pi-
ano solo, Eleanor Westgate, encored
recitation. Sybil Hutchinson, encored
talk on Parcels Post, o. M. Richard
son; song, Hazel Hutchinson, encored;
reading, Mrs. j. E. York; violin solo,
Frank Richardson, encored: reading,
c. L. Lane Lucky Adam song, Eie-
amor Westgate recitation, Mrs
Fannie Lucas: music, choir. The next
meeting will be Saturday. December .,
and the State Master will meet with
this Grange 1t is also the election of
officers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02

lis a real source of physical. mental,
land moral danger, why expose the
Ichild to it? Why make ii easy for the
coming generation to do itself harm?
! You are rieht-prohibitien does not
prohibit. as things are at present
We have with us persons who, since
emerging from childhood, have ac-
quired a desire for alcohol. and we
have with us Iawbreakers and others
who. for money, are perfectly willing
to supply their demands. Nay, more,
these aforementioned trafllckers in hui
man welfare beside ministering to the
desires of those with alcohol addiction,
must see to the creation Of alcohol
addiction in the coming generation If
they would not have their business
dV.indle away and stop for lack of
patronage as the present adult gen
Grafton dies off.
But prohibition-whi it does not
wholly control those with alcohol ad-
dfction, and those who, for the sake of
dirty dollars are willing to supply
their fellow creatures with an agent
for their harm-does protect the chill
dren in their innocence. When pro-
iAtbAlitlI Tits i1iGfd OUT VI tAAoltllNt
| the so-ealled good" type of saloon
with bright lights music, and alluring
company, there is little incentive or
| opportunity for the young to acquire
| the liquor habit. | submit to you that
few children in this state of Kansas,
most of whom never saw a saloon.
will acquire craving for liquor
/ through spending their money for the
privilege of surreptitiously drinking
rotgut whisky out of a dirty bottle
| from the hands of the town loafer.
down back of the barn.
| When you argue in favor of the sale
of alcohol as beverage, why beeloud
~ ignore the facts in the case first.
!, that the persons engaged in the manu-
tacture and sale OF liquors need the
money, and that they resent the fact
| that certain fathers and mothers OBJ
ject to exposing their children to con-
ditions directly calculated to entice
the latter TO become sources of future
profit to the liquor business; second
| that persons who have acquired the
alcohol habit become so dependent on
| liquor that they VIII connive at the
| bi eaking of laws to get it, or expose
| their children to the dangers of ae-
quiring the habit under which they
themselves labor,
The liquor problem is a problem of
several generations Strike at the
legal sale of liquor NOW. and i'll few
decades we will have communities free
from the liquor habit because its MEM
hers have never been tempted to ac-
quire the taste. The liquor meh see
this-and know that if they do not
successfully fight prohibition now they
wiH not be able to exploit to their
selfish profit the generations yet UNI
born.
| Will you not. in fairness to vital
subject, give this communication space
in the journal of civilization?
| | am, sir,
| E. L. MUNSON.
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That Extra Session.
portland Press.)


Governor Plaisted denies that he has
changed his mind about calling san ex-
ira session of the legislature Indeed
he could hardly give it up now, even
If he wished to- without discrediting
himself, after having committed HIM
self to it 50 distinctly. Come veal.
come woe. the session must be called.
although there have not been wanting
signs that afterthought has brought
doubt and regret. Answering objec-
tons brought against the plan. the
Waterville Sentinel seeks to convince
its readers that the objection of ex-
pense has little force and that a spe-
cial session, "if it does its work" will
save money 10 the tax payers. 1.-THE
only way by which it can become an
extravaganza" says the Sentinel. "is
by refusing to act on the governors
suggestion and failing to present for
the peoples consideration q solution
of Names liquor problem. This is an
ingenious attempt to fasten response
bility on the legislature. but it will
probably not succeed. IT indicates,
however. that they are sensitive on
the score of economy. rs they well
NAV be after their campaign on TINS
issue and their claims of saving the
peoples money. The cutlery against
the expense of the Sturgis commits
sion does not seem consistent with
causing the State an expense of $3o,
900 on account of a bootless session.
But how would the submission of To-
cal option amendment be a saving to
the tax PAYERS? That is the assertion.
Let it be proved. The assumption OF
the governors defenders appears u
be that the amendment would De
adopted as q matter of course, and
that the license taxes derived from
the saloons would make up the cos'
of converting the legislature. That Is
taking good deal for granted. The
taxes would inevitably come out oil
the community, for they would be
paid out of the profits of the bust
ness, and they would be otherwise
materially detrimental in stimulating
an unproductive consumption, abso rn-
ing wages that should go for the pur-
chase of necessities, lowering produc-
tive efficiency and increasing crimina
costs. 1t is as broad as it is long
broader. The Sentinel has reason tf
be worried and to seek to throw tht
blame of failure onto the Legislature
The probabilities are that the legisla-
ture will lack majority required tt
submit an amendment; and that foi
the governor it will be the king OF
France act.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02
The "oiI Trust" Dissolution.

Now that the "Oil Trust" can has
busted and the holding company has
run out into 80 competing companies
the average citizen will hardly know
whether TO cough or sneeze at the re-
suit. Perhaps the Words of an Au-
gusta gentleman, Friday morning,
pretty nearly voices the average mans
view of it
What difference. will it make to
u.s." he demanded; IF they don't get
us one way, they will another"
And yet, all must admit that the
dissolution OF this ssgigaptir- CONNER
cial factor, by processes. of law. DEM
onstrates government supremacy III
matter of vital importance to the peo-
pie of America. THAT the Federal
government can elf it wild by exer-
cising the power given il By law con-
troll the country's .6yergro@if big
business when it becomes menace.
This dissolution may not have any
bearing upon retail prices, but 1t gives
public assurance that men and their
business concerns are plNed against
other men and their concerns, each
for it's share in public patronage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-02

done. The manager is now preparing
To make a speciality along with the
other meats carried in stock to have
regular supply of country pork
raised by the stockholders which is
said to be the best in the country.
Also all kinds of country produce will
be carried making this a specially
They will branch out and supply car
lots of grain to members away from
Lewiston and Auburn. A car Is or
dered and will be delivered at West
Minot very soon. This will be shipped
direct to this station and other sta
tons will be supplied in the same
way. a team is nov on the street to
deliver purchases of customers.
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Kansas Primary Law.

While Maine is hesitating and
scratching it's Republican and its
Democratic head over its direct pri-
mary law and somo of the problems
that go Herewith. it is more or less
gratifying to know that in other
states, under slightly different plans,
il is not altogether smooth sailing. The
Kansas City Journal demands that
their law shall be amended to do away
with 'falsehood and fraud The Jour-
nal says:
AT every primary election which has
taken place since the Kansas state
wide primary law was enacted thou
sands of Democratic voters have on pri-
mary day called for and voted the Re-
publican ticket. This has been demon
strated over and over again. Numer-
Gus strongly Democratic precints have,
in hot preliminary contests, cast prac-
tically the entire voting strength for
one or the other Of the so-called Re-
publican candidates That Democrats
have voted the Republican primary
ticket In droves lis the unanimous ties.
timony from all over the state. The
fact is no longer disputed.
The practice is fraudulent and i'm
moral. The man who intends TO vote
the Democratic ticket in NOV nhei
has no mqx right whateversso parti-
cipate In Republican primaries in Au
gust. and the man who intends to vote
the Republican ticket In November ha'