Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-03-09
POLITICAL POT PIE


mine" In other words, Hanson defeated
Bradford by nearly 5OOO and the former is
delighted while the latter is badly dis
gruntled. The citizens of this city after it's
trouble with the United States government,
resulting in the soldiers from Camp Lewis
being barred from coming to the city on a
visit, took it into their heads to clean up
the city from stem to gudgen, and at the
primaries they began the good work by
eliminating Gill and at the general election
they completed the job by eliminating Brad
ford and Duncan. The American people are
slow in getting aroused to the situation, but
once done, they make complete job of it.
It's really amusing to hear Bradford
amid his briny tears denounce the Star as
disreputable rag, in which Cayton's
Weekly fully agrees, but for years the Star
has been the political cesspool from which
Jim Bradford has daily fed and he fumbled
and fondled over it as thing near and dear
to his heart. When it was championing his
candidacy as against that Of Hugh M. Cald-
we'll for corporation counsel, it was then
that this same Jim Bradford declared from
the rostrum that it was the only fair daily
paper published in Seattle, but when it op-
posed him for mayor because he was the
candidate of |. W. WIS it at once, so far
as he was concerned, became a dirty rag.
Summing it all up, Jim Bradford's entrance
into the mayoralty race, his campaign, his
anti-election speech and the overdose Of
conclusively proves that he is demagogue
of the deepest dye and will stoop to any
thing to get an office Demagogues, how
ever flourish for time and then fade away
and, it is hoped, that this community has
heard it's last of Jim Bradford and he will
90 into the same state Of 'innocuous desue-
tude'' as is one Otto A. Case.
l. Cayton's Weekly feels like patting itself
on the back after reading the returns OF the
late election. It supported neither Of the
mayoralty candidates in the primaries and
though from the very outset it believed that
one Of the nominees would be Ole Hanson,
yet it had not the remotest idea that the
other would be Bradford. Not having ST.:
ported Hanson and realizing from whence
Bradford got his chief support there was
nothing left for it to do but support Han
son. which it did with a vengeance and in
doing so it's editor not only used the col
umns of the paper in most telling way, but
the editor himself made the candidacy of
Hanson personal matter and pointed out
to those he met the danger of electing Brad
ford. At the meeting of the King County
COlOreQ hepuDllcdn CluD, called 10 cOuSluef
the municipal election, an overwhelming
majority Of those present were inclined to
either favor Bradford or indorse no mayor
atty candidate, but after a careful and
thoughtful ten minutes talk, pointing out
the class Of support backing Bradford and
how he was tied up to organized labor, by
the editor hereof the Club unanimously in
dorsed Hanson and each one left the room
pledged to work overtime for his election
and the Rev. W. D. Carter became so
thoroughly interested in the election of
Hanson that he Endorsed his candidacy from
his pulpit. DR.. Cardwell took up the cross
and worked day and night for the election
of Hanson, even inducing the editor of the
Searchlight to change his attitude and in
dorse the candidacy Of Hanson. In sticking
torch to the Bradford camoufage the editor
hereof was not moved to do so either from
selfish or personal motives, but from broad
humanitarian standpoint and in the interest
of class of citizens with whom he is iden-
titled, believing that if Bradford was elected
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