Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-04-24
THE PASSING THRONG

mans agreement with Lincoln Brooks and
Ned Humes which had it been carried out,
would have given me a seat in the county
convention, and, perhaps, seat in the state
convention, but they saw fit to 90 back on
their agreement and | was and will be only
silent spectator. "A policitian who will
break gentleman's agreement is human
only in part and such would be politician
never rises higher than an mderling-an
office lackey. I had similar experience
to this many years ago in fight for the
mayOralty nomination of Seattle. | was
very vigorously supporting a candidate for
mayor in opposition to Thomas j. Humes
and in the wee hours Of the morning on the
convention day, in company with Edward
b. Palmer and A. B. Stewart, we met Frank
and Johnny Clancy in the Pioneer build.
ing and entered into an agreement to nomi-
nate Charles G. Austen for mayor and there.
by defeat the aspirations of Mayor Humes
| confess that [ am pretty old hand at
the game of politics to get mulcted by
brace Of political mutton heads and my wife
smiled when I related the circumstance to
her and reprimandingly replied, ~ am sor-
ry you are not delegate to the convention,
since you want to 90, but knowing the
game as well as you do, you got what you
richly deserved.' I am inclined to think
she was right but I felt good deal as did
tramp, who was knocked down by a
passing vehicle, on which he subsequently,
commented as follows: IL would not feel
so badly about this mishap had not the
vehicle been a garbage wagon'' TO fully
ease my conscience, however, as soon as |
get another extra dollar | will give it to
some indulgent friend to sufficiently use
his boot on me to disable me from sitting
down for solid week and at each blow
repeat, cit served you right
When a pair of woud-be men are able
to mulch me at the political game then I
must confess that my age is telling on me
and the proverbial little child has come to
lead me. One, however, never gets so old,
but that wrong is not resented and my
age to the contrary, [ still have the faculty
or remembering enemies and their breaking
OF this gentleman's agreement will bob up
serenely from time to time and be talked
over and over and, believe me- it will do
me no harm.
In the past I was always in my glory to
participate in red hot convention fight
and as I sat and watched the proceedings
of last Saturdays convention, there were
times when I felt envy kingdom for an op-
portunty to be heard" I listened to the
Incorporate preamble and resolution fol-
lowed by no less guarded speech on the
part Of Billie Whitney directed against s.
A. Perkins, and it occurred to me, for this
have we sons" Four years ago this same
Billie Whitney was cocks1lre of being NOM
mated by the Republicans for representative
in Congress- and, had he been nominated, he
would have been elected, and. had he been
elected he would have made just as big
mess Of himslf in the halls of Congress as he
did on the convention floor last Saturday.
AS he bobbed up and down and shook his
little self some one near said. faint he
fighting little crss. The spirit Of the con-
vention even before it assembled, was op-
posed to Perkins, hence Billie under such
circumstances, proved hero Of the occa-
sion.
"Well. I see the Kansas people lynched
another colored man. said Richard Gowan
Of Seattle, former Mississippian, as he