THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN

N. R. Ayers, who hoped to jollythe voters

of Seattle into voting his company (on

paper) a fortune for nothing, will soonlearn that a subsidized press can not lead

the people very far.

Rev. Adna W. Leonard is a splendid pul-

pit orator, but he seems to make little or noheadway at the political game.

Abe Ruef's failure to come through gives

former Mayor Schmitz a clean bill of sale

from the trial court, but it looks tough forRuef.

Miles Poindeter is reported putting in themost of his time doing gallery stunts among

the Lawrence strikers instead of looking

after the commercial interest of the state ofWashington.

W. H. Paulhamus of Sumner is one of thepronounced Roosevelt men of the state and

so strong is the Roosevelt sentiment that thesame sentiment may make Paul governor if

he so desires.

John G. Pierce deserves an election andacocrding to the vote of the primary he will

be elected. He has done well since he has

been a member of the council and he shouldbe continued in office. It would be a burn-ing shame to elect Joe Smith in preference

to Pierce.

Emma Hackett has been granted a divorcefrom John Hackett, but she must pay him

$50 per month alimony, which is said to bethe first instance on record where the court

has ordered a woman to pay her former hus-band alimony. The statement is not correctas the divorced wife of Trusten P. Dyer,formerly state senator from King county, re-ceived alimony from his wife by order of

the court.

Tom Alderson, who for the past ten years

has been congratulating himself as being one

of Seattle's foremost politicians, took a try

out at the game in the late municipal pri-

mary contest, and discovered that the place

he really occupies iiirthe public mind, is

about as insignificant qs a human being canpossibly occupy. Tom ITurphine will proba-

bly experience the same fate when he runsfor congress next fall.

Champ Clark, a Democratic candidate forpresident, is 62 years old today and he ishaving the first real birthday party of his

life, and to help him make merry on theoccasion he has caused to be published in

a Washington City paper an invitation mak-ing welcome everybody to his feast, not evenbarring the much despised Negro, which isso common to real Democrats. Champ is thefirst Democrat that has sense enough to

break away from his traditional Negro

prejudice and openly bid for the Negro vote

and it will do him a lot of good. When theDemocratic party as a whole adopt Champ

(Mark's idea then and not until then will theNegro vote divide up in politics.

George F. Cotterill is appealing to the wo-

men of Seattle to elect him mayor irrespec-

tive of what the men do. Are you, Mr.Cotterill, so much of a molly coddle that youare wholly unable to make any headway

among the men and hope to win an import-ant election through sickly sentiment andby appealing to hysterical women? If you

are a man fight like a man and fight withmen. There are lots of men who are goingto vote for you, providing you defend your-

self like a man and not like a hystericalgrandma.

Robert M. La Follette gives it out, "Istill have hopes of winning the presidentialnomination." Well we have fears that his

hopes are suspended on broken sticks. Wesuspect that if Bobby had have had the re-

motest idea that Teddy was going to stealhis thunder he would not have insurged at

all.

William Jennings Bryan, the matchlessone, is in Seattle on anl alleged lecture tour,

but dollars to doughnuts he is on an awaken-ing tour in his own subtle presidential inter-est and is lecturing on the side at so much per

in order to lessen traveling expenses. Bryan

is a brilliant talker and whenever he talks,whether in his or the other fellow's interest,

he sees to it that he gets the coin for it.

John E. McManus, at one time active inthe politics of the state and senator fromWhatcom county died last Saturday. Inlater years he has been more or less indis-posed, but he as well as his friends hadreached the conclusion that he was recupe-rating. He was on the streets all day Fri-day and ten minutes before he was strickenhe was in a happy frame of mind. He elavesa host of personal friends and business asso-ciates to mourn his sudden and to an extent

rather unexpected death.

James P, Agnew, who always manages, to

handle the money, has been employed by the"special interests" of the city to fight Al-bert J. Goddard's relection, and to that endhas opened up palatial headquarters andhas substituted John Schram for Goddard.This jim agnew is one of the most insignif-icant creatures in the form of a human be-ing and can always be counted upon to turn

a political trick, if supplied with unlimitedcoin. He it was that distributed thousandsof dollars of Thomas Burkes money whenhe knew Burke had no more show, of win-ning than a snowball in flying throng Hades.Goddard has stood by the best interest ofthe city and every loyal and patriotic citizen

should vote for him next Tuesday.

James D. Lowman, president of the NewChamber of Commerce of Seattle, and inmany other respects a promoter and builderof the Northwest, is home from Washington,Where he has been for the past two months

in the interest of Alaska legislation. Mr.Lowman is one of Seattle's most loyal ad-vocates and is not selfish in his work.

W. D. Hofius, one of Seattle's foremostbusinessmen, died last Tuesday. Prior to hisdeath he had enjoyed fairly good health, butwas overcome with heart failure, from which

a change.

Friday, March 1, 1912.

POLITICS AA2) VOLITICIAJVShe never rallied. He accumulated a fortuneduring his business career. His life wasspent apparently in the endeavor to get to-

gether a vast fortune and he succeeded rightwell.

Thomas B. Sumner of Everett, who wasseen on the streets of Seattle one day thisweek, is watching with considerable inter-est the outcome of the political fight in Seat-tle, is of the opinion that, it was a political

mistake on the part of the P.-I. to support

Cotterill in preference to Gill. In speakingabout the Roosevelt boom he said, "In my

opinion Teddy is in line for a political frostbigger than Grant got, when he came out

for a third term. The country may rush up-

on Roosevelt, that it may only be permittedto touch the hem of his garment, but I do not

believe it."

Col. Robertson, editor and proprietor ofthe Republic of North Yakima, was doingthe big city last Wednesday. When askedwhat he thought of the Roosevelt boom hereplied: "I no longer relish doses of bullcon and do not propose to take any more ofthem unless I can not help myself. Chasing

after false goods neither sounds nor looksgood to me." The colonel is j one of the big

ones of the state and his visit to Seattle likethat of Sumner and Lesh may have hadmore or less political significance.

Dan E. Lesh of North Yakima was visit-ing Seattle the past week. He looks thesame Dan Lesh that he did when he was a

mighty political power in the Republicanpolitics of the state. In the fourth and fifthlegislatures of the state he was a state sen-ator from Yakima county. His presence inSeattle at this particular time might havehad some political significance.

Fred B. Chandler, the sissy seeking theoffice of comptroller, has no more show ofwinning the office than has some fellow whowas not even a candidate and he does not

deserve it.

E. J. Brown, the Socialist candidate forcorporation counsel, after all is going to get

a good many straight Republican votes, not

that they know anything detrimental to

Bradford, but they think that that partic-ular office has been handed down from sireto son quite too long and they will vote for

J. Will Shafer, one of the brightest legal

minds in the Northwest, who is the

state law librarian at Olympia, wasamong the passing throng in Seattlethis week. When he is not on duty for thestate he devotes his idle moments to brief-ing difficult cases for attorneys not accessi-ble to libraries, and out of this he realizesmore than the salary paid him by the state.

J. D. Dean, president of the King CountyWeekly Publishers Association, has issued

a call for a special meeting of the Associa-tion Saturday, March 9th, at 11 o'clock a.

in., which will be held in Seattle at the Com-mercial Club rooms.