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The Seattle Republican
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THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
Is published every Friday by Cayton Publishing
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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. i
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 baa been an awfully "bad mans" during
his life.
Aviating 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 a 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 a
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 $10,000,000 each.
To die poor must be a harder job than they
had anticipated.
It has been a good many years since a
public reception of a political nature in Se
attle was pulled off, that the committee of
vice-president was lily white, but the one
that received President Taft last Monday
"sho 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.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. OCT. 13, 1911. VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 32.
CU'R'REJ*&
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 a 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. It 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 a popular personage 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 a 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.
TAFT TOOK THE TOWN.
President Taft's visit to Seattle was the
signal for a great turn-out among the lead
ing business men of the community, and
while there did not seem to be the same en
thusiastic turn-out as greeted President
Roosevelt, yet it was a turn-out just the
same. The President is a pleasing person
age to look upon and his speeches in the west
have been more or less from the shoulder,
and if he makes the same kind of speeches
in the east as he has in the west, we doubt
very much if he will get the support of the
millionaires' clubs. In Seattle he was the
host of Representative Humphrey at a break
fast party and the guest of former Secre
tary Ballinger at a luncheon, both of which
was a political mistake as neither of them
can strengthen his cause in the Northwest.
Mr. Ballinger was pronounced guilty by his
Seattle acquaintances from the very outset
of the charges preferred against him and
Humphrey was beaten to a frazzle in his
fight for re-election last fall in Seattle. It
was a mistake to run the President up
against those political has-beens.
THE COLORED VOTER SNUBBED.
Speaking about the Taft reception in Se
attle, 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
COMMEJ* T
president, the writer verily 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 a 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 President's 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
8.000.
DID DILLING PREVARICATE?
When Mayor Billing makes the statement
that the keep of the city automobiles only
cost the city $1,400 and never to exceed $1,
--600 per month he has either been grossly
imposed upon by some one at the city
hall or he himself is trying to im
pose on the general public. There is
not a prominent family in Seattle
whose one automobile does not cost at least
$150 per month and at the same rate, if the
city had but 15 automobiles, their keep
would be $1,500 per month, but the city has
a great many more than that and everybody
knows that it costs more to care for a city
automobile than a 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.
STRAWBERRY CROP FAILURE.
FAILURE.
Tt is declared by those who say they know
the facts that, though the farmers of Vashou
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 a 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 a 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 teacher's cat. '"Johnny." said the
