i nlly supprested any political ambition he
ink hi have along that line in the financial
and commercial interests of the city. If
lie was double-crossed by a bunch of poli
tical buckaneers and if Waterhouse was
buncoed by a bunch of prattling political
pirates, those responsible for it should be ex
posed and their candidate beaten to a
frazzle. As County Commissioner Ramsay
is piving the county an ideal administra
t'on and he could be illy-spared from that
position, but just now there seems to be
greater need for just such a man as he in
the mayoralty chair of Seattle than in the
pounty commissioner's chair. The sacri
fi c Mr. Ramsay has made in not filing for
mayor, and we truly believe it is a sacri
fice, because in our opinion he would have
swept the field with even Waterhouse in
the race, is very commendable and should
he remembered in case he at some future
time aspires for higher honors.
Kinc County's Colored Republican Club
held its regular monthly meeting last Sun
day afternoon and tranacted much routine
business. A goodly number was present,
bul nothing like what there should have
been. The municipal campaign was taken
up but it was quickly put over until the
February meeting, which will be the 10th
instead of the 17th.
,Mi!on«r these who have filed for council
man is the name of Albert J. Goddard
and without having an opportunity to see
him Cayton's Weekly is going to endorse
his candidacy. Goddard has been in the
council before and in the council the city
never had a more faithful servant. Albert
Goddard is as white a man as ever held a
public trust and if there were nine men in
the council who believe as he does as to the
handling of the public funds, the city prop
erty owners would n°t Have to be taxed
to death iv order to maintain the city gov
ernment. Cayton's Weekly is going to give
Mr. Goddard a most hearty support and it
hopes that each and every one of its read
ers will see his candidacy from the same
view point as it does and vote for Goddard
as one of the three candidates.
A number of good men and women have
filed for the councilmanic nominations and
while the editor hereof does not know all
of them, yet he does know enough of them
to say the average voter need not make
any great mistake in selecting a choice for
the city council. Six candidates are to be
nominated. The men who have filed for
the council and with whom the editor here
of is personally acquainted, are Albert J.
Goddard, Will A. TTanna, E. L. Blame, A.
F. Haas. Cayton's Weekly can cheerfully
recommend these candidates even at this
early stage of the game to its readers, and
this is not said to the disparagement of any
other candidates with whom we have had
no previous acquaintance.
11 ugh M. Caldwell came almighty close
to being without opposition for the nomi
nation and election of corporation coun
sel, but "Misther Casey" jumped in thirty
seconds before the closing hour. Caldwell
has made an ideal official and should be
overwhelmingly re-elected. His oppoennt is
an odd and eccentric protector of the
"pepul" and should be elected to remain at
home.
■ Harry W. Carroll will have no opposi
tion and of course is the same as elected
now. lie has served the city well and the
voters have shown to him the confidence
they have in him by running no one Bgftinst
him, which means a personal saving in dol
lars and cents to him of anywhere between
$100 and .SIOOO.
Ed. F. Terry has no opposition for city
treasurer and he has never had very much
since he was first elected. Ed is the son
of a Seattle first settler and the people take
a pardonable pride in honoring him.
Job work in the latest and newest styles
turned out in this office.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS
I-ussia just now is a most beautiful ex
an.ple of "chaos reigns supreme."
Uncle Sam's murdering record of his own
citizens would seem to indicate that this
country is engaged in a civil instead of a
foreign war.
To nominate (and perhaps elect) Gill for
mayor would show a very high apprecia
tion (?) for the war department lifting the
Camp Lew's ban on Seattle.
In spite of the cold snap throughout the
East things have been red hot in Washing
ton City and T. R. has given the Demo
cratic bunglers what was rightly coming to
them.
Getting flim-flammed in a political con
vention was not uncommon in ye olden
political days, but to get camouflaged in
a filing contest is the newest trick in the
political game.
W. E. Mitchell of the Mitchell Dramatic
Club, is still being opportuned to repeat
his Lady Audley concert, which was so
successful January Ist. He has the matter
under serious consideration.
An Independent Political Club among
colored voters in this country with the
Democratic party in the saddle would be
almost as inconsistent as the planting of a
flower garden in the central portion of
hades.
Peing a Western product and though a
life-long Democrat. Senator Chamberlain is
not so partisan hide-bound as to allow the
country to go to the dimnation bow-wows
because its traveling under a Democratic
banner.
Tf hog and hominy are good enousrh for
the citizens of the United States they should
be crood enough for the various European
citizens and "while on my feet, I move you
the same be sent to them instead of so
much flour."
White and colored girls work side by
each and without friction in the glass fac
tories of Trenton, N. J. It's an ill wind
that blows no one good and if nothing more
this world war is breaking down color
prejudice in this country.
Tt was the goodness of heart of Jim Cal
laghan rather than a desire to wrong any
man that prompted the late grand jury of
King county to indict him. He may have
been indiscrete, but he was not criminal,
and if his case ever goes to a jury we be
lieve it will reach the same conclusion as
have we.
Tf anyone knows of any way of com
municating with the dead we suggest that
fl r^essa^e be sent Miss Susan B. Anthony
to the effect that woman suffrage through
out the United States is now an assured
possibility and that the surly political
bosses of but yesterday are the courteous
gentlemen of today.
Peindeer. it seems, is to be our future
meat, which is to come from Alaska in
boat loads within another year. If reindeer
can be propagated and advantageously
grown in Alaska, why not in the state of
Washington, and if so thereby shift the
packing house center of the United States
from Chicago to Seattle? What the Puget
Sound country needs most to put it
visibly on the map is to become the ac
knowledged center of commercial supply.
DR. J. A. GHENT, SPECIALIST
In Surgery and Gynecology
has removed his office from the Marion
Bldg. to 221 and 222 Seaboard Rldg.,
formerly Northern Bank Bldg., corner
Westlake and Pine. Tel. Main 1185.
THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN RE
PUBLIC
The Science of Government
Ihe Hope and Dependance of the Human
Race
Copyright 1917
By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND
(All rights reserved)
CHAPTER X.
PROBLEMS SOLVED BY THE FOUND
ERS OF THE REPUBLIC.
The founders of the republic could not be
expected to anticipate for the future all the
requirements of the people, and the neces
sary powers to meet each special contin
gency of the national government.
If they could have had greater foresight,
if they could have seen more clearly the
requirements of the future and anticipated
its necessities they might, perhaps, have
made more explicit provisions for the ex
pansion in all matters which have since
taken place in these subjects which were
then of slight, or no consequence, but which
have now grown into great national import
ance.
The future, while it required an impar
tial consideration and as far as the limited
faculties of human vision permitted should
be provided for. was to them of less im
portance than the present.
The people then were devoted to the
services of their country. It was the sub
ject uppermost in the mind. The topic of
constant conversation in private and in
public. The state with some was the
greater importance and the national gov
ernment the lesser, while with others the
national government was of the first im
portance and the state secondary.
If we consider that their present was
to them more important than the future
we are in a position to weisrh more im
partially the imperfections, if any were
made, and the lack of specific powers grant
ed to meet future special contingencies.
They were familiar with the tyranny of
the governments of the world as they were
then exercised. This was kept continually
in mind. It was this knowledge so con
tinuously held in mind that created a gen
eral fear among the people and caused
them to exercise great care and caution in
granting powers to the national govern
ment. This fear extended almost to an ex
pectation that the governmental powers
granted Avould be exercised to oppress the
people. Their only examples were the gov
ernments of the past and they dreaded the
establishment of another of the same kind.
They founded a people's government; but
did not trust the people. They formed a
government for the protection of the people
against the arbitrary exercise of tyrannical
powers; but had not the courage to trust
themselves to be governed by the people.
They were in the position of a builder of
a ship refusing to go on board fearing it
would sink and drown him.
They were not sure they had established
a permanent government. They more than
expected it would go to pieces in their own
time They more than feared some one
would set himself up as king or emperor or
czar. They almost expected it. They, how
ever, builed in this respect better than they
knew.
The states were composed of local com
munities situated within comparatively lim
ited areas.
The people discussed among themselves
all phases of local subjects and local re
quirements: and also some of the general
topics that touched and concerned all the
states varied by the differences in local con
ditions.
Each state in a sreneral way was foreign
to all the others. The people were devoted
supporters, as under their circumstances
they should be, of their own state. Their
interests were within and not beyond the
state's limits. Each state capital was near
ly, if not quite, as far distant from each
other, in time and convenience of travel
as the national government now its from
tbe farthest state in the Union.
Tt is tho practice even to this day for