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The Seattle Republican
Single Copies, 10 Cents.
THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
Is published every Friday by Cayton Publishing
Company.
Subscriptions, $3 per year; six months, $1.50;
postage prepaid.
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice
at Seattle.
CAYTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc.
Main 305 427 Epler Block
Seattle, Washington
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, - ■ - Publisher
SUSIE REVELS CAYTON, - - - Associate
It's an ill wind that blow rs no one good
and the Hag day agitation will at least
result in a golden harvest for the dealers.
As soon as the Associated Press can dis
pose of the two national conventions Jack
Johnson will be given the full privilege of
the front page.
Perhaps President Gomez is correct in
that the insurrection in Cuba has about
spent its force, but in our opinion he is
counting without his niggers.
There may be a Roosevelt convention at
Chicago, but the men talking that the
loudest are the ones who are praying to
High Heaven there will not be.
Uiiele Sam is not to intervene in Cuba,
so the President declares, unless those darn
darkies seem to be getting the better of ttie
palefaces, which means he will soon inter
vene.
JJitter Boot convention is the way the
Roosevelt people look upon the coining
Republican meet in Chicago, and much too
bitter for them to swallow only in broken
doses.
-President Taft may be a bit disfigured,
but he declares he Li still in the ring. Jim
Jerfiies made the same allegation, but dis
covered when Lil'tle Arthur got in action
that he was mistaken.
In the light of the past and the proposed
coming of Emma Goldman, a red Hag in
stead of Old Glory should doubtless fly
from the new nagpole that has been erect
ed in JJilling park.
A lack of lucrative employment probably
prompted the Patriotic .Recall Association
to organize, as it would afford a few im
mediate jobs and a great many prospective
ones for chronic office seekers.
Cuban Negroes may be lighting for their
God given rights, but they had better keep
an eye on Uncle Sam, who has always
thought the Negro has no rights that a
Caucasion need or should respect.
That San Diego homicide may be cor
rect in saying, "I did not kill a man; I
killed two skunks," but before he has heard
the last of it he will doubtless conclude
they were at least human skunks.
It does not necessarily follow, constant
reader, that because one of the Republican
nominees for elector has a Potts complexion
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1912.
that he is a black man. The complexion
is in the name and not in the face.
Fourth of July, one month away will be
the next patriotic demonstration the country
will present to the "red flag" brigade. The
country may be socialistically inclined just
now, but it is by no means unpatriotically
inclined.
There are reasons to believe that, the Se
attle Star got little or none of the Perkins
swag in the Roosevelt roundup, and as a
result that afternoon sensation is not bub
bling over with enthusiasm for the Colonel
and his shadow, Pinchot the Guy.
Attorney Darrow may have tried to
"fix" the prospective jurymen in the Me-
Namara trial, but jury fixing seems to be
common to corporation attorneys, yea, so
common that one attorney has been styled
'•Sammy, the Mxer."
Seattle witnessed on yesterday the grand
est and greatest Memorial day parade iv
all her history, and it was largely due to
the attacks recently made upon Old Glory
by an irresponsible rabble seeking cheap
notoriety.
This is the second year that Scuttle has
been short changed in the way of a baseball
team and no one seems to be responsible
for it, but, David & Dugdale. He wants
the money and takes the opportunity of
working the Seattle fans.
Gen. Corruption seems to have been
selected by botli the Taft and Roosevelt
forces to preside at the Chicago conven
tion, if a hundredth part of what the two
forces arc saying about each other be true.
What's that about, when thieves fall out.'
With Gov. Hay's gubernatorial candidacy
already costing him in the neighborhood of
$lOUU per week and Lawrence and Billings
preparing to call his hand, it looks as if
the campaign this year in the state of Wash
ington will be a warm baby.
If Francis l'atrick Gass runs for the legis
lature on his record, then he had as well
not run at all, as the other fellow will
be nominated hands down. Goss' record
in the legislature is confined to his aping
America's Thanksgiving bird.
.We suspect the average person of this
country prays each night for the good
Lord to make a millionaire of him, and if
the actual millions are not given him, that
the good Lord do the next thing to making
a millionaire of him and permit him to act
like one.
If in the future fatal accidents on Mem
orial day are to be as numerous as on yes
terday—Memorial day—then it would be
well to begin to agitate for ''a safe and sane
Memorial day." It looks as if the "sports"
wanted to give the people something new to
mourn for.
It was not the mere dancing of the "tur
VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 10.
key trot" in their apartment in the La
dies' Home Journal building that the man
agement fired twenty young women, but
because women who did such either in
private or public were not pure women,
and their influences were bad where good
Avomen are employed.
It is being advocated in the South that
even white children be taught industrial
educations. With their constitutional lazi
ness they have managed to kill hundreds
of innocent black folk annually, and now,
if given lessions in industry and thrift, Ne
gro blood will drench the entire South.
To be running a poor man campaign
Col. Roosevelt's managers and lieutenants
are doing a whole lot of getting about the
country. It takes millions to keep up their
pace and it is hardly possible that the
colonel is putting up all the necessary
dough.
CURRENT COMMENT.
if President Taft is not able to nominate
v ''dark horse" for president, who, if elect
ed, will take care of his friends, then Theo
dore .Roosevelt will be nominated and elect
ed and Taftism will be blotted completely
oft' the map. Wherever Taft has been
pitted against Teddy the latter has won
by sweeping majorities even in Ohio, Taft's
home state, thus demonstrating that the
people want Theodore .Roosevelt for presi
dent. A number of Taft supporters have
openly declared they will vote for a Demo
crat in preference to Roosevelt, but that
is pre-oonvention talk. The average Re
publican may threaten to bolt his party's
presidential nominee, but he seldom ever
does, yea but twice Li the history of the
Republican party have Republicans in suf
ficient numbers bolted the presidential nom
inee to elect a Democrat —James G. Blame
by Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Har
rison by Grover Cleveland —and while there
seems to be a great deal of unrest in the
ranks of the Republican party just now the
presumption is, the party will assume a
normal state soon after the Chicago con
vention has become history. Roosevelt
swept the New Jersey primaries last Tues
day by overwhelming majorities. This does
not exactly settle the contest in favor of
Rooseveltt, but it opens the door for the
band wagon rush on the part of the Taft
followers. President Taft may insist on a
nomination if he has only a bare majority,
but if he does it will be for vindication and
with the belief that he will be defeated at
the polls.
The Methodist Episcopal General Confer
ence, the most democratical as well as largest
representative religious body in the world,
has just adjourned after a month's continued
session. So democratical is the organization
that an element of liberalism has sprung
up among its members, which, according
to the original teachings of the founders

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