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child think that such baseless and frivolous
charge would for a moment be considered,
knowing as I do his private life is blameless
and no one will dare, before any constituted
authority from which punishment may come
for false swearing, appear?
Judge Hanford's opinions upon the bench
have always exhibited an underlying thought
of abstract justice as far as written statutes
would permit.
The people must not complain of court
decisions for discrepancies which their law
givers are responsible, and I am satisfied
that the Honorable Judge of the United
Slates district court of this circuit, finds
sound reasoning in his decisions even when
overruled. As to his decisions upon corpor
ation cases which seems to be attacked, the
people must recollect that the judiciary has
helped to build up this great Northwest
and if inadequate legislation has been at
fault in protecting rights, the judiciary can
not be held accountable. The court must
administer the law as written, not as devel
oping conditions would have it.
1 surely regret that Mr. Perry should
have made the attack upon Judge Hanford.
It was not necessary from his position as a
lawyer nor any benefit to his clients. If he
lost for a time his cause, the spleen of dis
appointment should have urged him to seek
a lawyer-like course.
Judge Hanford is a man of patriotic fer
vor—he believes in the perpetuity of the
constitution of the United States as the very
basic principle of our Republic; to disturb
that constitution, except upon some grounds
as laid down by our fathers, is a profanation,
and I am glad to say to the Republican read
ers that his last act of refusing to open the
Olesson case at Tacoma, is to my mind, not
only judicially sound, but cannot be contro
verted from any standpoint of statute or law,
and seems to me to be the decision of an old
Roman who would be willing to sacrifice his
position for the safety of the Republic.
SHORT SHARP SHOTS.
A Connecticut Congressman announces
that he is going to quit after this session.
A lot of others will quit, the announcement
being made by the voters. —Philadelphia
North American.
Reduce the capitalization of the coal-trust
to nn honest basis and thus cut down the
coal-bills, says Woodrow Wilson. A scien
tific plan for burning water. —Philadelphia
North American.
Governor Harmon say® that he has five
times been the candidate of his party and
has never been defeated. No wonder Mr.
Bryan does not think him a real Democrat. —
Charleston News and Courier.
More than $7,000 has mysteriously disap
peared from the army safe at Fort Harri
son. Maybe the commanding officer had
beefsteak for dinner. —Charleston News and
Courier.
Those who wonder at the increase in law
lessness in New York need only to give
thoughtful contemplation to the face that
there are 11,463 lawyers in New York.—
Kansas City Star.
THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
Persons in the Public E*ye
Daniel Hudson Burnham, a noted Chicago
architect who died in Heidelberg, Germany
not long since, was the chief architect of the
Columbian Exposition, lead in the rebuilding
of Manila and likewise San Francisco after
the earthquake. Chicago's magnificence is
due largely to Mr. Burnham's architectural
skill.
Lyman J. Abbott, the preacher-editor of
the Outlook of New York, may have been a
man of high ideals, but he has become so
much concerned in. the selfish success of
Theodore Roosevelt that political muck-rak
ing has taken the place of mental and moral
philosophy in the columns of his paper, and
while the paper may be read by a greater
number of persons, yet it has not the general
influence for good that it once had.
Frank Goodrich Woodworth, a missionary
from the North to the South, immediately
after the great Civil war, who confined his
work to Negroes, has just retired from the
presidency of Tougaloo University, Missis
sippi, after a continuous service covering
twenty-five years. Dr. Woodworth succeeded
in making the school one of the most helpful
in the whole South for Negroes, and he
leaves it to the regret of all classes in and
about the school.
Margaret E. Sangster of New Jersey. who
recently passed to the great beyond, gained
world-wide fame through her writings of
women and children. She was for ten years
editor of Harpers' Bazar. She was a con
tributor to other periodicals and journals
in which the women and children are more
or less interested, and she never failed to
please them.
Elihu P. Root, United States senator from
New York, who acted as temporary chair
man of the late National Republican Con
vention, was four years ago Roosevelt's first
choice as his successor, but he later changed
to Taft. Root is being groomed for the
nomination four years from now and it is
said that at the time he consented to act
as temporary chairman he entertained hopes
that he would be the Republican dark horse
for the nomination. Like Clay and Web
ster, he will never reach the goal of his
political ambition.
Ernest P. Bicknell, national director of
the American Red Cross, says: "Only $50,-
000 has been contributed for the sufferers of
the Mississippi floods and that, too, when
there are something like 150,000 refugees de
pendent upon charity. The loss of property
is estimated at one hundred million dollars.
Had the most of the millions squandered in
the late National Republican Convention
been sent to those sufferers there per
haps would not have been such a hot time
between the Taft and Roosevelt forces.
Lewis L. Fawcett, a Brooklyn, New York
jurist, says: '' Out of the 2,700 cases I have
tried within the past five and a half years
none at the time of the alleged offense or
ever had been an active member of any
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912.
church." It occurs to the writer that it's
the home missionary field where the most of
the missionaries of Christian churches should
do their hardest work, lest we soon drift
into a nation of criminals.
John D. Rockefeller's fortune now amounts
to $900,000,000. so declares one of his at
torneys, and it has increased $100,000,000
since the dissolution of the Standard Oil
Trust. This modern Croesus has been able to
accumulate the greater part of the wealth
of the world under his own vine and fig-tree
by corrupt legislation, for which both the
Republican and Democratic parties are re
sponsible. Is it not time to call a halt?
D. B. Ward, of Seattle, has just caused to
be published a brief history of the travels,
trials and tribulations of a colony of pio
neers, entitled: "Across the Plains in 1853,"
which is about as interesting and instruc
tive narrative as one is liable to run across
in a good many moons. To view the country
he so vividly as well picturesquely describes
in its wildest state, would strike one as if
the hand of magic figured conspicuously in
its rapid change.
Ira P. Englehart of North Yakima, is a
member of the committee named by the State
Bar Association to look into the charges
made by J. H. Perry against Judge Hanford.
The other members of the committee are the
Hon. George Turner, T. L. Stiles and H. B.
Hadley, all ex-members of the state supreme
court and men with unsullied reputations
and the highest specimens of American citi
zenship, but Englehart has the reputation of
being one of the most despicable as well as
unscrupulous political tricksters outside of
the penitentiary. "When a member of the
legislature he trained with the Ed Palmer
political poltroons, none of whom ever lost
an opportunity to turn a trick for some
corporation. It is because the Republican
party allowed such avaricious political pole
cats to direct its- destinies that it is now
struggling for its life. There is no doubt
in our mind but that Judge Hanford has
been shamefully lied about, but to be given
a clean bill of sale as to character by Ira
P. Englehart will not get him very far from
the pool of polution to which he has been
dragged by men willing to tear their fellow
man to pieces that they might succeed. We
hope, because we believe Judge Hanford fair
and square, that Ira Englehart, the mushy
gum-shoer, will be dropped from the commit
tee.
Chicago may have had hotter days, but it
was when the earth was a moulten mass and
Teddy was a soul sleeper.
When Lafe Hamilton and Billie Carle get
in the same bed, then there is no longer any
doubt that "polities make strange bed-fel
lows."
Investigated Senators are wise to retire
while the whitewash is still fresh and spot
less. —Springfield Republican.