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Theodore Roosevelt, who has been parad
ing his love for humanity from the Atlantic
to the Pacific and from Maine to Mexico,
had an opportunity last Monday to choose
between humanity and self-aggrandizement
and the latter got his unqualified support.
Right stood no show against the prospects of
getting votes for Theodore Roosevelt.
Putting the president of Hayti down and
out by explosion is a less expensive route
than by revolution, and far more effective.
Taft and Sherman, Wilson and Marshall,
Roosevelt and Johnson are the big presi
dential racers.
Is the filing for .superior court judge on
the part of Frank S. Griffith a subtle move
<n the part of Frank and Johnny Clancy
to politically rehabilitate the Ciancy gang?
Now let Miss Jane Adams immortalize
herself as did Harriet Beeeher Stowe.
There seems to be no doubt of the fact
Lefty Louie left New York on French bail.
Believing King Solomon to be of Negro
origin though a Jew in faith may have been
responsible for that New York Negro ac
cepting the Jewish faith with the hope of
becoming the King Solomon of this country
when the republic is overthrown.
Evidently hidden hands got in some
splendid taps on Lake Tape.
In selling De Larms five million dollar
projects for $12,000 the court went into the
bargain counter business at the expense of
the suckers who furnished the money. An
other instance of "a fool and his money
soon part."
That "fifty" filing fee will ocme in aw
fully handy just now, owing to the string
ency of the money market.
Chickens about the late maneuver grounds
must have been of very vicious breeds the
way the soldiers had to fight to keep from
being overcome by the numerous flocks that
attacked them from time to time.
China is getting about as revolutionary
as Hayti and Mexico, which is saying a
good deal.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 1912.
Though but early in August a biting
Frost has fallen on the crop of Congression
al buders.
Perhaps after all the move to organize
"lilly white" political parties in the United
States is but a forward move of the white
folk to absorb the black folk. Go to it.
is in much demand, which must expia*«-4he
great rush to the woods on the part of the
Seattle unemployed, lest they be drafted
for the work.
In drawing the color line the Bull Moose
party demonstrated that, it is without Re
publican ingredients.
Seattle has a water supply for four mil
lion citizens, which may not be a fact for
a million years, and there is probably no
further use for worry as to what Seattle
will do for water.
It was doubtless the water that caused
the attorneys to speed in Rainier park.
"Rainier water" is famous for making peo
ple get up and get there.
Wih-i. (he likes of Miller Prprtittln ran
file for an office it's almost time to repeal
the law.
In spite of the Bull Moose convention the
Darrow trial held its own for sensations.
Before turning over the $50*000 jack-pot
for the defense of Becker the New York
police should read up on the McNamaha trial
and subsequently the Darrow trial.
Forget the stadium agitation, as Seattle
can get along very well without it.
If it be true that New York's notorious
"gunmen" are in Seattle, they probably
brought money enough with them to do busi
ness with the police.
That, to say the least, was a most unfor
tunate explosion down in Hayti, which re
sulted in the death of the president and 400
others, and coming as it does from a country
that has monthly revolutions, it leads one to
thing that it's a new form of revolution
adopted by the political outs.
POLITICIANS
A. E. Fuller, who is seeking the Repub
lican nomination of county engineer, says
on his card, "I am not supporting the Re
publican party." Strange statement to say
the least, to come from one seeking Repub
lican strength, but what's the use of dis
VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 24.
ensuing such tommyrot, for Fuller will get
no kind of support for that or any other
kind of public office, and if he should, and
be elected to an office he would prove the
proverbial bull in a china shop. From his
looks and his conversation A. E. Fuller
has no more fitness for the office of county
engineer thtm a wad bull moose.
Bill Wray evidently did not finish up the
work of the collecting agencies in the last
legislature and he wants to go back to
trade his vote off for everything that comes
up to get votes for the collecting agencies'
cinch bills. Bill ought to be a Bull Moose
a>s he is entirely out of place among Re
publicans.
J. M. Gephart, who thought he heard the
hum of the Congressional bee, filed for the
Democratic nomination for the first district,
but he repented of his rash act in two short
weeks and withdrew from the contest. It
took entirely too much money to make the
campaign for the salary in it, and Jim is
not of that class that would expect to
speculate on his vote when a member of
Congress.
For the first time in the history of the
stale a scramble for Democratic nominations
for state offices is recorded. There are any
number of candidate's for Congress, all of
whom believe that his party nomination is
equal to election. The candidates for gov
ernor are quite numerous and they con
tinue to file. The leading candidates in the
opinion of The Seattle Republican are I).
C. Million, M. M. Godman, Hugh C. Todd
and W. W. Black. Million is strong in the
northwest and Seattle and more or less
popular all over. Godman is strong in
Eastern Washington and with the anti-sa
loon wing throughout the state. Todd's
strength is a scattering from every which
way. Black has some strength in Everett
and the northwest and some little in Seat
tle.
The strength of the Republican guberna
torial aspirants in the opinion of the writer
is as follows: Coy. M. E. Hay, John C.
Lawrence, Bob Hodge, Orville Billings, and
Otto A. Case. The above applies: to first
choice votes, but on second choice, the line
up will be John C. Lawrence, Robert Hodge,
Orville Billings, Myron E. Hay and Otto
A. Case. The fight for the Republican gub
ernatorial nomination will be between Hay
and Lawrence, with both Billings and
Hodge making the leading brace cast
glances at them, while they fight for the
goal. If Paulhamus files at the last mo
ment as a Republican he will only weaken
Hay's chances.