The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 5, 1905, Page 5

T Weaver Decided After an Al-Night Prayer PHILADELPHIA'S MAYOR A VERY RELIGIOUS MA® AND THAT Lots te — Fe Mioeke east < | eal ay mn Aune car line t Row Baay terma loquire wee and Boston Bre Bothwell Citas, 189°} peo psonanct Rents: — aoe HAD MUCH TO DO WITH HIS STAND FOR CIVIC HONESTY HE MAK@S A CALL FOR HELP TO AMERICANS OPPOSED To | How We Sell Pianos CORRUPTION IN CITY GOVERNMENT——STORY OF THE MAN | | We beatin by y j jower tha ’ | Rod in Seattle We se wy must de Y BY MARLEN B. PEW riding In from Overbrook their @eun the price " Staff Spe o the Star uburban home, in Drake's auto peat makes in th PHILADELPHIA, June "When! mobile: “Drake, [can no more! o I entered this fight than die for my honor and for my world, statement that | co acred true Tam going to fight | 3 aia B CHASE my honor under Mayor Weav@ is an intensely re i }wouk! not endure legious man. For years he has been | * gueRSON % any influen to m a A member of the Bap | B iflce my juigment of right, and|/Me has had a lay i} picHMOND hat on this cause I w 1 ba of boys of hin son's age HELLER for life or death years—wh moral training has i BURY t meant that Mterally, [It was| been to him as great an interest aa GRAMER ho mere sacrifice of political ambi’ any he posscased. Mr. Weaver ts tion, for | have none | could not/also of a strictly religious tempera ee OTHERS jlook my wife in the face or stand } ment ; ; " vite 8 before my m as bla model, nor} John Weaver never committed give our guara could I traverse the streets of my]a dishonest act in hia life,” said a If everything sot own city with the shame in my | Drake. He is the beat type of a Tah jeunes we say we return jReart that I had betrayed my sacred | Christian gentleman 1 have ever BT ge money. Can anything trust, That is why 1 declared war.” | known, and he is a living proof to By gp fairer oF safer. Pay This is the statement of May ay. if nothing eb that a man E the month, if you [Jono Weaver, who caused the moral/ can be donstatently a Christian gen-| ' Bd revolution in Philadelphia by veto-}tleman and hold political office at q ‘ }ing the gas extension lenge bill and | the same time, even in Philadel-| detytug the party machine. “Absolutely no other Influence ex cept my own conscience has dictated | ning away phia” Mr. Weaver started out by Sherman, Clay run: | from his home fn Fing- | & Co [my policy,” he continued. “The gas| land and going to sea. Life before ° extension was the most impudent/the mast was not #o alluring after By grmway bearers jand pernicious pie political] the first test, and #0, as a hoy of } . Seattle jobbery on rewerd. To take any but/ 15 years of age, he landed in Phil tease cat the stand T did would have been to|adelphia He started out as an er apell my dishonor i is going to be|/ rand boy for John Wanamaker Cal. ® long, hard fight against the graft ing. But | have right and the best t=: | Cement of thha great communtty with me. and with Divine Will f be- | Seeame competent in that art. By | lieve we will work the city’s salva-|a*siduous labor and seif denial he | — it would be foolhardy to dis-| studied law and was admitted to! cuss future plans. All | can say ts/the bar in 1891. With remarkabie} it need the moral support not only | rapidity he became recognised aw ‘of the good people of Philadelpbia,|one of the best trial lawyers in but all believers im civic honesty, Philadelphia. for we are fighting a powerful en-| While at the Prighth of: bis ac my.” coms Weaver entered the political In this interview Mayor Weaver Sreana. Hoe was olected district at- | confirmed a story | had heard a few tormey and was arrayed with the hours before—a story which very "publican machine This was his} few of even bis closest friends | first political office. He had once| know, and which explains the influ-| declined to go toi the common coun. | qnces which tmpelied him to take Later he waa an office boy ft ” firm of lawyers, aud while thus en gaged he studied stenography and \ Hi ft i pRicR LISTS FREE. By five cross pane! Doors are everywhere; price $1.30 | ctl, he would not| his remarkable stand against the)! rd leader ta} polley he should pursue | as @ legislative representative | | “After the mayor took office two years ago he waa under very wicked | and unjustified attack.” said Mr. Dr He was charged with be ing the tool of the organization. | it seems to me now, in review ing the incidents af the past yer that Mr. Weaver was chosen by th | Durham machine for district attor Rey, and later for mayor, because of his clean rovord @ man above reproach say that the mayor has ever been| approached by anyone soliciting a dishonest affiliation tn any act, bat | T am inclined to believe that he felt that the polities! machine was | | ‘putting the verewe" on him a (ew) jmonths ago. He acted like a} changed man. I know he was very } unhappy, and he told mo on set CLEMENT A. GRISCOM, oral occasions that he wished he A captain of industry, who, Pol out of office reetor in the gas company, . 7 oO ce dcavunelll ad ca oan. ot “The mayor's pride waa terr’ yer door fad for price Usts to my sales 1908 Third avenue, Seat- No Commission pents without Interest. Rotary and Domestic. ever made. Shuttle $16, $19, $24, Sewing Department. INE’S Ably j hurt when, at the outset of this die > } Philadelphia — | graceful gaa steal, the religious ete ver: of politica! corruptionists | @*ats of the city held public prayer | bet in te power, . | meetings at which they sought di-/ | Mayor Weaver was 20. bitterly | *im¢ Auldance for the mayor. Mr. | lung by his own conscience and so| Wes¥er's mind was made up at that horrified by the attempt of his party | ‘ime to content the attempt to push BOO SEF rerctates to torce through the in Teeees he -ecenian of the ons} jet above the Postoffice. Hiquitious gas measure, an instru-| ‘“S- | = | ment that would practically rob the} a ib “The ma: or well knew that were! he to make any attempt to forestal ¢ 00,000,000, that he} j |PRAYER WITH HIS WIFE AND|S0uld mena bis own defrat. The | Philadelphia gang | YOUNG SON, TO RENOUNCE HIS opertten with and Cafe PARTY AND TAKE His BOLD/ Perfect harmony with the gang at) | PARTY A DOLD | Harrisburg, and it would only have | pme made Bread—¢ loaves |STAND FOR RIGHT. There waa) sis natter of hours for the leg. Ino polities in the move and it was | °%™ seeeeee QBej against the advice of some of his| *sture to put through & ripper bill ec which would have put Mayor = best friends, who feared for hie f0-| Wosver out of office and lef the great gas franchise at the mercy of It i= upon the authority of Pred-| Se Eat ern” erick &. Drake, Mayor Weaver's law partner and one of his closest }sonal friends, that | am enabled to } make this statement. Mr. Drake said that on the following day Mr. Wea ALFONSO IN LONDON By. at the OLD RELIABLE SPOT KUNE & ROSENBERG, 625 First Avenue. vee’a final decision to fight, the mayor sald to him, as they were) coenBOURG, June 5 King A) fonso arrived at 7 o'clock this morn- | ing en route to England, He was| | conveyed in a barge to the Engllah [royal yacht Victoria and Albert | The French warship fired a salute. BiG SALE OF ACME 3-COATED GRANITEWARE We purchased the entire stock from a well-known local jobber at 50c on the dollar. You never saw such bargains. FOR 10c | FOR 25c S82 OUR WiNnDOW. SEK OUR WINDOW. Berlin Kettle and cover. Lipped Preserving Ket oe | LONDON, Jane 5.—King Alfonso | arrived at Portsmouth at noon e corted by two British warships. He| was met by the Prince of Wales and} } Party. He arrived at Victoria sta-| tion late this afternoon and drove jto Buckingham palace, where the king will make his headquarter during his London visit TELLURIDE, Colo, June 5.—| Twenty-eight miles of track on the | Rio Grande Southern waa washed out by the Dolores river near | Dolores. Three bridges were de stroyed and traffic is paralyzed. l-quart Milk Kettles, 2-qnart Berlin Kettle and cover. Mik S-quart Preserving Kettles LIZARD, June 5,—The Apache ag 10-quart Water Pail. }erosned the finish line at 10:20 this Sauce Pans 10-quart Dish Pan. eS ‘si Ing Spoor 6-quart Sauce Pan. — Pood Caps. 2-quart Coftes Pot THE NORTHERN PACIFIC will change it» schedule of traina on [June 4th. Look out for many changes and additional trains, *** | ne “THE PUGET SOUND LIMITED,” }the Northern Pactfic new train b: FOR 10 | FOR 25c aa = | twe attle and Portiand, will be 2d A 7 | open inepection at Seattle from | SPE ve. an 7:80 p. m. to 9:30 p, m., Saturday, | LGER & HURLBU Union St. June 3rd. You are cordially invited to visit same. HE SBATTL ,"2 TAR—MONDAY, JUN ¥ this is the largest furniture store in the West---oxtends longest and most liberal credit Cred Is ( ry Good ---everything that just fits this season is here in a splendid way now; seasonable furnishings were never here in a larger, more attractive and better way than right now. ~--for summer comfort, at home or away, you'll find here much of seasonable concern in the way of furnishings---you’ll find them the way you would expect them to be at “‘the largest furniture store in the West,”’ and priced in the way they should be, “in the Standard way’’---the right, the satisfac- tory, the always-fairest way. down buys a GREAT BUCK STEEL RANGE, a LEONARD REFRIGERATOR or GO-CART here. The balance “pay as you can.” This is “the Standard way” ---we are exclusive Seattle agents for the famous ‘Old Hickory’’ furniture---the ideal, practical and most satisfactory summer furniture. extra special “Happy Home Contest” news 600 special consolation prize “happy home” cribs like this to be awarded the “oO of the Mistorical Andres Jackson Chair $3.50 Hickory” repro This te an exact duplicate of the] original chairs in which Andrew 4 Jackson used to sit in the long)” summer days and take comfort in his declining years. Price.. | See rocker to mateh. | STANOAROw we want 3,000 more girls to enter our “Happy Home Contest” this woek the last week of the contest —now be “a little. Happy Home girl” right away if you are not already one. We are delighted with the way our Mttle girl friends have en- tered the contest, but we want to be sure and not leave any of them out—it's a great contest, full of pleasure and interest, and we want 3,000 more girls living tn Seattle and suburbs to enter this week, which will be the last week of the contest. i the contest will close Saturday night, June 10 ~-thia is the closing date of the “Happy Home Contest.” Byvery little girl who has entered must have her “Happy Home™ and “advertise- ment” In by store-closing time next Saturday Night, June 10th. about the extra spectal consolation prize—owing to the great amount of Interest and enthusiasm our little girl friends have taken in the contest, we have decided to award 500 EXTRA SPIFCIAL CONSOLATION PRIZES to the 500 “little Happy Home giris, who will be given “honorable mergion” by the judges in making the contest prize awards. The Sp yasolation Prize ts a handsome little wire doll crib just like here pictured—{t has @ canopy and fe fitted with mattress and pillows, which are covered with fancy cretonne, canopy {a also aped with it. Come in next time you are downtown and see it and “try real hard” to win one of them if you don’t get one of the —~ _ “the ten-reason-why contest” for out-of-town girls | —will not end for some time yet. We want “every little girl in the state” to enter this contest; must be 14 yoars old or under, Write at once for special booklet telling all about the contest, and give date of birthday. “old Hickory” spindle-back settee | | $6.00 “Old Hickory” Spindle Back Chair —#2.50, This is ao light. simple and quite neat little “Ol Hickory” spin- die back chair, seat is 18 inches wide, 49 inches igh; seat ta | clonely plaited. Price.... $2.50 See Tisch arm chair rocker and student's chair to match. { “Old Hickory” Weven Wing Rock- or—$7.50. } So called from the consent | high wing head rest, height te |} 61 inches, a cushion attached te { top place is suggested for head ; comfort. Price ... $7.50 | =| ‘The “Andrew Jackson” Rocker— i The “Old Hickory” reproduction f° of the historical “Andrew | Jackson Chatr,” | $4.00 | The “Old Hickory's” reproducti | of the historteal Andrew Jackson * Chair. So called from the sim “Old Hickory” Tisch Chair-—$2.75. This rocker matches the Tisch rm rocker and it is light, sim Price See pmall single arm chair and student’s chair to match, single chair, student's chatr ple and very strong. ple sturdiness of ita construc the | “Old Hickory” Lounging Chain | $7.00. $7.00 tion; @ reproduction of I rocker in which Andrew Jack- | An excoudingly comfortable chair, || son passed many of hI dear old 2 is 44 inches high, the arm rests Parry = bye bag This is a splendid piece of “Old Hickory,” very pretty spindte| are 3 inches wide, deep seated | Price .. ‘ $4.00 | back and good and strong, seat is 36 inches long, 16 Inches deep; | (19 inches), all closely hickory | See chair to match, PIC® ..cceees ecevecce oeeesseccsces -.-$6.00| bark plaited. Price iH] b Ni bes ofl | , | i | ntUure Gd | fandard Fur ti a i} | L. Schoenfeld & Sons i this store extends the longest | this store extends the longest 4 || and most liberal credit— 1006 to 1016 Fir st Avenue and most liberal credit— BELLINGHAM SEATTLE TACOMA