The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 14, 1908, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR 1807-1909 Seventh Ave. iT BUNDAY, DIANA’S LISHING CO, every AFTERNOON EX! Main 1080, Mise Oilipiokios Tastes the Gayetios Ah, There’s Always An Alloy PHONES tis. These are exchanges, and connect with all de partmente—aeieGor department or name of pereen yeu want. LARD STAR AGRNCY — 5409 Ballard ay BVERETT STAR AGMHEW—Horrett Brow AO UHI por week, OF E eit Same Ta Wee voles ST Poncn A Ge Weewelicg Gi Sealtia, Washington, ae second-class matter, “Hunset, Ballard oe Rookefelten AY “donee rena, iy tive conte or De % NERO NTE The Your subscription empires in om arene teen tab OMINEE ES TM Maly That date arrives, {t your subscription | tars Your name ie ‘om the chenye m paid tm ® “Sddraes label is a recewt “Nor = Ty Ted 44h, mee = copy Paes ad you ahbould ‘mien mere teee ones, please tel | r bape i can be certain of giving Our suRserTbere & perfect servings omen POLITICS—THEN AND Now The supreme court of the state has decided that the pri- mary election law, with second choice clause and all, is consti tutional, we presume, to the disgust of a certain class of professional politicians, who, with every advance in political much, law, find it more difficult to have their own way in these mat ters an opinion, must go in the opposite direction from those of the} politician, if that the} picturesque features of the political game are being eliminated | Politics, as an exciting sport, The open work play has been carried to the extreme, and mass formations, | The sentiments of the man, who has merely a vote and) and his only regret, if he have any, is is spoiled. slugging and gouging, which once delighted the player and} partizan, is no longer permitted. As a contest, an election now} has dwindled down to about the level of tiddledewinks or some} other parlor form of amusement The hectic enthusiasm that once sought avenues of escape} in stirring street oratory, torch-light processions and monstrous | rallies, is now diverted along some other channels, and goes we know not whither Here we are less than a month away from a presidential election, a It's like camping out election, and where are those wildly cheering, marching, hur-|outy more 0, You don't eat nor tahing crowds that were wont to patrol First and Second | meep by any schedule, and every avenues? Even echo doesn't answer where, With the excep eS een et aeons tion of the Socialists, no person’s politics gets him into heated | peing frightful. I've been paired arguments and fisticuffs these days. How many men wearing berg ome Rip 3 the gs om a No. 7 or better hat do we see placarded with celluloid buttons? | tune Tellers. In private life she's A clever charm for a watch fob, so intricately designed that its Widow Green of Tenth av. New YOrk. 1 find her a good scout, and political affiliations are effectively concealed, is about the limit! nes kind enough to say I'm the ‘ most refined Decapitated Lady of personal political adornment just now. ae cu ole ean And perhaps the most significant symptom of this political Colossal Carnival Co, We sleep on diagnosis, is the reticence about coming up and giving bard, | Keone ning tae ema round dollars to the treasurer of the committee. True, certain) This morning while me and| undesirables may perhaps take the campaign publicity joke a os little too seriously, and it may be just as well, but it is of the backwardness of the lad who carried the odoriferous torch, that we speak in particular. The whole sum and substance of the change is that this} generation has ceased to look upon the political beliefs of its) fathers as a religion, and is taking politics as an everyday} alfair; something to be thought over like the rent or the coal} supply; just a matter of business over which there is no ne- cessity of getting “het up” out of sympathy with some other fellow. ‘This is the result of legislation like the direct primary law The decision of its validity by the highest tribunal in the state ig not important, except as an instance that the constitution happens to be found to be in accordance with the will of the people. The second choice clause may be wrong in theory, and even may defeat the end for which it was intended. If this is so, the people can very easily do away with it or amend it. li it were done away with entirely, at the will of the people, there would be no cause for lamentation. This would be a de- cidedly different fate than if it were declared unconstitutional at the solicitation of some dissatisfied seekers after office. ‘The great point for congratulation in yesterday's dictum of the supreme court is that the constitution fits in with the views of the voter, for, despite the reverence that attaches to this rather cumbersomie word, constitutions are generally pretty sad misfits | LEADING GROCER.” mt there's fun being a carnival My, state election, a congressional election and a county) via dion === Possibly it ts good business for the city to insure {tself against paying damages for tajuries to be inflicted by the municipal autos, Dat it looks like an official notice that somebody is going to be bumped. The engagement of the Duke d’Abruzzi and Miss Elkins has been broken, bat as long as Miss Elkins has her 60 million dollars, her reasonable expectations of dying an old maid are about minus nothing. VILLAGE CUT-UP And just when everybody followed the spot light to the Balk ans, along comes Holland ap@ serves a brand-new hand-toocled ulti matum on that much ultimated little chap Castro. THE BY FRED SCHAEFER, Gov. Haskell is now going to write Roosevelt's record. If he | peyeran: Hurrah! Hurrah! 2 a can find anything about the president, that the president hasn't | you're going to have a chatic written himself, he'll astonish the world. make me « statesman. Am wv be, mH politics? You b In up to my neck and treading water. My Three weeks from today there will be several exprominent | friends are running me for counctt} citizens of Seattie, going around with an “Il bow to the will of the [and gaining on me every minute | people” expression, looking for real jobs | Show me a place to hide-—they've : wot a rope, What platform do I me | atand on? The depot platform most It ten't so much oratorical ability that ts wanted in political | ty They asked me to put up an headquarters at present, as speakers who are willing to pay their | ¢mtrence i I fo at own traveling expenses bab pare . iG higher ould + to poll the It's a pretty safe bet that the man who for to register won't | ailent vote, but it's keeping quiet for be so absent-minded about asking for an hour off on election day asthe boob A argual nell icy + et the straight ticket—Just @ comm tatton ticket i you vote ES “ave got to scratch now i the feeding of prisone but the getting of prisoners to |for my emblem on gph a dining car waiter th ht " feed lout, indicating that I stand for f —_———_—__. silver, I'm not going to mab p mind. If Mr. Hearst wasn't here, we'll have the colored | front porch campaign—half the vot supplements next Sunda jere haven't got fro porches, I oliien di guess I'll lo ‘ al optictar Maybe Hearst went back to the Dead Lotter office for some |rtedged myscif n we abebaee kx mail biue laws, being « total stranger hs itaeeey Shallens Thaven't any barrch Why, if my |alothes wore stolen while I'm in nly corruption fund I've got is 1 Men’s Hats BROKE {fund of humor, Where did f get It Benne $5 and $6 Hats for Private Leased Wire to All Wx. § 6 to kine any babies under 31.50 changes I'm going to 4 a miaaling RAINIER CLOTHING Co, 3. C. Osborn & Co. same soe, Ite from ‘my ara 1104 First Av M2720 «G27 First Ay, gana pte Mesures mo } pported right siowgy M ypponent fair GENUINE OAK TAN SOLES. Half—Rates— East Cheaper to pay $1.00 for soles ov on your Mouselvold Goods (any quantity) that will last rather than 76¢ @ 0am save you nearly Wy * to ail points in the Far m for a palr that won't BEKINS MOY ORAGE €0. MEN'S SHOE STORE, Cor, " ington st 805 Firat Av. We also take from the Baa Colman Byiiding Se aed BY FRED SCHAEFER, “WHILE ME AND QUEEN VICTORIA WAS |THE DESERTED MIDWAY, | GOT A KNOCK-DOWN TO THE OUTBURST OF EVERETT TRUE | ' 16. | atitution ‘DIARY of ot Fair Existence—But, in One's Golden Moments. FRYING EGGS IN Queen Victoria was frying exes in the deserted Midway | got a knock down to the leading grocer. Her Majesty presented him while be was coming by with supplies for the street fair outfit, “Pleasedter- meeccher” he said, did Mr. Groggies and Immediately began to take no thee After chatting a bit he kind ty made me a present of a oan of oysters, and promised to come down that evening and see my act. Speaking of my act, I've re hearsed ii, and Mr. Skiddoo says as & Deoapitated Lady I'm ail there. Wonder what pa and ma would say if they'd see me staring out at them from @ dingy, black | velvetlined cabinet ke « stuffed) weraph ex (Continued) ea ecenciis | | ) #e to do is to hold up the com ond whack up with what I find on it. Tot ' DEPOSIT Your Money at 6 Per Cont to 10 Ver Comt With the rear UND SAVINGS «& OLN OO. gia we THE ite lk aE ocr. 14, | to death at your raise in salary?” | | 100,000 votes | mark | organization never out of touch with the leaders. STAR DUST BY JOSH A WORD FROM JOBH WISE. “Uletentn’ a0 wr; ttt, ow habie”" Holding Out, | suppose your wife was tickled | She will be.” Haven't you told her yet?’ “No; I thought I would enjoy myself for a couple of weeks first Audible. | * “Speedieigh—I've just bought an | sutomobile for $226, IVs @ rattling | oar. Needloigh—Oh! I've heard tt Amenities. What would you way if 1 told! you your opponent took money | from & «reat corporation?” I should say,” answered Senator Sorghum, “that the great eorpore tion had purchaned @ gold b: Delightful Time. "This has beon a delightful sum mer,” sald the Billvitie citizen “You bet it has,” was the on! thusiastic reply We killed forty-! =< 2a RU ese NO. | Every woman wouldn't be two aliases and sold the rat tlon for 60 conta aplece!” * IF | WERE & SCRIBE Z Seey- Referred to as a “girl For some are past the age at last To be ae juventios now classed In the discard | would hurl That word, if | were he, A Moving Scene. Environments count for much,” | That's right. You never realise} what « piffing lot of junk you have | until you see it lauded on the side- | walk.” | Sharp and Pointed. our remarks seem very sharp and pointed You, “This is a pecviiar campaign. | You've got to n em that way in order to get a word in edgewise,” 9. WHAT IT ALL MEANS Tabloid History of the Socialist Party. Ninth of a series of non-partisan articles written for Voters, recent Natur: who have not followed and our Boy and Girl readers. BY GILSON ‘The soctaliat is the coming party. | tn the nited States it appears destined to aequire something lke the power ft alfeady wields in rep resentative governmeuts of Kurope In 1888 the soctaliats cast about 2,009 votes; tn 1892, 21,000 votes; in 1896, 36,000 votes; In 1900, over in 1904, nearly 450, 000 votes, According to the record of the party orxenization the dues. | paying members have in the past | four years more than doubled again, and the vote this fall ie ox pected to approach the million No other party has such perfect The members are | ghey work continuously, systemat Ly and enthusiastically »iocialian dora not mean anarchy. | | Neither does tt mean the “Looking | Backward” dream of Bellamy, nor) }dooe it mean lots of other things that are popularly credited to it tle many of Ite offictal declarations | 1894. This wing made Debs its pres } socialiam i almost identical with gome other parties, The govern ment ownership of ratiroads, tele graphs aid telephoues, for instance, | ceived leas than half that number, | Stadium, London. sound much like the populism of | 1892. One socialistic idea is that the alized Citizens, Busy Folk political events closely, GARDNER. mona, 54 {9 French chambe: aties, 43 In German reicheta in other bifes, 87 in Austria, in Norway, 15 io Sweden, 80 in Fin land, 34 In Denmark, 30 ta Belgium and 90 in the second Russian duma Socialist national m ment be gan in the United States in 1892, under t ame of socialist labor Simon Wing, Massachusetts, was nominated for president In 1896 the socialist labor party nominated Chas. H. Matchett and in Italy, 17 der the banner of the bor party into a class-concious body, aware of its rights and deter mined to conquer them by taking possession of the public powers.” In four years the socialists had divided. The new wing was the so- cial democrats, To the latter be- longed Eugene V. Debs, he of the American railway union strike of | idential candidate in 1900. He was supported by 87,814 votes. Socialist | labor candidate J. L. Malloney re In 1904 Debs ran again, poll 402,153 votes, ce answered the spellbinder.| # ational legislative assem. | § TERENCE ATH aI ITH Ie Egg EEEEKEE rent ese New Departments Are Now Ready — You'll find these, too, in a pleasant, you'll like to trade in Stationery—Tablets, Writing Pay ile Books, ete Cut Glass—New shapes, very fair prices. Bric-a-Brac—Art Fancy Glassware, ee, Tourist Necessities—Trunks, Grips, Cases of Various sorts. DOLLS, TOYS, PYROGRAPHY WOOD, SILVER. WARE, CUTLERY, ETC. An Expert Corsetierre from New York Is Just Now i Demonstrating the Well-Known La Vida and W. B. Corsets | ‘The woman inclined to stout “TY foom that per Fiction, Juven. Statues, ness can be sure of reducing her measurements several inch- es by the use of W. B. 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Hammond broke all long dist © walking records by cover ing 131 miles in 24 hours at the And a Few Light good many do not. paper for several years bave the postmaster fused’ or ‘address wi ° Alabama Beacon. be The leaves in somber tans and a°f ce | work, should not fall on the work of trade should be borne by} This year Debs te agaia the can- atrade-—-that Je, that the financial! | didate. of deaths or sccidents mes tained by workmen in any line of | (Tomorrow's article will describe | "Debs, the Man,” and give his own | men or their families, but should be | reasc why you should support borne by the trade. Which is much | him.) what Roosevelt said in empioy samegmeen ere linbllity bill. nen ALTIMG, Other sosialixte ideas, set forth 3 ™ ‘ in their platform, which have a fa-| Sloss: tlestahga™ TNS browns Suggest October ale, Except in local option towns, And there {t's not on sale. i ae “For what dose your to Mt himself by studying in | Only « thin wall correspondence school?” editor and a restaurant. ‘For present day politics, of | say, however, that those course,” jing fried at this writing sh, Ty | make good as a medium of ia son intend | “Ah, my boy; I owe & |to that woman I just hat to.” “Who was it, your “No, my landlady.” fe call | More exclusively socialistic is the |party'’s plan to have the govern | work | mijiar sound, are: solentific restora: | tide of timber lands and reclama-| tion of swamp lands; federal incl | gation; more rigid inspection of | | factories, mines and mills, protec ltiem for women employed in factor | jes; abolishment of child labor; graduated inheritance and income tax; initiative, referendum and re ment take over not only railroads, | [telegraphs and telephones, but all wesw industries where the present control has worked out santoetetie trust government ownership of mines, quarries, of! wells; progressive shortening of the day by law; compulsory in surance against unemployment, | neas and old age, and proportional entation varty has headquarters in » and New York. The party organtzers constantly | has 125 paid in the field; its publications, includ Ing several daily papers, circulate | up into the hundred thousands there are 2,740 “locals” seattored throughout the country Every member « part . contrifut office distributes “membership stamps,” which are sold at increas ing prices to state, county and local org tions until individual mem ber them for 25 cents each Thus the members pay “campaign cor Member also sell aflet take up « ‘ thon contributions of work and money from the rank and m # pathizers. it iv ontimated that there are 20 000,000 people in the world now who are on liste. The party has bers in British house of com At yet the dependable Atlas is here. Seattle Marine Supply Co 9 Weat Columbia St eee What You Can Do DEPENDS UPON What You Are ow the latter la ensential to Highest success. PROF. LANDAU the ls powder was right e ie burned, too, the pu to her face.” THe DIFFICULTY, Ts your auto easy to keep in re- pair? The bard part te te get it out of the repair shop.” Can You Spare the Cash to outfit yourself in proper st for winter? ' li not, you'll find ur M rn Cre Plan a great convenience. You may open an ac count with us, and pay a little down and a little at a time for anything selected from our splendid showing of high-grade Fall Suits, Overcoats and Furnishings Prices right— extra cha for credit Eastern Outfitting Company 1332-34 209 Second Av, Union St. “Seattle's Reliable Credit Hou Maud—Do you mean to say that ' don.—Dothan (ale), - Gentieman—It's no use I can see my he! was #0 dreadfully rattled, 1 made | Whining to me; him believe he did it himseif.—-Bos- you. ton Transeript palit : °° Beggar—So yer ought, gave with a man who I've ‘ad nuthin’ to eat for ae ~The Tatler. « « o- Don't argue talks loud. You couldn't convince him in @ thousand years. bd ey “Where is the spirit of in doubtful thundered an orator in the ‘All drank up,” moaned kempt auditor. In 1904 New York leolumn this year—gave Roosevelt 869,583 votes, and Parker 683,981 In 1900 New York gave McKinley | $21,992, and Bryan 388. ¢ A Georgia editor was asked He replied: “A “Do hogs pay” A New Style Victor Tal Machine s Victor Taper-Arm principle, the famo the oniy fic method of conveying ti fr 1 x to the hor This | comp) 2elghtineh records, $2 eash or eaay payment Sherman, Clay & Co. 1896 2nd Ave EXCLUSIVE VICTOR DEALERS Dinccieiienedirinenegnnmmen DOWNING, HOPKINS & RYER, Int. 7 DROK ERS ; Vi-son-ane alan ka, 2 Private Both Phones —219 Katabtshed 1S® Margine.