The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 17, 1910, Page 4

THE STAR—MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1910. Published Co. Press. Publishing United The Star Member of Daily by > Your Interest in Free ‘Courts Why is it that corporation lawyers as a rule take a keen interest in judicial conventions? in republican judicial districts the big corporation lawyers, as a rule, are republicans? jemocratic judicial districts they are democrats? e there is some connection between politics and their profession? elected on partisan tickets they must first be nominated at party conventions. As these conventions are usually controlled by machine bosses, the judicial candidates are picked by the bosses. Corporations that want special privilege have a habit of contributing to the campaign funds of political Why is it that parties Do they make their contributions through their lawyers, and thus put the bosses under obligations to lawyers? Is that why these lawyers are generally so influential in judicial conventions? It is known that in the days when nearly all judges were grafters, at least to the extent of accepting rail road passes, the | is handed out the passes through their lawyers Did the ju f , sense of obligation when those pass-giving, favor-distributing lawyers appeared in court and said, “If your honor please?” Can the average n feel sure of getting justice in courts whose judges get on the bench by the favor of bosses who accept campaign contributions from Special Privilege? Does Special Privi ntribute liberally to party machines for the mere fun of the thing? Or is every dollar thus contributed a cold-blooded investment that is expected to bring large returns by way of special privileges? Wouldn't it | er to have a nonpartisan judiciary—to take the people's courts out of partisan politics —to free the bench from all obligation to special interests and make all judges free to make law mean justice and give every man a square deal in the courts? Think it over he interests of all whom YOU hold dear in this life may depend some day upon the decision of a judge. Won't YOU be surer of justice if that judge is a free judge in a free court? OBSERVATIONS these a ; Census Wrongs Two wrong er of w aa, do not make a right, and h € r f Tacoma can be t in no other way Tacoma pation ° ° o ably did efforts to sec ” y t or ‘ » eratore fault, but the a u ‘ tr | ° penalize the r | LIKE THE ordinary n in the actual figures ve with his rela Tt is the dw rt s bur ’ a o o sible at the e t rt of the BEING A CLAIMANT for a coal cl bureau to punish ar er-counting. And that | character what has been done € of Tacoma. The che ra ee count did their we far from being fafr at the a were punitive ins The checkers | age of Tacoma’s population is scatt ing places, and many residents ere emg ° hard lock, Manuel bas gone to sim im Alaska is no longer | e” © IF TACOMA needa either Hi Gill or Wappy or both in her census of resent t. Their attitude work, Seattle will be neighborly that the bureau was angr Ge ae and th A MIDOLEWEIGHT RIFLE fn an anery jeision over any prizefighter at any time. when a large per ° ° ° d around the various w LAKE UNION {» too abitious a body of water to be devoted ex pyed out of the clusively to cat boats, Vote for the canal bonds these the checkers refi to take eo. Unavoldable r ° ° address were not inv gated whole conduct of the « THEY DIO A fair day's we ers was evidently 3 t to find as many mistakes as | went to church and also signed the recal possible. They were » purpose of reducing the 6 “ie count, and the measure of was the site of the reduc BEFORE HE {8 through W r Wellman will be convinced that tion they made in the origina lumbus did a pretty good job, all th If Tacoma erred in « sg her population, the ° ° ° census bureau erred in the Y less excuse In GOOD EVENING, Mra. Citizen! If you bought wnder-counting in e 7 goods today, remember prices are @ cal ret enumeration is exactr Payne-Aldrich tariff, for which the trusts are truly sorry right and proper that ti eRe should be correct; it THE Payne-Aldrich tar be a work but New York's Without thought of punish bureau ment of It sounds Ike one of ¢ " The does this, it is not d 4 eit oma or the nation | operation wac emine y at large. It io manifestly ur us bureau 4 the citizens of Tacoma asx a whole for the fault of a few Tacoma should have a fair d and {. is up to the the North Pacific, as a matter of* ction for themse O Be C that she gets it Tacoma by the census bureau to re practiced mood can get a in August, apd the good citizens who | Christopher ¢ that } otion” of the to in States nenat vice Standpat Dy To 40 the Dick Horrick Poraker xHarding « t ¢ Toledo's go rule mayor would enough fal last_season will not return to cok MLLE. GABY, wh longa to nuel, has a record vi A} lege.” and public enough ee big o “ "w York theatre | But think of our ollege anage i # robe eave neh cesspool Ww e lost back.” our last year's Josh Wise Says: “By mistake Tobe Fridemush’s will wuz read th’ same cay he died The Philadelphia mint coined an’ his funeral wuzn't largely at-| 146,000,000 pennies last year and Toledo 2 cont ¥ ra of Golden Ru on tended.” will coin 100,000,000 more this and ( — year. Pennies disappear from cir how do After all, the as-beens” di culation faster than any other oe and Whitleck hurt the “going-to-bes” are in the same | coin. class, memes — | “I am saving the rose you gave The United States, France and/me last week,” he said, “because Argentina are the only countries| while it withers tt reminds me af that can display the British flag! you.” Then it happened. Sa a battle trophy. } - — | Eight hundred million spools “Our college is in a bad way.|are made in Maine every year, Nautal—Where did she go on her last trip? Two of our champion debaters of | mostly from paper birch wood Neptune—To the bottom ten years of Tom Johnson J cent with ten safe ona Cox ere figure it o WHEN SHE WENT FASTEST. Neptune—Yes; especially Seaman's ‘ann't it? on het last trip. ed TACOMA will hereafter provide herself with an adding machine. | HERE'S HOPING that Seattle will not have to recall her conaus | the de} THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE 2 By Mail, out of city—1 year, $2 month, 2he Enter Beattie, Wash, Pe From Janitor to Big Lawyer in a Decade; Here’s True Story of the Life of Dan Landon years ago Daniel Lan don was & common laborer in a corn Meld in Nebraska, Today Dan” Landon has one of the beat law practices In Seattle, a toe worth in the peighborhoo@” of 20,000 a ye And Dan Landon has just reached hie 24th year. It wasn't luck that took Dan Landon from cutting corn to a big| law practice; it was anything but luck. The fhet is that Landon’s career has been a perfect model for a copy book hero—hard work, grim | determination, an honestly homely faee, and e all a emile that is} a amile; none of your simpering| parting of the lips, none of your! deprecating grins, but a «mile that! lights up his ire countenanpoe, a} smile that re hearty than most men's laughs, That's what put Dan Landon where he is today, at the] top of his profession when mont young 1 are jost beginning to gain @ foothold The thought of becoming a law yer came to Landon in the corn field, It wae bitter hard work in the broiling sun. Landon waan't afraid of work, but work at a dollar m day db 4 to him. So when the was in the corn! rib Dan invested in a sult of clothes and tackled the law one of the University of Nebraska. | Once inside, be tackiod Blackstone with gritted teeth, Other turned out for football practice or jw ed about the frat they wer going to but Landon burt night light, and had a speaking acc ance with his college bre ed the required amination ndon Was Broke } got thus far, all he had na. Otherwise he was stony oke and the prospects naka weren't at a cautious person would de eribe aa bright Dan thy ght the over and decided that Chi cago was about big enough for his talents, and to Chicago be went ting there was something of a Thirteen students Chiengo wasn't exactly yearning for lawyers at this time 0 MANY ambitious young men had the Chicago. But Landon and got a job office at $2 a week This name In the Editor’s Mail) Short letters from Star readers wil! be printed In thie column when they are of sufficient general interest as personal anything or anybody so long motive CLEVELAND PRESS mar bow 4 Whitlock for United | that loading of the & removal diate 7 *, and who is sow » for years @ client in the offloe of Gill & Hoyt Th ethod of Gill and his garig hide their crime agninat attacking Wardal tics « yed by as. As far ae Warda care if he had spe life in prison, a long as what he jhas now done ie for the good of }this community, Gill has lost ‘bis standing with ney in Seattle and t ae paper organ has jost out on ever do a found a livery stable that contained 30 head o' ing and tended to his steeds wyers all day times; horses at supper ree had been cared for Dan Ten took his armf ff to night « Then He Came West Knowledge wae about all he col| stuck to this for a year and @ half me way in carry take the same course |them fan which the nd He chang land it wa that the « An elde be in m who was nd of hand. In DAN LANDON not quite| say he didn't come West in a Pull 1 a th Landon|man compartment tipping the | porter at every fag station orses that had to be| Tired as he was, it was neces curried sary for him to make arrange up early in the morn-| which he did on the wharf. It was a gr lynamite on, and getting a job ‘longshore ran errands for|O. R. & N and stud be-|ling game in the hore, but the experience has money for his mea! open: | by law office days served tun m for noon and at night provided rth considerable since | Th When the} The tee years ago Landon came to il of books and hor-| tle, still determined to be @ nool, where he He struck William Gay up on & good many sub en in Roxwell, for a job, and at are not in the curriculum | got it. He ran errands for Gay all) Nebraska corn day and at night did the janitor | And work in the block. He swept rooms and scrubbed floors and Chicago, so Dan decided | ne West e landed in Port-| b « 4 million dot his pocket, not quite by $499,999 Also wae and tired, for o having enough money so he a sleeping room out (Our mtha of thir t of thing he had paved up a cash from a few cas 4 across, and w 4 out for himself, Attorney-at-Law.” Finally Gets Started. rporations foraaw ng to be a big ) start for bim if as hard as he ever e 0. R. & N. docks worked on the n Portiand rney for en's Union and nion, This threw his e into the fed rts and he tried over at he this Daniel You may write about malice is net your there yreman falls own & ake a few a he begin cas for “Dan Landon to " pd when can't cob wamiah the. same mm that he went after Lat the Improve \ nM Into this and ad . mination, And I hope The Star will ‘. pat face d a hearty » backed with a of the law W.H. WHITE yleiy MADE ONLY IN PASTRY FORM Packed in Two-Pound Tins FRICTION LIDS BETTER QUALITY nando Col ored as w kindly ked up The fly ser , an Kecond nty anti ie 4 the varned lauretg, cue to mineg, 4 century was again av. de those last week ok off his hat looking | violently agg De 1 pose n rehip hk coming I don't airship, iley, who left rs ago on top of a stick of has never come bagk, Burned Up. cons have heen putaway, cream free And the electric fan is ai It has no work to do, And soon, with scuttle fn my hang ITl in the ce proba’ Was all b ar peer all flod my coal ned up last year,” THEN IT HAPPENED, Dally Discontinued Story) ‘atchem was @ bear rtis was the ready pam No Waste EASIER HANDLED Attention Grocers—We Want You to Handle M. C. M. Soap. Phone Us, the Salesman Will Call } Miller-Burdette Soap Co. 427-28-29 Northern Bank Bldg. SZ. =Sees EVVEBSTCAVAC TAD: anes