The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1911, Page 1

AIR t has mand th hie farm, trome, ns are we ins we they pitta 5 Terence _ cer of Protess pial in. tunity | “SAVE SEATTLE,” | SAYS DILLING TO Polls Open From 8 to 8 o'clock tomorrow. If you don'tuknow just where your precinet voting place is, call up Dilling head quarters. and ask Main 3214; Ind, 282. Tetephones: ONLY 1, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1911 IN SEATTLE The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Polls From & to & em w. If you don’t know just where your precinct voting place is up Dilting Main 3214 headquarters and as Tele Ind, 28 ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS he. READERS OF STAR Seattle, February 6, 1911 To the Readers of The The campaigr row you exercise the ing an important public servant How will you perform that duty? Wilt that you are satisfied to have your elty made th erime and the harbor of corruption and lawlessness declare for the vigorous and order The issue ts squarely before you record. He says he Is proud of it take to improve it If you are satisfied with his record, fice. But if you are not satisfied, if plant rescued, the laws enforced, gambling prohibited and the syndicate dissolved, it ts your duty to vote for a change In voting for a change you ar? doing no personal injustice to Mayor Gill, There is no such thing as a vested right to hold a pub- We office in defiance of a majority of the people. If Mayor Gill h not done your work as he promised you he would do it, if he has defied you and betrayed your confidence, it is your duty to discharge him. It is this power to dischar makes your city government power your government would be an irre government 1 am a business man. My whole training bas been the training ef a business man. And my training as a business man has con vinced me that the “wide open is not good for business ex cept for the “business” of the J&¥-breakers, the law-breakers who are permitted to harvest a profit from the privilege of law-break ing. While the moral issue is the paramount issue, there is no con flict between the moral welfare amd the business welfare of the city That policy which is best for the city’s moral welfare is best for its commercial welfare. Whether | am elected is a matter of comparatively littie import ance. The great issue is whether you prefer order to lawlessness, decency to vice, the honorable coMduct of the affairs of your city to the betrayal of your interests, afd the embezzlement of your author ity that a few protected exploite’® of crime may wax fat from the blood of your sons and your daughters. It is your fight as well as m I have But the decision must be Tomorrow highest duty of is over you cast eltizenshiy your vot the duty ¢ you say by refuge of vic ? Orw ly enforcement of law? My opponent bas made his own He does not promise to under your votes and you should Feturn him to of you desire the city lighting vice » Bn unfaithful public sponsible Kc servant which at. Without this policy WATCH THE S. E. CO. TOMORROW, IT WANTS done what I could to your decision, the you to report for duty Wednesday | 8 Co. have will dare to do this remains to 4 make the issue clear "4 I ask only that when you s° ast aside all other 4 considerations and be guided so! and patriotic duty pe ee 3 as good citizens which alone ¢ The Seattle Electric sfands ready | Electric may tie up all the car lines i paRpeNRaR 7 OFS j to help ite man, Hi Gill, win out to-| leading to th bh End districts se nie j mo ‘ow which will v idly for Dilling a ing awn This if the word that has gone}if thie w many voters : jout om the Furth offices to the| could not « 6 to vot 3 Gili headquarters in the E and would be out © + b For Jury Duty, Pas Re r two days hig «| Whether the electrie monopoly morning,” Sald Judge Rovald ferences with the If they do, the North George W. Dilling was hustling Oy. 2 one om - . Shout the court house bright and] | Yau" honor.” replied Mr. Dilling| It ts even hinted # will know why early this morning, laughing. chat too much of a he ache to leave HERE ARE THE REAL ISSUES Does Seattle belong to the city, That is the is Hiram C. Gill wrrow \ mayor of th a long trail of br | an ieue MEN AND WOMEN OF SEATTLE Seattle Electric? Does Seattle belong to the vice syndicate? | they might pile up thousands of dirty dollars—because Gill was That is the issue tomorrow when the polls open around the wad of Seattle. { am C, Gill has dishonored Seattle. From coast to. coast reputation @f Seattle has been spread. The second in all the United § terrible white slave this is the word of the ates inspectors—and no ival of Seatt icled Seattle’s shame from ps You good but has chr« ting for the first time, n cry for symp: from Gill blind you to of Seattle who are v od and shaking bands right and/ i)’ house Wednesday morning. THE TRUTH Gill, in order to become mayor, concluded a deal with the |)’; | Seattle Electric Co. by which he would sacrifice the city’s prized} é aking ery fr other womeh and children Let no candidate for office hide behind the skirts of his wife HERE’S In his right hand coat pocket was | &# eee eee eeee eee sammong calling him to jary duty + for February. POLLS OPEN It's lucky Judge Ronald is good From § to § o'clock tomorrow natured. your precinet voting place is Dit headquarters Telept 282, call up and ask 3214; Ind. ee AT BAY! would be sitting in a jury box today “TH excuse you permanently, Mr Dilling, in case you're elected. But | * if you are defeated I shall expect | » . \* Otherwise the recall candidate *® * * 3: Main sae * * * . if you don’t know just where ® . * * * * jblackened the r admii _ ABOUT LIGHT PLANT | GILL’S FIGURES ADDED UP WRONG Two things specially which have inistration are “When he shows as seeking quarter with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril—the time of the truce of the bear.’ — = At bay, Hi Gill pleads with the people he has so shamelessly betrayed and wronged, to spare him for the sake of his wife and children! His br: his last desperate move to arouse the sy into the hoppers of greed and vice which Gillism fostered But, Hi Gill, why didn’t you think of your wife and children a year Why didn’t you think of your wife and children when you make your infarnous deal with —Rudyard Kipling. go? the dive keepers whose victims were to be the wives and daughters of other men? ord of the Gill en trickery of no avail, his mocking, ribald, pompous manner weakened, Gill makes mpathy of the mothers whose children have been fed and protected | 1. The deal with the vice syndi cate. | 2. The deal with the Seat Electric Neither of these can be explained away. Thousands of circulars have mn sent out trying to show that Arma, the Gill-Furth Hght superin tendent, has been making a big profit out of the light plant, This is not true. The circular, which {* labeled The Truth About the Light Plant. gives the earnings from month to month as compared with last year. These earnings a: dded up wrong. The total earnings for this year, a# stated in the ctreular, are $599,217, Any school boy can add up Gill's fignres. But the total is only slightly over $440,000. The Gill gang thought no one would even check up the lying | arithmetic. | One more thing. While the Gill gang is claiming that the plant is growing, the daily records at the | plant show that Seattle ts ACTUAL. | their right to prey on the weak by working for Gill. |LY USING I POWER THAN IT WAS A YEAR AGO. The load w was about 7,600 kilowatts. pacity of the plant wa | Arms turned down $ acts during the ear on the s that he didn’t have enough | Now he Is only using 7,200 | kilowatts. took office The ¢ r 19,000. | 00 worth of n Arms | power Beware of and children unless he himself remembered the wives and chil- dren of Seattle. From a thousand darkened terrific indictment against Gill's misrul } = ‘ You love your children. You would not see the sons and amatint of a million dollars daughters of your neighbors go wrong. ‘Im the campaign which comes to an end tonight a thousand | Then vote out the rule of crooks and gamblers. Vote down lies kave been told, a hundred attempts have been made to be-| the temptations that surround them—the all-night saloon, the | cloud and confuse the issue, by the men who have become rich | vicious cafes with their sheltered boxes, the roulette wheel, the | because Gill was mayor, in their attempt to keep him in the| poo! rooms where boys and young men bet on races mayor's chair. If Gill should win tomorrow the-town will open wider than And this, too, is an issue. ever. Already they are preparing to open up the restricted Let the good men and good women of Seattle make no mis-| district again. The back room gamblers are straining every take. The is tomorrow is not Colman, nor the garbage ques-| nerve to elect Gill. tion—which, Gill lent no hand in settling—nor Wardall, nor} One hundred girls will be needed for the’ restricted district John F. Miller, nor Eugene Way, nor Ole Hanson, nor John L.| if Gill should win tomorrow. Who will furnish them?_ Will Wilson. Noris it Gill's wife and children your neighbor? Shall the vice syndicate and the Seattle Electric Co. con-| Gill has made a terrific campaign. He will have spent more tinue to rule Seattle? | than $50,000 before the voting is over tomorrow. This is the real, dominating, overshadowing issue. | Who furnished it? No dodging nor squirming, no twisting of facts, no denying | The disreputable elements of Seattle furnished it—the vile of truths by the desperate Gill gang can change this. | cafes, which wax rich at the cost of young girls’ honor, the Ludo- If there are any women and children to be considered it is| vies, the Clancys, the Tuppers, whose shameful business thrives the mothers whose daughters have gone wrong—have been/at the expense of the city’s legitimate business—these are the | drawn into that awful maelstrom of vice from which there is no| sources from which comes the money which the Gill gang is rescne—because Gill was mayor. j using to keep Seattle in its grip. It is those boys from high school and college who have been | And then the Seattle Electric Co. Gill's one year in the lured into the traps of crooked gamblers—gamblers who bought | mayor's office has been worth a million dollars to the Seattle | Electric. Another year will not furnish such rich pickings for It is the wives and children of men who have played and lost| the octopus because the prostitution of the city light plant has at the loaded wheels of chance which Gill let run in Seattle—/ been stopped, but it is good business for the Seattle Electric the little family which saw a husband and father come home | Co. to keep Gill in office, and it will keep him there if money and late at night, shamed and dishonored—because Gill was mayor. the votes it controls can do it. It is the pitiful, drawn-faced and weeping mothers whose YOU MEN AND WOMEN OF SEATTLE, THESE ARE pretty girls this monstrous gang has stolen and crushed that! THE ISSUES. | lighe plant on the altar of his personal ambition. That, too, ia an issue TGiN paid the men of the underworld who supported him by} the and ruined homes comes the |tufting the underworld over to them to be exploited to and that is an issue GANG’S BILLBOARD LIES Duwamish valley—victims of the Whatever increased busine Furth monoply there has been is in arc and tnean-} very lawyer knows that Gill's descent street lights, This bring scheme for building or buying a@ paying commercial business in resi the matter into the courts—per dents, factories and office bulidings |has fallen off sogrievously that the e lectric Co. ts afraid | TO TRICKERY AND FRAUD of municipal ownership. It want |plant is actually furnishing tess | power than when Arms took office. | | ili and Armes the attle | | Electric have been putting the city |plant on the rocks. There is no |anewer to this. | Any statement that denies this is | a campaign lie,whose only purpose | | is to keep Gill and the Seattle Elec tric in power. | This isn't all, Taking the receipts Jof 1910 and 196 nd comparing j them bonds gitimat rges, jactually making less than it was a year ago, Here is the table for the years as taken from the elty books and after subtracting interest on depreciation eb and all other the plant is money now two | 1909. 1910 April so0B 1,410.27 $ 4,08 |May . 1,815.08 7 4,840.96 Je 3,009.54 5 58 July August ptember detober November December 1,741.04 99 *14,2: 986,41 1,168.04 Ttotal *Deficit. **Barnings began to jump up fol lowing The Star's exposure of the Gill-Furth déal, Arms took office April 1, 1910, $58,068.43 jout by the | went gut to the | They were given strict instructions lif it knows about the circular” was ; |flood the valley tonight to block Dilling’s = jul our es: The charge that Dilling is tied’ up in any way with € word's Renton line is untrue—it Is an eleventh hour intended to de} et votes » for administration, | 2oaeet | RECEIVED ar M1 Chany Steet, Seattle, Washogten plan for a city "THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY AVICE TO ALL THE WORLD Po ee campaign le cetve people anc Wateh for eleventh hour Hes sent |Gil's Pp _thge Gill gang Rainier valley is hearing one this | “a 145 SF. xn, 21. Circulars secretly prepared were valley this morning nds of Gill workers Vice Syndicate Offering Even Money on Gill Sag QoeanPark Calif, Peby 2nd.)912., and put into not to let any of them get out until gonn ¥. Roberts after the Star had gone to press lneka Blase, “The Star will show the thing up Lawyor Alaska Seattle Wn. Ithe word given the circulators. is K ot va epwiiate their ststements claimed a@ Keep them under cover till it 18] In a desperate effort to influence | Remere 411 stotemnte billboards repu too tate for The Star to #4Y ADY-/that portion of the voting public] Mine ao Aeliderate falsehoods their dirty work finiches for ever with thing.” rer ‘ : Star men however secured one which looks upon wagers as a sort oe copy. of the circular which will /of weather vane, supporters of May-| g ¥ 128 po. ‘They read | or Gill and the vice syndicate threw a load of money into the betting Godge. like this: “ELECTION WARNING The Seattle Renton & Southern marts last night, offering even On a hundred bil’boards around the city—paid for by money has endorsed the Dilling campaign.|money that Dilling would be de-| from the underworld—stands a big, glaring lie |feated.. The even money was of It is the famous—or rather inamous Hodge statement. Though “Attention. “What can the voters of the 12th | fered, not that the bettors believed Hodge never advised his friends to vote for Gill, though he has ex- ward expect in the way of relief|that Gill will win, but merely the} posed the trick played on him by false friends by dragging his name from intolerable railroad conditions |result of desperation, The vice| into the dirty pool of Gill polities, the lie still stands blazoned on under Dilling? : gang knows it will be forced out of| the boards. “Qill drove the Crawford thugs |existence with the election of One x telegram sent by the King county sheriff iate Friday John Roberts, shows that Bob Hodge was still The telegram fol- night to his attorney, trying to get this slander cleared from his name. George Dilling, and {t is taking a from the ears and made the coun gambler's chance—win all or lose Why didn’t you think of your wife and children when you permitted the bonor of other men’s wives, the souls of other men’s children, to be exacted that your political allies might fat- af RHKKKKKAKKENK oi ten? wi * POLLS OPEN * Why didn’t you, Hi Gill, think of your wife and children when you allowed crooked gam- ine: ba chalhie Giikdineciee vu ling joints to take thousands of dollars from hard-working men whose wives and children suf-|% j¢ you don't know just where * ae shame and hunged? Your despairing, UNMANLY appeal for sympathy is the final stamp | your precinct voting place Is * unfitness. * call up Dilling headquarters * To save our own wives and children and to help you save your own wife and children we id cera ane Main je Taust and will throw you out of the high office you have disgraced. * Aare fv = Your time of atonement is at hand, Hi Gill, Your day of reckoning is here, eee eee eee ee cll revoke the Crawford's franchise. He will do more. “VOTE FOR GILL.” The circular carries the signa- tureg of eight citizens of the valley. Now every thinking man in Seat le Knows that Gill was only making an election play in this Rainter valley fight—that he cared no more at heart about the wrongs of the Rainier valley people than all. Tupper, Gerald, Shomo and the balance of the‘ vice syndicate were responsible for the flood of coin which was offered last night. It is estimated that more than $50,000 will change hands among the few heavy bettors, while hundreds of smaller wagers have been made. The odds until last night, when the vice money came out, were 3 he did for those of the people of the to 2 in favor of Dilling. lo Venice, Cal., Feb. 3. John W. Roberts, Lawy Alaska Bidg., Seattle: Use courts, .. necessary, to clear billboards. HODGE. vob Hodge never signed the statement which is printed over his name. He has repudiated ft again and again, But the Giu gang has the audacity to spread the word that Hodge was with wem in spite of his denial. Unfortunately, Attofney Roberts ean see no legal way to get the Hodge lie taken nr’the billboards. So there is stands a monu- ment to the Gill gang’s desperation, a witness to its dishonor, THE INHERENT POWER OF THE PEOPLE -