The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 1, 1912, Page 1

fe EDIT folks who make us con-/f they are being patient with} Vv g F535 watt té fUFEESELS i 8 s Fi Hi Sekt et i nt The Seattle Star fram ‘: ONLY NDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE aE t THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1912. oe WSATION AT TRIAL Beats Loop-the-Loop WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The day that Monsignor Glevanni apostolic delegate to America, succeedi: NO. 288. It aera | ULLETINS here announced to- has been chosen inal Fatconio. cent of the of the partner Sir Thomas Lipton, fies in a pauper’ result, pati AA to hie deathbed story, of his wife's dissolute life. He turned his fortune over to his wife after failing to be reconciled to her, and came here to work in the coal mines. WANTED IN DARROW '8 MILLS ATTEMPT TO REOPEN LAWRENCE, Mass., Feb. 1—Armed with repeating rifles and plentifully supplied with ammunition, severat smerntd sens ttn a ltllte se Aan efomen made to resume though most operations. = ere returned to the mills. today were about 2,000 operatives who were not affili- otrite ers. over the tree tops the ski-jumper defies death, epitomizing of his ancestors, who went down to the sea in open boats. EX.MILLIONAIRE DIES PAUPER TRINIDAD, Colo., Feb. 1—James Boyd, one time millionaire thousand militiamen the starting These who ‘a grave today, the THIS CITY PORTLAND, Or. Feb. 1—An officer of the Seattle police de- partment arrived In Portland today to return Theodore Mette to Seattle, where he is wanted on rand larceny charge. ARRAIGNED LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1—Clarence Darrow, former chief counsel for the McNamaras, was arraigned today before Presiding Judge Hutton of the superior court on indictments charging bribery in con nection with the McNamara jurors. Gaturaay at 10 o'clock was set for him to plead. ferry at on the BEMLIN, Feb. 1—Eight persons were drowned today when a Rhine, near Ihmborn, Prussia, rammed a barge. The collision occurred during a blizzard. |measly deuces, F today you said: |Celved Tm through * touch another | 3 would be respectful you did! ents—but ar a? Ot those New |to yor aging fo cut out the kids. You Made plans by 10 o'clock. You teetered | cal and prudent, slang — be brace all around, Md!—and today elegant me, you) You were sincere. And ladies, ladies! ; good resolutions, too, a month ago. | you just drop off into Pleasure’s pas No more would you having con-| back of your the erroneous hunch that the tin-horn opposite was wickedly trying to deceive, when as a matter, hothing in of fact, he held kings full on sevens. You vowed that heneeforth you te your par- things behind the rest friend. You'd give up candy—which was bad for your complexion, anyhow. And you'd be cheerful and loving, no matter how you felt inside, when your hubbies came home in the evening, tired and with a grouch You'd be kind|o1 ur wife and patient with the You'd be in bed every night|you hit a rut in the road? You'd be economi-| you like the scenery? You'd take al And last night | you gosalp about your neighbors You made| Did Didn't It's a@ tire some trip, the one you get on the Good Resolutions road, Did you turn and run out of line? Or did n. | What went wrong, folks? tures again, when no one was look- |ing? SEATTLE, WASH. TERMINAL MEETING TONIGHT With Hysteria Period Over, People Are Meeting to Ex- amine All the Facts. |PORT’S GENERAL PLAN A public meeting, under the aus pices of the Chamber of Commerce, in behalf of the Bush terminal plan, will be held at the Cotlseurs theatre Rohight at 8 o'clock. Scott Cal. houn and John C. Stater will be the Principal epeakers. The socialists will hold an oppo- sition meeting Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | In the meantime the port commis sioners are conferring with their mew attorney, Harold Preston, on & terminal plan agreement which will safeguard the people from mo- nopalistic control of the harbor by | the so-called Bagh interests, It is \planned to «ubmit the terminal | proposition in a modified form, | rather than as originally brought by Seott Calhoun from New York. Along with the terminal propos! \tion the port commission will also jwubmit to Ahe votes of the people the general plans for port develop- /ment, which are included in four | Projects, as follows | 1. Oversea docks at Smith | cove, $980,000; East waterway, $850,000, and Saimon bay, $350,000, 2 The mosquito fieet docks, centrally located, “a 4. The Lake Vrashington ferry, $180,000, to either Beite- wue or Medina. 4 The acquisition of a Lake Union site, $50,000. This wilt je & total of $3,100, | 000. of -water it improvements under the port commissioners’ con trol. In addition, the county will | have control of the Duwamish dock, j which will be constructed at a cost Hysteria Period Over. At & meeting of the University Community elub in the library | building last night, both Scott Cal. | boun, the most ardent champion of the plans which he brought back trem @ couference with the Eastern capitalists, and C. BE. Remaberg, member of the port commission, evidenced a disposition to discuss the matter without thé heat thet accompanied Calhoun's spectacular resignation as counsel for the port commiaion. Calhoun declared that he would not advise the adoption of the terminal plans unless there were safeguards included to pre vent a monopoly. Judge Remyberg, who confined hia part of the pro- gram to answering questions, said that the port commission did not intend to refuse to put the propo milon to the people, but were mere- ly trying to get up & safe agree ment REGISTER NOW Don't delay any longer, REGIS. TER. The books will be moved to the) precincts tomorrow and Saturday. This will accommodate those who do not care to make the trip to the | Vrefontaine building. But remember, the precinet regis tration will last only these two days. So get busy and register, | “hilo the books are near your home Registration finally closes on February 13, RHR RHR * WEATHER FORECAST *” * Fair tonigh: and Friday; * * moderate easterly winds, Tem: # | * peratare at noon, 47. *) ee ed * ae. i ’ wo Young Men Both Plead Guilty Two young men, each 24, this morning pleaded guilty to separate | erlmes, and each was sentenced to one to t6 years in the reformatory by Judge Ronald. | F. G. Reed, whone trial was to] come up today, changed his plea to | guilty before Deputy Prosecutor White started his opening state- ment. He was charged with hay- ing stolen a $75 check of the Chi- cago-Milwaukee, belonging to one J. P. Holden ©. T. Erickson pleaded guilty to burglary. He whs charged with breaking into @ sporting goods store. { 1 ing himself “IL. L. Le 14," y at the University of California has written a “Texas Tommy” parody to Kipling’s “Danny Deever.” MEETINGS TONIGHT Harbor Island ‘Terminal rally at Coliseum theatre. Gill meeting, Dreamland rink. Parish meeting, Paysse’s hall, Latona. Socialist meetings, God dard’s hall, Fremont, and Dugdale’s hall, Rainier Beach. ; iH! ii ih) A Colorado man used buttoning his' | wife's dress as grounds for a divorce./im . He ought to have a pension. i ONE CENT. fiws"tisict"B ! (S™ WHO IS THIS MAN? THEY CALL HIM A DREAMER AND HE IS; IS A DISTURBER; THEY CALL HIM AN What manner of man is George F. Cotterill? , is is the question which more than any other, the people of Seattle will hear discussed in the mayoralty campaign pared with this question other issues fade and the personality of other candidates falls into secondary consideration Already Cotterill possesses the confidence of the people. Unless this confidence can be shaken Cotterill will be elected. ‘The hOpe of his opponents lies in their efforts to‘undermine this confidence. ‘To this effort those opponents will bend every, power and every trick of machine politics. Who, then, is George F. Cotterill? THEY CALL HIM A DISTURBER AND HE AGITATOR AND HE IS THAT, TOO Com PROMOTER OF PUBLIC WELFARE _ In politics a democrat, but a democrat of the demoératic variety. By profession a civil engineer Rives his exceptional talents in large measure to the public withous prospect of re far above the reach of scandal, accusation or even suspicion, In his sympathies a man of the people man who, more than any other citizen of Seattle, is entitled to be called a promoter of the public welfare. Sneeringly his opponents call him a dreamer, and he is. But his dreams are dreams for the public welfare, and more than that, they are dreams which do come true. They call him visionary, and he is. But his visions are visions of the greatest good to the greatest number. . HE IS A DISTURBER. They call him a disturber, and he is. He is a disturber of graft and pillage, a disturber of franchise grabbers, of privilege seekers, of the panderers to vice and the apologists for indecency and lawlessness. He is a disturber of a whole catalogue of plausible Parasites who feed and fatten from tae fruits of public plunder. They call him an agitator, and he is. He is an agitator for the redress of public and private wrongs. He is an agitator for the coming of that better, that brighter and that greater day in politics, the day of equal rights, of higher ambitions and of nobler civic Is. But his opponents, we do not know what Cotterill will do. This objection is both false and hypocritical. 1 false because those who advance it do know. It is hypocritical because, knowing what he will do, they lie about it They know what Cotterill will do much better than they know what his rival candidates will do. He has told them in plainer language, and they know it. His word is more dependable and they know it. ~ record is more consistent and they know it. Every public act and every public utterance of George F. Cotterill in Seattle forithe last 20 years is a guide to what he will do, is a guarantee that he will do as mayor what he promises as a candidate he will do. His opponents know it. His supporters know it. Every well informed person in Seattle knows it. The public policy of George F. Cotterill is indelibly written on every prominent page of the history of Seattle. But, say his opponents, we are afraid of his experiments EXPERIMENTS FOR THE PEOPLE Here is the crux of the opposition. Certain me ¢ afraid of his experiments. They are afraid George F. Cotterill’s ex- imentswill interfere with certain private profits; afraid his experiments will interrupt certain plans for exploiting the public private gain. J What are these experiments of George F. Cotterill’ that these opponents are a They are experiments for the welfare of the peaple for the consideration and approval of all the people Cotterill proposes, for instance, to experiment with the construction of a municipal street railway system, already author- ized by the people. The plan of private ownership and exploitation having proven a failure, he proposes to experiment with what promises to be a better system He proposes to carry out the experiment the people have already overwhelmingly inténsely unpopular with the private franchise exploiters, but Cotterill pr poses to try in Seattle the experiment of carrying out the wishes of the people expressed at the polls. For this reason he is nyc as an experimenter, as a dangerous candidate, as an enemy to progress and an enemy to prosperity. i and a civil engineer who In his private life pure and clean, In his public work a imeration raid of? They are projects which he boldly proclaims in his platform, proclaims authorized. ‘This nore their opposition. Cotterill pro- experiment is sea to i Cotterill proposes to experiment with a public telephone system. For years Seattle has been experimenting with prifaté telephone systems, Private telphones have proven a failure. Under private ownership rates are exorbitant and good service unattainable. That experiment having failed, Cotterill proposes that another experiment be undertaken, But the Co = experiment with puBlic telephones is to be undertaken only after it has been submitted to arid authorized by the What Cotterill will do as mayor js told in Cotterill’s platform i HIS RECORD AS TRUE GUIDE. ) There ate no secrets in the Cotterill program. There is nothing held back from the people. There is no “kitchen cab- ing§.” there is no “business men's committee” appointed in advance to be his chief advisers, to plan his policy and to out- ling his conduct. In every move he makes the people are to be taken into his confidence. Anyone in doubt én any poiht solve his doubt by asking Mr. Cotteriil himself. : But there is an even better guide than this to what Cotterill’s policy as mayor will be. Feng is the Cotterill record in Seattle as a private citizen. + The pages of Seattle's history are strewn with accounts of Cotterill’s public activities. For 20 years he thas been in the frogt rank of every army of Seattle citizens organized to fight for the public welfare. In every battle he has fought on the sid@ of the people and against the projects of the exploiters of the people. i . : xe the fight, for instance, for the original acquisition of the Cedar riyer water system. agd& Cotterill then was a young man in his early twenties. in This fight occurred 17 years AS assistant city engineer under R. H. Thomson he had aided orking out a plan for financing and acquiring that property. a i That plan ran counter to the scheme of some private promoters. A frenzied financier from the East, one Amidown by name, planned to seize the Cedar river as a scheme for exploiting the people of Seattle for private profit. His project was ed by all the powerful financial ‘and commercial interests of Seattle. Cotterill fought for the city-owned system. And the people followed Geo. F. Cotterill | By a vote fe more than 6 per cent of all those participating, at an clection held Dec, 10, 1895, the people approved the Catterill project, and Seattle acquired, over the opposition of the united plunderbund, what is now its proudest municipal possession. THAT WATER SYSTEM DREAM. The Cedar river water system was a Cotterill experiment, a dream, a vision, the project of a man Rerous to elevate to the office of mayor—that is, dangerous to the plans of the exploiters of the people Next came the fight against the blanket street railway franchise This franchise was granted in 1900. Under it the Seattle Electric Company was organized. Under it we have had our fill of corporation arrogance, inadequate service, political corruption, strap-hanging and general inefficiency. The fight for this franchisé was a fight between the people and the exploiters of the people. Cotterill, again, was on the side of the people. Cotterill opposed the granting of the franchise. He led the assault upon it by a little band of patriotic citizens. demanded that the franchie be first submitted to vote of the people. The cguneil refused to submit it initiative petition demanding its submission. That petition, though sufficient, was counted out in the office of the city comp- troller. The fight continued in the city council. The usual tactics of corporation politics were resorted to and prevailed, The franchise was granted and the streets of Seattle became a private asset of a little group of exploiters centered at an office on Milk street, Boston Cotterill opposed that franchise with tremendous energy, ability and intelligence. An article in opposition to it written by” him and published in a local paper, reads today almost as though its author were gifted with the power of prophecy. He said: “I raise my voice as a citizen against the proposition to saddle a blanket franchise upon this and the next generation, be- cause, after a full invest ion, as a business proposition, I see nothing to gain’and everything to lose. I oppose it because I know of no right in this generation to bind the hands and barter the prosperity of that which is to follow. Granting this fran- chise will surrender the future of Seattle to private tribute.” In his opposition to private franchise exploitation Cotterill has always been looked upon by the franchise-grabbers as a “dangerous” citizen. The franchise grabbers have always opposed him. ‘They oppose him now. They oppose him, not be= cause he proposes to undertake experiments which would be injurious to the people, but because he would undertake experi- ments which might lessen the opportunities and the profits of private exploitation. ANOTHER COTTERILL EXPERIMENT. Then came the fight for the municipal lighting plant This fight went to the people in 1902, Cotterill was the most active champion, from the stump, of the original bond issive forthe establishment of that resource. It was opposed by the franchise-grabbers and the exploiters of the people. Again the people decided, this time by an overwhelming majority, to try the Cotterill experiment. ; Then came the adoption of the recall amendment to the city charter. Cotterill advocated its adoption. The exploiters were apposed to it, but were unable to make any headway in their opposition. The amendment was adopted hy a vote of ning who would be dan- They They prepared an to one. ua In 1908 three more progressive amendments were inserted in the Seattle city charter, All three of these were written by George F. Cotterill . -T'wo of these provided for the initiative and referendum and the direct vote on franchises. The third established the limits for saloon licenses, All three were adopted and Seattle became a self-governed city, a city in which the people have the power of legislation in their own hands : ; : : These were Cotterill experiments. ‘These were Cotterill experiments of the kind which arouse against him in this cam- paign the bitter opposition of all the exploiters of the people, , , : Then came the amendments of 1910, amendments providing for the commission city council of nine members, and for the nonpartisan primary election system. Both amendments were prepared by Cotterill, both were passed as a result of a cam- paign in which he was their most active and militant champion. ALWAYS THE PEOPLE'S CHAMPION. All candidates now before the people now advocate the nonpartisan primary system and the complete divorce of muni pal from state and national politics But that divorce was granted two years ago on the application of George F, Cotterill, while his opponents of today were still advocating the political spoils system, : 1G i ‘ ‘The nonpartisan primary system was a Cotterill experiment. It is a Cotterill fad, a vision which marks Cotterill as a man dangerous to machine politics, hand-picked conventions, corporation slush funds and boss rule. ‘These are but a few of Cotterill’s “dangerous” experiments. : Among other things Cotterill, as a member of the state senate, helped to pass the state primary election law, the state local option law, the Lake Washington canal laws, the Duwamish waterway law; and scores of measures designed to promote the popular welfare and facilitate great publie undertakings in Seattle \ : For advocating these projects he is now called a “faddist.” For advocating popular government he is referred to as an “experimenter,” i " pee i : : For consistently opposing projects for. the exploitation of the people he is opposed in this cam the people, by every interest and by every individual which looks to a crooked partnership with c its power, influence or dividends. : PITS Yes, Cotterill is a dreamer, And his dreams are dreams for the public welfare, and they come true. Cotterill is visionary. He has visions of the greatest good to the greatest number. Cotterill is a disturber, a disturber of graft and privilege. Cotterill is an agitator, an agitator for the redress of public and private wrongs. San Cotterill is all of these things. His opponents charge it. His supporters admit it. convincingly that he who runs may sead, aign by every exploiter of politics to enhance his or His record proves it, proves it so