The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1912, Page 1

While man has seven ages, fair woman has but three—her real age, what her} friends think, and the age she claims) to be, he Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH. WEDNESDAY, BEBRUARY 71, 1912 ONE CENT. #a03™ . * meni wo ways—make H men from making ; Hi SURE ( “VOL. 13 SHOWS MAJORITY OF OVER 10,000 ° BULLETIN. Following are the complete returns from the 281 precincts on the mayorality vote SRE Cotterill ... Parish . . The real battle is on. and Hi Gill are the nominees for ae a lead of more than 10,000 votes. “when stucdicd and analyzed, tell a dif- By do at first glance all the candidates; polled practically ‘here was no candidate in the : Wells ... open” votes with Gill. Every Gill voter oo Ay Petre’ : t ‘was for Gill yesterday, On the other The total vote cast for mayor was 62,573 cast against Gill yesterday will be election, March 5 t the Parish votes and the Wells votes bat Gill, Consequently practically all of Cotterill in the finals. Admitting that fish supporters will go to Gill, nevertre- @ the three men against Gill yester- the anti-Gill strength, and that 25,002 14,308 12 10,653 96 The total vote given the anti-Gill candidates was 37,571, showing a majority against Gillism of 10,569. Aw-press time the returns show that practically all con- of Cotterill is the fact that the Gill lay. There was no apathy in the yesterday represent the Gill reg- ty. registered voters, however, failed great majority of these were women iat of the city. These women, now realizing term of Gillism, will not now neglect W are all naural Cotterill supporters, ly Outlined, as they are now, these] GEORGE F. COTTERILL. € stay away froin the polls at the ROOSEVELT. PLEDGES HI ELF TO PROGRESSIVE CAUSE IN BIG SPEECH reeul. But either the recall will FROM TEDDY'S SPEECH “We ives.” “I believe ip direct nominations “I believe in the initiative and referendum.” “The question of applying the reeall in any shape is one of expediency merely.” It is footish to talk of the sanctity of a judge-made , law.” 14,180 12,085 « 19,567 9441 8,790 8,573 2,834 tests are settled. There is still some doubt in the race for three- year councilmen, Bohlke crowding the socialist Jacobs for sixth 41 votes behind. The comptrollership is also still in doubt, as Quigley may nose Chandler out for second place. Council Term. Complete returns from 260 pre cil term. The high six are nominat-| Complete returns from 260 pre Hans, A. P. Chandler will undoubtedly be nomt- Goddard, A. J nated along with Carroll, although Schram, John .. ning closely behind. Smith, Joe Carroll Bohike, A. ©. Quigley .. Vetter, Max HilledDrandt McNamara, Geo, T. Hastings .. ; . 2654 Lewis, Wilbur 8. place. With six precincts yet_to hear from, Bohlke is only High Six for the Three-Yeer| @@ppoL AND: cts show the following op ™ ed: jelnets for city comptroller shows Pierce, John G. Hildebrandt and Quigley are run- Jacobs, C.J. S. Chandler . Cromk, Geo. M. Merrifield Hyner, Paul B HOUSTON 5 SWEPT BY A GREAT. BLAZE BUSTS ‘Prees Leased bhai STON, Tex. Feb. 21.—The most disastrous conflagration in the) 4 history of Houston ewept the city vision. George H |today, and before it was brought St Ah Kale junder contro at 10 o'clock this) pierling, Kate |morning seven hours after it start-| Browne, F. 000,900 was | Kingsbury, George 8. ed, prope: : va ats vaneed at OS wae |Probstfeld. H. J The returns from 249 precincts for corporation counsel follows: Bradford . 14,590 Brown Caldwell Horner Tindell Hammond . ‘Alderson BIG WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION 569 WASHINGTON, Feb, 21—More 430! than 1,500 persons, it was said to- 390 day, attended the army and navy 254 | reception at the White House last 180 night. The reception was the last 146 of four Wyite House functions, 055 | which punctuate a Washington so- 930 cin) season. 908 | 807 IRDAY GAVE THE LIE TO WHO HAD BEEN CLAIM- A MAJORITY OF ALL THE BY A GREATER MAJOR- RECALL ELECTION REGIS- AGAINST GILL, AND THAT GROW GREATER AND WILL/] . Sawyer, Frederick . MeCarthy, W. G Linhoff, A. J Pardee, Otway . Kistler, A. .... Kelley, James P. . Jones, R. W. W. ... Miller, Leander Smith, W. H | Wolfe, John M. | Lamb, John eee | READY here a OVATION FOR TEDDY BIG BATTLE FEBRUARY 21, 1912. the apoll of Seattle by the modern vandals b Sth, the honie-ioving, humanity-serving, God- face the united hosta of greed, with all and even its victins, rallied together ivilege, demanding the surrender of the Were drawn at the primary skirmish than a year ago when they were it by an outraged and aroused com- jess than forty per cent of Standards of city government. gt salen § have sald by their votes that a differing angles they look toward city, truly progressive, where justice and and industry shail serve, unite a one great homedefending present threatened danger and to safe- toward a greater, safer, no! r Of service in this crisis contest has been 3 help | will keep ft at the front and carry Which shall be a landmark in our civie for Justice and for Progress! Let us go GEORGE F. COTTERILL, [meal over all other rights; that TO SAY—PARISH to comment on the outcome of the ‘Rot prepared to say anything. L-—-FEELS SURE OF WINNING ink The Star for its attempt to be fair Ht is against me.” said Hi Gil today. “ the way the people treated me yesterday. 5. Anytime you want PH say it’ GET iT NEXT TIME | Yotes that we expected this time, but we Nothing can stop vs. We'll win it next Wells’ comment this morning. i } to Mins Matthews story, he ber assailants after she had a him to direct her to the saflors) union home, is being sought by the| police, j NOTED PAINTER DEAD BERLIN, Feb. 21.—Prof. Albert noted landscape painter, here today. He was 69 to suit all concerned.) and it's ruined. Won out and they lost, and to shed a salt tear is fine—it's a frost; to office angels and crooks Rete We're mad and we're sorry and glad, pehake—aud the hooks. ‘ oe Our banners with glory, 2 our land with disgrace, W and « truly square deal Bratt set the pace, future is shining seer the future is gloom, |, We'll be boodied and fooled, 80d a6 glum as a tomb es ae banished, scales are in. Bre true and a scoundrelly crew And they'l! spend ali our tin; Praise and derision eal voice or went right here's a song duet for you take your choice, tional convention here this morning promptly on time. A’ tremendous crowd was present to hear the fi mer president. President Roosevelt said in part: 1 am profoundly ible of the honor you have done me to address you. You are engar- ed in the fundamental work oo ment; you are engar anions @ constitutional under and fm accordance with which the peo- are to and to do justice absolutely to rule themselves. representative body can have 6 higher task. 1 betleve in pure . With Lincoln, | hold that “this country, with ite institutions, be jongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it.” We progres sivex believe that the people have the right, the power, and the duty to protect themselves and their own welfare that human rights are wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. Direct Nominations. I believe in providing for direct nominations by the people, inelud- jing therein direct primerential prt maries for the election of delegates to the national nominating conven- tions. Not as a matter of theory, | but as a matter of plain and proved lexperience, we find that the con- ention system, while it often re- cords the popular will, Is also often used by adroit politicians as @ method of thwarting the popular Wi pelieve in the election ot United States senators by direct vote. Just as actual experience convinced our people that presidents should be elected (as they now are in practice, although not in theory) by direct vote of the people instead of by indirect vote through an un- ltrammeted electoral college, #0 act- ual experience has convinced us that senators should be elected by direct vote of the people instead of indirectly through the various legis- Jatures. Initiative and Referendum. I believe in the Initiative and the referendum, which should be used not to destroy representative gov- ernment, but to correct it whenever it becomes mikrepresentative, As to the recall, I do not believe that there is any great necessity for it regards short term elective of- ficers, On abstract grounds I was originally inclined to be hostile to it. I know of one case where it was actually used with mischievous results, On the other hand, in three case in municipalities on the Pacific coast, which have come to my knowledge it was used with ex- cellent results. I believe it should be generally provided, but with such restrictions as would make it available only when there js a widespread and genuine public feeling among 4 ma jority of the voters. Then remains the question of the recall of judges, One of the ablest jurists in the United States, a vet- eran in the service to the people, recently wrote me as follows on this subject: “There are two causes of the agi- Fs Ed bay! Ett ice z i i R tmonwealth. Take the example fhe St. Louls boodiers, Their was plain and in the main con sed. The whole state wae aroused i: ing their guflt, set their conviction upon = purely technical in California, Nero, fiddling over burning Romo, was « patriot and statesman in comparison with jode- es who thus trifle with and frux trate the aroused moral sentiment of a great people, for that sentt- ment is politically the vital breath of both state and nation. It is to recall the administration of justice back from such practices that the recent agitation hag arixen., Abuse of Power, Second, by the abuse of the pow- er to declare laws unconstitutional, the courts have become a Iaw-m: ing, instead of a law-enforcing agen- cy. Here again the settled will of society to correct confessed evils has been set at naught by those who piace metaphysicics above life, It Is the courts, not the conatitu- tions, that are at fault. It is only by the process which James Rus- sell Lowell, when answering the critics of Lincoln, called “Pettifog- ging the constitution,” that consti- tutions which were designed to pro- tect soetéty can thus be made to defeat the common good. Here again the recall is a recall of the administration of justice back from academical refinements to soctal service, Never forget that the judge is just as much the servant of the people as any other official, In some communities one method may work well which In other communl- ties does not work well, and each community should adopt and pre serve or reject a given method ac- cording to its practical workin Therefore the question of applyin the recall in any shape is one of expediency merely, Each community has a right to try the experiment for itscif in whatever shape it pleases. Under the conditions set forth in the ex- tract from the letter given above, | would personally have favored the recall of the judg fornia and in Missouri age that could ha the recall would have equailed the damage done to the community by Judges whose conduct had revolted not only the spirit of justice, but the spirit of common sense. 1 do not believe in adopting the fast resort, when it r destroyed and several thousand pe more summary remedy | i decides a coneti- m, when he decides | people as 2 whole can or/ the people should have | recall that decision if it wrong, We should Yadiciary in all respect, both absurd and degrading & fetish of o judge or of else. Obstructions. aad again in the past. just- been ecandalousty obstruct- state courts declaring state conflict with the federal Although the supreme the nation has never so or had even decided in a contrary sense. When the supreme court of thé state declares a given unconstitutional, because conflict with the state or the na- constitution, its opinion ‘be subject to revision by the people themeesives. If it is austain- and good. If not, then the verdict tx to be accepted as the decision is to be treated HF tee 3 RS e ge ti # "| atroyed, Holemtly antagonize this proposal. They believe, and some times ai sert, that the American people pot fitted for popular government, and that it is necessary to keep the judiciary independent of the “majority or of all the peopie;” that there must be no appeal to the people from the decision of a court in any case; and that there fore the judges are to be establish @d a sovereign rulers over the peo- ple. I take absolute issue with all those who hold such a position. If the American people are not fit for popular government, and if they should of right be the servants and not the wasters of the men whom they have put in office, then Lincoln's work wag wasted and the whole system of government on which this great democratic repub- He rests is a failure. I believe, on the contrary, that the American people are fit for complete self gov~| ernment and that we of this repub- lic have more nearly realized than any other people on earth the ideal of justice obtained through genuine popular rule. Then the courts have the final say—so on all legis- lative acts and if no apepal can lie from them to the people, then they are the irresponsible masters of the people. Ax tong as injustice is kept in- trenched by any court, I will pro- test as strongly a# in me lies against such action, Remember, all | am asking ts that the people themselves shall in the last resort interpret the law which they them- selves have made, that after all I am only asking that they step in authoritatively and reconcile the conflicting decisions of the courts. "a thn ac aa al aa * COTTERILL MEETING. * The Cottert!! campaign com- * mittee has secured the Labor * Temple for tomorrow night, ® where a meeting will be held * to organize for the coming ® fight, | dreds of citizens aided the firemen | sons Were rendered homeless. The! work of relieving the fire victims has already been begun. The burned area, which adjoins | the railroad yards of the Southern | Pacific company, comprises a sec | on seven blocks wide and eighteen blocks long. Not # buliding was left standing in this district Citizens Aid id Starting shortly after 2 o'clock! 6 morning, the flames, fanned by | & J0-mile wind, spread with lucred-| ible rapidity. Fire brands were blown to ail sections of the city, and for hours it was feared that Houston | was doomed to destruction. Hun- by going to the roofs of their homes | and extinguishing firebrands by | means of wet blankets. This action on the part of the residents ix ad. mitted by the firemen to have H The heaviest individual losers are the McFadden and Cleveland com. presses and the plant of the E. D. Harrell Lumber Company. Sixty) thousand bales of cotton were de stroyed, the loss to the cotton deal- era alone exceeding $2,000,000. In addition to churches, schools, fac-| tories and jumber plants at a hun-| dred private residences were de The fire finally was controlled, | following the use of dynamite, An| entire block of houses were de- |. ftroyed by this means to prevent the spread of the flames to the downtown section of the city The parks and other open spaces are jammed with homeless men, women and children. City officials announced that the fire victims! would be cared.for and that aid) from outside cities probably would not be needed. ELECTION | FLASHES | Gil polled 72 votes in his own precinct 206, Jeading Cotterill by | only thrée Yotes, Parish stood | third with 6¥ votos and Wells trail-| ed with: 10. , If the socialists had not scatter ed their votes they could have nom inated their entire ticket with the} exception of mayor yesterday. | Their total vote cast for the coun-| eilman for the three year term would have put them over as high men, The women candidates for the} council, Mrs, Sterling and Mrs, Hunsicker, were both near the bot- tom of the list Both labor union candidates, P. K Mohr and George MeNamara, w / eliminated from the race, Either man, in the field alone, would prob ably have landed among the high) six, The anti-Gill votes will show a majority of about 10,000 over the Gil votes when the returns are | complete. Scott, the socialist for treasurer, polled the highest vote ever given @ socialist in this state. : Burgess, the socialist for the one- » * * * * * * * * * * Pee ee rer Lee eee year council term, leads all his cori: petitors by a safe margin, eeeeeee ek I. 68a | 644) 561) Nordskog, Arne A Hodgdon, George N. Kemp, Henry Holtangr, George . Reedet, J. Tom . Burgess and Marble for One-| Year Term. The returns from 249 precincts for councilmen for the one yare) term show that Burgess and Marble are two high men and are therefore nominated: Burgess, David . Marble, Charles Tilton, Howard ..... Smith, Charlies Westley Strang, F. W. oe Miller, Charles H. ., Hunsicker, Sylvia A. 11,316 8,723 CITY TREASURER 233 Precincts Complete. SERRE MEE EEE HE MUST GIVE UP $111,000 WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 court decision the treasury de ®} partment today is prepared to ® surrender the $111,000 excess ® duties collected on a $220,000 * pearl necklace belonging to | Mre. Wm. B. Leeds of New * York * sMel ol lialiaiiatatatatiatetateiiahell * * ;| Skye Terrier Goes to Dog Cemetery | in Coffin Covered With Flowers. Toby, a skye terrier belonging to Mra. James C. Brower of No, 385 Clinton ave. Brooklyn, had a real funeral and wa# buried in the dog cemetery at Hartsdale. He had a white silk covered cof. fin end on it were many bunches of costly flowers sent by friends of | the family. Toby died of old age COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 21.—Piedg- ing himeelf flatly as for the initia- tive and referendum, the short bal- tot, direct nominations by the peo- ple, the presidential preference primary, the election of United States senators by direct vote and, - in @ measure, going.on record for the recall, former President Thee- dore Roosevelt here today address- ed the Ohio state constitutional con- vention and outlined, as he has nev- er done eo fully before, just where he stands to the progressive policies gn which it is believed he may again Become a candidate for the presi- dency. Welcomed to Columbus by cheer- ing crowds, Col Roosevelt also re ceived an ovation when he appear- ed in the convention hall. In accordance with a supreme * | | Brown—So you would like to at- tach Jones’ bank deposit, but you cap't find out what his balance is! Smith (bitterly)—They called him the “teller,” WE WONDER WHY! Over 40,000 people who read The Star every evening could easily secure another Seattle newspaper for one penny. BUT THEY DON’T These people—over 40,000 daily— buy The Star confidence in because they have its news columns. Andthissame confidence is extended to the advertising which appears in The Star, OVER 40,000