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Between 3 and 8 o'clock this afternoon and evening Seattle and Kin " 6 A “ ‘ . ; A 4 ; - @ county are having the chance to indicate the people’s preference for presidential nominees in both parties. Denied that right by the gov- ts, oho ate = Gee oe oe = a whole, the progressives of this county wrested o> lege from the old-guard politicians in the ranks of the central committees. Wherever primaries have Sroete duh, Mabe the: vets & cae Po pelo nom ay rember by the democrats. Let’s show Washington and the rest of the country that Seattle is just as progressive. Every man and woman e Seattle Star ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE Look on page 3 today for list ling places. Pick your Select out AND GO THERE To VOTE IN PRIMARIES TODAY. Engaged to marry one man, remarkably pretty girl jilts him and weds another. See page 6. VOL. 14. NO. 49, SEATTLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, APRIL ON THAINS AND NEWS STANDS Be HOME EDITION DNE CENT HARLES WAPPENSTEIN GOES TO JAIL LA FOLLETTE EFINES PLATFORM TO CHEERING THOUSANDS Thousand People Unable to Get Into Hall to Hear Pro- F ive Leader at Los Angeles—Hits Out Straight From a Shoulder. THE UNHAPPIEST FATHER AND MOTHER ON EARTH! Young Man and Young Woman Unknowingly Vio- lated the Law of Man and God: “Thou Shalt Not Marry the Daughter of Thy Mother.” (Special to The Star.) LOS ANGELES, Cai., April 27.—Standing alone before the city of Angeles, deserted by the powerful alignment of the Lissner-Earle 4 nobly unheedtul of the slights and insinuations of the men organization who once had been so solidly behind him, Senator M. La Follette carried everything before him last night in what declared here now to have been the most remarkable spectacle in history of the south country. 4 ‘a speech that lasted for nearly three hours, the great Wisconsin taxed his.endurance to the utmost to place squarely before ble voters of Los Angeles the big national issues as he sees them, and ‘of those voters who packed the Temple auditorium from topmost to pit responded with cheer after cheer, 4 we were at least 5,000 who wanted to hear what Bob La Follette pi to say and wy went away disappointed because the hall would ‘hold them. With that absolute confidence In the fatrness of the American voter marks his every word and act, La Follette early in his speech slowly and carefully the name of Theodore Roosevelt, then perhaps to offer opportunity for the Roosevelt stampede of his that the Roosevelt forces had predicted. There was not a hand- dead silence was broken by a voice from high up in the “Tell us about yourself, Bob.” Then came the applause and The fighting senator from Wisconsin had won his case before gedience right there, and be did tell them about himeelf. Yes, he them about himself, of his long, relentless struggle as congress. and senator. But, “remember,” he said, “I have comé ‘maak to you, not for myself, but for the country Let turn th hack tonicht and invest this hour with a little of the patriotism the men of Those men who signed the Deciaration of Inde- pat a halter around their necks “Without money, without an army, few in number, unorganized and they entered a struggle with the greatest war power of the , “Por what” The question reverberated in the great auditorium like a rifle shot. “That-every man and woman and boy and girl might be equal be- the law. Do you suppose that any patriotic citizen during those years of struggle hesitated as to which side he should join, held ‘or change allegiance because of some question as to which side vial “GREED FOR MONEY—MORE MONEY" he brought out and hammered home that great store of facts Helen Hoffman and her half-brother, John Ruch, jr, from whom she PRESIDENTIAL ~ PRIMARIES ON HERE Voting Between 3 and 8 P. M. for Delegates to County Convention—Call for Elec- tion Won by the Progres-| sives, Alameda’s Engineer Admits He Misread the Signals Be sure to cast your votes in the preference primary election which witl be held between 3 and 8 p, m. today. it is important that every vote in the county shall be regis tered. The political bosses tried to p vent the expression of the people's eholce for presidential nominations in both parties They falied to block the hoiding of the primaries, but they are now hoping that the vote Among the progrennives will be light, #0 that they can rush in and #MD the election any cost. Don't it them do it. Show them that King county and the state of Wash ington are opposed to Taft and Har mon and the other standpat cand! dates, as the people are they get a chance to exp nel ves. Vote for either La Follette or Rodecyelt if you are a republican; vote for Woodrow Wilson if you are a democrat. Vote for progrens- ives. And don't fall to vote, also, for progressive candidates for dele- gates to the county conventions. The Roosevelt and La Follette clubs have united on the same del- egates, whose names will appear on moat of the ballots as “indorsed by thé Roosevelt and La Follette The Star prints the list of the ae. polling places in the city on page 3 today. If you have any difficulty A REHEARING BF lS: CASE lo DENIED Ex-Chief of Police Will Be Held in County Jail Until Guards Take Him to Walla Walla. ppenstein, chief of or-Gill, will be cone! fined the county jail late this afternoon, following the denial rehearing by the! court yesterday. Deputy, Sheriff Liner left the court house at noon today to make the arrest. will be confined in the county jail until the peniten- tiary guards take him to Walla’ Walia in about a week from now. The remittitur committing Wapei penstein to the penitentiary was re! ceived by the county clerk this morning, and the order of arreat was then placed in the sheriffs bands Wappenstein conferred with his attorneys in the office of Morris @ Shipley this morning. He rang up the sheriff's office saying that he was ready to surrender himselfi This was before the committing ore der had been received by the sheriff. Charles W. Wi police under May in his petition for a supreme Woppenstein The Wappy Case. Wappenstein is under sentence of three to five years for accept ing a bribe of $1,000 from Clarence Gerald and Gid Tupper, who oper ated two of the most notorious bawdy houses in the old restricted district. He was found guilty on July 3, 1911, after the second trial of the cese. The first jury had dis agreed. Wappenstein appealed to the supreme court, and five judges unanimously agreed to sustain the; conviction. He then petitioned fc a rehearing by the whole court has just been divorced. CINCINNATI, O., April 27.) with the father, a girt baby, The Fiche baa’ : | baby grew to girlhood. | had come aps ove him; no woman CaM/to Cincinnati and married, and had tear from her heart her love | five boys. But I never lost the long . ae ae Radial Ing for my first born, the only jfor the father of her children, | Guughter. At last, when that long even though she knows such a/ing became too great to resist, | love is a violation of the laws | sent for her on earth and a sin against Helen came, and, the better to God!” guard the secret of her birth, I re - ; ceived her as a nieee, but I show That is the outburst of a!ered upon her all the mother love broken heart. The cry of a/she missed during the years she sung woman, living as prob-| was from me cg, 80 | “I was blind to the growing af jably few have lived—in a lit-| tection between my Oldest 200 Hohn eral hell on earth and my daughter. One day Helen She is Helen Hoffman. ‘This |came to me and told me just such a bee tar gtcas story as I was compelled to tell my “I never knew, during all the| Patent 22 years ago. But the fright days of my childhood, who my |! horror of it came fully home to mother was, I lived with my father | when she told me who was re legating the place in your precinct, Photo of Alameda, taken for The Star, showing men repainting bow, Sa either Main 1389 of Elliott | scraped in her remarkable accident. That was the only damage she sustained. At @ hearing before Captain Biop| into the dock THAW OUT B. Whitney and Robert A. Turner,| Engineer Robert Brown said he i x 7 was attending to other duties when United States steamship inspectors,|ti6 order came, and that Bunton (Cy United Press Leased Wire) FISHKILL, N.Y. April 27.-— the blame for the accident which! was running the engines; that he partially destroyed Colman dock) returned to the engine room immo- Harry K. Tham left Matteawan asylum early today to attend figures by which he traces, step by step, the growth of corporations tombinations into a power that threatens the life of the nation. “History shows,” he said, “that in every republican government this growth went on unchecked it polluted the govermment its life, until ft went down to ruin, It has no heart, no feelings. ‘wants money, power—more money, more power, It controls nt, dictates our laws. That Is the power we've got to fight, got to fight it now. You men and women are coming to the nine judges. GARVIN TENDERED A FAREWELL RECEPTION A farewell reception was tendered last night at the First Christian church to Rev. J. L. Garvin, pastor, and Mrs. Gar- vin, who are to leave Seattle soon for a new field. Many members of the Min- isters’ Federation were pres- ent, all of whom praised the work of the Rev. Garvin during his residence in this city. The program included several musical selections, after which Mr. Garvin gave a brief talk on his work in this city. The church's male quartet ended the program. DO YOU KNOW? By the| That the juvenile court in Seattle was established in June, 1905? That the police court judge in ladies of |Seattle gets $200 more per year Johanna | than any superior court judge in the - and sunk the stern wheeler Tele-|diately after the ship struck and graph Thursday night, was put on | found the telegraph indicator point Second Assistant Engineer R, M.|ing to full speed astern while the Bunton of the Alameda jengines were driving full speed Pilot John A. O'Brien, who was! abead. in command of the Alameda, test-| The officials of the Alaska fied that he telegraphed from the | Steamship Co. refuse to discuss the | bridge to the engine room for “slow accident, but Bunton admitted he} speed astern,” but that the ship! misread the indicator. “fall speed ahead,” gaining) Repairs to the Colman dock will! momentum rapidly, and crashing | cost about $30,000. ROSEVELT ANO TAFT ent from his blunt, bold statements of facts i eloquence in a glowing tribute to Sherman, author of the; law, La Follett t down the records of Roosevelt and Showing how they disregarded the welfare of the people whom by failing to check the growth of the money power either the weapon forged by Sherman or by tariff revision down. ‘Then, in language that w "Yet | want to give Theodore Roosevelt full credit for the good he Roosevelt builded up standards of social conscience. mi can't applaud too loudly on that, but he had no grasp of the signifi- ‘of the economic facts of his time.” MORGAN AND ALASKA | “T wonder o the West,” he said, “realize what is in ey Bang a aa Sasa productive country. There is|on his farm near Sheridan, 0. When | *Ponslble for hier condition Morgan sees the chance. And the people ought to know |I was 18 I came to the bome of my 1 tone ee . ‘ to take Morean and Guggenheim by the collar and throw them | mother, but who, I was told, was! 40) {Oy nyt (0, Marry oping @ Alaska. Do you want to know what I stand for? Here is it: ‘I/my aunt that 1 might keep the secret They fee government mining of Alaska coal. 1 am for building and op-| “There were five boys in the married. Bat not an oer 4 good government railroad into the Alaska coal fields. house, my cousins, I was told. Tho | Mas passed since then that I have #4 am for every bit of American commerce going untaxed through | oldest, Jobn, and I went to dances (Po nder a reat Wels ‘canal that was built with your money. The railroads are seeki: and parties together, and soon we bor on j pave coe ves ly pray the commerce through the canal to keep freight rates up on the | were in love with each other. I hhh we BaP oi, ¢ us all and point haul! loved him as sincerely as any girl ay oF | “ien’t it pretty near time for us to wake up? can love a man. I love bim now, “Now you know what | stand for.” more than I can ever love any oth- IES, BABIES EVERYWHERE _ AND LOTS GET FINE PRIZES MODERN VIKING’S WOOING OF THE PRETTY GYMNAST' Like an up-to-the-minute Viking, Gustav Kropelien, big, blonde and pleasing to the eye, came down from the North, his mouth full of plaus- ible talk, his pockets full of gold. For @ space he lived the life of grill and show and taxicab. magnificence of his raiment and by the lavishness of his hospitality, he commanded the admiration of all. He met Johanna, the p wealth to improve thelr figures, com; I sick. Gustav was tireless in his gentle wooing then. He brought | state? her flowers and what-not, And he won Johanna’s love. | E That some of the But Johanna was a widow with a small son, and prudently she|tie can be entered Weer sg 4 asked: “Can you me support? | floor, as well as the bottom? Gustav laughe re was property In J + land, and Texas, and British Columbia—all his. ue bees ee yee? ad he of e |, User jo long true, he was short of real money, but Pout! ~ : : upward as though tossing gold pleces to beggars —" work on Seattle's water ron! } So Johanna became Mrs. Gustay Kropelien, and she paid Gustav's debts—a hundred or merely—with the money she had earned and That Tom Murphine, pr nt of | saved as a gymnast; and then she advised Gustav to get a job the La Follette club, wor! in a! What need?” eried Gustav, airily. “Soon we will have more money | “iar stand while studying law? That Howard Cosgrove, manager than we can spend You must take up a homestead,” said Johanna jof the t club, is a son of the late Gov. 8. Cosgrove? So Gustav, protesting, took up a homestead, and Johanna paid his railroad fare, and pald to have @ house built, and bought furniture, But] That the polls will be open from to 8 p, m. today? stav didn't improve the homestead to any appreciable extent; instead, he returned to e and borrowed money from friends. And his claim ac eeeepeeRNSSTNED | YOUNG ASTOR TO MEET COFFIN SHIP, to the homestead lapsed. Meanwhile, Johanna was back on the old job, teaching fat ladies (By United Prenx PORTLAND, Me. of wealth how to be slim and how to change muddy complexions to com —In a locked private car, and | plexions of peachy cream and milky white. | refusing to see anyone, Vincent He was attired in an old dark suit, and wore an old Sigeratiy, and his hair is now ntirely gray. He weighs 187 nds. Thaw smoked cigar- continually while waiting for the train at Fishkill station. | , Elmer E. Todd, United States Dis triet Attorney, has tendered his res ignation to President Taft, to take effect May 1. The resignation was t to the president about a week ago, but was not made public until this morning. Todd will enter pri }vate law practice. BREAK IN RESERVOIR A break occurred today in the ervoir at Volunteer park, and before assistance arrived, the district for several blocks was flooded in two feet of water. The break took place just above the Washington Jaundry, the water rushing through Lakeview av. to East- lake. Traffic been tied up in the neighborhood, The water reached several homes, flooding the interiors and doing considerable damage. A crew was sent out to re. pair the damage. who taught fat and digestions 11910, and lived as happily as a couple ever did. My husband w: kind and good and thoughtful; he did everything he could for me and the babies, Buella and Burnetta. “But, somehow, the neighbors be- gan talking. I heard some of {t and went to Mrs, Ruch, whom I regard: ed as my aunt and mother-in-law Here in her home, and where Joba | and I first learned to love each other, she told the story that near-| ly broke our hearts.” “Helen is your sister, the grief-stricken mother of sald ‘The three of them went to Judge Luedera, who, after hearing the coi fession of the mother, legally se arated the young couple. | “Years ago,” Mrs. John Ruch, #r.,| said, “when I was a young girl on a farm near Sheridan, I met and was wooed by a man nearly twice my age. 1 loved him too well, bet ter than he did me, I guess, for aft erwards he refused to make me, the mother of his child, his lawful wi “After my mistake I was driven from home by the gossiping tongues |morning to a term io the peniten | of the countryside, I left behind, 'tiary from 10 to 20 years ralia, and New Zea At the moment, it was He tossed his hands John both } oo | Witnesses in Judge Ronald's court today described Gustav as a man | of pleasing, even magnetic presence, and a most persuasive manner. The | court granted Johanna an absolute decree. died from bullet wounds received| “Pop, SOUTH ORAN N. J, April ! | | on that aceosion, was sentenced this | poles?” | —President t refused today “Why, er-r-r, on account of there | comment on Col, Roosevelt's s being. so much fee there.” in Worcester, in which he bitterly Axel Nist, who was convicted of manslaughter on his second trial for the death of Patrolman Judson Davis, who fell victim in a running duel when he attempted to arrest Nist and one John Ford, who also Astor, son of Col. John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic, and heir to the Astor millions, passed through this city today en route to Halifax, N.S, to take charge of hi father’s body when the “coffin” ship Mackay-Bennett arrives there with bodies recovered from the wrecked liner, Young Astor will take the body at once Phone It? When You Have a “want” just’ Call Main 9400 and phone it to The Star If you have no phone, leave it with the nearest druggist Over 40,000 paid copies daily. TAFT TO REPLY = x at | arraigned the president, He is e pected to reply to the colonel in speech at Philadelphia tonight Pre ro ? VSNT HE A DEAR S why is so cold at the | ident Taft spent the night at the home of Clarence Kelsey, and slept late today. Interviewers eagerly sought thm as soon as he | arose, but he persisted in silence as far the Roosevelt situation was con | cerned. Mabies! Babies! fables! Mt babies, lean babies, pi Iwho could be called babies. retty| Esdras 1. Henry, 209 Queen Anne tate 1 - lav. won the first, while “Baby @ bables—all sorts of! worphy, 1212 Marion st., captured You can see every day ati the second prize. Chas, F. Bridge food and household show in| man, 1434 E. Harrison, by virtue of viak. the fact that he could still be called Seemed as if every baby in|a baby, won in the 2-yearold class.| ile Was listed tr contests.| Don Smith, Ninth ay. and Spruce were ‘dod to|nst., was the best developed baby of yea ond to|the afternoon. Norman and Her between iz an months, | man Chemidas, 614 John st., carried third for those years|off the twin prize. WHAT BILL TAFT AND T. ROOSEVELT CALL EACH OTHER NOW WHAT TAFT SAYS ABOUT TEDDY That Roosevelt repudiated his promise not to be a candi- the WHAT T. R. SAYS OF TAFT That Taft has yielded to the bosses and the privileged again, so future promises cannot be relied on, That deliberately Taft's Toledo speech, trying to show the president opposed to government by ; date r Roosevelt misquoted interests. That Taft has been disloyal to their past friendship and TOO BUSY KISSING TO EAT CHICAGO, April 27,—“He kept me so busy kissing Methat I could not eat my meals or get my teeth fixed,” tttlared Miss Belle Morton of Chicago today, referring to Phe high speed courtship which she declares Millionaire fo. W. Astrup, president of the Northérn Fish and Trad- M6 Co. of Peterson, Alaska, inflicted upon her. Astrup Gated the girl’s arrest, and she deterMined to “expose” she said. Astrup denied everything and fled to French Lick rs f ogdinary decency ah ote very canon of ogdinary decency. re . yet : to eet. S Siang : That Roosevelt charged Taft with being for Lorimer when That Taft’s statement regarding the influence of federal) Rp Knew he was against him. office holders in the campaign was*an “absurd untruth.” That Seg. Crane, now denounced by Roosevelt, was three That Taft has broken his confidence by « 1 fames offered a cabinet position by Roosevelt That 10 days before the reciprocity agreement was ntide Roosevelt wrote’ T dent for making it. That Roosevelt says federal patronage is used by 70 per cen f federal officeholders were Roosevelt ap- uoting, without is permission, letters marked “Confidential.” his perm 9 aft endorsing it; now he condemns the presi- That ‘Taft's feebleness fits him for use in fligh office by the powers of evil. Taft, but That Taft was guilty himself of a “crooked deal” in speak- ing of Roosevelt's position in regard to the trust problem. intees, and many are still for him,

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