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

bunch of standpat corporation lawyers who are performing at Tacoma under the auspices of the State Bar association are certainly making good on the promise that this year’s show would be the best. fter fuming and spouting and pawing the earth up all day yesterday over eve on their whole performance last night when they “steamrollered” through an and warned the corporation lawyers that it would make the a so Hanford is again endorsed by all the corporation flunkies of the state, all of which he is entitled to, Chinaman Makes a hit on vaudeville stage here. Don't miss story about him, on page 4. RL, BEATEN BY _\WAt ORGANIZE _ MEN, MAY DIE ssociation ridiculous in the eyes of the people, VOL. 14—NO. 131. J and Horsewhipped Because She Wouldn't Lover, Pretty th Today. > Georgia Girl Lies at Point E CARTER AND SKETCH OF THE BRUTAL ATTACK. Ga, Avg. 1—*Mur. ha ly whip” may be } the Essie Car case, if the young she is now bare- July 21. ” they said / to open the) 4 broken in. Then 1 into the house it for their Miss Evsie Car-| bedroom and While she scream-| er out, the girl into an aut fode away. In a lonely men lifted her out Dawson?” one weeping girl I want to,” she re Sa Swear never to see or Dozier again?” — it. He loves me No, I can't swear three men rudely tore every stitch of clothing from the rostrate girl, and while two held er, another grabbed a bugsy whip and brought It down upon the quivering body again and agalo, taking a savage delight tn the vic- tim’s groans of agony and cries for mercy. “The man who used the whip ‘was W. S. Dozier,” says Mary Car ter, Easie’s sister, who escaped a like fate by running from her home beige she heard the men breaking in. Doster is the clerk of the su perior court of Terrill county, and a of his sons is alleged to have held the girl that night while he Tashedt | her. Another son, Vogt, 18 years) old, was in love with Essie Car. ter, and it was because he refused | to give her up that the father, it} is said, decided to “run her ont of | town.” | After beating Essie into insens-) ibility, the three men who had! whipped her and several others who had watched the outrage from th: os hurried away. Mary car ried sister home and next morn. ing ght her to a Macon hos. pital. Hardly an inch of her body but is cut and discolored. | | braith , TAKING NOMINATION, /’ KES ATTACK ON TEDDY o Avg. 1.—With | Senator Root of New| of the recent repub-— ‘convention, acting President W notified, at the! . Ina reply 10,000 words in “President formally ac- tion, and while he leaders of the new pr ', NO personal mention Col. Theodore Roos Geremony was held in| Of the White House. ‘aft originally intended from the south portico of House, but changed this Of the possibility of ‘than 1,000 000 guests were Informally about the east Taft, Senator Roct| Ios Believe in a rule of Inw than @ rule of men, and real the only safety of nations is to establish and red principle You eens with the great po le the right conduct American people set up tor and self-restraint Imitation, ae in com| You know | force the party to violate a valuable| | that to sweep away these wise rules) ot self-restraint would not be} progress, but decadence President Taft’s speech of ac- tance was in part as follows: accept the nomination you ten- der with profound gratitude to thé] republican party, which has thue honored me twice. I accept it ns approval of what I have done under its mandate and as an expression of confidence that in a second ad ministration I will serve the public well “The issue presented at the con-| vention over which your chairman) presided with such a just and even hand made a crisis in the life of} the party. A faction sought to} and time honored national tradition| by entrusting the power of the pres- idency for more than two terms to one man, a man whose recently avowed political viewg would have committed the party to radical pro- posals involving dangerous changes | in the present constitutional form of government and our independent | judiciary. This occasion is appro-| priate for an expression of profound gratitude at the vict&ry for right won in Chicago. By that victory the party was saved for further use- 1Iness, EW BAR Moo N TACOMA, Aug. 1.—The organ: lzation of a new bar association by progressive lawyers in the state is receiving considerable encourage ment here today. The movement was given emphatic impetus by the domination of state bar association by standpat corporation lawyers, which culminated in the passage of 8 resolution endorsing C. H. Han- ford of who resigned under fire | The resolution was introduced by E. C. Hughes, one of Hanford’s law. yers, and lawpartner of W. T. Dovell, president of the association. Angered by the address of Dovell, who ¢ ed popular govern ment and the diatribe againat the Initiative and ref um by W. C Bristol, of Portland, progresatve lawyers last cvening started the fireworks with caustic rebukes Attorney Bristol had = said "There are 92 millions of the drat test fools who r inbabt the face of the earth,” when speaking of those favoring the initiative and referendum. Fred C. Robertson of Spokane se verely arraigned the bar association for selecting reactionary speakers. it ought not to lend itself to those who oppose all principles of progress,” he said. “It ought not to select speakers who oppose the principle of rule by the people. Hugh C. Todd, progressive candi date for governor on the democratic ticket, at a dinner of democrats yes terday, also took the bar associa tlon severely to task. He criticized Hay’s commission of judicial pro cedure reformers who have brought up several suggestions to tighten the grasp of corporations upon the courts In this state, and urged In an eloquent speech upon all pro- gressive lawyers to break up the bar association combine of reaction aries. HAGEARD WINS MARATHON (By United Press Leased Wire) BELLINGHAM, Aug. 1—Cheered Prey.) well-to-do citizen of Dawson. One| by thousands of spectators, Harvey po : Hage: iggered from the lingham Bay and British Columbia Railroad train to the Chamber of Commerce this morning and, with Joe Francoviz but 10 feet behind him, was declared the winner of the 1912 Mount Baker Marathon and of the first prize of $500 which goes therewith. Victor Galbraith, who had arrived at the train at Glacier three min utes behind Haggard, was the third man to arrive at the Chamber Haggard’s time for th round trip was nine hours | and minutes as compared with 12 hours) trall and 28 minutes made by over the Deming ear. From Glacier to the summit of Mount Baker and return the dis tance is approximately 30 miles. From Bellingham to Glacier the distance is 44 miles. HE SUBMITS TO VACCINATION (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—After being sentenced to one year at hard labor and to be dishonorably dis-| charged because he refused to sub- mit to vaccination, Gunners Mate Joseph J. Kapsa, a Christian sel entist, has changed his mind and will allow the navy surgeans to por- form the operation. United St. Senator Works of California advised Kapsa to submit in the hope of prevailing upon the navy officials to rescind his sen- tence. HAINES AGAIN (By United Press Leased Wire) BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 1.—As the re- sult of returns received late today, Jobn M, Haines is again in the lead for the republican nomination for governor of Idaho, but the result ts still in doubt. Paul Clagstone, the northern Idaho progressive, is but 600 votes behind, and nearly half of the precincts yet to be heard from. YA complete | for t Speaking longitudinally and lath tudinally, State Senator H. 0. Fish- back, of Adna, now candidate for state Insurance commissioner, is a large person. For physical bigness | him, with the possible exception of |“Truck” DOunkhorst, the “human lfreight car,” who once thought he Jeould lick Bob Fitzsimmons, but changed his mind in the first min- ute of the first round. To grasp Fishback’s size you have to look at him in relays. The longer you look the bigger he grows. |Short, nearsighted persons should |vlew his features from an adjacent roof. Otherwise they will strain jtheir eyes and get a erick in their necks. When you first look at Fishback you say: “Why, he’s the biggest leandidate in the whole state of | Washington.” “You take another look and you say: “Jehosophat! He's the ble gest candidate the United States.” The third time you say Jumping Caesar! He's the candidate tn the world.” And mebby he ts Lately Fishback has been wor- ried. He's losing weight to weigh 363. Now he to 350. It makes him fi is—well not fragile, but—shall we way petite? He wears a No. 20 collar, When lhe was young and a bit of a dude lhe squeezed his neck into a No, 19. He wears No. 12 shoes, a No, 7% hat, and No. 56 underwear. And lhe stands six feet five In his stock ings, Tailors stand on ladders when they measure him for clothes. in “Great biggest LL FALL FOR IT! TO GRASP FISBACK TO LOOK AT HIM IN RELAYS You Can Get Some Faint idea of the Senator From This Photo Taken we know of no one to compare with | _ The Seattle SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1912. ’S SIZE YOU HAVE Star Fishback has four sons who take after their dad longitudinally and jatitudinally. Tom was captain of the W. 8. C. football team Inst year, and coach this. When eleven play- ers tackle Tom's legs they look like fringe on his pants. Fishback used to be a banker His ‘opponent in this race ia the present incumbent, State Insurance Compiléaioner J. H. Schtvely, which soe to show that polities is a funny gamg. Por Fishback was a mem er of the senate committee which proved Schively’s office, and it was Fishback who turned up most of the damaging evidence against him. on which impeachment proceedings werg begun. The house voted to impeach, but the senate failed to up- hold the charges, the vote standing 26 10 14 against § ely, thus lack: | Ing pnly two votes of the necessary two-thirds Fishback is a fine figure of a mani, a little old-fashioned in speech and dress, He's shrewd and abso lutely honest, Just now he's a farmer; owning @ 330-acre ranch neat Ad Adna is little more than a post- office. Once a traveling man want- ed to get off the train there. But it happened that Fishback and his four sons were standing in front of | the depot, obscuring it from view. | So the traveling man went on. This | may not be a true story, but they | tell it around Adna. POE SERS TONEY DEY * WEATHER FORECAST *| % Generally fair tonight and | * Friday; light southwest to * * west winds, Temperature at * noon, 62 * * MEN RE wee eee ONE CENT rything that gives the people anything to say about their own i i i government, the corporation lawyers put a nice and appropriate endorsement of ex-Judge Hanford. Of course some of the progressive attorneys, who are not entirely blind, protested against but what do corporation lawyers care about the people? so why should anybody kick? OVER MOUNTAINS AND THROUGH VALLEYS, BOB HODGE MADE 3,000 MILES AND MET 60,000 VOTERS BY FRED L,. BOALT, ' A friend of Bob Hodge's, who lives down in Metolius, Oregon, met the progressive candis date for governor a while back and said job, I've got a machine at home that ain't working. If you can use it in your campaiga and care to send for it, you're welcome.” “Can she climb mountains?” asked Hodge. “At climbing mountains,” replied the Oregonian, “she’s a grizzly bear.” sas That’s the way history made. A chance meeting. A sudden and kindly impulse, Use my car, Bob.” “Thanks, I will.” And now we record a whirlwind ride that makes Paul Revere’s little stunt look like a Sunday afternoon amble in the park. Campbell is a young man who breakfasts, dines and sups on enthusiasm. ge are pal ‘Stew,’” said Hodge, “can you drive an automobile?” sad Bob,” said Campbell, “my middle name is Tetzlaff, and folks often take me for Barney, Oldfiele j i ‘ Campbell went to Metolius, got the car, and met at The Dalles, just across the state ling Hodge climbed in, the car started with a snort, and they n to m history. HODGE MEETS 60,000 PEOPLE They traveled 3,000 miles. Bob distributed 30,000 cards 60,000 people, and addresagd so many meetings he forgot to count ‘em. They got stuck in the beds dried-out rivers, drowned In fording swollen streams, ran into sandstorms in the desert, slithered dowg mountain sides, got lost, went broke, hung over precipices, slept in the open, went hungry, nearly died. id came home over Snoqualmie pass rom Goldenda tm the southeast west corner, they were a sini and went back to T« i then which they crossed at Lorain, Hunt times, They zigzagged here, there and and then the pass. made good his boast. He went where no car had ever been before d over rocks, slewed into ruts, skimmed preeipices, bumped into tree Hello, Central How long does it take to “get your number”? For answer, ON THAINS AND look over story on page 8. He and They made it thus wise shook hands Mp of! corner of the state of Washington, to Ellensburg, in the northe vith a tail that smelled of gasoline. They turned at Ellensburg through Alfalfa to Spokane. Then north to the Canadian border, passable roads, they crossed and recrossed the border thr everywhere—Cheesaw, Loomis, to Ellensburg nani ; He drove day and nigh! But he made every tow ne tchee; The trip was fulb of surprises, Bob kept meeting old friends of other days coal and freighted over the Cascades, and never dreamed of being governor They coasted into Toppenish on flat tires, to find that Harvey, the blackamith ali the country round. Nothing would do but Bob and “Stew” must be the blacks You speak tonight!” said Harvey ‘Good Lord!” groaned the candidate. “TI can't Stew” leaped for the car, Bob followed, and they were off. that night and raced back to Toppenish and talked till well past midnight. At Goldendale—and, by the way, that’s where Bob went broke—a man “A man who'd hand out a card like that is a ding-busted fool.” Bob thought he was in bad. But be wasn't. For the man turned out to be the only standpatter ig the town, He had been a Taft delegate to Aberdeen HE 1S DEATH TO STANDPATISM ' One thing about Hodge—he's thorough. When he campaigns, he campaign Every time he saw lone farmer in a field, he stopped and gave that farmer a lecture on the fundamental principles of g government. He found a lonesome cruiser In the wilderness and cleansed him of his standpatism. At every settlement the farmers, the cruisers, the miners, the loggers, all came from far and near— came on horseback, in wagons and afoot—to hear Bob Hodge and to shake hands with him. And they liked him, for he was thel? kind; they Itked the beft of him, the honest grip of his big hands; they liked | his courage and his shrewd and homely views. THEN THE CLIMAX | The climax of that state-wide tour came—as a climax should—last. They left Easton at 6:20 p.m. They gained Snoqualmie pass about 8 at night. They went up an { up. The valley shadows deepened, and night fell. It was a rotten road. “You can’t make it,” they said at Easton, “It can't be made in the daytime. It's suicide to try it in the dark.” But they passed the summit at 10, Gotng fine! It was so dark they couldn't see the yawning preck! pices, and that helped some. Then they slumped into a cut full of soft dirt—and the engine stopped. STALLED IN THE MOUNTAINS Cougars howled. Owls hooted. They tinkered the engine and tried to buck the hill. They backed! down to get a flying start. No use. They tried backing up, so the gasoline must flow to the enging| Nothing doing. Then they quit and waited for help to come. None came. chee, that morning early, They walked five miles one way and met no one, five miles the other way, Hounds rushed from a cabin. A man came to the door and welcomed them. horse to tow the stranded car. He had food, though, and they were starving. bacon, a little tea and half a loaf of bread “Help yourself,” he said, But Bob looked into the cupboard, and it was empty. loaf of bread. the s when he mined And they were for Hodges had billed the town ang nith's guests. | y're waiting at Zillah for me now.” They had their meeting at Zillah at 8:3@4 Harvey's crowd was waiting. Bob climbed a soap box at 11:30 looked at Hodge's card, and nald They hadn't eaten since they left Wenat.. They returned and walked But he had n@, He had a little! 1 | The man was offering them his last half SLEEP ON THE GROUND “I'm not hungry,” sald Hodge. “Stew's” heart nearly broke. and returned to the stranded car. They slept on the ground Suddenly “Stew” was awakened by a loud, sputtering sound, and opened his eyes. staring into two blinding globes of light, “Who's there,” he yelled. They thanked the man and went away} He found himself ANOTHER CANDIDATE COMES “Otto Case, candidate for governor!” came the response A big, strapping form rose beside the stranded machine with three days’ growth of beard on his face “And I'm Bob Hodge, candidate for the same job!” towed us up this hill, for we're stuck They waited for daylight. To lessen the tedium, Case and his driver munched sandwiche: Munched sandwiches! “Stew's” eyes fill with tears even now when he thinks of it. At the moment there was noth« ing In omach but wrinkles. Th 'w the sun rise over the Cascades, Hodge took a reef in his belt and remarked sott6 voce thad such a spectacle was as good as breakfast. The Case car was made fast to the Hodge car with a rope, The Case car backed; the Hodge car groaned and moved forward, quivered, throbbod and sprang over the crest “Good-bye,” shouted Case. “Good-bye and good luck!” It looked like a grizzly, but it was only a mam he bellowed. “And you can’t get by until you'vé Hodge called back, and the candidates parted. AUTO RUNS ON HODGE ENTHUSIASM The Hodge car limped into Seattle. “Stew” swears that they made the last five miles, not on gasoling, but on Hodge enthusiasm. “Stew” slept at the wheel Arrived at the courthouse, Hodge tucked away a meal that would satisfy three ordinary men. “Stew* h for two. 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