The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 7, 1912, Page 1

Remembet? oe first shave? First of a of “Do You Remember?” “gartoons by Cory on page 4 today. Women They're finding page 5 of The Star full of interesting stories about household affairs, See “How to Kiss the Baby” today. he Seattle Star EDITION 'SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912, ROBE — | ONE CENT on SHWs STAND sax, HOME HIGHER-UPS’ BEHIND HANFORD ATTY. GEN. WICKERSHAM PLANS INVESTIGATION FEDERAL GRAND JURY PROBABLY WILL BE CONVENED IN SEATTLE oe SON URGES INSTANT REVISIO OF TARIFF IN BIG SPEECH N ow Woodrow Wilson Would Do It | HOT SHOTS FROM WILSON’S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. Must speak, not to catch votes, but to satisfy the thought and conscience ¥ in the presence of a nation, impatient of partisan make-believe.” ‘ this is a new age. The tonic of such a time is very exhilarating. It @ self-restraint not to attempt too much, and yet it would be cow to difficulty is not that wicked and designing men have plotted against hat our common affairs have been determined po private an initiative.” upon too narrow a view, is discontented with representative government; it falls under question it ceases to be representative. ts owed their origin and their secure power to tariff duties.” high cost of living is arranged by private understanding. can be nothing wholesome unless the life o f the men and women who) wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.” 7—With and simplicity as its seremony of formaily Gov. Woodrow Wilson that chosen democrati mee for the presidency of the was accomplished right and justice are to be settled. The people he said, are impatient of partisan make-believe “They will want to know what sort of men we are, and of what definite purpose; what transiation of action and of policy we intend to give to the general terms of the platform which the convention at Baltimore put forth, should we be elected.” Two Things to Do. He said that there are two things to do. The first rule of justice and of ri tera as the tar the t ht program mar Batly in the da began to arrive «# house,” and were « the veranda by the © Wife and da B@elock whe ont fe main bod Cmmitiees arri tonfreres m MB Waiting, a had been Fas forma fh a signed cx Was apper Whole dew, 10 pressure of wo Bélther Speak: Leader Osea Candidates Romination Mt the notir Presenting + Rotificar the occa scores of the and of of r nd@ throughow Open Doors of Opportunity. The ond is “the great task of ng our people and and of keeping open people the doors of This, Wils ms of conser our re ¢ oppor democrat; In apie W Brest attrib ‘ said, brings of for mines nad safeguard powers ways, of the up of every wate and water « ng fed by @ gr at, industrious, ex t trouble has past that these ques en handled in private stead of taking coun ge @ number of per ne as posrible. “We need no revolution,” he said. “We need no excited change; we need only @ new point of view and a new method and spirit of counse! No group of directors, economic or political, can speak for a people. They have neither the point of view nor the knowledge.” The Tariff, Wilson denounced the Payne- Aldrich tariff act as “the most con 10us example ever afforded the count of the special favors and monopolistic advantages which the leaders of the republican party have so often shown themselves willing to extend to those to whom they looked for campaign contrfputions.” He declared that the economic freedom of the people depend upon a reconsideration of this tariff from) top to bottom “Immediate Reform.” “There should be an immediate revision, id it should be done in the tha eeeht and fé tally all ur , and ha factions Fepublican triump! Seratic par the people « laws so rig Y can find ession no h Svéry home a ‘itizen & volu will ‘ and t The republican party has taught Wists that it oniy barks, that it Met bite. Prosecution against is but the signal to @rising market.” Wilson's Speech fa his introductory words! to James, firmally ac- erty ioe nation of the demo if president. He said tion has been awakened so foming contest in not one © but that questions of|such a way, he declared, as will injured, and was taken to her home. | least interfere with the “normal and healthful course of commerce and tt } manufacture.” Tariff legislation p said, made the control the government a prize to be captured so as to gain special favors, and “favors are never conceived in the general in st, but are always for the beue fit of a few There has been no more demor alizing influence tn our pdlittes,” Wilson sald, “in our time, than the » influence of tariff legislation He traced the building up of trusts and monopolies to privilege tainted tariffs High Li vi trasts, dost ng Cost. The have been r for the of livin maintained prices are not fixed by com petitions of the market or by the law of supply and demand, but by agreements among the producers themselves. “1am not one of those who think that competition can be established by law against the drift of a world wide economic fendency.” Wilson went on to say, “but we can arrest and prevent monopoly. Big bu: ness is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.” The general terms of w have apparent Wilson said it should be additional elv to effectually and pre those methods is now known monopolies, Wilson also sounded a need for laws to prevent a “money trust Such a trust, he said, is made pos t fact that a small group of men control a large number of various trusts and corporations, so that there is a sort of confederacy of all the with banks, insurance companies, ete nstble cost c the antt tru proved ineftec prop me ertintr tual that with law vent he ple and sh which established ned 1 it hav Progressive Measures. He spoke of favoring presidential primaries, direct election of sen ators, and full publicity of cam paign contributions ‘We do not own the Philippine Wilson said, “but are merely hold ing them in trust.” He concluded his speech by say ing that the democratic party must be one without entangling alliances with any special interest whatever. Miss Simmons, 2227 Seventh av., wae knocked down at the corner of Seventh and Pike last night by an auto driven by Ruhard Eaves of the Barker hotel. She was not badly RSE red by the tariff,| ‘THIRD TICKET FOR STATE f= | | NAUGHTY CABARETERS CABARAG TAMELY NOW Since Police Put Cab-osh on Cabarets in Seattle, “It’s Not Like It Used to Be.”—What Is a Cabaret, Anyway? BY FRED L. BOALT Since one of our most prominent clergymen investigated our mow ind thundered his denunciation of them from the they—our cabarets, not our olergymen—have been decidedly | prominent cabarets pulpit, tame. | The word went out from the pollee department to the proprietors of the cabarets that if they would instruct their entertainers to put on | } the soft pedal, the police would be grateful. Always glad to obi said the rietors to the police, and to Claude and Suzaine: ubdue the primal instincts, please, hereafter, and cut out the rough stuff.” The result is that our cabarete are as refined as regular vaude ville, | It occurs to us that the reader may not know what a cabaret is, for | ticians and business men will be dra the name is not in common use in these parts, No, no! A cabaret ts } not a young cab, Neither is it a newdtlangled name for a bungalow A New Yorker came to Seattle the other day. “In New York,” “everybody cabarets. Do yout” We said we did, thinking he meant joy-riding. Later, however, we gathered from his conversation that one cabarets in cabarets, not in cabs, and that a cabaret is a place where you cat and drink while per |formers entertain you from a tow platform about which your chairs jene tables are gathered. The entertainers sing and dance with aban | don, . | It dawned upon us, then, that we tind been cabareting a long time, | only we didn't know it, We have beemeabareting at The Breakers, and |the Hofbrau, and Tate's, and a number of lesser establishments, We jare, tudeed, old cabareteers. Only, Being provincial, we called ‘em | cafes, STORY OF SUZAINE | And now our mind goes back to the mad cabareting we did before | [the prominent clergyman thundered from the pulpit his denunciation of © cabarets, and we cannot be sure whether we are glad or sorry that) reverend gentleman put the kibosh on the feverish activities of | Claude and Susaine. We first saw Suzaine at The Breakers. Goodness knows how she/ leame there. She was tittle, plump aad@ pretty, and, somehow, she look- jed clean and wholesome. She met extremely well, but well | jenough—and took dainty, mincing steps in time to the music, The) | words of the song were not In the lenst nanghi Yet everybody was pleased but the stage manager, who feaned against the phoney palm and scowled. Later he confided to us that Suspine’s charms ae him, and that her act jacked “ginger. | he | sald, / were hardly ripe @ table close to the platform—-an old man, o! | Suzaine’s grandfather—beckoned her, and she joined him, blushing scar- let. And she sat woodenly wordless while the old rascal poured senile nonsense into her eara. ANOTHER: BORT The lady who followed Supine Was of another sort. The lady's charms, to our mind, were over-ripe. She writhed and twisted and | flung herself about, wiggled, slithered and gyrated in that turkey-trot |abandon which « humorist has called “the poultry of motion.” The song was new to us then, It was about a “must-cery-yuss ira «.” She was looking for tt, evidently. We hoped she would find it and use it to cover her back, whieh was bare to her waist. HERE 18 CLAUDE We confess we did not, do not, apd never can like Claude. The creases in Claude's trousers are too perfect. His nails are too pink | His hair is too slick and glossy. The heels of his shoes are too high We would like to muse him up. Yet he has the grand manner, He ie suave and polished. When) his song is done, he will condescend te go among the lady cabareteers | and drink a glass of wine with them—at their expense. Indeed, the! proprietor encourages him tn this. it was months ago that we first saw Suzaine. The jast time we jsaw her she was as pretty as ever, but somehow we weren't pleased. True, her act was chockful of “ginger.” She didn’t wait to be invited to visit around with the male cabareteers. She looked the same, but— well, it was as if part of her had died, bh for the entertainers. What of the cabareteers for whom ainers must sing and buuny-hug, the while the ragtime kid| ivories with cyclonic fury? What's wrong with us that we must spur our jaded spirits with highballs and charm:pagne, and that we no Jonger have an ear for such 1 sas “Bweet Gen urte”? y of the operripe charms seemingly forgets the roomful and focuses her attention upon one man—generally an old and foolish man “| can eee that you are married,” she sings. arts, then chuckles. * and | am married, too.” | We roar. It is an excellent joke. jlures him with her bare, wh arms. ‘The burden of the song is that they may meet day after day, and no one will ever know, The old man’s chest swells. He is the very devil of a fellow. And not so old! Ah, no! Didn't she single bim out? “But, honey, if you talk In your Don't men-shun my name!” He rises amid ringing laughter and teeters toward the platform. She forgotten him. It's late, and she’s tired, and her The ojd man changes his mind and sits down After a day of routine toll, we sometimes feel we to cabaret again. Last night we madd the roun Tate's ers and the Hofbrau. We shall not go again Deep down in our hearts we know that the old kind of cabareting| was not good. When we think of Suzaine, and the lady of the overripe | charms, and the old fool, we know that it was not good. HIGHWAY ROBBERS ESCAPE | Koo Admirable! She ogies him, p (boom, boom!) & flicker of flame in his faded eyes, ha head aches me would lik | jwith the train crew. The prisoners, | although manacled together, raised @ vestibule platform and dropped from the train which was running 35 miles an hour. Gates left the train companied, 1s on the trail of the fugitives A posse from Mojave (my Press Lensed Wired MOJAVE, Cal., Aug. 7.—After a | desperate battle on a Southern Pa- ciflc passenger train between Mo jave and Beeville, early today, Chrie and Chas. White, alleged highway robbers, escaped from Deputy Sher iff Gates of Los Angeles county after beating him almost uncon. \is being organized to follow One scious with his own revolver and/of the prisoners Is believed to be then exchanging a fusillade of shots | seriously wounded and unac PROBABLY WILL BE DEFEATED (By United Press Leased Wire) jnight and voted against a third TACOMA, Aug. 7.—Indications|ticket. Walla Walla, Clallam and are that at the new bull moose con-|Wahkiakum counties all took the vention called for Tacoma tonight|same action, and sent word they by Secretary W. D. Askren of the | would not come, but to record their Roosevelt delegates to the Aberdeen |votes against a third ticket. Spo: |etate convention, the third party|kane delegates sent a protest ticket proposition in this state will)againet the whole convention. Se- be voted down. |attle delegates are reported to hold Tacoma delegates caucused last'the same attitude. DROPPED BOX OF DYNAMITE. LENTS, Or., Aug. 7-—Perry Warren, real estate dealer, is dead here today as the result of dropping a 50-pound box of dynamite ow the floor of his home. His house was blown over an acre of ground and no two pieces of lumber were left together. AFTER DESPERATE BATTLE ‘behi (By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7..-A government probe of the alleged higher-ups ind Cornelius H. Hanford, former judge of the United States court for the western district of Washington, in his alleged misconduct on the bench, is the plan | |committee of the house |Hanford who hours with Ai | grand jury would probably |ments. Berger flatly char, /higher-ups from disclosure |0f Attorney General Wickersham, according to announcement made noon by Congressman Victor Berger of Milwaukee. Berger ail along has insisted that the investigation in Seattle convene this aftere by the sul judiciary committee showed there were rich men —< should not go unpunished. Berger was closeted today for sever: ttorney General Wickersham, and later announced that a federal! v n Seattle to expose alleged higher-ups. It is predicted that if the investigation starts, prominent Seattle lawyers, polie wn into the government’s net through indict. ‘ged that Hanford was forced to resign to protect alleged s. i ROOSEVELT IS NOMINATED; — GO HIRAM JOHNSON TO BE MATE Aiea eee eee ee 2d * * * * * * * * TODAY'S PROGRESSIVE * CONVENTION PROGRAM *® Election of permanent offi cers *% Adoption of rules and plat- *® form. % Nomination of presidential * tw and vice presidential candi- #! * dates. & Notification of nominees. * Rooseve't's acceptance * ® speech. * Kee h hh (My United Prem Leased Wire.) ) CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—Heralded as the one man of ali oth in the United States to bring equality of opportunity and equality of reward to its people through the medium of the new progressive party, Theo- dore Roosevelt was today nominated here for president of the United ates. After a series of partial pointments in the conduct of its business, the progressive conven tion met this afternoon, and, aan | | disap. SEATTLE GIRL FIRST WIRELESS WOMAN OPERATOR | | | | But the lady’s back is to him now.| | *) of N the adoption of new rules for the new party and the announcement that its platform was com the roll of the states was called. Ala bama, first on the list, gave way and New York was recognized Comptroller Prendergast of the city w York was absent, and the mnvention awaited his return with impatience. Finally he was found and in a speech rep! with praise, formally put Roos in nomina tion Vvelt Prendergast’s Speech. In nominating Roosevelt for pres- ident, Prendergast said | “This great gathering owes its! being to a mighty protest against those who have tried to poison the wells of democracy. Appreciating the stupendous task before it, the progressive party declines to accept the cynical doctrine of Napoleon that God is on the side of the heav- jest battalions, and it professes sub lime faith in the teaching of Abra-| ham Lincoln that right makes‘ | to finish might My candidate is more than citizen. He is a national asset. I this momentous period of politic doubt there is no man who present such credentials as his. This came¢ didate has success written in every, page of his official career. He hi fonght the most vicious forees im American life and conquered thent’ He surrendered the presidency in! the hope that other hands woul prosecute what he had not the time} That task has been treat ed with Intermittent loyalty and largely left undone.” Johnson for Vice President. After the nomination of Roos@ velt, the vice presidential nomin: tion was taken up. It is practically. conceded that Gov. Johnson of Cak | ifornia will be the choice, largely because of his gr speaking abil ity. He will stump every state wit! Roosevelt. The adoption of thqj platform will be followed by tha} e of the convention. HODGE PAYS | FILING FEE people's candida sent his filini He gave up 6¢ and ¢ & post ut amount gone to Olympia,” I'am planning t for the “Bob” Hodge for governor, today fee to Olympia American doliars office order for “My he sm honey has ed You know there ning this wee He was will returr tot tne vesterd tod ay, going and from o Bellingham SUFFRAGETTES GO TO PRISON (Hy United Press Leased Wire) DUBLIN, Aug. 7.—For attempting to burn the Theatre Royal here, in which Premier Asquith was to have spoken during his recent visit to Ireland, Mrs. Mary Leigh and Miss Gladys Evans, suffragettes, were sentenced today to five years’ penal servitude i NOT CONSISTENT Ld Towne has his health How did he g the gone to Europe for his health?” y to go to Bue SLIPPED ON FLOOR W. Frater, 4521 15th ave of Judge Frater, slipped rat her home last nigh ctured her hip. 100 Honest Impulses ys. One Dishonest Impulse Get right after the finder of that MAYBELLE KELSO Somewhere between Seattle and Alaska the Mariposa is steaming northward, By wire- less she keeps in touch with other ships, asking and answer- ing pertinent questions. The wireless cracks and snaps and sparks its messages over the heaving waters. Maybelle Kelso, first woman wireless operator aboard ship, is on the job. Miss Kelso was Western Union operator in Seattle. She hankered to send wireless messages over the oceans. She convinced the United Wireless people that a woman could do the work as well as, or better than, a man. “For one thing,” she said, “women don't get drunk, If they have less strength, they have more endurance than men, and great strength is not need- ed at the wireless key. Women are quite as cool in emergency.” a TTrtCrrcrrr rrr re 2! 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