The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1912, Page 1

cal history—we use the word political in its broadest sense—has been made faster in this country in two months than in the entire 50 years that preceded them. It is not an extravagant statement to ‘what the new era in the political, economic and- social life of this country, so ardently hoped and prayed pe striven ae, bey the millions of American men and women, who love humanity better than they love vg, has dawned. BIRTH OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY AT CHICAGO THIS WEEK, ITS NOMINATION OF SEVE! .T AND JOHNSON ON A PLATFORM DEALING IN UNEQUIVOCAL LANGUAGE WITH 4 VITAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS AS MINIMUM WAGE SCALES, EQUAL SUFFRAGE, HOURS OF OR FOR MEN AND WOMEN, THE PROTECTION OF DEFENSELESS CHILDREN FROM THE D OF THE WOLVES OF INDUSTRIALISM, WAS, IF POSSIBLE, A MORE REMARKABLE RATION OF THE DETERMINATION OF THE COMMON PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK THEIR 1 INTO THEIR OWN HANDS, THAN WAS THE VICTORY AT BALTIMORE, WHERE IMON PEOPLE, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF WILSON AND BRYAN, DROVE THE N CHANGERS FROM THE TEMPLE OF DEMOCRACY. rt weeks ago the national convention of the most powerful and proudest political party this country has | ever had, a party that has been in almost continuous c ontrol of the government for 50 years, was held at Chi- cago: with all the pomp and circumstance that attend such gatherings. Today that party is dead beyond any possible chance of resurrection, ifs platform a byword, its candidate, the president of the United States, dis- credited as have been few, if any, of his predecessors. TH PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST UPON WHICH THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY ARE NOW ENTERING IS NOT A THREE-SIDED CONTEST—IT IS A TWO-SIDED CONTEST. TAFT AND THE GREY WOLVES OF PRIVILEGE THAT SURROUND HIM ARE ALREADY DEFEATED. The issues which are to be decided at the ballot box in November do not include the issue as between the people and privilege. That tremendously vital issue was decided in favor of the people at Baltimore, and the decision was clinched by Roosevelt's progressive party at Chicago this week. Having rescued their government from those who, in the blindness of their greed and corruption would have destroyed it, the question now pressing upon the people for answer is: What shall we do with the govern ment we have again taken charge of and under what party and individual leadership shall we make our first experiment? SO FAR AS THE STAR IS CONCERNED, WE FEEL THAT THE PAGE IN HISTORY WHICH IS NOW OPEN BEFORE ALL OF US IS A CLEAN PAGE. Ue Star WSPAPER ‘gzsucan, HOME EDITION 1 UP CROOKEDNESS _SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, AUGUST Girls "Should they pay part of “their 4 when having good times s the boys? Read letter on page S. Your First Pay envelope! Do you remem- ber it? Look at Cory cartoon on page 4 today. VOL. i4—NO. 138. ONE CENT Y TRIED TO HUSI AEATES WIRE | FIRSTATE Wasbington delegation at Bali Moose convention, headed Poindexter, today sent a to George H. Walker of ie which a state-wide con 98 September 10, to launch i ve party in Washing Eb saggested. The call is to be by the Roosevelt campaign selected at the Aberdetn $3,000,000 NEW YORK, marble mansions in are deserted. Bus Aug. 9.—All the Fifth avenue loads of tour mous thoroughfare to view the splendid homes of the “idle rich’ and see, during these dogdays, only silent, boarded-up places. But as E. Sixty-fifth street comes into view, everyone notices a light in a corner room on the second fleor of Ives of the state of | of the m: "the telegram reada, together in a complete or. so regularly organized fn {ts principles that fitute a union of all the vee in the state. Until the Organization can be set jorderiy way, we hope that think as we do will! pre ¢ work they 1g in all existing parties submerge their and their tikes ve granite pile is da der about this one bright spot in the whole deserted avenue then someone whispers ‘That is the Astor mansion.” —that in that solitary «lighted room, Madeline Foree Astor awaits the coming of her little fathe babe. And what preparations making to receive into th the first-born of the bride-widow— a child to whom its father, John Jacob Astor, who sank so bravely jon the Titanic, left a great unham- pered fortune of $3,000,000? How, In sort, do they usher into | ife a $3,000,000 baby? Well, first of all, they begin to take care of that baby WEEKS telegt does not come out peither for or against a full iind-party ticket. fram follows: “Chicago, Aug. 8, 1912. Ho Walker, 1602 Hoge tle: Delegation asks you) het possible publicity for fol- | tatement After three) ticipation in the nation. | ®trses and doctors round about its re . we all feel the vital | mother day and night, to ward off of this new crusade for danger; they have dieticians tn th. fa America and the neces-| kitchen to prepare foods which will Four working as a unit in be-|give the mother strength; they the principles of the pro- have masseurs and maids to keep The progressives |her condition the best; and last, of Washington must get|but not least, they establish a iia a complete organization | “zone of quiet” about the great organized and so broad | house. piples that it can consti Now in Madeline iAGaion of all the progressives bedroom-suite there are installed isiate, As a foundation for! three nurses and three doctors. i jon, we belleve | soon the number of nurses is to be ike committee named at the increased to eight so that the convention should issue @) shifts will be cut from eight h Mprepare a compicte, orderly | each to three hours each, And the the holding of a state-wide | number of doctors will be increased " fo four, all waiting and ready to face! pee care for the mother—and for the plan of the national organ- | *b¢ the minute it gives its first TGA perfect the organian.|little ery sof The nursery in the bef the progressives of the atate a ; “nti! the question |has been made ready t on Haigeod settled in an| It has been redecorated in lav- Way, we hope that the men |ender, with long friezes of little as we do will continue (Silver ducks running about the ve work they are now Wall. And a crib, all white and fe all existing political par. | frilly, has been put in an alcove, done in pure, shiny white. Tissue- that all men will Personal ambitions and their |thin spreads, embroidered by the young mother's own fingers, adorn Mss tA dislikes in a harmonious bi together for the public | it. Poindexter, Edgar C. Sny-| Force Astor's Astor house i What Happens if— All this care that is being taken R. Lebo, €. Allen Dale, |to insure the Astor baby a healthy word. ©. E. Taylor, J.jentrance into the world may go is, A. E. Emerson, H. H.jamiss, Then what will happen to Gordon C. Corbaley, W.|the $3,000,000 that was going to , C. H. Weeks.” pave its way through the world | with golden ster Geottrey Rob-| It will revert to Lord | mother, even if the child lives only . me the posi-|long enough to utter one little cry editor of the London Times.’ as it looks into the fond eyes above et BY FRED L. BOALT | Here's a problem. Can you solve it? Marie was the first-born of a large family. She was three months When it was first noticed that she was “not all there.” Not until Was three years old did she learn to crawl. Marie is 7 years old. in mentality she is 12 months old. May be that Marie’s parents were ashamed of their first-born. Bmay be that their love was transferred from her to the other, the mal babies who came afterward. jas spring the parent , feed and othe Patient, and tried to pass ¥ i refused to ad he child SERGEANT WAS GOOD-NATURED ie uurse tried the A good-natured desk sergeant er ¥ to discover to his dismay that there is no department o| Bee Belles Whose business it is to care for such a child denk sergeant passed Maric to Sergt, Boggess of the hu mete and juvenile ¢ Boggess turned her over to the juvenile Hon home, Lew has no business there, The detention is wondering {1 | pass her on. ie to a professional nurse, paying lor her. The nurse found a better on to the city hospital The problem. When she was r examined by Dr. Robert P aith took Marie to the Orthopedic hos: ed three months before being turned over to the SHE SOMERSAULTED Marie could then waik a little by hanging on to conven sy: she could not keep her balance. A number of mem Society experimented with her, and found she had Intelligence. Mould, for instance, retrieve an article—a cap, But instead of to it, she would turn somersaults. At first the medical men 48 an evidence of insanity. Further experiments proved them Tah Bote dow, you may have noticed, will turn round and round on ’ betore lying down Why? Because centuries ago the dog's fore mete Were Wild dogs, living in grassy jungle», and before they could GETTING READY FOR THE Three Nurses and Three Doctors in Great Mansion Now, But There Are to Be Eight Nurses and Another Doctor Soon—Mrs. Astor Wants a Boy. iets, every evening, ride up the fa | Great house; all. the rest | The people, atop of the bus, won-| And Then everyone guesses the truth BEFORE IT IS BORN. They have | ORPHAN BABY A workman in mortarbespat tered overalls leaned out of a lower window of the new Franklin high. ol, Mount Baker Park cifete, yesterday afternoon, and, glancing | Upward, called “Hullo, up there!” A voice came yourself!” High up under the eaves of the great building two men—William: Kelly, 29, and Vincent Bloomer, 40, were cleaning the bricks unde neath the coping. They stood on # twinging stage which could b ered and raised by m and tackle suspended Hooks. It was Kelly who answered the Kelly to whom all life was & down: “Hullo, joke. Mir don't tall,” man be } “It ain't t ly answered. | atop. You use murtatic acid to clear Perhaps the acid, splashed Hfrom the brushes, had failen on the |rope tackle, iting it. Perhaps the rope was old and worn from use. Close to the stage & rope was fot ting. Strand after strand had died integrated and parted. ‘One strand { : only bheld—but thix Kelly and j Pas Tes | Bloomer did not know | ale Farther along the fo other stage. On it we They say that Bloomer work lently, as was bis wont, A kind man, but reticent, be answered Kel: ly in grunted monosyllables, K to whistle. “He was whistling nttle movement has @& nieaning all its own,” whislting it softly, ornamenting the re with catchy Httle trills and | tremulos. And then } The one strand parted. Below them was an alr bottom of the well was 7 : heath them. Inatinectively | straightened their backs and gral IMRS. MADELINE FORCE ASTOR |i04 for Misain ie Wore the wil v, [they whirled to spring t It never {fOr the lower r fund of) But. the s ed by (resistance down, » ke lumps of coal into the air well | Kelly went headiong. He drove! aoetonint | into the far wall of the air well, and ahhh hhhnhh the th eee) it wae then, probably, he died 1€ | was, in truth, a quick way to go/ * & NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—-Dis. #|He caromed from the wall, and] they found him crumpled and broke: | |& appointment was felt here to lw day by those interested when #/0" at the bottom, on a heap of & it was announced by Dr. Cra # gin that the expected birth In | the Astor family would prob- | % ably not occur this week. * Sete te te tt et te tet ttt tk warned the ¢ falling 1 mis Ite ‘the wall was an- very frain dangliin the child is ee offered ne f the stage © spilled a she rtage is to go b im etow the Astor ' contro!) 20-year-old Vincent Young Mrs. Astor wants a bo jthat she may name him Jobn J for the brave father urned over and over inf his desc and landed in a ptt ting position on a plank runway | used by wheelbarrowmen, Then he keeled over, and lost consciaus: ness. He died at the Providence hospital three hours later It was in the ambulance, (hy United Press Leased Wirey | His face twisted with pain, | CHICAGO, Aug. 9%-sCol, Theo-/but his lips were smiling |dore Roosevelt’s campaign for the| “Kelly was right,” he said. “it presidency in Oregon, Washington isn't the falling. It's the sudden |and California and probably New | stop.” Mexico and Nevada will be direct-| ed from San Francisco. nt Seeeeeeeee was 8 eyes closed and did not open again. lie down in comfort they had to turn round and round to press down| the grass. . : 80, in the case of Marie, she had never exercised her puny legs, just | jae she had never exerc her puny mind, But she had discovered that somersauiting was one means of locomotion. Just so might we, if we stopped using our legs, become, centuries hence, a somersayiting, instead of a walking, people. THE WIRES ARE CROSSED ‘The trouble with Marie is that her wires are crossed in her spine there is @ lesion, so that the m from brain to her extremities are blurred, Her legs are all ri Her brain is all right. But the brain's messages send slow and faulty messages to the legs, and so Marie tumbles when she tries to walk | | In a way it’s a pity. For Marie has a fighting chance. She improv- | led wonderfully, in body and mind, at the Orthopedic hospital. Mentally she grew six months in three. Some day she could catch up with her | years. if | INTELLIGENCE AWAKENED | The doctors broke Marie of somersaulting because they wanted her to exercise her legs, which were becoming shriveled from disuse. She) whimpered when somersaulting was forbidden. The penalty was ten minutes on the bed. She understood that somersauiting was forbidden. | pe aintelligence!” said the doctors. “There is something to work on. | ‘The problem of Marie is important—important to you, to your | nelghbor, to every one of the units who go to make up "the state. For | Marie has a fighting chance, if helped It not given that chance, she will be a burden, a dead weight, on| the state, Further, when Marie reaches womanhood—1n years—there | is no law against her marrying, Like breeds like. And it is a lament-| able fact that mentally abnormal women have more children than the mentally normal. ‘Ask your doctor how many of his patients are younger than their Somewhere yea ve take excellent care of our idiots, for whom there {s no chance, We have homes for imbeciles. But there Is no place for Marie, who | With help she will catch up with her year a babbling infant when her hair is gray. truggling toward normality. Without help, she will WHEN ROPE BREAKS TWO MEN ARE DROPPED 75 FEET TO DEATH EVERYWHERE,” WROTE Striking Picture Showing How Two Workmen Were Hurled to Death. Picture of Franklin school, by Star photographer, shows how two workmen were dashed to death when rope broke, dropping them ¢|7§ feet down Into airwell. Bloomer, one of the victims. Picture Inserted at top is of Vincent “PUT THE CLAMPS ON HAY, FEARING EXPOSE State of Washington, Executive Department, Olympia. February 18, 1910. Gen. Geo. B. Lamping, ee poate, Wash. ear General:—I see by last evening’s papers’ | that the charges against Oil Inspector Clark cove leaked out. We were endeavoring to keep this matter abso< lutely quiet so that even if the committee did find Clark had been negligent to his duties he could be asked to |resign without causing any ripple or reflection upon, | himself. THIS HAS CAUSED ME TO THINK THAT. | | POSSIBLY THE SPOKANE ARMORY MATTER | MIGHT LEAK OUT. PUT THE CLAMPS ON) |EVERYWHERE AND SEE THAT THIS AFFAIR. | DOES NOT GET INTO THE PAPERS. The National | Guard is already in disrepute enough without having that matter get out. Even if it is only a matter of mis- | takes or carelessness, which I think it is, still if some |Opposition paper would get hold of it they would put altogether a different construction upon it. With the kindest regards, I am Very respectfully yours, (Signed) M. E. HAY, Governor. | “Guilty of unfaithfulness in office to public j abetting dishonesty of public Pemicgntiog : a This is the sensational indictm contained in one of his own hb |B. Lamping of the Na convicts himself of against Gov. M. E. Hay today, o former Adjutant General Georg In this letter, Standpatter Hay tempted to cover up and hush up shortages in public offices. Particularly, he refers to charges jinvolving ex-Oil Inspector Clark and Benton Crow, son of Supreme ‘ourt Judge Crow, in connection with the Spokane Armory scandal ___Hay's letter, dated February 18, 1910, shows that for more than # year prior to the revelations of the Spokane Armory shortage, approxls mating $2,000, the putty governor was in possession of the facts. But the governor, instead of courting a public investigation of the matter, brazenly urged . “Put the clamps on everywhere and see that this affair does not ge# into the papers.” And, by the power of the governor's office, the attempt to keep th matter dark succeeded for about a year, until the last legislature made an investigation of the whole National Guard Both Clark, who was charged with padding his accounts for seve eral hundred dollars, and Crow, who was mixed up in the Armory, charge, have si r ned. Hay’s self-indicting letter was made public today by rence, It's an old story John C. 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