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

|. Unable to put forth one telling argument against “Bob” Hodge, the man, unable to find one flaw in ‘be official record, the standpat organs are scouring the gutters seeking for filth with which to besmirch ‘de man who threatens to break their control on the governorship. "ff anything further were needed to show the reckless, frantic desperation of the old standpat gang- s thetridiculous, scandalous, eleventh-hour charges now hurled at Hodge furnish that proof. They"have combed the state for something, anything, against Hodge. They have hunted the coun- wie someone, anybody, who might have something on Hodge. BUT THEIR SEARCH HAS BEEN FRUITLESS. So in their final, desperate effort, they are forced Hodge’s former wife, and they USE THIS POOR, MI | THEIR FOUL ACCUSATIONS. SGUIDED WOMAN AS THE TOOL TO know that Hodge himself secured the divorce from his wife and they know why the jud him the divorce. They know why the court awarded all of the children to the father. They tebe Bi A. P ‘VOL. 14. he Sea DITOR’S mail letters are one of the most inter- esting features of The Star. Don’t miss read- them, on page 4, and con- when you feel like it. NO. 201. SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, OCTOB "FRED WILLIAMS DOESN'T LIKE TEDDY JOHN | DONT ORDER COAL TADAY HEY FORGET THE “tie dark, our wife will drive us from the from the top of ti irs when we inquire, in doggone furnace smoke!” net for the insistent demands of the iceman in the summer and the GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS BY FRED L. BOALT Williams of Boston sat down to breakfast in the Arctic fe is a guest, at 10 o'clock this morning. flannel cakes and presidential possibilities. @ feast of flannel fiap-jacks and mentai flip-fiaps. Williams, who will speak in the Celiseum tonight, is a " in Massachusetts. He is a power for several reasons, ‘of them being his nose. I have not “Who's Who” at my elbow, I am sure the G Rose came over on the Mayflower. It is an aristocratic ‘aquiline nose, a thin, high New England nose. “for the nose and a certain almost pedantic precision of | Fred Williams might be a New Yorker. and pinkness. We this morning the usual habllaments suitable to the hour, MBusval necktio—a bright red necktie, slashed with blues and stripes of gold. & tie. ‘Fred Williams tanced me with stabs of his steel-gray eyes, pour He syrup over his flannel cakes, and began. ry. then, in spite of ” he said. the fact that his paper today de e0c Roosevelt ix a vain, selfish, egotistical mai ‘food start. “We will admit, will we not, that without hit| nounces me, he offered to support Taft could not have been elected president?” me for congress if | would quit the ‘ as much. governor's race.” Wo it was in Africa, Taft failed to comply with the peaking to 3,700 people at the oy wishes concerning the appointment to the cabinet of| biggest political rally of the cam-| Ot his friends. Roosevelt was vexed. I do not blame him. He paign in Seattle, at the Coliseum ‘ to give Taft a chance to kow-tow and beg forgiveness.|theatre on Saturday night, “Bob ped | u ‘Was not abject enough to suit Roosevelt. It is true,| Hodge made this charge against! tet, . it was, “Soon after | began my campaign; He showed the necessity for en- for governor, John L. Wilson ap- forcing better safeguards in placer proached me and told me | was of employment, so that the indow His face is In| poor man and could not make atrial accidents may be greatly re |winning campaign; that except for duced. And he tok up a broad, \that handicap he knew that | could clear thinking, comprehensive dis h |be elected. He then offered to get cussion of legal standards, pleading None but a powerful personality could) me @ppointed marshal at Honolulu, for greater humanity and freedom n district of of government by technicalities, we Without Jokers. “Today no two lawyers, however high they stand in their profession, construe the same law the same way. We want laws that we can understand. We want laws without the initiative, rendum and recall, including judges. We do not want to be gov- erned by hairaplitting technicall- And how do our opponents these great issues said Hodge, in conclusion. “They avoid honest discussion, and resort to a campaign of villification and cha acter assassination,” Throughout his speech, Hodge was interrupted by the frequent ap- plause, When he concluded, the big crowd showed its enthysiasm for Hodge by a demonstration se! dom equalled here, The audience It is trae, too, that he put Roosevelt's man, Simp-|John L. Wilson, ex-United States But it was not enough. senator. break this man,’ sald Roosevelt, and went to the Chicago) “The trouble ts that John L. Wil- son does not really believe me unfit with no platform. He was ready go accept any platférm!to be governor,” Hodge said, “but But when he was trapped and beaten, he sald: ‘If I| he knows that I will serve you, in- ‘this man Taft without breaking the party, I will break|stead of them, and that is whore . the shoe pinches, “If they could control me, they would not be opposing me today. I want to assure you that not only am I capable of being governor without being dictated to by polit-) Men and women alike got up and feal bosses, but I will — ertalo | cheered, waving hats and handker- ly be your governoi ie band of | chiefs. character assassins are against me Money Subscribed. bagel Lge the ee | Finally former Supreme Cost tal principle that the man in public | Judge W. H. White, who was chair- office must serve the people, not) man of the meeting was heard. He political bosses; that the people | mad plea for contributions from _— oe * salary. oe |the public to help out the progres “Bob” se made one of the|sive fight. This was cheerfully re- noe ier igri neice ges aponkes to by the sudiense, was ent campa ; about $155 was raised, Nickels, was a ae aang yp exposition of | dimes, quarters and larger sume the principles of the progressive! one check for §25—were dropped party, He paid his respects to bis|in the hats which were passed character defamers without rancor around or spite, and then took up a discus. Senator Dan Landon, progressive. |sion of the humane planks in the|candidate for congress against progressive party platform rimmer” Humphrey, was then in- Speaking of the divorce which he| troduced. Landon made no speech, obtained from his wife after he) giving up his time to United States had become 4 candidate for gover-| Senator Miles Poindexter, whom he nor, Hodge said | introduced. Again the noise broke | “My wife that was understands | forth in a big ovation for Washing it. 1 nr rg it. 2 tA por boys | ton’s proaresaive senator. Folndas, understand it, Your God and mine | ter spoke highly of the character understands it, and I can face Him) and ability of “Bob” Hodge, with a clear conscience, Beyond} Poindexter’s Speech. that, if I never get a vote, never will| «1 am not claiming that I discuss family affairs from @ pub-| Hodge is another Lincolt lie platform. “But Tam merely pointin For Protection of Labor. they used to say that Hodge advocated the minimum /uncouth and illiterate. wage plank in the progressive plat- standing that, Lincoln did fairly form, declaring that while condl-| well, and wa: able to save the na« | Kot together all the malcontents, all the reformers. And led the party he had formed the ‘progressive’ party, though it ‘& Roosevelt party. 4s he willing to sacrific the old party? Because Taft struck, H blow at his vanity when he wrote Roosevelt thanking making him president, and saying that without ‘Brother ‘and you' he could not have been elected, He put ‘Brother before Roosevelt, and for that slight Roosevelt will never for- thy Roosevelt has done has been selfish. in this country a dictatorship. Ow, thén, shall the loyal republicans defeat this man who is a ® to the republican party?” G. Fred Williams paused for a reply. None being forthcom- He would es- BY Voting for Taft?" and waited again. a “herad tralt to answer questions with questions. G. Fred _ Ro. ot tut! of it if Let all stanch republicans vote for——" You know the answer, now. But you wouldn't have the idea had not been suggested by the wisdom of the If you love the republican party, you will vote the Williams finished his flap-jacks and his filp-flaps simul- 7, 4nd with Back Bay courtesy bowed me from his presence, RE ROOTING FOR YE, THEODORE of BY BERTON BRALEY hat us have loved you and some of us have fought you, us have watched you with a very human pride, regardiess—every one of us has thought you bunch of vigor with a dynamo inside! your pluck and courage and the zest of e ery action; to see you suffer with a wound that’s playing hob, | mother’s son of us will shout with satisfaction ‘Bob’ * he sald, out that Ancoln was eis YOU are up and out again and right upon the job! tions were not as bad here as at) tion by his loyalty to the principles ig dng, * Lawrence, Mass. that tt wag 9) of }iberty and umapity, % Woodinville — Murphine, * May not vote your ticket but we vote that you recover} fact that girls ‘and wothen Were oindexter discussed bossism inky Gbristensen, Stringer, Fuller, * Bre rooting for you, Theodore, in South and East and West; blame the wretch who shot you, and our kindest wishes hover ; A a as you battie with a bullet in your breast. tn the will of the people expressed in a in Seattle, and in the state of Washingto tual law, the tariff, human rights, Washington. He spoke for the | Us have loved you—and some of us been bitter PA Way that we have fought you (for the war was never tame), Y know you are a fighter, not a coward or a quitter, We want you back in action, putting ginger in the game! an increase of the compensation |Mass., where he made a personal standards by at least 25 per cent, | investigation. THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER The poet has written of “the froliceome architecture of the snow.” We like it not. The problem of how to meet the coal man’s bills disturbs our siumbers. We know frem past cold amd’ draughty juage more emphatie than It's odd. When winter's with us, we pine fee warmth, When sweltering ‘neath ® summer sun, we long for the season of chilbiaing. We could be happy the whole year round if it were coatman in the winter. HODGE AND POINDEXTER TALK TO BIG, ENTHUSIASTIC AUDIENCE ‘4,000 KILLED © Notwiths | working at less than living wages,| government, delays of getting the “first ald" provision in the work-|and he closed with a vivid descrip: joen's compensation act, and for|tion of conditions at Lawrence, LANDERBUND FLINGS FILTH AT HODGE | as do all of Hodge’s neighbors, that he put off the divorce and that he ENDURED DOMESTIC HELL IR MANY LONG YEARS, UNTIL HE WAS FINALLY COMPELLED TO SEEK LEGAL SEPARA- IN FOR THE SAKE O F THE CHILDREN. The standpat organs, turned scandal-mongers for the occasion, don’t care for all that. They don’t for facts. So they induce the mother of Hodge’s children to tell her rambling, incoherent, and con- dictory “story” against him. They induce the woman to swear that Hodge was shiftless and that she had to EARN THE FAMILY ING, and then in the next breath, they carelessly let her say that SHE ALLOWED HODGE TO TAKE OF THE CHILDREN BECAUSE HE COULD AND WOULD SUPPORT THEM PROPERLY. They let her say that she hoped Hodge will succeed for the sake of the children, and then they drag n her the nasty “stories” which they hope will help to defeat Hodge. se are but samples of the senseless harangue over which the slanderbund is smacking its ghoulish ps as it digs in the sewer for more. ‘tle SEATTLE 21, 1912. ONE CENT perience while yet ind reprove ‘What makes this polit “lt read in the paper the other y¥ that Senator Jones of this state appeared at a meeting in a woolen suit of clothes, said it was manu-| i factured. by American labor, and jtherefore argued for a high tariff! jan & means of keeping up high wages, The progressives have! turned aside from a theoretical dis- cussion of the tariff and are turn jing to the actual conditions of the ‘Workingmen. The people are not concérned so much to know that Senator Jones can wear a woolen| jsut, but whether the workers, say jot the woolen mills, can afford woolen suits for themselves and ‘families. I was down at Lawrence, Mass. There are 30,000 people} Working in the woolen mills down | there. I went in one of their houses joa frame tenement where 54 peo- ple live, of whom are wage earn- @m, and thelr average wages were jgs.i0 a week. When the big woolen! tru@t made a cut tn their wages, I went on strike, The strikers | Aried to dend some of their children | out of Lawrence to arouse other | cities to their desperate situation. “These people were not allowed | freely from one place to another as long as they have not violated the/ \laa. Why? Beca the ‘invis-| | ible government,’ the power of the | woolen trust was greater than the law, Such a condition améunts to real slavery, with the difference) | that the slave drivers today do not) even have to be concerned with the) selfish sity of ping their laves in good health and alive.” IN BIG TYPHOON MANILA, Oct. 21.—Already the | death toll of the typhoon that swept |over several of the Philippine | | felands the night of October 16 has | |reached the thousand mark, with | jseveral islands not heard from. | Four unidentified Americans were jamong those killed. The coasting mer Tayabas foundered off Es- calante. The bodies of 15 Fill- pinos and Spaniards have washed ashore near here, The typhoon wrecked five towns. RNR M REM MRO MM %. PROGRESSIVE MEETINGS. * Tonight * Judge White, Mohr, * * ‘%* Murphine, Christensen, Cush * Bothell Kelton, Johnson. * CREEK KKK ‘The jury in the Duwamish con: demmation proceedings has already rendered 13 verdicts in damage ON THAING NEWS STAN |this permission and Attor ‘A PRETTY GIRL INVENTS — “ROOSEVELT TAG DAY” Raa eR ERE RAK AHN to organize, ali by herself, tae pro- CHICAGO, Oct. 21—When some pretty girl tries to “tag” you next turday—Oct. 26—you'll know 's a booster for Theodore Roose- velt, celebrating his birthday by tagging you for ampaign con- tribution. Sunday is the real birth- day, but Saturday does just well for this *Founders’ day,” as it is, christened by Mrs. Medill McCor- mick, who conceived the idea. The tagday i came to her late in September. She went at once to New York and burst in upon a con- ference of the party leaders. ‘The progressive platform de. clares for admitting women to the councils of the party, and we sure cheered Hodge for several minutew,| the great American right of moving are doing it,” said Senator Dixon JOHNSON STILL © HOLDS OFFICE enn Lenned Wire? SAC MENTO, Oct. 21.—-Reports that Gov. Hiram Johnson, because he has been absent from the state 60 days on his eastern campaign, stood in peril of automatically los- ing the governorship, were denied here today at the capital. Under the authority of a resolu | tion passed by the legislature, Gov. sent from the state “for more than 60 days” at a time, The constitu- tion allows the legislature to grant Gen- p that the eral Webb has advised Johns the resolution complies with constitutional provision. FEEL SAFER (By United Press Leased Wire) VERA CRUZ, Mex., Oct, 21.— Since the arrival in this port of the United States cruiser Des Moines, the feeling of anxiety among for- eign residents has been greatly re Heved, It is believed today that in case a battle is fought, it will oc cur outside the elty limits. KKK RK KKK ¥* *% WEATHER FORECAST. * * Rain and warmer tonight; * * Tuesday rain; high southeast. * * erly winds, Temperature at * * noon, 43, wuite, ranging from $260 to $26,665, EEE ERR eH Johnson has permission to be ab-| tar ~ HOME EDITION | | OMING, an _ interesting series of stories and pic- tures about the wives of the presidential can- didates. Mrs. Roosevelt will be the first subject. TEDDY ON HIS WAY HOME «By United Press Leased Wire) CHICAGO, Oct. 21—Col. Thee | Roosevelt started for his home in Oyster Bay over the Pennsyivanta failroad at 8:25 o'clock this morn- ing. Forced to walk a few steps from the hospital to an automobile, the colonel reached his private car exhausted. Except for fatigue, how \ever, the former president insisted that he felt “bully.” Assistant Chief of Police Schut- |tler helped Roosevelt aboard the train. The colonel waved his hat and smiled at the bled crowd. There were many shouts of “good+ bye and good luck” as he disappear ed within. Roosevelt said he was | glad to get started for home, and said that he would be back at work inside 10 As the train started the colonel lay in his compartment resting easily, with Mrs. Roosevelt | at his side. Roosevelt's baggage and his cousin, Philip Roosevelt, were pick- ed up at Englewood, a suburb. The colonel was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Theo. Roosevelt, Jr., Dr. Alexander Lambert, Dr. Scurry Terrell and Secretaries McGrath and Martin. Ahead of the colonel’s private car was & special car for the newspaper correbpondents. Escorted by 40 Police | When the party started for the |train the former president was’ es |corted by 30 uniformed and plain clothes policemen, with 10 motor cycle officers riding ahead. The col- one! waved his hat at the assembled MRS. MEDILL M'CORMICK, FOUNDER OF “FOUNDERS' DAY" [nurses, sisters and other hospital adi a Mledtaearts dating. 5 Wee * ba attendants in the corridor, saying: a grin. Good-bye, everybody. I had a t just WAIT till you hea * T. R’S BIRTHDAY * my id chimed Mra. McCor-|£00d time here. You may not be- * BORN, New York, Oct. 27, ® mick, and then she told of the plan | eve it, but I have.” & 1868 % /for Founders’ day Then Col. Roosevelt shook hands % PARENTS, Theodore and * “We are going to ask the wom.| With @ number of the nurses, sisters * Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt. # en of every city in the United | @"4 newspaper men, and was moved * MARRIED, first, Alice Hath- # States to sell on Saturday, Oct. 26,|!2 82 ambulance to the station off * away, who died Feb. 14, 1884; & either at the street corners or in| 12th st. where he boarded his pri- * serond, on Dec, 2, 1886, Edith ® other ways in their own towns,| Yate car. The colonel was accom- * Kermit Carow * badges that will serve as a mem-| Panied to his car by Col. Cecil Lyon * JOBS—Member N. Y. legis- ® orial of this great campaign. No-|0f Texas, Dr. John B. Murphy and * lature, ranchman, U. 8. civil #/body has ever tried to do a big| DF Lambert. * service commissioner, presi- # thing like that all over the United | *% dent N. Y. police board, as- * States before, but If you'll give us} Peacefully Reading ® sistant secretary of navy; ® your permission we want to go| VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. 21— *® colonel of Rough Riders,” * ahead and try to do it.” | Col, Roosevelt was peacefully read- *® governor of N. Y., president of ® She got permission. Senator ing when his special train passed ® U. &, associate editor of The * | Dixon made Mrs, McCormick chair-| through here on his way east. His ® Outlook * | man of the Founders’ day celebra- doctors were pleased with his con- * * | tion and away she went to Chicago dition. The colonel’s impatience had disappeared and it was felt probable that he would stand the ijourney well to Oyster Bay. ——= <== gressive women of these United States. = Have you voted? Everybody's doing it. The first count of the big straw vote on the presidential contest conducted by the Seattle Star, the Tacoma Times, the Portland Daily News and the Spokane Press, on oe made on Wednesday. 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