The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1914, Page 1

4 1 a r Wily? In every previous campaign, Hi Gill has had the support of the Seattle Electric Co., of Jacob Furth, of R. V. Ankeny, of W. B. Grambs, and the rest of their kind. In this campaign the Seattle Electric, Jacob Furth, R. V. Ankeny, W. B. Grambs and all their kind have QUIT GILL AND ARE SUPPORTING TRENHOLME. .. . . » Quite a change, isn’t it? Must be some rather substantial reason why these big special interest boosters have switched to Trenholme. . Hy? . May we ask RAIN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY; MODERATE SOUTHERLY WINDS. "mae ea MU — More an = =- sss = =| = A = 2 43,000 : he ¢ attl e S tar 5 2 = =) Paid Copies Daily = i ‘ = =E D | 7 : oO N= = MMMM THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS - E MMMM VOLUME 158. Judge W. H. Moore NO, 310. WHAT JUDGE MOORE SAYS Great pressure, through per- sonal friends and democratic leaders, has been brought to bear on Judge William Hickman Moore to get him to come out for Trenholme, but Judge Moore’s answer has always been: “l NEVER HAVE BEEN AND CAN- NOT NOW BE FOR THE PREDA- TORY INTERESTS OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVE.” JOE SMITH RISES TO SAY PLAIN WORDS TO MAYOR ABOUT THE STAR SUSPECTS FREE; | STILL NO TRACE | OF BANDIT BAND After King county had been combed’ thotunghty"~by -pontes tn jsearch of the three bandits who | robbed the night at siackened today. The weary deputies who have A FEW (Joe Smith, whom everybody In Seattie knows and recognizes as ‘ehampion of the people's cause, a man who has fought with The Star ‘and with George Cotterill for nearly 15 yeara, brought the following tigned statement to The Star today.—Editor of The Star.) By Joe Smith To George F. Cotterill, Mayor of Seattle: 1am amazed at the statement credited to you by the Post- Int er this morning that the course of The Star in this campaign “indicates that it thought to pick the band wagon and ride on it.” I am amazed that a man in your position, a man who is -dunder such. and lasting obligation to The Star, a mayor of Seattle a yen his election to The Star, should so far forget himself in the pursuit of factional advantage. _ Let us admit that there is in this campaign reasonable ground for a difference of opinion. ee : ; Is The Star to be condemned or criticised because in this campaign, for the first time in half a score of years, it has seen fit to disagree with you? we Sete : 1 ask you in all frankness whether ohare possible in this jnstance you ate wrong and The Star is right? , You ai ‘The Star is looking for a band candidate. When, in all the years of the past, did The Star ever sup- port a band-wagon candidate? N: ne. Wes it when it supported you for mayor, two years ago, both before the primary election, when you were almost over- whelmed by Mr. Parish, and after the primaries when Mr. Gill had such an enormous majority that the betting ran 10 to 1 in his favor? Was it when you and I came Me ‘ pp comets two ye ago, as prospective candidates for mayor, 4 c Sieg you inmtated of running and I withdrew in yoar favor and The Star supported you, despite the fact that me Yd was of the opinion that I would be the stronger candidat Did The Star try to pick a band-wagon candidate en it supported me for the city counci _three years eo had received but 6,000 votes in the primary election, and wag the magnificent, though hopeless, campaign, at the conclusion of which I received 21,000 votes? The Star office together, : | Was The Star looking for the’ band-wagon when it sup- rted Dilling in the recall election? ‘ x Was The Star looking for the band-wagon when it took up the hopeless campaign to make A. V. Bouillon mayor? Was The Star looking for the band-wagon when it supported what | appeared to be the hopeless Poindexter campaign, or when it | supported Bob Hodge in what was from the beginning a losing cause? : a Let us go back to the time when I was working on The Star, and in that capacity fought side by-side with you in all of your campaigns Was T Star looking ported William Hickman them hope! and the other so clos out by the narrow margin of 15 votes? ; Was The Star looking for the band-wagon when it sup- ported you for the state senate and you were elected by a plur- _ality of two votes, and just saved from being counted out be- cause I was personally on guard at the auditor's office while the votes were being counted? for the band-wagon when it sup- Moore in two campaigns, one of ely contested that he won Was The Star looking for the band-wagon when it op posed es for mayor in 1902, and when it supported you in your i car m in 19007 “1am not now, and have not been for several years, connected with The Star. But I ask you in all frankness and 4 man who chances to disagree with 1 its motives, to question its good loning its principles, of betraying its faith, t readers, of looking for the band-wagon? For 15 years The Star-has shone out in this community, lighting the sometimes obscure trail through the jungles of corruption, the trail which leads to purer politics, nobler public aspirations, higher civic ideals. This trail N heen hard to fotlow it has frequently » been times when even you and J hi , obscure that we have had to blaze it for ourselves. Even now it is so obscure that you and I are unable to agree as to the immediate direction in which it leads. Shall we, therefore, question the motives of each other as each of us pursues the course pointed out to him by his in- dividual judgment and his political instincts? Let me repeat, | am amazed that you should ‘permit your- self tc viestioning the good faith of The Star LET ME APPEAL TO YOU, heer Forget for a moment that you are a politician; remember | crikey! for a Ynoment that you are, first of all, a man. «Come through like a man and tender The Star your apology. / since Saturday night are taking » needed reat. Additional reports | tions continue to flood the sheriffs office, but have been discovered. The three men arrested Sunday | are not the robbers. Victims looked them gave them good clearance. were ordered liberated SEEK GIRL HERE Frances Lount, 21 land girl, police on Mosher, her aunt. GILL MEETINGS TONIGHT Hoth Trenholme residence GH will speak East d st. and N. BF. and at Ravenna hall Trenholme interurban Saturday South Side, the search on the haunt unceasingly and descrip no substantial clues SEATTLE, WASH., TUES CARRYING HI’S OLD BURDEN over and They Pyle Dunean, 22, is being sought by the request of Mrs, H. L | June. after | was quizzed today fictals. Hiram Gil) and J will speak in the districts tonight at May's hall. Sixth av rob the man, and, in his shot him. he boy is being here for T officials. \e will speak at the FRANKLIN, Fire Sale Offers Big Bargains Recently the Metropolitan Ladies’ Tailors suf- fered a severe loss by fire through defective wiring in their place of business, at 1317- 1319 Fourth av. The adjustment with the in- surance companies has been completed, and the fine stock, consisting of Suits and Coats already made up, also a large number of Suit patterns, is being closed out at much less than regular prices. For full particulars, see large ad on page 3, in today’s Star. Feb. 24 herself a widow, she left her six|asked the mine boss. small children at home and went The Dunean boy sald he tried to citement held FREE THEATRE TICKETS Pian eye, at le To readers of Star Want Ads | | theatre | | branded Mrs. Babsanki could not tell, but 1914, DAY, FEBRUARY 24, E CENT ADMITS MURDER WHAT THEY THINK F TRENHOLME a colored boy, jconfessed this morning to Detect- live Captain Tennant that he is the retty Port-| slayer of Arthur H. Warden, a jan- itor, shot to death in Tacoma last He was arrested Saturday Jon a charge of stealing brass and informa tlon was received from Tacoma of Despite the most determined efforts, the Trenholme crowd has failed to get any of the defeated candidates, except Pigott, to join them. But in an effort to fool the people, to make them think that the de- feated candidates have gone into the standpat camp, the lying special interest papers are quoting things the defeated candidates said about Gill In the primary. Here are some things they said about Trenholme during the primary, and not one word of it has been taken back by any of these men JUDGE WINSOR—! am not inclined to the opinion that the leopard can change hi ut the primary campaign Judge Winsor unhesitatiugly nholme as the enemy of Inbor, the representative of Special Tabernacle Baptist church, 15th Tickets for Seattle Harrison; also at the War- to see “St, Blmo.” Read to. | | Privilege, and the foe of municipal ownership, At the university andi- av, John Hay and Coe], day's Want Ads, Your name | |torlum Judge Winsor positively named Furth and Ankeny as Tren schools may be there. | | holme’s sponsors. Py HENRY C. PIGOTT—If Gill and Griffiths are nominated, | will ge fishing. If Gill and Trenholme are nominated, | will spend the last penny | have and the last ounce of my blood to elect Hi Gill. Tren- holme is the worst enemy Seattle has. The Star is to be commended an the Mayoralty Be Bought?” Trenholme is trying to buy th: 000 for him by the Speci: dy to spend again that much. If economy means spending $50,000, thank God, | am not economical. Trenholme collected $800 In a former campaign from Chi- nese gamblers. AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS—Mr. Trenhoime does not know B from a bull's foot on the subject of taxation, so far as this city ls concerned, Mr. Trenholme is going about the city talking like a parrot about figures | furnished him by his campaign manager, John L. McLean. I never saw Mr. Trenholme around the city hall except when he was a member of the park board, endeavoring to get a larger tax rate from the council, and also WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO KEBP THE CITY FROM OPENING A NECESSARY STREET THROUGH HIS OWN FARM IN THE NORTH END OF THE CITY, AND SOUGHT TO PUT PROPERTY OWNERS OUT THERE AND THE CITY TO THE | UNNECESSARY EXPENSE OF A LAWSUIT ON THAT ACCOUNT. Mr. Griffiths also called Trenholme “ignorant”—he used that very word—and as to knowing anything about commission government, | Trenholme wouldn't know it if he met it on the street GEORGE W. DILLING—The budget made In the Gill regime was the highest in the city’s history, with the exception of the 1914, Mr. Dilling forgot to mention that the J. ©. SLATER—I am no hand-picked candidate. | am not buying | my way into the mayoralty. | am not driving any woman to the wall and suppressing any newspaper. | Whom did Slater mean ! J.D. Trenholme, of course. “Tip From Heaven” Saves Miner From a Living Tomb When|{to Black Diamond to buy mourning | insisted that, if the men would re-|Smith put his mouth to the tiny! began to doubt Mike Babsanki, weak from hunger | clothes. sume digging at the point where|aperture and called thirst, after spending seven | Halted by Presentiment the rescue work was abandoned,| ’ “Mike, are you there?” days in a living grave in caved-in| She was entering a store to/after the finding of Babsanki’s| And the answer, faint and as chute No, 11, in the Cannon mine, | make the purchases when a strange companion. Andrew Churneck,|from a great distance, came still alive, was rescued last| pr ntiment halted’ «her in the) crushed, mangled and almost un-|"“Y night, an old miner, who has seen | doorway rec able, they would find her ve minutes later Mabsanki was disasters and miraculous es-| Though doubting the reliability | Hiusband—alive being borne to the outer air and to capes, scratched his head and said: |of the “tip,” she nevertheless re-| The digging was recommenced, | the arms of his wife and family A tip straight from heaven, by| turned to Franklin, and early yes-|and late in the afternoon*Babsanki| The prison that held him eight |terday sought Mine Boas Edwards. | was found days was 18 inches high, four feet The “tip from heaven” came to| “My man ts not dead!" she sald.| When Stanley Smith drove his|wide and six feet long Rabsank! Saturday, Belleving| “What makes you think so?”|pick into the wall, the point sank | Hears Him Calling Her deep and then broke through into| “When | returned from Black what seemed a cavity oN N spote or the Ethiopian his skin—not in the twinkling of/fauits, weaknesses and (tigation, I am 914 budget was Cotterill’s, | jafratd of you beyond, | Diamond,” said Mrs, Babsan®@, “I| was calling me’ TRAINS AND MTA EDITORWHO | HELPED TO RECALL GILL IS FOR HIM! (Erastus Brainerd, for ten years editor of the P.-I., and who, as editor of that paper, joined with The Star in the |recall campaign against H. C. Gill, is NOW, LIKE THE |STAR, SUPPORTING GILL FOR MAYOR AGAINST |THE STANDPAT SPECIAL INTEREST CANDIDATE, TRENHOLME. 3 Isn't it rather significant that both editors who fought |Gill and brought about his recall are now, because of \changed conditions, SUPPORTING HIM? Mr. Brainerd, lin the following letters, tells why he is for Gill:) Editor The Star: The Star cer-|to be sinister. No one that knows tainly played a star part in the re-| you can fail to know that one of call of Mayor Gill. Without the/| your faults, if it is a fault, is an al ‘help of The Star, it is probable, if| most brutal frankness; you spit out not certain, that he might not have | the truth as you see {:, and do not been recalled. I know that what/slobber lies and e you were attacking then {s the| “When you ran same thing that I opposed, a condi-|frankly said you favored an open tion, not a man |town; the public "believed you. It In the present campaign, which | elected you on that platform. the morning paper tactfully says 1s) Gillism Impossible not so much pro-Trenholme as anti-| “Now, when you say ‘Gillismy’ ts Gill, Mayor Cotterill, Geo. Dilling, impossible, and that you want Jimmy Kellogg and others are say- give an honest, moral admin! ing Gill must be defeated, or the) tion, for the reasons that you state,’ old conditions will be revived. I am, ot tenn che take your ” ith statem at par, and you can, if Couldn't Revive pxomccorgped the {FOU will @ive this city.s better and They seem to be ignorant o! more effictent administration than truth that even if Gill wanted to) an the rest of the candidates who revive a “wide-open town,” the red)... possibly be elected. You com- light law, so called, would prevent! ing ynowledge, experience, effi- him, for under that law any eltizen ciency, ability, ‘with political sa can take a direct appeal to the) gacity’ tact and a rigid backbone. courts and put a stop to moral NU!| There will be no doubt who is may- sances. or when you are elected. Being human, I may make mis-| «Phese qualities, with honesty of takes, but I do not believe that YOU | intent and action, will make your or Tare making any mistake 1D SUD-| administration a success, porting Mr, Gill. I am sure The Mayor Ni Star's support will go far to elect “Comments ta “jon Me Cage j ities needed in a mayor, ha ve. him. lke to tell The Star readers 0M¢/ many wobblers. No one can ‘deny of the reasons why I was and 4™/ your courage, at least; you are de for Gill. fying all of the newspapers, for they Had “Nothing On” Gill have all told you that yon must not Retore coming out for him, I/run. Anybody with red blood must studied the political conditions for | at least admire your pluck. weeks. William J. Burns, the de No one cam successfully attack tective, told me he had found noth-/ your personal honesty. You are ing against Gti, and the report of/ known to bea father and hus- the grand jury which indicted Wap-|band. Your ren have been penstein could only reprimand Gill. | taunted with the fact of your recall. Is a man to be denied the right to) A desire to redeem yourself has appeal to his fellow-citizens for} been, I know, the impelling motive that? of your candidacy. It is as worthy 1 saw Gill and gave him the/a motive as those which inspire oth- “third degree,” so to speak, before|er candidates. supporting him, and I addressed | Expects Display of Hor him a letter, giving some of my! “You can, and I believe will. if reasons, a part of which follows: | elected, di y as much political “January 16, 19 honesty as you possess of personal “To Hiram C. Gill: honesty. “You and I have never been “I do not believe in kicking a friends, We are not now. No one|man when he is down, or in keeping knows more clearly than you what) him down, if he shows any worthi- share, owing to circumstances then | ness existing, I happened to have in| “To the people who seem to think bringing about your recall from the | you ought to pass a period of purga- office of mayor of this city |tory the answer is that you have Knows as Few Know jbeen there for three years; that “Few people have so good an op-/CUsht to be long enough to purge a portunity as I have had to ascer-|™an of one error. tain, and to know accurately, the} We do not want a ‘false alarm,’ events of your past life, its errors, | Whose silly personal ambition lets sins of | designing men use him as a man of It is | Straw or a colorless dummy. | “We want a man who knows how |to be a good mayor, and you know. » one would be readier than I|! shall take pleasure as a Seuttle to continue to do so, were I not/citizen and taxpayer of 23 years’ thoroughly satisfied and convinced Standing in voting for you and in that your letter to the men and /dvising any friends I meet to do so. women of Seattle !s an absolutely “ERASTUS BRAINERD.” truthful, candid, frank statement of belohedivetrss SLIT SKIRT; NOW HE MUST RESIGN jomission and commission. certain no one has done so much ceived when I say your letter should convey conviction of its truth to the heart of every open- minded, unprejudiced man and woman. | “In consequence of recent inves- satisfied that you have learned and taken to heart | your lesson in the bitterest trial] : = We that could be made of a public offi-| ght Rev. Dr. C, W. Harris, colored, bea paStor of the “Church of the Liv- cial, and that no one who votes for| {ie God” near 27th av you’ will have cause to regret that |,;* Cod. near 27th av. and Irving poh st. Pe er Deen fulminating “It ts aatd by friends of your op-| Seung ‘women of hie Cerne eee ponents that the forces of corrup-! Sous nat, realen hy bag ea tion of government and of the elec-| hoard of trustees witl ask the come torate are and will be behind you. | to enjoin him from presohivg. Interests Behind Others | “It is the consensus of opinion “I know better. It is a Me. ‘of the congregation,” said Wesley “In this campaign, alarmed and| Welch, chairman of the board, to- at sea, they are already aligned be-| day, “that the pastor should stick hind two other candidates, are/to preaching the Word and not spending money for them and are|/ramify his remarks to include slit skirts and such,” “Your motives are said by some} Dr. Harris recently denounced | young women who wore slit skirts Jas “strumpets,” and Miss Minnie that, when she took the parson whacked | Beasley s him to tas! her over the head with his um: brella. | Miss Beasley swore out a war- rant for his arrest. The case came up in Justice Brown's court today LIBEL CASE ‘UP How could my | man be alive? Andrew was dead. | They all said Mike was dead, too. | But Sunday night, when we were | all abed and the children werg| asleep, there came a knock at the door, 000 libel suit of Wilson “I called to my Tommy; ‘Tom-| & Carle, of the Epler Cafeteria Co., my, go to the door and let your! 81% Second ay, against The Sun father in.’ Tommy went and came | Publishing Co, is being heard to- back, and sald: “There's nobody | day before a jury In Judge Hum- there, mudder | phries’ court, The plaintiffs de- ‘lL could hardly wait for day e The Sun last August p@inted light, then, because I knew my man!a derogatory story about the caf eteria kitchen, The