The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 26, 1914, Page 1

ee - On the editorial page you will find an account of one of the many adventures of Aleck McNab, a Soldier of Misfortune, whom Fred L. Boalt, of The Star staff, McNab has adventured long and far, questing for excitement in strange countries, among strange peoples. The story of Kis tumultuous career makes Other adventures of Aleck McNab will appear in The Star from time to time. , A word with you, stay-at-home reader. found working in a Seattle waterfront warehouse. entertaining reading for stay-at-homes. FAIN TONIGHT AND CPRIDAY; MODERATE SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS | The Seattle Star [ricsy) THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS |__ " ‘ {ADUUCUATUAAAAE OODLE AA AAA EAA SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, Ez More Than 43,000 | Paid Copies Daily AULUUAVOLANUAADOGUUAGUDONDOGNUNA nOUUbONUOGUUAvOHOANAL PIU aoe STUNTMAN = =| =| ail nl ON TRAINS AND NEWS NTA be VOLUME 16. NO, 2. 1914, ONE CENT DEDICAT z . The Star suggests that a committee of three composed of Mayor Cotterill, Judge E ATED TO A MORTGAGED MUTT Moore and Robert Bridges shall investigate Trenholme’s backers to determine wheth- er or not the predatory interests are supporting him, and The Star hereby agrees to print their full report, whether it clears Trenholme or not. HERE’S A STRAIGHT PROPOSITION, MR. COTTERILL: You | ae i ! the pr The Star i Trenholme I It r say that he is against the Trenholme. Crenholme for Trenholme for mayor igainst he Ne neither is predatory 1 hat Gill bad as he t iH] a better he es thi that ‘T the also be the old-time may dg because The Star knows t wt | i him, but he does creature of the Seattle E1 interests and their representative ause he is backed by the brewery intere And you know Bob Bridge u know he i the square crowd that used to support Gill NOW, MAYOR COTTERILL, HERE IS THE STAR'S PROPO- ‘The Star it knows this fact SITION TO YOU: We propose that you and Judge Moore and Bob You evidently think The Star is mistaken Bridges be a committee of three to investigate the truth of the case, to Certainly you would not be supporting a man who has the support of investigate whether or not the predatory interests are behind Trenholme, these various privilege secking interests Get down to the real facts. You would not be if you are honest, and we believe you are honest. Don't go to those nice young men in Trenholme’s headquarters. They You would not knowingly be fighting shoulder to shoulder ith are dummies. They don't know anything about the real powers behind Furth, with R. V. Ankeny, with J Goldsmith, with W. B. Grambs Tierhobne ve Elemrich bre would you? You would not use your influence ‘They don't know where the money comes from. They admit it knowingly to elect a mayor under political obligation to these men and Go to J. §. Goldsmith. Go to R. V. Ankeny. Go to Chilberg's bank. Interests they represent? Go tight to the bottom of the vhcle affair. Get the real facts abou: that t for gra 1, Mayor Cc meetung at the Rainier clup, when Furth, Chilberg, Piles, Goicsmi We tauct, therefore, explain your position in one of two possible Blethen and Bone picked Trenho!me as their sate and sane candidate. n den't b that these interests are behind your to the bottom of the whole damnable mess. GET THE FACTS. haven't tigated at all, and are therefore in ignorance of the And when you and Judge Moore and Bob Bridges get the The Star will print your full report. GET THE FACTS, that’s all eae ae’ Let's eliminate the calling of names, and the raising of false issd Let's get right down to brass tacks. You and Judge Moore and Bridges make your investigation, and Star will print it in full any day you name. Let's not play the part of plain mutts by splitting the army of decent, honest voters That's just what the predatory interests hope for, and that’s what they have almost succeeded in doing. WILL YOU ACCEPT THIS PROPOSITION? “Scooped” on JUDGE WRIGHT Trenholme soap! UNDER FIRE By Fred L. Boalt. WASHINGTON, Feb.’ 26,—Sensa-! pending. relieve holme « fact Ime WE DONT KNOW WHERE THE MONEY COMES ) other Special Interests and y¢ on and in general by eave thers tterill terill po ways Go Fither y rve candidate, or you facts Now The Star, the labor union men, and most all of those leaders the people who have heretofore fought side by A ne—against him because these Special Interests named into the financed his campaign, and are actively facts, land champions ¢ Jare against Trenhol t ght him above race supporting hin You knew 1 Moore. as Seattle kr trapped »awr > Gill i sitic interest be Pr } litica know es these r have named rent KILLS SELF IN GIRLS HOME Heartbroken because his love for What ts this talk of scandal? As a scandal-nonger, it pute me on my mettie. Under the caption, “Beware of Campaign Slander!” the P. 4. THER MORTGAGED MUTT! Trenholme’s Managers Tell Joe Smith Their Candidate tor Mayor Isa Slush Fund Creature and a Dupe of Spe- cial Privilege. (Two years ago Joe Smith wrote a hig about George F. Cotterill, which was published in The Star and later circulated by the Cotterill campaign committee, Men and women who were in that camp convincing campaign docur t Is This Man?” that it was a very the title, “Who yaign will recall unde Cotterill has switched around and is on the side which has the biggest slush funds. make a close study of J didate Cotterill is now supporting. with.—Editoh of The Star.) By Joe Smith J. D, Trenhoime is a Mutt. This Is the opinion of the men who are conducting his campaign. J.D. Trenholme is the benefl- clary of a big slush fund collected from undesirable interests and cit izens by James S. Goldsmith. This ia admitted to me by Tren holme himself. This slush fund constitutes a pe litical mortgage on Trenhoime, both as a candidate and as mayor in case he shall be elected J. D. Trenholme is a Mortgaged Mutt. eee This, In brief, is the conciusion forced upon me as a result of a conference | held with Trenholme and his campaign managers in the Trenhoime headquarters in the Alaska building last Monday aft ernoon. More than is a charita ternative to Nieve that he is dishonest ing, obedient the men who are money for his camp to believe, as the men in char his campaign profess to bel that he is a guileless and tnnoc dupe, that he {s not a crook, a Mutt iis, this conclusion one The al cepting it is to be that he is the know willing tool of putting up the align. 1 prefer {8 crooked. And this is the candidate who is a capable busi efficlenc and v paraded a an * being ness man, @ ac petent administration lean a com and simple confer Let me tell in plair Junguage the story of the ence of Monday afternoc On Monday I was taking Junchnicipal Knowing that Smith has D. Trenholme, T supplement his Cottertl! eulogy of two years ago ing the people of Seattle an insight Into the real character of th } with rtunity to ted him to ond on cently had an oppe Star has requ ith a # van Smith's presented here story is H.C. Pigott Bridges when R. E. new treasurer of the Trenholme committee, appeared and invited three of us up to the Trenholme headquarters to hear the reasons why we should support Trenholme. We accepted, Pigott was alread half committed to Trenholme, and both nd myself were will n ap in el said about treating as confidential. To avoid any possible misunderstand ing, I balted at the door and said “Gentlemen, I belleve the public fs entitled to full information in regard to the conduct of political campaigns. 1, for one, am unwill ing to go into this conference con sidering it an executive session, 1 never hold executive sessions ex with myself. This condition was understood all around and In the conte Hemphill, treasurer Charles and Downey, the the tor something was the conference ept R. E. Downte McDonald and Hutchinson, of the Tr holme committee; —‘Trenholi Pigott, Bridges and myself. I Ralph Casey, reporter for the Post Intelligencer, came in, asking, as he did so “Is this an executive Bridges replied “| go not participate in exee utive ns. There are just two classes of people to whom 1 am willing to tell all | know about the public's business, those who ‘ask me and those who don’t.” eee chairman Donald nensjon” The conversation turne first upon Trenbolme’s position oa mu ywnership, in which all of In this campeign |‘ Robert | iy complimentary story;those present knew Bridges and 1 feel vitally interested. This con versation convinced us both, from Trenholme'’s own statements, that pnholme believes in the conduct ublicly owned utilities with a to protecting the extortions and the watered profits of public ervice corporations. The conversation turned then to the subject of slush funds. I shall |not undertake to repeat all of it In insisting that does not know who contributed his paign funds, Trenhoime made the amaz- Ing statement that they had all come to the committee through the hands of James 8. Goldsmith. Tren- holme sald that he had not been able to learn and did not then know who contributed the money. Ap- parently, he believed that none of it had been contributed by big corpor- ations or special interests, but on this point he had no positive know!- edge. Trenholme sald and repeated that the men contributing the money have not exacted from him any pledges. But against this declara tion it must be remembe that at all times during the campaign he has handled the important issues of the campaign in his public utter nees with a very tender regard for the real desires of big busines Trenholme apt be #0 guileless as not to understand that ey contributed for his use and nefit constitutes an ol ation on dless of whether any xacted of him or not ed to ne be his part, re pledges were He appeare pect ua to belleve him when he said he had made no promises, and to ac cept his theory that James 8, Gold smith and others had contributed thousands of dollars to his cam paign without expecting, In some ner, to get It back » conversation then turned up. how Trenholme had — been brought into the campaign He said he had been induced to hecome 1 candidate by the #epresentations of big business men, men,who are in the very inner citadel of special privilege in this community, Among the nan mentioned were Gold smith, J. , Chilberg, J. D. Lowman, so guileless as to ex-| Miss Minnie Nelson was not recipro- cated, Benjamin Cummings, 25, sent a bullet through his brain last night at 702 N. 88rd et., where the young | woman was staying with ber uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs, William J Diehl Cummings was the son cf J. B Cummings, vice president of the | Lebanon National bank, of Lebanon, Neb., but had not lived at home for | several years. He had been here| six weeks, stopping at the Berkshire | hotel, During a visit with Miss Nelson | yesterday afternoon his suit for her lhand was rejected when he again| proposed. Mias Nelson and her aunt | went downtown shopping, leaving Cummings alone, He med recon | celled to his fate when th ft. Mr iebl, returning home, found him |dead in a second-floor room. He shot himself with a 22-rifle | -——_-——— ——_—_——— | | Walter Foster and F. W. Baker Trenholme appeared to be 80 guileless as to believe these men} |have been engaged in an entirely | disinterested and unselfish cam: | paign. Bridges and | were asked what could be done by Trenholme or his! committee to restore popular confi. | |denge In Trenholme’s integrity and) | good faith in the face of the accept: lance of the support of these big | business representatives and of his acceptance of the big Goldemith |slush fund. We suggested that he might prof- Jit In votes by the issuance of a true and frank statement of all the facts and circumstances, and an em- phatic repudiation of Goldsmith and his associates, Most of those of his supporters who were in the conference were willing for him to do this and have since urged it up- ‘en him, but he has not acted on their advice The mortgage stands against him Trenholme then left the room. Permit me here to say a word In reference to Hemphill, Downie, Mc Donald and Hutchinson, 1 believe that all four of th men are in the| Trenholme camp in good faith, not | so much because they believe in him, but because of their opposition to GIll. After Trenholme left the room, 1| sald | Phin is a most amasging situation. | | What is the matter with this candt Jate of yours? Is he crooked an¢ trying to mislead us all, or is he Mutt” Downle MUTT.” Hemphill sald: “| BELIEVE HE! |18 INNOCENT OF IT ALL. Hutchinson said: “Joe, he's as | guitel 8 a child.” | McDonald said: “That's the an-| ewer.” | Here you have the opinions of the men who are closest to Tren- holme. He is mortgaged. He |e a Mutt. He Is a Mortgaged Mutt. therefore, still "JOE, HE'S A sald Henry Hendrickson, blind author, nted a fitting illustration n lecture, “Success Without Bight,” atthe Firet M. EK. church Wednesday night He was assist ed by Madame Christine LaBar raque, @ blind singer, ot || this morning tells of stories prepared “with the greatest care as to detail” and attached to which are ffidavits made by certain public taxicab drivers,” which, the P.1. says, The Star ts going to print, re flecting on the good name of Mr. Trenholme. Dear, dear! The P.-l. must be mistaken The thing touches we In my professional pride have failed You sec, two well-known club wom days ago and said that, if we'd inv the 700 block, on North Broadway, we'd was not as nice a man as he has been cracked up to be. it was our duty to do this. And I, being a perfectly efficient and experienced scandal-mon- ger, went out to 700 block, on North Broadway, and investigated. 1 tried and failed. I reported back that Mr. Trenbolme is as pure as snow. I believed it. 1 am trying to believe it now You must belleve me, because 1 am an honest man. George Cotterill in his public speeches has sald so. And, because I failed—and now {t seems 1 must have fatled— THERE ARE NO STORIES PREPARED “WITH THE GREATEST CARE AS TO DETAILS” IN THIS OFFICE. NOT ONE. As for affidavits, there iry't an affidavit in the shop. If th is in § bby who knows something about Mr 1 wish he'd trot up to the of and tell me about f scandal—these tax 1 don't know I didn’t think of them when I was conducting my investigation Like a chump, though, I ignored the taxicabbles, and interview ed the club woman who lives in the ) block, on North Broadwey She is a woman of refinement and dislikes publicity. She wouldn't name She said everybody knew what was going on In the neighbor. hood. She cave me the number of the house where “it” But 1 couldn't get confirmation of the story, because wanted to talk about it. The editor said it was a nasty story, anyhow, and he didn’t want to print it And now the P.-1. has shown me up as a fatlure 1 would have taken oath before reading the P.-I. that Mr, ‘Tren- holme is a nice man, It seems he isn't. Somewhere there are scan dal stories about him and sworn affidavits signed by taxicabbies The P-1. ought to know, Trenholme is its candidate. Mr. Trenholme also ought to know, because ten of these public taxicabby men signed his original “petition.” But since the Trenholme organ has aroused the public's curios- ity by hinting at the existence of some mysterious taxicab scandals, it should out with it, It had some experience fn printing scandal during the Bob Hodge campaign. “THREE SHAKES | DRINKS POISON of ©, ve it that I 1 refuse to bel It seems ame to The Star a few gate in the neighborhood of find out that Mr. Trenho! They F #0u was going on. no one I'm fn bad tn The body of Vancouve a ra the pific 1 irst av,, at noon today, At his side lay an empty carbolic acid bottle. Kearns had been in Seat tle during the past two weeks and ad been drinking heavily Kearns, 28 JELAND, O., Feb, 26.—The \ found in seismograph registered three shocks. Father Odenbach estimated that they were comparatively near to Cleveland, probably in North America. cnatius college today The Bon Marche Renews Contract The Bon Marche again selects The Star to carry the bargain news of this great store to the people of Seattle and those residing in districts tributary to this city, The bargain news of the Bon Marche was pub- lished daily during the past year on the last page « this paper, and the management of this institution is «© well pleased with the results obtained from their announcements and the rapidly increasing circulation of The Star that they have today signed a contract dor | the lhe interesting bargain news from will to*occupy the three full left the last page of this paper most continue hand side year At store the com this gt columns ol on hotel, | tional charges of professional and private misconduct were filed here today against Justice Daniel Thew Wright of the District of Columbia supreme court by Wade Cooper, a | Washington financter. Justice Wright is the man who sentenced Samuel Gompers, John | Mitchell and Frank Morrison, labor leaders, to prison terms for alleged contempt of court. The case is still at fea In his complaint, filed at the ex- ecutive offices here, Co alleges that Wright is “a ‘slegelba to the judiciary of the nation.” The charges include allegations of financial and moral wrongdoing: that certain corporations have been favored by Wright, and that his — general conduct, on and off th bench, has been improper for @ MURDERER WANTS T Feb. 26.— ver, the lace salesman Mrs, Dorothy Jol d tried to kill him son t elf at the ued to rgency was watched to prevent an. judk offic! other attempt at suicide. | His defense will be temporary insanity, though there seems a pos sibility thet the plea will have to be entered for him, he himseift appeared entirely willing to die om the gallows. He says there is nothing left for him to live for. ‘WHITMAN STILL AFTER BECKER NEW Attorney day that YORK, Feb. Whitman the mer Police Lieut 26.—District announced to trial of For Charles Becker of murdering Herman Rosenthal New York gambler, jwould start within six weeks Whitman said he probably would take the stand himself against Becker. Fathers with marriageable daugh- ters should strive to be president. It gives the girls so much better a ch a chance ‘GITY WILL SELL. | 4-CENT TICKETS The city of Seattle will sell 4-cent tickets on its own railway, which will in operation, it is again promised, within a month. There will be no free lists—all city employes, excepting those em- ployed in ‘the railway service itself, will be required to pay fares, as well as the general public, be ALBANY, Or, Feb. 26.—Two sophomores of the Albany high school were not at class today be- cause their activity in promoting a class dance incensed the faculty, and led to their expulsion, WHAT WAS YOUR MOST POPULAR SONG? The Star to send to the invites its readers editor the words of the songs they think were popular than the popular this newspaper will print in this column daily, We do not promise to print all that are sent to us, but we believe that many will be worth the space. Send stamped envelope tf you wish your copy returned, Oh, my love stood under the walnut tree. Over the garden wall She whispered and said she'd be true to Over the garden wall She'd beautiful eyes, and beautiful hatr |She was not very tall, so she stood on | a char | And many @ time have I kissed her there Over the garden wa conor THE SONGS WE USED TO SING “Over the Garden Wall’’ DO YOU REMEMBER THIS ONE? ips her father stamped, and her father | raved, Over the garden wall |And like an old madman he behaved, Over the garden wall of Toses red, head v instead, enc the other be my in a fright, “Here's o's bringing @ roughé the tmpression of halt @ pers cnorus But where theres’ a will there's always a » wal vell a@ a day weddings but ae anoring, inanaged to Over the garden wall cuérus