The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1914, Page 1

The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News The Seattle Star NO. 58 MORE THAN 45.000 PAID COPIES DAILY IGHT EDITION KING COUNTY BULL MOOS: ane fle WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Sunday; gentle west erly breeze VOLUME 16 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1914 ONE CENT 9x yitsr ee te ee a es 7 ————— 5) {FIRST BLOOD IN MEXICO!) Here are the first actual fighting pictures from Vera Cruz, taken by W. H. Durborough, The Star’s staff Bema The photographs, which arrived this morning, show scenes of battle in the city’s streets. They § \@, are the first to reach Seattle. YOU'VE GOT TO READ THE STAR TO GET THE PICTURES FIRST! J The Star has given Seattle the NE WS FIRST and the PICTURES FIRST, all through the trouble with Mexico, When the U. 8. marines landed at Vera Cruz, the United Press, The Star's telegraphic news service, beat the Aasoci- ated Press four ho urs with the Information. Maybe, by next week, other Se attle newspapers will be able to offer you these pictures. You can't keep up with the times un less you read it The Star leads woos EC ACESS SSSI OKC CCU Carrying away the American wounded; this picture was BER by Durborough from a second- -story window. It shows American _marines carrying a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Our Congressmen - iin a Cheap Graft! The State of Washington hangs its head today in sorrow and in sh 4 Durborough, on the dock, met the United States marines with his camera when they landed. |Washington, of all the states in the Union, must bear the i ignominy of American bluejackets stand- having given the largest sepert in Congress to the meanest and most Weds acti ix stat ee ; indefensible of legislative grafts—the despicable mileage grab. from looters until they could On page 7369 of the Congressional Record for April, Washington’s’ shame -is’ forever re carried away. | branded. For years, unscrupulous congressmen have voted themselves 20 cents.a mile for traveling expenses to and from the national capital, when the actual cost is but three cents a mile. For years, decent and honest citizens protested against this cheap graft. At last a | motion was made in the lower house of congress to wipe out the mileage grab. Only 95 of the 431 members voted to retain the graft. And Washington furnished four | | of these 95—four out of its five representatives! | James W. Bryan, of the Seattle district, voted against it. WILL E. HU MPHREY OF | SEATTLE, J, A. FALCONER OF EV ERE TT, ALBERT JOHNSON OF HOQUIAM, WILLIAM LA FOLLETTE OF Pl 'LLMAN AND 91 OTHER GRAFTERS VOTED FOR IT. Mark their names well— Humphrey, Falconer, Johnson and La Follette, WHO VOTED THEMSELVES $1,000 OVER AND ABOVE THEIR ACTUAL EXPENSES | FOR EVERY TRIP TO AND FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. It was to be expected of Will E. Humphrey. It was on that account that he had earned | the sobriquet of “Mileage Grabber” Humphrey. It could not be hoped that Johnson, stand- patter of stand patters, would willingly yield up this grab. Nor was it surprising that La Follette, the spineless, should vote for it. But J. A. Falconer, the progressive! Once we would have scorned any imputation that our Aleck Falconer would stoop to | vote himself a mean, petty graft. We had a right to expect something better and bigger from F: alconer. We had a right to | | expect he would live up to the high ideals of civic honor and service to which the progressive | party was dedicated. Falconer’s misrepresentation of his state cuts deep. WASHINGTON, DISGRACED AND HUMILIATED BY FOUR-FIFTHS OF ITS A deadly corner tor the Mexicans. NTT Many of them tei veiore the Americans at uns pout, ss al RE PRESENTATION IN NTLY OF ALL. OUR HINKY-DINK weror pry] PICKETS GET ON CHARTER READY FOR VOTERS’ AX Hinky Dink charter is now and the charter was then filed with City Clerk Harry “| convention be ot | be n chosen Temple linings we sala obtain, THE HOUSE, On Monday The Star will an nounce the winners of this week's “wet” or “dry” contest. The two who write the best letters on either side will be given $5 cash prizes. If you haven't written a letter yet, get busy. Get in in time td qualify for a prize next week. And keep your letters brief The best of them will be pub- lished the 10 to 16, will A. Matthews present ttle for the 1915 | of Shriners. He has} day, though 1 was and the we seks, } from pald $3 he, was back as a delegate from Nile | the pickets bane the FEELS FALCONER’S BLOW MOST POIG- JOHN D. & NERVES NEW YORK, May 2.—Crepe- decorated pickets were again on duty today in front of the Rockefeller offices at 26 Broad @ seemed to be no e oil king and his son e by the t them tn connection $ nttitude tow rd the Col ado strike John D., jr, remained in seclu sion at Tarrytown His father played no g an ide first he has m Upt nelair: who was rele st night, afte ar doubt |in New Yor | eve feeling | ation whiga all : chureh Job dD. toward the on was not answered, p interfered DOCKMEN OUT VANCOUVER, B. C, May 2.— are on strike here, refuse: d to handle the cargo ae c R, steamship Mont. her arrivel here, and the Broadway | we rk was done by hon union men,