The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 11, 1916, Page 1

re | THE STAR’S ADVISORY BALLOT FOR PRIMARY ELECTION IS ON PAGE (0 TODAY mene The Seattle Star vr on™ PA iF STAR ntisinccinedeeinml dienes niitiialiadiaaianidaiaapinnimadntn AIR TONIGHT. AND rune: OVER TODAY AND YOU WILL i [: THE oO} ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS : J VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1916. ONE CENT ‘vnwh"dit HUMPHREY BRANDED AS UNFIT es @ @ 8 @ * * © © & oe #* &©& & 4 * ££ 8 & & & Humphrey is unfit--unfit to be senator of this state, unfit to be | again intrusted with public affairs. If he could be forgiven for every other act in his career of miss | | |representing the state and serving the bosses--if all the rest of his \{ymiserable record could be forgotten--even then this one fraudu-_ Two fake speeches, sloppy with praise of y lent deception, which developed today, would STAMP HIM AS |g Humphrey, which were printed at the} government’s expense and distributed at the govern-| |] UNFIT. ? jovermfi a . _|ment’s expense in a fraudulent attempt to deceive the] | Herewith are photographic voters of this state. ' copies of documents proving this fraudulent de-| ao bese oy Ss. late ception. These so-called speeches by ‘‘Honora- poeags ble’? Austin and “Honorable” Green, boosting *‘Honorable”” Humphrey, are A FRAUD and'A DECEPTION. They were never delivered in Cons gress. Therein they are fraudulent. They Were! Work of Hon. William FE. Humphrey in Congress, chee HON. RICHAR dD W. AUSTIN, WON. WILL IAM S. GREENS, sent out purporting to be speeches delivered by) Sune these congressmen in the halls of congress. There- i “meds fame Hamphrey in they are a deception. They were printed, the | <teemmmlooes | envelopes were addressed, and they were sent) P| ome nae neers thru the mails at the people’s expense, and sicsiaki fate 2 they were graft upon the people. i pee These alleged speeches of these shyster con-| Set 7 sressmen were sneaked into the government print-- *"" ing office and were injected into the record, __*%« 90:90 epiveion above shows me ses printed at government expense under the framke +=»: si os wee ‘jecsnes" toe Sete | ing privilege. AND EVERY DOLLAR THESE _ ater nt a es of “Hon — FAKE SPEECHES COST THE GOVERNMENT §«::: : / . WAS A DOLLAR OF GRAFT. ie This is the year Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen. °°)" Ten years ago it was not unusual for congressmen ‘").": to practice such miserable deception as is here ° revealed. Ten years ago Seattle didn’t blink when‘: its congressman boldly voted for a mileage grab |‘ which would have paid him more than a bill)" Peesont to th ssior DUNNER ne thousand dollars as traveling expense for a trip he had never taken. But these ten years have been years of political progress and enlightenment. Yet, here we find Humphrey no further progressed, no further enlightened, than he was in Nineteen Hundred and Five, when he was placed in the © ‘‘mileage roll of dishonor’’ by a national magazine because he voted for a mileage grab bill. ‘‘Humphrey Attuned to Western Washington’ spouts his local organ today, That’s an insult. Western Washington is not attuned to fraud and deception. | Seattle, Nor Western Washington, Nor the State of Washington Wants a Senator of Such Caliber. HUMPHREY IS UNFIT. SEATTLE WASHINGTON,