The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1916, Page 1

-:~ TURNER IS JUST A POLITICIAN -:- Politics makes strange bedfellow | The popular vote favored Woodrow Wilson over They and others said Turner was JUST A POLI. | VISION OF THE UNDERWOOD LAW TO THAT That is why, perhaps, George Turner thought The | Whelmingly | TICIAN, They left the convention, refusing to part EFFECT Star might even But the King county democratic executive commit pate in it because of the “robbery JUST A POLITICIA | Politicians hpccgartinatiehip’ wa. often- as by tee “handpicked” 150 delegates favoring Judson Harmon | But, in 1916 we find Tugh Todd as chairman of the ei Taner ald “ns {f he doesn't, that Saal principle, can ” i © from oue. political ttm eriother of Ohio primarily and Speaker Clark secondarily } Turner meeting at the Grand theatre Monday noon Poindexter cor tentl . t n Washington ‘ and not feel uncomfortable They are willing pateh GEORGE TURNER WAS -AGAINST WILSON | and Bridges, Cotterill, Ryan, and others supporti him products, offered effect, and was up past differences, compromise upon principles, and for- | IN 1912 AND REMAINED AGAINST HIM UNTIL | How is that possible? ted down by the A get even “raw ls. They are willing for the sake of | WILSON WON THE NOMINATION Easy, The answer is PARTISANSHIP Turner accuse ng himself to PARTY to sac ¢ men who have really served th Chis, of itself, is no reflection on Turner, He had a | They are all democrat Purner is the democrat re-enact a Payne ind Turner knows that public welfare perfect right to be for Speaker Clark, or Harmon, or | candidate. Forgotten is all else, and the ery i Vote Poindexter voted e-Aldrich bill and that The St : suituted any one else | the party ticket straight. Forget 1912, forget the ‘hand he finally voted bill because it was e Star is not so cons ed | f ly v 1 4 4 S : P miter’ han’ ohrved: six. ¥ itis hones But he went further, At the Walla Walla conven- picking,’ forget everything except that Turner is a demo the only to repeal E Idrich bill S, Aonainegebdabdlheaes Bieri doabeadet ve hascncoahe tion he voted to seat the “handpicked” deleg f erat rt wing demag he declar ee ee 4 Ph voelt ae gates from her wing demagogic, he declare and two in the house. He has cast vote ba ‘ant | King county instead of those elected by popular vote. And, indeed, that-is apparently Turner's slogan, too. | Or ts hated Hararmteve dhak <aahe wee hington ine measures. They ‘aba consistently for | agar es He voted for “bossism” instead of the people’s rule. He As territorial judge, Turner rendered a decision dustric overlooked in law, but a more careful a 1F rear ye = el a oer sagt ed Ord tet ae ee voted for and encouraged a scheme which defrauded Wood- which took away the right of women to vote, a right examination of the | shows that they were de- 7 a . oe chia a row Wilson out of the rightful delegation of this state— | they had until then enjoyed—and it was not until 20 liberatel acrificed—thrown as a sop to Cerberus—by Phe Star judges men by their records, not by their and the result was that the state of Washington, which youre later that they regained it. = my distinguished friend, Sen. Poind words. | was really for Wilson, as far as the rank and file of the I am for woman suffrage now,” Turner said in his De yogic! Four years ago, The Star a seup” view of | democratic party was concerned, WRONGFULLY “keynote” speech yesterday Demagogic because there t ingle ite cast George Turner in action, and the impression thus gained SENT A DELEGATION TO BALTIMORE _IN- Naturally, also Turner is very, very strong for Wood- | hy Sen. Poindexter which Turner ha enged—or can was that Turner is JUST A POLITICIAN. That was | STRUCTED FOR CLARK row Wilson now—and for prohibition challenge. The Congressional Record is easy of access. during the stat: oeratic convention in 1912 at Walla | It was exactly the same tactics which Col, Roosevelt sut his tariff discussion takes the cake What specifi vould ‘Turner have changed if he had Walla. denounced as “robbery” at the republican conventions | As a democrat, Sen, Turner necessarily approves the been senator in ter? Senators Jones and \ great principle was involved at that convention | in Aberdeen and Chicago | democratic measure—the Underwood tariff bill Poindexter voted alike on Washington goods. Does It was whether the popular vote in King county at volun And progressive democrats in this city and state de- | As a politician, he adds that the Underwood tariff furner charge Jones with “sacrificing” the state, too? tary primaries should control, or whether self-constituted nounced it as robbery. Men like George Cotterill, Hugh | law, however, should have had adequate tariffs on lum And this tariff talk on the part of Sen. Turner, who bosses in the King county democratic committee should Todd, George Ryan, Robert Bridges and others, either | ber and other Washington products “approves the Underwood law,” is nothing but bun- be permitted to “handpick” 150 delegates to the state privately or publicly, bitterly assailed George Turner for THEN, STRANGE TO SAY, HE BLAMES SEN combe and accentuates the impression that he is JUST A convention | giving encouragement to “handpicking” politics. POINDEXTER BECAUSE HI FAVORS A_ RI | POLITICIAN. ON ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER 7, YOU ed The S e attle S tar Boe OE TE AT ar brit ie Hint ASKED TO PASS ON 19 MEASURES. YOU ARE RE- GEORGE, THE WEATHER MAN, HAS PUSHED THE # QUIRED TO VOTE Hil =. By ht dela Rsseny FROST BUTTON TODAY, AND THUS SOLILO- THEY ABOUT? THE STAR WILL GIVE YO SUD QUIZES TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY, FAIR; ; = ee on ee SOUND PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS LIGHT FROST TONIGHT.” 4 * INTEREST EACH AND EVE c } WILL ALLIES EXILE KAISER TAFT ANO TR HOTEL CLERK the counter. my legs. The trio entered the hotel of- fice, and while one started to reg- and I tried to phone th damage aside FOKUMA CABINET ~ OF OPPOSITION from —— NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The WASHINGTON, Oct. 3— | first and second games of the Persistent opposition of the world’s is will be played nonelective | in B on October 7 and 9. The national baseball commis sion so decided at its meeting here today. STRIKE PEACE sponsible for his resignation, news of which was cabled from Tokio today. This is the belief of the embassy here. Okeama’s party controlled the) majority of the lower house, but} a coalition of other parties in the upper house was formed against him. It is said Okuma has for some weeks felt unable to con- tinue a part of the government and face the upper house when it} convenes ‘n December. It is understood the premier has been contemplating resigning for some months and has been waiting | for a time when he thought he - could arrange a successor from his own party. Viscount Kato, of foreign affairs and now leader of the latter's par- turning to work at present the same proposition. former minister | under Okuma | received, Mediation |Blackman and Immigration Com ty in the lower house, is said to|Missioner White feel confident that the candidate of that body and|@ favorable attitude will be taken ‘of Okuma for the premiership jby both sides Okuma’s opponents in the upper 3 ment of Count Marshal Terauchi, | White. “The situation looks con how governor of Korea. | siderably mor 2 Terauchi, with the title of mar-|been at any time. however shal, has the highest rank in the| Nelther Blackman nor Japanese army. Marquis Okuma is |WOUld discuss any further details 79 years old and has been premier | for two and a half years. It is; A. considered likely that hie advanc-|and killed Boyd ed years have something to do|hunting deer near with his desire to retire. | Monday. Shelton WHIPS THUGS “The other two ran out the door But they ran ister, the other two dodged behind back in and grabbed me before I ‘a jcould get the connection, and res [cued the big fellow.” They didn't succeed in getting Jinto the cash register, or doing any bruising up ~ DRAWS NEARER Following the vote of the long- shoremen on the proposition of re wage | schedules and taking up the ques tion of new wages by arbitration in 10 days, the Water Front Employ-| ers’ union Tuesday was considering | | While no direct word has been| Commissioner White 1, SANDERS accidentally shot while Walla Walla after a fierce struggle with Kelly grasped the club he always Clerk C. J. Kelly, when they (keeps as a weapon for such emer- attempted to rob the cash reg- gencies, and turned in time to re ister and safe of the Central | fist blow in the face. hotel, 1514 Westlake ave, Mon- truggied with the biggest of day morning. the three, while the other two tried Armed with a short billy, the (to open the cash register, he says. clerk, succeeded in knocking | “They told me to come thru with one the attacking party to the keys to the safe,” he told the the floor. He tried to phone police, “and just then | rapped the the police, but was unable to big guy in the face with the billy. deliver his message before a He fell to the floor and I jumped blow on the back of the head on him, holding his head between BEGIN ON SATURDAY “There is no telling exactly when! { house are advocating the appoint-|the strike may be called off,” said| hopeful than it has| DR. SATO SURPRISED Ambassador Sato, who arrived|Okuma did not control the cabinet here from Japan late Sunday night, 1t was working in barmony, and va reports to the contrary are mere expressed surprise today when) -oijectures of persons who are United Press dispatches telling of misinforme the resignation of the Okuma cab If subsequent events prove the inet were read to him by a Star re-| report true turbance in Japan . “1 bad heard nothing of it, and derstand why the resignations mM 4s much in the dark ax you are|should have been offered, for the as to reasons for the reported ree-|Okuma cabinet was backed by a strong party organization.” Dr. Sato will be the guest of Se. attle’s leading public ignations,” he said. “There was nO intimation that the Okuma cab- fnet anticipated such a step when T left Japan. and leave tomorrow for his new “mM is not true that Marquis post in Washington. ‘ it will oceasion no dis- | can not un-| men tonight, SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1916. Looke-e-e! These Pretty _ Girls Are Going to Sell The Star on the Street; | “erow-eating “TO EAT CROW” DECLARE ‘DEMS’ NEW YORK, Oct. 3-—De- spite all sorts of rumors re- Q4@rding siipups, the property man in charge of the Dear and Dear = Theodore aged tonight at ine “ex” and about 170 pounds of hope-to-be president at the club’s reception to Gov. Hughes tonight. Ex-President Taft confessed pon arriving here to- from New Haven. He leads Former President Roosevelt by 66 pounds, The evening's meeting between Taft and Roosevelt will be the first time they have reach- ed speaking distance since 1914, when they were coldly a funeral in New Haven of a mu- tual friend. Referring to the love feast as a contest,” Chafrman MeCormick of the democratic cam- in Committee today took a fling tughes as the candidate of the poun | hyphenates Dorothy Morgan and Edna Small, pretty movie actresses, who are! | going to sell The Star on the streets to win a bet. BY TED COOK “Down at the Washington,” phoned the maneging editor to best-gowned woman in the Washington dining room dur. ing the rush hour, | me, “are two good looking You see,” they started to young ladies who want to sell | explain, both smiling, “we are papers. Go down and see living frugally (they had just them ordered truffles) and want to | Two news girls at the Wash sell papers to earn money | ington! enough to get to Spokane They are Miss Dorothy Mor- It still sounded quite foolish gan and Miss Edna Small of to me. - Los Angeles,” he added Can't you see?” they both It sounded queer, but it asked at the same time. proved a fact Then Miss Morgan went into They'll start Wednesday detail selling Stars on the street, Jost just as #00on as the noon edi- {| These pretty young girls are selling newspapers across the tions begin rolling off the continent to win an $800 bet | presses—and if you see them, with some of the movie men, well, it's a safe bet you'll buy who declared that there some papers, all right weren't any girls with the When I got down to the | pluck or the brains to get Washington Monday night, and from Los \Angeles to New sent a note up to the young York, live comfortably, and ladies, the page returned with the message: “They'll see you on the mezzanine floor.” Rather formal—news girls making their arrangements by make all expenses on the way They presented credentials and letters from Los Angeles newspaper men, They have given away their automobiles, appointment at the Washing sealed their back accounts and ton—and on the mezzanine started selling papera—first floor. } the Los Angeles Record There I met them. They made enough to get to Say—Los Angeles is the San Francisco, and there sold Mecea for good looking young the San Francisco News, Then ladies. they went to Portland, repeated This pair comes from Los thelr venture. Now they are Angeles in Seattie They're movie actresses and “We have something like | they're on their way * amiled Misa Small, York, just to win a bet with a lot of other movie folks from to New “Ho at start selling Wednes- | the Fox and Lasky camps Well, they are plucky little | Dorothy looked like several girls. Pretty, too. If you million dollars, in furs, tallor- should meet them tomorrow, be | ed duds, and her friend, Miss kind to them. Not “fresh”; Small, well, | judged her the they won't like that. Treas “I trust the people of New York and the entire country will particular attention,” he said, “t the crow-ating Taft and Roosevelt tonight of the spectators will Evans Hughes. Possibly will say something about his friend, Jeremiah O'Leary, of the American Truth society. While Mr. Hughes may not know the gentleman, there is no ques tion that O'Leary t# a friend his Hughes has accepted dacy of the hyphens on O'Leary's insulting letter to President Wilson proves that.” VIOLENT FIGHT IN BULGARIA IS One be Chas the candi LONDON, Oct 3.—Buigarian forces have attacked the Rumanian army that crossed the Danube and invaded Bulgaria Sunday, and a violent battle is raging east of the fortress of Rustchuk An Amsterdam dispatch reports that the Rumanians forced a cross: ing with little opposition, and threw up strong entrenchments be fore they were attacked. Rumant an monitors first silenced Bulgar jan shore batteries, and under cov er of their fire the invading force was landed An official statement from the Bulgarian war office, delayed in transmission, declared that prepar. ations have been made to attack the Rumanian force. The = invading formal at) pay) contest between | of} No one doubts any more that | His silence | WANS AND STANDS, te ONE CENT ‘Famous American Says Diplomats of” | Allied Nations Hope to Send Him to™ Napoleon’s Prison on St. Helena ‘. (The writer of the following astounding revelations of “the prime intention” of Anglo-Freneh in diplomacy “after the war” is a famous American college professor and authoritative the dealings of international He just retumed to the United States this week, aft tire summer in London and Paris, where he was in constant communication with the highest gov- ernment offi is there. During this time he was made acquainted with the proposed “disposi- tion” of the kaiser of Ge: by the allies, provided the allies win the great war, as, of cou ‘they are: now fully expecting to. The editor of this newspaper prints this amazing story simply as a piece of important news, and It is to be considered in this aspect alone by his readers. That reported by this professor, who insists that he remain porter of these events is a man above reproach.—Editor.) the allies ARE discussing these things anonymous, he has no doubt. For the BY A FAMOUS AMERICAN PROFESSOR many—in the event they win the war, as they certainly believe they a going to do? This is no fantastic question, asked for the sake of sensatio: ism, and based merely on wartime rumors. Instead it is an” outgrowth of the MAJOR TOPIC of certain grim delibera=” tions now taking place in the entente capitals of Europe I KNOW it is the major topic, the “prime intention of the big men of the allies, for the sole and. simple reason © that I heard them DISCUSSING it myself! i And the question in high circles of London and ~ France now is not so much whether or not the allies can 4 wreak vengeance on the kaiser IN PERSON. It is simply. WHAT this punishment shall be! j You do not have to take my word alone on this: ask © any man, with access to the first European circles—any 7 such man who has traveled recently in England and France, and he will tell you the same: THAT A TREMENDOUS: PERSONAL DRAMA THAT WILL STARTLE THE - WORLD IS CERTAINLY GOING TO ACCOMPANY THE DENOUEMENT OF THE WAR! Of this I am positive—that in those final negotiations when the fate of nations, the happiness of the whole peo-” ples, are at stake, so fiery a drama will involve, in some © measure, at least, the house of Hohenzollern, that it will ob-~ scure in the eyes of the world all those other questions— questions of frontiers, of indemnities and the like! For” granting that the allies will have any debatable rights at the: war's end, the discussion of the fate of Emperor William, like that of Achilles, Caesar and Napoleon, is bound to go 3 down into history as one so engrossing to the popular mind | that it eclipses in interest th: world-events in which hé 7 played a part! . Merely as some tangible proof of the widespread exe 7 istence of this grim determination on the part of the allies, of England in particular, to mete out a dire fate to the kaiser |personally, I will cite to you the public testimony of Dr. Benjamin Rand, philo~ sophical librarian at, Harvard university, given on the dock at New York, after” | (Continued on page 5) | 100,000 WANT TO GO |NO RESUMPTION OF is the name of a novel by Pe KAISER WILHELM | BACK TO THE LAND) SUB WAR IN SIGHT WASHINGTON, Oct 3. The BERLIN, Oct Efforts of the A 1 high cost of living is giving an|Von Tirpitz party to force a re: Joseph Lincoln, which Jadded impetus to the lure of the|sumption of submarine warfare will surely amuse you if land. Members of the new farm) will be defeated as the result of you are interested in th pnferences now being held in sessions of the reichstag loan board drew this conclusion to: dont quaint human nature. He emy le up ever day after ascertaining that a ¢ : cere de ty ot cores patter lyority of their 100,000 inquiries | committee, It is now generally be is a product of the Cape ~ A’ Rome Wireless dispatch today | ave come from city dwellers who | Heved ; Cod region—we mean c. sald it wan reported from Petrograd | Want to get back to the land, thru} The Tirpitzites, however, hope to Mr. Pratt, and he’s a ~ i Mar Macke o farm loan aid The board ¥ s to|force a public discussion of the % Ke byl ths es oi ea ag Be lhelp the city folk get there as| Whole question when the reichstag good-natured old fellow — bridja fortress of Silistra and Tut.| Well as to help the man on the |reconvenes Thursday to know. B rakan after the Rumanians crossed | »onpaying farm - So be sure, Monday, to the Danube. 5 ay. BULGARIANS RETREAT the first installment i -% KAISER ASKS U, 8, AID? BERLIN, via Wireless to Say- The Star. ae them as they deserve to be ROME, Oct, 3A Swiss dis-| ville, Oct. 3.—Bulgarian troops treated—these two little movie |patch today asserted the kaiser{have been compelled to retreat on Starts Monda girls who have the courage and [had personally appealed to Prest-| both wings in Macedonia, tt was imagination to set ont upon dent Wilson to end the war, but| admitted in an official statement this bizarre venture. and difficult ad- that the president had refused to Intervene at this time, from the Bulgarian war office to- day. ‘Ends Saturday ane enna een