The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 19, 1920, Page 6

The Seattle Star » Ot of city, Oe per manth; & montha, 61.56; @ meontha, 02.76; reer, fe the tate of Washington Outside of the stata The per menth, 4.60 fer ¢ montha or 69.00 per year, My carrier, clty, Le per week Tampering With the Direct Primary owe And looked tii] we'd bust, ‘To tell the color or sex, ty has been elected president of Btevens Pass association All) George, Startup, but be sure got enough gaa Fiena ‘o going to put up the ote! here. It'll take only @ few More than likely the —s legislature will attempt to modify the direct pri- law, and perhaps abolish it altogether. More than likely, because the di- 4 rimary law was originally passed despite the legislative machine, and not ) Tegislature since has been whole-heartedly in its favor. : - ~g| The-legislature is, generally, composed of men who |} If punishment reach-| dabble much more than the average citizen in poli- jes not the mind and} tics. The legislator’s old love is the convention sys- }makes the will supple,} tem, and le has been —— to return to it. He | fit hardens the offender.) has been waiting for his chance. He thinks it has —Locke. come. The recent election, he believes, has been an indication that the things that were good in the days ou U Cc il is of Mark Hanna are to be good in 1921. Just the same, it will be well for the legislator to go slow = F E q in this matter. It may be that he is mistaken in the psycho- : logical reasons which gave the Old Guard so great oe ‘ tory. It is possible that it was not so much approval o' notice ‘th Pau | Sry : , . iis taeenes wrestdnan or the Old Guard ideas as it was to make sure fhat there was a of Nations. in the Puyallup definite change from Wilsonism—or, as the Old Guard has they spell it Paulhamua | nut it, from one-man power. “STheres a bright aide to every.| Now, it is plain that the convention system produces more * the poets sing. Hum! frequently the one-man power, or the two-man, or six-man fs the bright side of the toot power that the people abhor, than the direct primaries do. | The direct primaries are not perfect. Friends of the direct Guchistife: In ennumerating Primary system would like to see it improved, made more free list in cafeterias the other Popular and more responsive to the people's will. But with You mentioned toothpicks, water all its faults it is so far above the convention system that Space at tables. In all fairness, there is no comparison. arent dking wubeelias tree| The direct primariesyresulted from the, failure of the con- UNoINE. | Vention system. This state*will not willingly go back to the = |old failure, the politicians to the contrary notwithstanding. the Roston Transcript sayz: | te a sll of the vast amount of crust “ d by it pie, it Silvan ikem “stivere. Realty, When Patience Ceases this deserves & bit of poetry,| Reine but human belngs, crooks, toa, are apt to overto things. That's e the big fault in the genus home. We don't recognize limita We go to excewes, Thus it was with drink. The breaking point base to come when saloons permitted over-tnduleenca Thus it wag with the knlser He took in too much territory, Thus ft was with Bill Whitney when he sought to be a sieuth as well as a politician. Thus ft was with Antony when he relied on Cleo’s embraces instead of Roman arma History i# full of instances of this kind. The trafl of man has heft innumerable examples of thase who went @ bit tee far--Napoleon, Jaw Willard, Ponzi, Julius Caesar, Caesars wife, Helen of Troy, Bluebeard, various dry squad officers and bill coflectors. With this awful warning written afl over the pages of history, we bid crooks now operating in Seattle to watch their step We ditn’t rue much of a rumpus when they invaded two or three restaurants; we didn’t exactly set up a storm of protest when they held up a shoe store As the poet says, “Patience may omse te be e virtua” While Resting muses the euccenrful candidate, “It ten"t much I Rave ht as well plan it out must arrange to reduce all taxes and to pay off the war debt. that wages will stay up and that the cost ‘woot munt be afvanced tn price to pro clothing must be reduced to ple to pardon the political prisoners and the fectors In some suave way which will greatly tickle the the superpatriota. guided by the old guard and eccept the program ef the anything Gone, I aust rule congress with ap tron 1 shall not be the lenst bit dictatorial merican interests contral Mexica, without ® friendly nation. out of America and ome Chat Japan has ‘m going to have a tedious time” Rights Avgustus Jobn, an artist of some note, painted the portrait ef Lert Leverhulme ‘The titled one wished the portrait to eccupy @ certain emall epece But ft i bie right hie own tnterest rather than for their profit, A child does not to his parents so much as he belongs to himself, Prices Gropped three per cent im month, erys the U. & department of labor. If that's so, they must have feared the dry squad in Seattle. There waen't @ drop more tham one-half of one per cent here, While Great Britain ond France wouldn't mind socing King Constantine sieale, they don’t like him te Greece. The league of nations ts at dat, bul where te Babe Rath? One of the crooks operating im Aeattle te Gesariied by ene aowepaper a: Giaguised in © “tarpaulin” The slicker! — “With one hendred por cent production end mintwteed waste,” satd | dent-Elect Herding yesterday, “we may make the reconstruction end estad- lish eure footing.” Great! What's simpler? All we need ie higher wages, bigger profita, and shorter hours. | ARTHUR HUNT, 2326 624 ave. ee oman OHN STEWART, 607 N. 65th st.: “I'll have nothing to do with you.” HENRY KLEIN, 4517 Corliss # haven't given it a thought yet” MRS. JESSIP W. WADE, 6116 ave.: “I'd suggest we replace ‘women who hold jobs at election ins by men who need the work [RS. FANNIE R. CLARK, 114 F. “I'd have to think Today {s one of the most highly perfected forms of science for the protection , and better health of the EE wrasse city councilman’ wan human family. Medical science has traced Wecorated with the Distinguished | a large per cent of human ailments to 4 a. Rised etwas wen tt Teeth ; hence the great step forward in 2 What is the present valuation | dental science. ot the Port of Seattle's six termi- mal units? 2. How do the Lake Washington ‘@4nal locks compare with those In ‘other parts of the U. 8S. in point of (elze? PREVIOUS QUESTIONS 1. Seattle savings bank deposits _ for 1919 were $61,416,305, a gain of ($6,344,686 in 12 montha 2. Washington's coal eupply te In this office we have a partnership of dental specialists—each one performing his special part on your dental work. This is your guarantee of absolute satisfaction. MULT LADY ATTENDANTS . ELLIOTT 4357 1604:= Deak Desetes ie. THRE SEAT TLE STAR The State Legislature An “Inside” Revelatio Control; Rep. Grass To the Members ect of House ot Representatives, State of Washing | Qeotiemem Since writing you my previous let ters on the matter of the Speaker ship—weveral of my friends have suggested that you might feel that the letters were written more ax a personal appeal for my election as Speaker, and not what they were and are intended to te, towit, « strong, vigorous and tnatstent pro text against the iniquitous «yntem of electing & Speaker in advance of the | sension by a few selfappointed man | agers. Lam now and will continue to make @ vigorous fight against the old order of thing»—aguinst the back- room caucuses of an inner clique, to wit: Mr. Reed, Jin Davia, Julius Hubbel and E. HL Guia 1 am not mueh concerned as to who tn the Speaker, so long as he ts not the | mere toot afd figure head for this d-time backroom gang. These men will argue that the Legislature will waste several daya “maybe a week,” electing a Speaker f tt Is not dona before the asesion. | Well and good, for tf we walt we! will then have as Speaker a man who ts the Intelligent choice of the | majority of the members. | will consult the journals of the last | few seanions of the Legislature, you | wil note that all the Legislature ever does for t is to meet, “have oh ‘Ajo! eft " : jand will be ® mere figure bead onty. | hen adjourn until the next day. Two | S00 Wil oe oy ae ea! | or throe weeks pass before any legis tation is enacted. Their argument of saving time ts specious, false and based upon thelr desire to get com: | plete control before you have. « chance to get together and really know what you are doing. SOCIAL FAVORITES ARE JOCKEVED" You may ask, hew Ge they grt) control? They do tt this way: They always encourage local favorites in the vartous localities an@ play them | one agamat the other. You perhape | have some memberelect, Hiving near you, whom you prefer an Speaker and he gets your promim. The local | favorites are jockeyed about by then | men mntil auch time an they have signed up enough votes to be within striking distance of’ electing thetr choles, Then they announce to the local favorite: “We have enough votes to elect our man—yon can't make It—better come with us and you ean have the chairmanship of such and such committees” or maybe they Just hint you had better get tn the band wagon and your local favor ite gota mcared and capitulates, Then | muddenly it ts all over, and they have chesen your Rpeaker for you. | Four or five men with selfish inter | esta to protect. By choosing the Speaker they control and name the Chairman of the Appropriations Committes, Chairman of the Roads and Biridgen Committers, also Judic- | Ary, and several other committees to | which important legislation will | property go. The Roads and Bridges | and Appropriations Committees are really @he most important; and they are al 80 selected by the Speak- er chosen by these men that they have tn each committee a working majority pleired to follow their leadership, I defy you or anyone elas to show me where the general Appropriation Bill or the Road and Bridge Bill, presented to the Hous under the management of these men, has ever been so much as even dent. od in an attack from Ue floor in open nsession. You can’t get an amendment thro, no matter what it ian It might be the fairest amendment poanible and a majority of the House might favor It, but the word has gone out from the Inner clique—"no amendments” and you might as well butt your head against a stone wall as to try it, becnune the Chairman of Appro- printion Committee, Jim Davis, or the Chairman of thé Road and Bridge Committee, Juling Hubbel, al ways have pledged up a majority of the Houne to vote for the Bill an it Manda, without amendment, before they wil allow it to come out of EVERETT TRUE— pre. p= SCRIPTION hrs. arta nae eration; these few men, these two mont tm. portant bills are always held up and not presented to the House anti! near the end of the seasion, when they could just as well be prenanted [before the end of the first month. | Thru the mantpulation of these two mort tmportant called the “pie counter,” they hold |in line the various members who are seeking public trict and practically compel these members to vote upon other matters tn the manner dewired by the inner |ring; and, tf any member becomes |too independent in the matter of hin n of Its Methods and. Kicks Over Traces . ing hard al! day, then you begin to|thru my stomach cir committees and appear before 1° House. WHY APPROPRIATIONS ARE HELD TO LAST A further matter for your consté- Under the leadership of billa, commonly propriations for roads and stitutions within their dis votng, he t# politely informed that he had better get In line or look out for his appropriation. Sometimes he is not told politely. If the old gang, town, Mr, Reed, Jim Davia, Jultus Hubbel and B. Et. Guia, elect their choles for Speaker, you will have about as much to say about the important leets' up before the Houns as one of the doarkeepers or paren These gentiemen usually try to select as Speaker geome member other than one of themscives, but he must be ways get when tm power is the Chairmanship of the Roads and Bridges, Appropriationa, Judiciary, and, perhaps this session, Privfleges and Elections, The first two com mittcen because that is where the money is spent; the second two be cause many Important bills go there, which do not carry appropriations Of cours, if they name the Speaker, they can pame the Chairmen and personnel of all ether committees, but they are not of much tmportance | in comparison with the four named, and they are generoualy distributed jamong the sheep. WANTS A SESSION TRULY REPRESENTATIVE Again I wish to emphasize that this letter ts not written with the idea of solicitation of your vote for myself as Hpenker. In none of my jetiern have I requested any one to endorse me for Bpeaker, 1 have not solictted the pledire of @ ningle mem ber from my own county, and I do not care who ts Bpeaker of the next House of Representatives, except that he be some man who ls not chosen by this Inner ring of mem. bers before mentioned. I am, how ever, very much interested in meeting ing for them pledge you up to either Kx H. Gute or H. CG Lucas Be watchful and @uospicious of their claims as to the number of members they have pledged. Padded endorse. menta have been used in the past: and many a member influenced {i falling into their hands by such} means. They have accean to the pa pers, and newspaper accounts of the Speakership contest are usually A TRIP ON THE GOOD SHIP MADRONA NO. 6 heel; then 1 grit my teeth and re adjust myself, ete, when @ “guy” Editor The Star: Flave you ever|that weighs about 20¢ pounds—all taken @ “comfortable” and “quiet” |!" the stomach—starte coming my litte ride in @ “Madrona No, #”| Way and I put on more force to hold cart Of course you haven't, but|My equilibrium by banging onto the you ne doubt have bad « ride which | little “brass loop” on the corner of the time, wished | the seat, you know, when he starte hand of death to put|"“W84ing” and “plowing” thru and you out of your agony. After work think of the “battle” on the car you have to go thru before you home to peace and quiet. For tnetance, I wikh to tel you of “one” of “many” of my “Battling Nelson” rides, 1, as usual, had to and uw kno ‘The car Was jammed. Ja We were packed in there oo “tight” that there was no room for “over flow.” Well, getting nearer home, the poor gufferers begin to etart the “big climb” to get out. (iow I envy those who live near town, for thetr suffering t# not of sol long dure tion as the poor tired ones that live “almost unto” the end of the line) First a big “clumey” sneake up behind me and climbs halfway up the back of my Ime and “slides” down, “scraping? the skin off my RAR nnn written for ® purpors. Let an have, during the 1971 eens Mem and children, firet,| * the little brase loop right and about that time I have lost my breath, dropped eram get |My handbag, pulled a button off my coat and a few other litte things that would tend to make me angry and eros under ordinary cireum- stances. Then we get to the cron ing and the car stope to let thin per son off only to start up with # jerk | tha on jocsa! med, jammed to overflowing, but |‘D#t simost dislocates my spine and at the same time kn6cks my bat down over one eye and I try to come up smiling and wondering if we hit something. Just beginning to get my breath back again when some one from the rear “grazes” my pet corn with hin big “hoof,” and I yell out with pain, and to myself aay, “O Death, where is thy pain?” 1 wish our °mayor” would come take « little ride with me ebout 6:30 p.m. on @ Madrona No 8 car, It will make him think. The “city” had better raise the fares @ litUe more and take “off a few cars, as I dont think M could ston, a meeting of the Legisinture|D¢ worte, at least as far a» I am that in truly representative of all of the people as expressed by their chonen representatives, and not am it has been in the past by these few gentlemen, Yours very truty, ROBERT GRASS, Merpber 1913-1916-1917-1919.1921 jon that — Bu CONDO > | | concerned, and I think most all the “rough riders” will agree with me Yours respectfully, Only @ pour Uitte tired Stenog, MMR may be said tn favor of football. No body han to play tt. DR. J. & BINTOR Free Examination sl Examination tree, by tometrist. 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