The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 1

Every tenderloin influence remaining in Seattle is fighting tooth and nail to- day for the election of Dr. E. J. Brown as mayor. Unless the great mass of whole- some-minded men and women thruout eRoED the residence district of the city vote unitedly for Dan Landon next Tuesday, attle is going to see another influx of undesir: ables, is going | to see one more at- tempt to make this a “wide open city.” The Star is informed that gamblers are this week taking leases on down- town property subject to Dr. Brown’s election and dating from the day he might become mayor. The tenderloin is behind Dr. Brown solidly; the tenderloin has good reason to be behind him. Dr. Brown has, in time past, been with the tenderloin. The Star is reviewing on this page the inci- dents of 1918, when he appeared at the city hall and before the state legislature as the hired representative of red-light characters at a time the United States government was trying to clean up Se- attle undesirables as a protection to its soldiers and sailors. Dr. Brown is trying desperately now in his meetings to explain his course at that time—and is failing to bring forth one satisfactory excuse. He was the instru- ment then of Seattle and San Francisco vice interests. He is the one great hope of those persons téday. Dan Landon for 12 years has voted in the state senate always in the in- terests of a clean citizenship, a safe- guarded womanhood. He is backed to- day by wholesome, home-loving people. If any citizen of that type fails to vote for him next Tuesday it will be because they have been misled, because they do not understand the issue. Dr. Brown’s past is notorious; his present backing is a strange medley of extreme radicals, extreme reactionaries, venal lobbyists and vice interests—mixed in with some mighty good, sincere citi- zens who, The Star feels certain, have been badly duped. Dan Landon has a fine, constructive ~ record of 12 years’ honest, intelligent public service. He is known to be inde- pendent and clean and dependable. SMASH THE VICE SYNDICATE VOTE FOR DAN LANDON. Ea WEATHER Tonight, cloudy; Saturday, fair; moderate easterly winds, Last M4 Hours Temperature Maximum, 54. VOLUME 24. NO. 54. ‘State Eamghing at Seattle for Brown “Wave” Tacoma Editor Who Saw Landon and Present Opponent in Action at Olympia, Tells How Campaign Looks to Folks on the Outside Ralph J, Benjomtin te sew editer of The Times, the mest influential eowepager 2 Tacoma He formeriy was o member of the editortal staff et The Star, and as euch has “covered” several srantoms of the state legislature. He has set down here, vuluntarily, exme teotimeny of high false to Seattle voters — Editor, BY Bee J. BENJAMIN TACOMA, April 28.—If the le of Seattle had seen Dan Landon in action in the 1919 state legislature— And if they had watched and listened to Dr. E. J. Brown when he appeared before the legislators at Olympia— If the folks who cast the ballots KNEW these two men as the newspapermen who have “covered” legislative ses- sions know them, there wouldn’t be any doubt about the out- come of the Seattle election next Tuesday. Dan Landon would be elected UNANIMOUSLY! This is the opinion of a newspaperman who has seen Dan Landon in three sessions of the state legislature, and who has often smiled at the antics and the buncombe of Doc surrendering, never to hell with the looters. I recall an fncident In the 1919 |legisiature, It tells the story of Doc Brown. —« bill to lock up the vultures and vice gangsters who were spreading some certain tim-|vice disease. It was a bill to lock up ber interest cores in with a bill the unfortunates, too, and cure them. that it wants, And Dan Landon | Doc Brown was fighting that bill. rises from his seat off to the left| Ole Hanson heard that Doc Brown of the senate chamber and brands was down in Olympla and he hopped f plainly, tally as a plain steal. He has done |Ole, Frankness forces me to say that time and again. that he didn’t tmpress the legislators. ‘The power interests or some other| Doc Brown panned Ole and Ole gang of special favor seekers ask®/ panned Doc. Then Ole got mad and ve sanction to some plan to declared that Doc Brown, just before * public. Dan Landon never|a Seattle election, had come to the hesitates. He doesn’t speak eoftly.|mayor’s office and p for the 4. He doesn't ¢a-\release of a certain a a negro And he yells plain vice gangster, “Too Fat,” who was tn He knows he ts out- ithe lockup because he was @ victim and that his continued of a terrible vice disease. refusal to play ball with the gang Said Ole: “Doe wanted me to let that runs the state politics spells that fellow go. He said that all ne the defeat of the legislation that he | groes had that disease anyway and wants passed But he doesn't com- ijt wouldn't burt any. Promise. He fights, There isn’t @ if I would release that man he would surrender in his record. jbe able to pick up a few more votes HE'S NOT A BIT and would be elected.” Brown, I be HANDSOME |eve, was running for corporation n Landon ten’t pretty. |counsel of Seattle at that time. he's got a brain that’s quick | Brown grew swarthy red and re ng. They don’t laugh at! torted hotly, charging Ole with a lot Dan Landon down In the ture. They hate him, these special |were true. They tear him. | WHOLE STATE LAUGHING t every special Interest’ ay SEATTLE’S ANTIC the state is in Seattle now | 1,4. Brown posed as a rocialist— to beat Dan Landon. I'll), red of reds. He shouted about free For instance, I don't know, hat plenty of gash is a dom and liberty and justice. He's a pured into the fight evn ge dentist, a lawyer, a big landlord, a For Dan isn't on the money side Of) ,155 of wealth, and, I bel he |represented himself to t tors as an expert tn vice 4 made ing ® socialist ‘t one. There isn't another Doe Brown in the world. And if 4, | “Weil, well, what do you know about Seattle? Nominating Doc tankin Co., page 3. all-Bouthwick, Brown for mayor! Har, har, bo um Bros. pa “ that’s good! dust like Seattle.” Eastern Outfitting Co., page 12. |} 2 The Rhodes Co. | If the folks of Seattle knew Sweet 4 big Dan Landon’s work, if they had seen him down at | Olympia, they wouldn’t hesi- tate about the election. They'd pe Dan. He's the man! ‘Ball Game Off; | Too Much Rain scheduled Coast } Friday's regularly ke up your shopping Hat from the ads in today’s Star, [at noon. cause and a double-he beginning at 1:30, was the effect. There was a bill before the senate) relentlessly, almost bru- into the fracas. Seattle folks know | He said that | legisla |of things, and maybe some of them | Shoppers! there were, he'd probably move to| ® . . - Seattle. For that's the only eity tn You Can Stretch Your the world that would give him its Dollars by Reading cash or even distantly consider elect the Ads in The jing him mayor Se ame Sta ‘oda All around over ate ie Star Today os || People are watching Seattle, MacDougall-Southwick, past They're saying: Seattle’s Favorite Newspaper by 15,000 Plurality Batered as Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, a1 the Posteffice at Gesttia, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 8, 1870, Por Year, by Mail 45 to 00 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1922. “DOC” BROWN CHAMPION OF VICE ADDICTS Too Busy y Fighting for Them to See Street Car Deal When Put Over In hits cutie tem this week tn behalf of his candidacy for mayor, Dr. F. J.| Brown ts putting much stress on his) “opposition” to the street railway purchase at the time the people were debating whether to take over the! system from Stone & Woebater, The records of those times dis- close that Dr, Brown's See dt aes oe silence, terms of vacuous ‘acts bearing At that time Dr, Brown wae run- fs could gath nw ning for the office of prosecuting at- gather, attorney. He was making speeches! |thruout the city and spreading his views to the people thru a series of. advertisements In the newspapers. Not one word 4id he utter in hie! oratory or write in his ade aganiet the purchase of the street railway system. e At the name election the people rot- 4 for the street railway purchase and defeated Dr, Brown for prose cutor, Fe age ss got what was known as the “tenderloin vote.” He had represented himself as the man who had elected Ole Hanson may- hi or, and claimed to have great in- ma. fluence in the mayor's office. should be defeated. At the same time, during his cam cs |paign for prosecutor, he wn: | counsellor and champion of wu able and Ginease infected men | women who were being interned the city, under government orders, as dangerous to be at large among soldiers and sailors. | Aw rapidiy as they were arrested for the blood test, they sent word or | had friends go to Dr. Brown, who/ had represented that he could influ: | ence the mayor tn their behalf, A huge fund was collec the Seattle and San Fi taco underworlds to ficht the biood test and internment, and this fund, it was reported, was turned over practically intact to Dr. | of operating them. | accomplished. | Now Brown for his services in ther | behalf. A few days before the election Brown went to Mayor Hanson, the latter dine , and demanded the Ps release of ." a notorious! negro underworld character. | Hanson said at tha time “Brown said ‘Too Fat’ could de (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) ‘DAYLIGHT THUGS ROB APARTMENT Tie Husband and Wife in Bed and Get $2,000 * quiring the system. in those cases. proposal, Impersonating policemen, three armed bandits forced their way into D. Keith's is, in the Tal- ott apartments, Third ave, and Pine st., shortly before noon Fri- day, tied and gagged Keith and his wife, and, after ransacking the apartment in a leisurely way, escaped with $2,000 worth of jew: elry and $60 in cash. The Keiths had were ‘way low, favor the Erickson plan. out Inte the) your apartment.” your warra: drew a revolve 8 this warrant en ckea awny from the weap on and was forced into hed, w wag tied up with his wife, the bar cord ore he | Alarr ed last w os y lamp, a from an he bi nt 20 minutes going| sweep left.| flee In this Lin} radical and derworld v publicspirited 1 The loot incinded four large dia monds, valued at about $600 apiece, the contrary notwithstanding, is one of the most ligent and public-spirited men in the city government. He is as often right on public issues as any other coun- cilman. But this time The Star must disagree with e Councilman Erickson, his critics in this campaign to | | In this newspaper’s opinion his Proposition A | Oddly enough, Councilman Erickson’s theory on the | way out of our street railway trouble is one thing, and his written remedy another. Star, that all Seattle property, because it benefits di- rectly from the presence in the city of a street railway, should pay the costs of installing that system. Then | he would charge the users of the cars the actual cost He believes, But when he came to submit a plan embodying this in | principle to the voters he found it could not legally be Hence he had to turn the idea around. | he is on the ballot with an initiative measure which asks the property owner to pay the OPERA- | TION COSTS and the user of the car to pay for ac- In other words, he is attempting to place almost twice as much load on the taxpayer as he can justify by his own reasoning. Councilman Erickson {s in an Inconsistent position in another particular, too. property owner should pay the cost of acquiring the car system because the property benefits by the car 4¢ system's presence in the city) is sound, then the same theory ought to be invoked in the case of the water plant and in the case of the electric plant and in the case of every public utility. But Councilman Erickson never has invoked them In fact, his theory is a revolutionary | revolutionary for Seattle, revolutionary in | the whole history of American municipalities, If his theory Perhaps even in the face of these facts Seattle could with good results try the UNDER SOME CIRCUMSTANCES. if business conditions were normal or booming, if it seemed greatly desirable to exploit and advertise the fact that Seattle had the lowest existing carfare rate, then The Star can see that it MIGHT experiment But our tax rate is not low, wore in bed! ditions are neither normal nor booming— There is no dodging the stubborn fact: of 20 mills on our present tax levy UNDER THESE CONDITIONS would be ruinous. The Star advises a “No” vote on Proposition A. ‘Honest Men Mobilize to Put Landon in Mayor’s Chair! fairs today to plunge into the ,tator and erstwhile counsellor of the, honest act, and who has for many fight to elect Dan Thruout the st a stampede start- mayor's were dropping their private af- time jail Inmate, soap-box orator, agt ceivable intel- he tells The (that the | he suggests If our tax rate it is high; business con- -they are con- | raiders when they An addition escaping the fusillade | vice syndicate. Iverywhore they went they called | ja spread to | t unt the record of | and push into the| Landon, who could boast that he had chair Dr. BE. J. Brown, one-| never been arrested, that he had {never committed @ “sharp” or dis- © stop and think, and| y The Seattle Star TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE William 8. Coburn (above), district Grand Goblin of the Ku Klux Kian, of Los Angeles, who was summoned to testify before the coroner's inquest into the death of Constable Medford Mosher, shot during a night raid of | masked men on a Spanish rancher’s home at Inglewood, Cal. apg Pst ce valescent after a long, hard period of readjustment; Below, left to right: Deputy Marshal Frank Woerner, of Inglewood, who |b elth we oO Answer " shot Mosher and two other men under the impression they were highway- | the dow nfronted by three| it is a lot more essential right now that we Rig Lv ion wehbe ha-oenewntaren them Washed on tha root acor (he Beasish reneh |men, one of om displayed a tin} all our present industries and bring in new ones if pos- while responding to a call for aid from a terrified neighbor, WT huttchee seated” tha’ tetas sible than it is to attract here a lot more people merely Mary Elduayen, 15, eldest of two daughters of Pde Elduayen, who, with oe ee - ginmond to enjoy the thrill of three-cent car riding. her sister, was compelled to doff nightgown and dress in the presence of told him. “Let us in. We want he red the home at night, Clyde Vannatta, 19, who took Marshal Woerner to the scene of the night raid on his motorcycle and witnessed the shooting, himself miraculously News story of Klan \ Probe wit be found on page 7. years in the state senate been a bat t si ple against waste, privilege, They urged that Seattle could elect a man of known honesty (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) for the rights of ‘the common corruption and | SEARING ACCUSED BY MRS. LEGATS Erickson Measure Not a Safe Step Now; Vote “No” (EDITORIAL) ‘The Star for many months bas been printing all the the Erickson carfare measure which The Star has printed also many columns of citizens’ opinions and arguments representing every concetf angle of the controversy over the “three-cent” ee: ruout this period of discussion The Star frained from taking sides, However, we have reached some definite conclusions. These, |made ‘cae grand made before the | next month, according’ | present indications, by Anna Legate, widow of murdered policeman. Presiding Superior Ji Calvin S. Hall has pony his belief that the should be investigated Mrs. Legate has ex; % At matters now stand, therefore, it seems certain that the grand will go into the matter, and the sults are expected to rock the department to Its very Mrs. Legate the. police, Instead of aiding her in- her investigation, have blocked — her at every turn, and that these high in authority have exerted sinister, significant and powerfal efforts to cover up the facts, and make her husband appear 8 sul: cide—altho the coroner has an- nounced that conditions were : such that Legate could not ~4 sibly have taken his own life, That the investigation may ge farther than the murder itself is evidenced by the statement of Mrs. Legate that her husband had confided in her as to . graft conditions In the loin, in which, according to his. widow, he was admittedly in volved. She said that the police had beea. greatly worrted over this aspect of the case, and that the day before the funeral one of Legate's brother off cers had questioned her closely te "| find out how much she knew. * At that time, for reasons of policy, she denied any knowledge of her hus+ band’s affairs, DEMANDS THAT BODY BE EXHUMED One of the most startling de velopments in the case, which has been brewing for a week, is ~ the demand by Lady Willie For- » bus, attorney for Mrs. Legate,™ that the body of Charles 0. Le (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) Home Brew on Page 7