The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1925, Page 1

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Mr. Ward Heeler! That’s the gentle- man. Like flies around a mol- asses barrel, Mr. Ward Heeler and his crowd had a soft, sweet time of things back in the old convention days, when slates were made up in back rooms, when county chairmen were pick- ed because they were “hard- boiled,’ when crooks were even more powerful than now in state, county and city politics. Old-timers and much of the new generation remem- ber those days, and they re- member, too, how Mr. Ward Heeler and his crowd fought the initiative and refer- endum, the recall and the move to abolish the afore- said molasses barrel that lost some of its sweetness when the ward plan of city government was done away Eleven years ago the so- called Hinky-Dink manager plan was proposed for Seat- tle. The Seattle Star fought it because it provided for the ward-council plan, the molasses barrel that Mr. Ward Heeler and his family swarmed about. There were to be 30 councilmen! Re- sponsibility spread 30 days! The proposal pecre voters tomorrow is far remov from the old Hinky-Dink concoction. It centralizes responsibility direct and shuts out the parasites. CITY EMPLOYE Oliver Shrader WOMAN LEADER Miss Adelaide Pollock 1999, at the Po SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1925. R. WARD HEELER and YS his family, always greedy, have had a hungry feeling ever since the direct primary, initiative, refer- endum and recall were adopted. Lean years, as compared with the old days, have made them desperate. It was not surprising, there- fore, that they should seize upon the unsettled mind of the public during the City Manager fight, to make one last stand in the hope that their oft-defeated efforts to return to the old order of things might now be accom- plished. So, accustomed as it is to the brazen effrontery of the Seattle Times in all its campaigns against the people, the public Sunday smiled as the following paragraphs in that standpat organ were given the light of day: “Sooner or later a large percentage of our suffrage will interest itself in politics, In other words, some day a real majority of the people is going to take the trouble to run its own government) “When that wonderfu! time comes, we will get back to the convention form 0 government, do away wit! the direct primaries, an/ make the city council, r¢ sponsible to the people ¢ their wards instead of " body at all, as is the ca under our present methd of election.” eee 6 ae tells it all, Folls. When you see theSet- tle Times, Mr. Ward Heder and Old General Staachat lined up AGAINST a nias- ure, you can bet yout pot- tom dollar it is a goodthing stoftice at feattie, Wash, under the Ari of Ceomarrese March 2 _ A =a & PREACHIER Dr. MA, ME atthavs Rn TIT TCOTBAR IES SAR Wa a a The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington eStar' om: —— | Business Leaders See New 18T®. Por Year, by Mall, $3.00 for you to WOTE FOR. When you are made to real- ize, as the Times forces you to, that the same old crowd that would carry us back to polatical barbarism, is now lined up with city hall gang- sters against the city man- ager movement, the issue becomes clear cut and plain as diay. History does not record a single time when that combination ever did anything for you, Mr. Aver- age Man, * * % IN THE other hand, the publicis thoroly familiar with The Star’s many cam- paigwas in the interests of the people. Its efforts have beer directed to the accom- plishament of those things which the gangs and the standipat crowds have been agaimst. It has never be- trayed the great public con- fidence that has been re- posed in itas a newspaper, and st would not now urge the adoption of the City Manager plan if it thought for one moment that it was not a step toward better things in ow public life. The public recalls the fight The Star made for a pub- lidy-owned light depart- ment, for a public port, for wonam suffrage, for a three-platoon system in the fire department, for the di- rect primary, initiative, ref- erenduam and recall meas- ures and hundreds of other outstanding reforms that are giving us freedom from the clutches of gang pol- itics amd corrupt business methods. Au MED at the steady drift 0 sentiment toward the polls amd in the betting, op- (Turn to Page 6, Column 1) DOCTOR Dr. J. F. Crichtor en 7 LAUD MANAGER HOME. ‘uw as ai TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. mie a = - AUTHORITY IS CENTERED 5 They Tell You Here Why | You Should Vote It In "THESE I aders in Seattle's ‘| : i ssional, industria! EX-POLICE N DEATH PROBE Four Men Accused a of Slaying Man in Hijack Raid STEP AHEAD Progress Under Change and ei life are going to vote for the city manage lan Tuesday because they jsee in it the most progres- |sive step forward that this city has taken in years. | Read what they say! Then jthink it over carefully be- fore you go to the polls to- | morrow: {20. Jand civi | man THORGRIMSON, lawyer leader: “I am for the city plan unconditionally. 11 | makes one body responsible. It does away with the conflict between the present two-headed body. Under it we can get a higher class of business men to accept responsibility.” LAURENCE 8. BOOTH, banker and I am for the city er plan, because it offers r responsibility for improve 'ment over the pr system. In it the chances for getting better ex ecutive and better administrative funetic increased enor T VO former Seattle policemen and | mousty.” their two. conspa in a liq-{ | MISS uor hijacking @plwode near Renton, Wiast June. went on trial for the ADELAIDE _ POLIACK. i Federation of men’s Chibss “E believe ir the manager plan because jt will « definite responsibility upon of Han, | ficials, TF shall vote for its adoption [next Tuesday, Nr MILLER, of Carter, Id & Miller: “I'm for it, want to see a bigger and rong enough us moral sit |Uation in our city sp.| WW. 1, RHODES, merchant: “The principle of the city man plan is here Fight, and that is why T support it. ‘oul and his depu-| F 5 e} was in the dairy bus on the Renton-Issaquah road, in part Umt nd in moonshin- ening state: te will attempt to , Burt and their trying to rob id De adjournment time of 5) gives a city a business administra It is good business. It takes the city overnment out of politics and takes the city one step further toward a favor the manager pian. es responsibility, and tion.’ MRS. C. EF, BOGARDUS, founder » now of the rent r council: “The city manager t is right, because it places re- sibility im city management where it can be controlled. It cannot rship with his brothers, | be controlled under the present sys- | tem in Seattle,” A. H. Wiseman, lawyer, past pres- ident One, Hun, | “I favor the | cause it prov Jity and efficiency based on business not: | principh mut es ARE EXPOSED [Old Gang Tactics Arouse old gang reactionary machine has becn thrown into the fight against the city manager tle will go to the Tuesday with more interest i and with a | better understanding of tho issues |than in any recent municipal elec- tion. In an Lth-hour attack on tho city manager plan the tity of the op ponents was revealed, city manager hru the medium of an editorial appearing in The-8 attle Sunday Times "It’s the old anti-direct primaries anti-progress crowd, t every forward movement in in governme ership in th The. tangible f tlon was to line up many’ din thelr attitude, ald convention crowd of po: f ainst the elty of the plan K controlled conventions, th (Tirn to Page 7, Golu wang is t nearly thru the| MANAGER FOES == Seattle Voters Into Battle | -| manager p RABE ee | attorney: hurch, author of “T favor the city wause it has succeed. CRICHTON, former S| now Seattie { A. MATTHEWS, min- jagerial form of goy- ernment is experiment. lished when control is reduced to the smallest possible unit to guarantee efficiency and econom: ALS. KERRY, bu ‘Surely no business. m hat from an econor EI capitalist: "Someone with the back- ground of special experience in han: dling large corporations should be more successful than anyone chosen entirely thru the medium of popular appeal. Fifteen years ago we hanged from the partizan ward sys: tem, Another step forward is un- doubtedly due, We take no more hazard of its success than many other cities that have adopted the JEL KOCH, Jewish is always room for city government and er pian sounds reason able. The experience 1 300 cities shows that the plan is beyond the experimental stage and I am heartily in’ favor of it.” TOM P, RE U S. district “l ood plan, Tn nd Lam going to vote for . TODD, attorney, Donworth, Higgins: “To am in favor of trying it, Everything depends on the kind of & manager obtained, but i has splendid possibilities.