The Political Price of Reform
A critical report on the inclusion of an owner of a 'disreputable' resort in the King County Democratic delegation to the state convention.
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Among the members of the King county delegation to the Democratic state convention which will assemble at Vancouver is John W. Considine, of the People's theater. This, it will be remembered, is the dive in which a prize-fighter lost his life about two years ago. It is a thoroughly disreputable resort, and it has given the police as much trouble as any one place in the city. It has the usual gambling-house attachment. Considine was loud in the advocacy of good government and reform in the recent municipal campaign, and as part of his reward, he is made a representative of the Democracy of King county. Reformers of his stripe seem to be decidedly in the swim at present.
“Reformers of his stripe seem to be decidedly in the swim at present.”
This piece highlights the cynical intersection of local nightlife, vice, and political patronage. It resonates with contemporary concerns about how campaign funding and political influence can be leveraged by figures involved in controversial or illicit business activities.
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