, 1892-09-14
POLITICAL PIE.
Current Comments From Around
the State.
How the Campaign is Viewed From
all LOcaIities--The Lake WASH
ingtOn Canal and the RepubII-
can Ticket.

ingtOn Canal and the RepubII-
can Ticket.
The country is going republican this fall
and the democrats in Skagit county have
at last come to this conclusion and are now
getting ready to climb on the band wagon.
-Sauk City Star.
The South Bend Journal absolutely re-
fuses Its dish of crow, bolts the regular
republican nominee for superior judge and
comes out fair and square for Judge Hun
ter, Independent candidate.-W Willapa Pilot.
There is no detection anywhere in the
state against the republican ticket, but to
the contrary, reports are encouraging from
every locality, of hearty support. It's now
the general belief that John McGraW's ma
lority will raise the 10000 figure
Times.
Those fellows on the upper Sound who
are hOundering around in the undug Seat
tie ditch have bitten off more than they
can chew in their attempts to make it APP
pear that John II. McGraw is an alien. He
is too intensely American for the Nelson
Bennett crowd.-Hamilton Herald.
Eastern Washington sends to market
every year about 100000 bushels of wheat.
A saving of nine cents a bushel on this
would amount to $720,000. This is lost to
the farmers and gained by the railroads
every year. and each year as the crop grows
larger the loss grows larger with it. How
long can the farmers stand it to have their
interests sacrificed at this rate ?-TacOma
Ledger.
George Turner must have recently awak-
ened to a realization of the fact Chat his
senatorial campaign has been in dangerous
hands. Both Turner and Fairweather
hated McGraw personally. Turner has
made up with McGraw, however, and now
everybody is waiting with keen expectation
the peace-ofering Of weather.-Oakes-
dale Sun.
The republicans are iubilant over the
idea that the democrats of King county
will join hands with them and elect Nc
GraW and the rest of the ticket. Not much
they won't; we never found a fool from
King county yet and do not expect to this
year. They owe it to themselves no mat
ter how they feel at present. to take of
| their coats and poll big vote to offset
Pierce, if only to down that county in
future conventions. Unless they do they
will have no representation next time.
They will get bravely over their disap-
pointment between now and November
8th.-Walla Walla Statesman.
DR.. Calhoun, republican candidate for
presidential elector, says Already the
/ party is burdened with the canal plank,
purely personal project, for it had not the
slightest right to be made one Of the issues
in state and national election, as the fight
ought to have been made on the platform
adopted at Minneapolis, and on that plat
form alone. Now the DIVIDED interest of
King and Pierce will naturally lose to the
party in both counties some strength. NV
opinion is that the insertion of the canal
clause into the republican state platform
was political blunder of the worst kind )"
-Centralia Chronicle.
Our evening contemporary publishes an
interesting letter from the Hon. N. G.
Blanchard, chairman of the committee on
rivers and harbors, in which the statement
is made that the appropriations for those
works are made "On their merits" There
is nothing new in this; but it is we'll to
have statement to that effect from so
high an sauthority. If ever we are to re-
ceive congressional aid for the canal it will
come on the merits of the project itself and
not because of the service it may do any
political party. Its merits are so great
that they ought not to be obscured by the
issue of political campaign. Mr.. Blan-
chard's letter ought to take the canal out
of politics forever.-Seattle Telegraph.
This great fuss about the Seattle canal
should not be allowed to interfere with the
success of the great republican party,
whose great principles are certainly of
more Importance than mere local ques-
tions. Undoubtedly the canal will be built
some day, but in the meantime its pros
pective building must not interfere with or
claim the attention .Of the voters Of the
state to the detriment of much more impor-
tant questions. The success of the regular
republican ticket is the most important
issue, and it must not be lost sight Of It
is a good ticket, a strong ticket, well-bal-
anced ticket geographically, and it de-
serves the full support Of the people.
/ Kickers and objectOrs there are, of course,
but their schemes to obscure the main is
sues with local questions should not sue
| ceed. Some voters NAV be thus led astraV
but reading and thinking voters will not
consent to be thus SYSTEMATICALLY uyallup
Commerce.
The farmers in Eastern Washington are
beginning to figure out that the completion
of the Columbia would reduce the freight
on wheat from Sc to SO per ton, whether
they sent it to Tacoma or Portland. This
is a saving of nine cents a bushel, or 50 on
every hundred bushels-kept in their pOck-
cts instead of being handed over to the
railroads, as now. The appropriation for
| The Dalles boat railway, which Senators
Allen and Squire so indiiferently sup
ported and really helped to defeat by ad-
YOcating the canal job, would have brought
this reduction of rates and begun to save
this money. The canal would bring no re-
ductiOn Of rates, since wheat will not go
to Lake Washington for shipment,
and if it did it would go no cheaper
than to Tacoma or Seattle. 1t will
certainly cost more to get it out
through the canal and its locks than di-
rectly out bv the Sound to sea as it goes
now. By advocating the canal therefore,
the senators gained nothing, and would
have gained nothing for the farmers If
they had succeeded. By defeating the
Dalles appropriation they have at least
postponed the benefits to be derived from
an open river for two years, and perhaps
longer,