, 1892-09-27
STATE POLITICAL POINTERS.


politics.-Spokane Review.
An open river to the sea is not agitated
in Eastern Washington from any love the
people of this section have for Portland
Their only object is to secure water cOmpe-
titlOn to the seaboard so that all the rail
roads in the state shall be compelled by
reason of this competition to charge
reasonable rates of freight to and from all
the coast cities.-Colfax Commoner.
Many republicans of Pierce county are
supporting the democratic state ticket, and
will vote for Tom Carroll for congress
since he is known to oppose that canal.
They are also working against Senator AL
len for a second term because he favors it.
Hence the campaign becomes a warm and
an exceedingly interesting one. Pierce
county is leading the fight against the
canal, and Pierce county has the advantage
of being in the right.-Spanaway Sentinel.
Every farmer of the Palouse empire
wants the Columbia river opened to nav
igatiOn. Congress must be relied upon to
make the desired improvement. DEM
ocrats have declared against internal inn
provements, while it is a cardinal principle
of republicanism to foster all industry and
Wilson and W. H. Doolittle is therefore a
vote in favor of opening the Columbia
Palouse Gazette.
Some of the political bosses of this
county will have learned one thing at the
expiration of the present campaign and
that will be the vast difference between
expectation and realization. If there is
anything boys, to be enjoyed in the ex-
pectatiOn line, enjoy it before the season of
disappointment sets in, which will begin
in the early part of November. 1t seems
strange that some people cannot realize
that this is an age of adYancement.-Lif
is ever changing-so are Officials.-Sprague
Advertiser.
Everybody in the state of Washington
is getting ready to die at the last ditch. All
subjects Of state policy and national poll
tics are drowned in the clamor about that
ditch. At the November election through
out the state Of Washington the presi-
dency, congress- tariff, silver, the history
and tendencies of parties, all will be for
gotten, and ditch politics will be regnant,
blatant, rampant fiagrant. There will be
no handshaking across the yawning chasm,
but terrible punching and pounding Of
wind bags, production of sheetiron thun-
der, and rattling of bladders with dried
peas in them, on both sides of it. Perhaps
it Is not to be the final fight between Sc
attic and Tacoma, but it will be the most
picturesque one that has yet occurred
Oregonian.
With the possible exception of Pierce
county, no locality is Jealous of King
county's canal if only King county will
build it. The enterprise and grit of the
people of Seattle is prOverbial and that
they will have the Lake Washington
canal is foregone conclusion and it
should be a source Of pride to every in
( habitant of the state that we have such
a city in our midst. She will achieve
the canal as she has achieved her other
great enterprises, by her own unaided
efforts, and she will, as soon as this course
is decided upon, go to work to ratify the
democratic victory of last spring by an
other and greater one in November. The
ditch" and now Seattle democrats VIII
| bury them in it.-Willapa Pilot.
"The canal, screeches the P.-I., "has no
place in politics" Perhaps motor at
least ought not to have, but it has a place
in the platform of the republican party
just the same. The republican press Of
King county is not trying to preserve the
offspring half so much as it is to get rid of
it-that is the plank. Accidents are be-
coming customary even in conventions,
but where is the candidate who is willing
to come forward and father-the plank
Echo answers, who.-Sprague Advertiser.
The Spokane Review says of the ship ca
nal: 1.-THE support the scheme got in the
republican convention was manufactured
to order by the King county forces" 1t
was no such thing. That support was a
natural protest against the conspiracy of
interests, prejudices. and personal enmities
hostile to King county and the state, rep
resented by such organs as the Review. 1t
was the Review that first agitated the sub
| ject. King county asked nothing eXcep-
tiOnal. The very resolution with which
she carried the convention by storm gives
/ the Columbia improvements paramount
importance. She simply asked that an
/ undertaking, which the government should
and will prosecute, be not condemned off
hand through the malicious interference of
| a lobby that had no concern for the repub-
! lican party of this state beyond the uses to
which it might be put to please Portland
and the railroad that has built Tacoma
Lincoln County Times.
1t is worthy of comment, as an indica-
/ ton of the superior attainments of the
masses of the present day, that the cam
paign methods pursued but a quarter of a
century back, in which the tin horn bri-
gade was a most important factor in elect
ing candidate, are now relegated to the
rear, while the voters demand an intelli-
gent and unpreiudiced argument from
party speakers Of the national and state
1 issues involved in the result of the ballot.
The voters Of the nation are devoting more
attention to the mass of literature which
is being published, and the speaker who
takes the platform without a careful study
of all the points discussed in the political
/ controversies, will soon find himself put to
disadvantage and compelled to beat a re-
treat in the very face of his opponents.
And in keeping with this condition of af-
fairs, the executive committees Of the sew
eral parties will find their wisest course in
flooding the country with the best litera-
ture they can secure. The results will be
more satisfactory in most cases than those
received by the average campaign orator
-Fairhaven Herald.