, 1892-08-25
POLITICAL POINTS.
What the Papers Say Of the Can
didateS.


IcGraw's Record and the Hard
Work of the Republican Party
TO Elect HIm-Views From All
Portions OF the state.
McGraw's election, in this year of peril
for the republican party, is not by any
means a foregone conclusion. If he had
only a democratic nominee to contend
against there would be no danger of defeat ;
but, having both that organization and its
powerful ally, the pOllywog party, arrayed
against him, he has the hardest fight be-
fore him that has ever confronted a repub-
lican nominee in the history of Washing
ton as a state or.territory. His success or
failure depends entirely upon the fidelity
OF republicans to the principles and the
cause which they nave so long professed to
loYe.-Rock Island Sun.
OTHER OPINIONS.
"If am elected governor and the Pink
ertOns are brought into the state l will ar.
rest them and send them to the peniten-
tiary. &C. w. Young, peoples party candi-
date for governor Of Washington,
If the democrats of this state want to
help elect Harrison they should put out
full electoral ticket. If they are sensible
they will vote the peoples electoral ticket
and help to defeat Benjamin Harrison
MOntesano Economist.
At a mass meeting in Seattle not long
since, Representative Kinnear declared
that he had twice introduced bills to ex-
clude Pinkertonism from the state, and in
both instances republicans had defeated
them Now the fiOr1. daalorac bo
use Of Pinkertons to be seditions. Willapa
Pilot.
John H. McGraw, who has been nomi-
mated for governor on the republican state
ticket will no doubt be elected The large
majority of that party in Washington will
carry him through. He has no special
abilities for the Office and he will not make
a very great executive. He is simply a
willy and energetic politician. In fact, en-
ergy is his chief Characteristic. This
Joined to his manWuYreing abilities has
brought hinf to his present position
Frankfort Chronicle,
The ticket nominated by the republicans
for state offices is one that will be elected
on its merit. Not single candidate has
elements of weakness that will weaken the
ticker, and each has elements of strength
that will add something to the republican
vote in November. They will be elected
and by majOrities much larger than those
Of their predecessors ALA Walla Union,
J.. Hamilton Lewis is a very nice man; he
dresses well and has dulcet smile, but he
never misses a chance to speak, but does
his best to try to prejudice the poor against
the Tich to make them believe he is their
special friend, and to array labor against
capital. Such demagOgy and claptrap may
win for a time, but evinces very shallow
mind, QUE that is incapable of grasping
what is grand or noble. Of course any one
a.fs TOD
his measure and never anticipated any
thing else from such a shallow sourse.-El-
lensburg LOcalizeT
Any man has a right to aspire to be gov
ernOr. 1t s an honorable ambition. Any
man has right to ask that honor at the
hands of the party to which he belongs.
But the man who does so ought to be
something more than a mere ward politi-
clan and local "bOss" like John McGWW.
There are many republicans of prominence
in this state who would honor that Office
and serve the people with an eye and a
heart of devotion to duty. Will this man
do so is there a man in this state so ig-
nOrant and innocent as to suppose that he
will do this2 This Seattle ward politician
has his grip on the throat of the republi-
can party in this state but are the people,
the voters, the taxpayers, going to allow
him to make himself, with all his low,
dirty, dlsreputable methods, their chief
executive for the next four years2 We be-
lieve not. This man is not fit whatever
his politics, for this high otdce.-Spokane
Chronicle.
The Seattle opposition contingent to
Lewis nomination is bitter and unrelent-
ing They claim they have got him beat,
and are going to the convention to fight it
out on that line to the bitter end; an at
tempt will be made to stampede the con-
YentiOn for Senator Henry Drum, of Taco
ma. His nomination would be hard luck
for the democratic party, for as everybody
knows, McGraw could "beat Drum" any
day in the week.-Port Townsend Leader.
A Seattle paper condemns the democrats
now at Olympia ''as traitors to King" 1t
is fact that they seem to be trying rather
to be loyal to the state than to the one
county in it that is always trying to "hog
everything in sight. ."-Tacoma Ledger.
The prohibition and peoples party con-
ventions Of King county indOrse the Hunt
McGraw ditch, and the democrats will
probably Endorse it to be fashionable and
retain their present strength. If the peO-
pie of Seattle and King county must have
that ditch let them emulate the good ex-
ample of their neighbors over in Kittitas
county and build it themselYes.-SnohO
mish Eye