The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-09-28
TICKET OF GOOD MEN
Republicans We're Careful in
the County Nominations.
Several Were Chosen To Succaad
Themselves Because of Their
known Efficiency.

The election of n complete renubl;ca n
county ticket will clear out root and
branch the prolific source of scandals
imposed upon the people for the past
several years. Since the election and
appointment of republicans to eyery Of
nee IN the county except that of superior
Judge, petty chickering's. unwarranted
assumptions OF authority and odorous
scandals have freighted the air only in
sthat office. The election of a clean and
competent man like W. j. Bryant, the
republican candidate, will invest the
high judicial office with the responsibility
to which the people are entitled.
In frantic endeavOrs to injure Mr..
Bryant's candidacy, anti-republican
heelers have swarmed over the county
peddling the untruth that Mr. Bryant is
youthful lawyer, without the ability
or training necessary to fit him for so
responsible a position. Mr.. Bryant ia
not youth in either age or experience.
He is few months the senior of his
democratic opponent, he is thoroughly
read in the law and grounded in Justice
His Judgment is good and his temper
suitable for the bench. He is not an
intriguer, and would be fully capable of
melting out iuetice impartialIy, as the
law and the facts should demand.
The anti-republicans have also been go
kind as to publish by word of mouth in
the quiet byways and political lanes
that Mr.. Bryant is not to be seriously
thought of in the race; that it all laws
between Chadwick and Judge Mcdonald.
This is very kind of them, indeed. VIM.
j. Bryant has the large republican vote
at his back, and it will not desert him,
On the contrary, he is adding to it every
day from the ranks of bis opponents by
acting the dignifed ways of gentleman
and fit iurist instead of peddling false
hood and tlimfammery over the fields.
Those RenOminated.
Every republican nominee on the
county ticket outside of Mr.. Bryant aud
A. A. Wilson Tor prosecuting attorney,
has now served in official capacities
which have tested their fitness for the
places for which they are now renomina-
ted without dissenting voice in a fully
represented republican convention.
Each has been again hOnored because
they have deserved well at the hands of
the party. Their respective Offices have
been efficiently and honestly conducted.
Not smoke puff of scandal has touched
them, because there has not been the
hidden fire to make the smoke.
Sheriff Canutt's Backbone.
Whitman county now has a sheriff
who is not only acting in that capacity,
but who actually is sheriff. His back
bone is as stiff and straight as his judg-
ment is sound and his executive ability
thorough. When others have attempted
to NEEDLE with the affairs and admins
tratiOn of his office, with attempts at
such dictatiOn as that from which other
sheriffs have suffered and to which some
have SO often bowed because of fear of
power above them, the meddlers have
found that Joe Cannutt is sheriff, and
not they. They have been sent about
their business. His administration of
the sheriff's office has been a clean and
conservative one, untainted with unhOly
alliances with any element in the habit
of fixing" peace officers. His election
was accomplished against a combina-
tiOn of the saloon clement, in favor of
the same opponent he has today; and
that element is bitterly fighting him
from many quarters now as then.
A. A. Wilson of Palouse, whom the re-
publcans have chosen to stand for
prosecuting attorney, is an attorney of
prominence before the Whitman county
bar, and he has a wide acquaintance in
all quarters of the county. That ac-
quaintance is favorable as touching up
on Mr.. Wilson as a clean and honorable
man, while his ability as an advocate
and attorney at law is recognized as
fully sufficient for the place for which he
has been nominated. His opponent
carries no advantage in these regards
over MIR. Wilson, and there is more than
strong suspicion that he fails as an
equal in the latter.
William j. Windus has made a record
as treasurer of which his party and
friends are proud, and upon this record
he received the unanimous endorsement
OF the county convention for renOmina-
ton. His administration of this diff
cult office has been systematic and bust
ness like, and his books are in the best
condition in the history of the county.
Mr.. Windus has made an excellent treas
urer and deserves the support of not
only his own party, but of all citizens
who desire faithfuIness and efficiency in
the handling of the county funds
In the auditors office John f. Corner
has demonstrated what honesty coupled
with capability, is in a public Office re-
curing the care and hard work found in
the duties of the auditor. Mr.. Corners
work has been well done, faithfully done,
honestly done. There have been no
grabs, no fingers in the public purse. He
was renOminated unanimously because
of these things, and the people will miss
it if they fail to pile up the votes for his
re election.
w. W. Renfrew has conducted the
office of county clerk as it should be
conducted. His work has been done in
the efficient manner characteristic of the
man. His friends are legion, and he is
entitled to lead the ticket in votes, as
he did two years ago.
Assessor Siler has not disappointed
the friends who urged him for assessor
in 1898 He has labored indefatigably
to bring order out of chaos in the assess
or's office and has succeeded remarkably
well in placing it upon business like
basis and injecting some system into the
methods of assessment. A vote for Siler
is a vote in the right place.
School Superintendent Roberts has
done great work for the schools of Whit
man county. He has been active and
earnest in his endeavors to improve the
school system and prompt and accurate
in his reports to the state Office, receiv-