The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-09-28
CONFIDENT WE WILL WIN.
Chairman Shively Is Certain of Re-
publican Success


"Tke outlook for republican victory in
the state, all down the line, was never
brighter than at the present time" SAYS
Chairman j. H. Schively ,aof the republi-
can state central committee, to the Post
Intelligencer.
The official work of the republican
state campaign is now fairly under way.
Committee organization has been per
fected IN all the counties, polling has
been practically completed in many of
the precincts, public meetings are of
daily aud nightly occurrence in all parts
OF the state and the issues of the big
conflict are very generally understood.
| Under these circumstances the temper of
the people is beginning to be publicly
discovered and through official sources
something of il may be learned.
The reports coming to me from all
| parts Of the state indicate a complete
victory" said Chairman Schively yester-
| day, mot only for the national ticket
| but likewise for the state ticket and the
| various county tickets.
'Nlhe farmers east OF the mountains
have realized that their prosperity is
| due to the Mckinley adminstrat ton:
that prosperity and republicanism are
| synonymous terms. They heartily in
dorse the policy OF the national ad-
ministratiOn and are determined to put
the state in line with the nation, in
order to fully enjoy all the benefits of
Mckinley's second term.
Senator Frink and his colleagues on
the state ticket are gaining strength
daily. As the voters of the state look
into the matter they are realizing more
and more fully that the strength Of the
present fusion administration springs
more out of the fact that republican
state senate, aided by a few stalwart
populists and democrats, prevented the
| perniciOus legislation which Gov. Rogers
and his friends tried to pass, than it
does from any positive virtue.
The Effect On State Warrants.
"The claim OF the fusionists that the
| Rogers administration has brought the
state warrants to par, reduced the state
| debt, and so on, is being appreciated
and understood as more of a cOmpli-
ment to the republican national admin
| 1stratlOn than to the state fusion ad-
ministratiOn
The four years Immediately preced-
ing the advent of Rogers, under demo-
cratic national administration, by the
way, experienced the most severe panic
through which the country has passed
IN recent years. The people were not
| able to pay their taxes. In this state
| delinquent taxes aggregatirg, in round
numbers, nearly $1,00000O, overhung
the people. Within the first year and
hall OF Mcklnley's administration some
where between 100000 and 100000
OF this money was paid into the treas
ury of the state.
why should the warrants not 90 up
under these circumstances? But what
| IN the world the voters of the state are
! asking, did Rogers have to do with
| this?
IN every county from which we receive
reports, and that includes every county
| In the state, conditions are much more
| favorable to our success than they were
even two years ago. Our meetings are
much more largely attended, our people
much more enthusiastic and our workers
are united IN the determination that the
adverse majority of four years ago shall
be more than turned in our favor.
1.-The reports of dsaffection in our
ranks, out OF which the opposition is
trying to make capital, are springing
from the camps OF the enemy and not
from US. The fusiOnists are pursuing
these tactics to keep the eyes of the
voters from seeing the disaffection and
| disruption OF their own ranks.
A Confession of Weakness.
| 1.-The boast OF the fusion committee
that Gov. Rogers will run ahead of his
ticket is, in reality confession OF weak
ness on their part and shows that they
consider him a burden rather than a
help. Everyone who is at all familiar
with the tactics of the opposition knows
that where they expect the least they
claim the most.
Every where throughout the state the
populists are asserting that the Rogers
| Turner-Snively combine has sold them
out in order to perpetuate itself in con-
troll of party affairs.
Looked at from any standpoint,
whether from the reports of our friends
or the boasts of our enemies, it lis per-
fectly clear to my mind that the coming
election in November will record a great
victory for the republican party in the
state OF Washington on both the na-
/ Il L