The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-09-21

circulation, places lawyers. pimns nros
ou'es ana preachers in the Same nIoss
60 al attorney feel called upon tn 70
senC the screed of one whose assoo;o
win such choice spirits IA Rcntb
Ile Lee Hart, ID. ]. Snively and otbar
S sesai mem bers of his kitchen cabinet
een 10 satisfy him as to the stains 80
our honorable profession. -
oecohd-At best, 80 per cent os orr
people are interested in curling and con
oloiiihg the trusts. When Rogers was
couI.eousiy requested, with the otbor
Souchern and western executives nv tho
uenlocratlc governor OF Texas to he
present, either in person or by nroxv ar
q conference to be held to consider the
oeCCer plan OF treating that subiect he
was 1he only governor who declined all
Tue republicans accepting the invitation
Great in Small Things.
lhird-He is a great man in small
Unines' as 10 refusing to use 2-cent
stamps IN mailing commissions of no.
!aries public, letting them accumulate
III Ills once, even under the advice of A.
Corhey General Vance that he was wrong
anu was not satisfied till the five indpes
t oi the supreme court decided against
nlni 2-cent man is too infinitesimallv
small Tor governor OF this common.
wealth. oohi III IL
,,,i Fourth-He sis small in great things
"hen State Auditor Cheatham. who
could not get 20 per cent of the votes of
the late state convention, and to whom
aC least ~ per cent of the credit for this
state administration is due. and for
when Rogers is trying to take personal
credit refused to audit bill of Rogers
lot dollar meals for himself. wife and
daughter, while travelling to ElIensburg
oh normal school visitation. the gov
erhor was ordering warrants issued for
Sf,OOO to political trail builder Of
seattle and his contractor, to whom
hogers turned over the Marcus state
ROAD appropriation, despite the warning
VI member OF his own staff resident il
hePuDllc. and to the insult of the people
vi gerry and Stevens counties, and on
winch 1t ls said by people who have in
vestlgated it that only from $500 to
$Z,oOO work was done, which was thus
useless.
fifth-Ihere is not an officer in the
executive branch OF the state govern
ment whose relations with the governor
are not strained by his imperious and
bOOrlsh manners.
'Slxth-His veto OF the first and his
nonapproval OF the second WhatcOm
normal school bills, and his refusal to
nave WhatcOm's national guard com
pany enrolled in the regiment, do not
diminish the dislike he has striyen his
best to earn at the hands of the people
OF the fourth city of the state but are in
line with his well known policy as an III
crate to those who discovered and ele-
waited him.
How Delegates were Changed
Finally, at the state convention, men
who were selected delegates because of
their hostility to the governor, with
scant pocketbOOks in the morning had
money to spend the same evening, and
were shouting themselves hOarse for
Rogers, while gentlemen sustaining the
apparent relation of pardon and parole
brokers to his excellency were leaving
notes at hotels for certain delegates to
come up to certain room where that
matter would be fixed Is this not
enough"
1.-The trencbant criticisms of Judge De
Mattos are doubly pointed, as they are
q climax to a general dissatisfaction in
this county among all the fusionists, ex-
cept certain few, and especially among
the populists, who are fast learning that
they were hoodooed, and who was re-
sponsible for the elimination OF their
party and it's name in state politics.
Judging from the statements of other
fusionists of prominence heretofore there
will be a detection from that party OF
hundreds of votes in this county, most
of whom like Judge De Mattos, will vote
the republican ticket.