The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1900-12-28
i POLITICAL P0T-PIE

be in session, quite a number OF
measures are being discussed by var
ious persons and organizations to
have passed during the coming SEES
sion of the seventh legislature of
this state Already the statute books
of Washington are overloaded with
useless laws, passed for the express
purpose of meeting some personal
emergency, and from appearances it
would seem that after the coming
legislature has adjourned there will
be quite number of more
worthless laws on the statute books,
and especially worthless so far as the
general public is concerned. The
state needs some wholesome laws en-
acted, and it is hoped that the
hmislature will enact them. 1t also
needs quite a number Of unwhOle-
some laws which have been enacted
heretofore, repealed, and it is also
sped the coming legislature will
hot overlook them. To pass some
law because it meets the approval of
some half a dozen or more citizens
In some remote locality Of the state
is absolutely silly, and it should not
be done, even though the represen-
tatives from such districts should
refnse to participate in passing nee
esuary legislation for the entire state.
candidacy do not state from whence
he expects his support, but they de-
clare he has united delegation from
Walla Walla county at his back.
This is not saying very much, but it
is saying that Mr.. Copeland will not
only have the united delegation Of
Walla Walla at his back, but he will
have the united effort Of Levi An
keny's barrel at his back, and this is
a pretty strong delegation within It
self, Judging from the past, when
Mr. Ankeny used it as leverage to
have himself elected to the United
States senate. In the last issue of
his paper it was thought by the
Pie-maker that there would be but
one candidate for the speaker of the
house from Eastern WASHINGTON |
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Speaking about the coming legis-
lature, the speaker of the house Of
representatives embroglio seems no
nearer a settlement than it did
week after the election was over, and
to add further complications to the
already complicated affair, the Hon.
Grant c. Copeland, Of Walla Walla,
has shyed his caster into the contest
and viii make a fight to secure his
election as speaker Of the house. He,
like others that are candidates for
peakership, has been member
81 the house on previous occasions
Aand expects his legislative expert
nce in the past to lend him aid and
strength in the coming contest. The
papers announcing Mr.. Copeland's
and that would be the Hon. Harry
! Rosenhaupt from Spokane. 1t is
III believed by the Pie-maker that
Rosenhaupt will have great
jority of the delegates from East
Washington in his combination,
III will either be elected speaker or
bel able with his combination to
name the man that is elected.
Who the man is that he will name
is hard to say at present; it may be
Mr.. Copeland, or it may be Mr..
Falknor, or, perhaps, Mr.. Albertson,
of King, but the indications at pres
ent are that it will be Mr.. Rosen-
haupt, of Spokane A friend of Mr..
Albertson, of King, remarked to the
Pie-maker one day this week that III
his opinion Mr.. Rosenhaupt could
never be elected, and that he would
realize that early in the fight and
would come to Mr. Albertson for the
sake of getting at the head Of one
of the prominent committees, but
the friends of Mr.. Rosenhaupt de-
clare that he will ask no quarter
from any candidate and will go in
the fight for the purpose of winning
or losing. If he loses he will ask no
mercy of the successful candidate,
nor will he ask to be placed on any
special committees for his or his
friends personal influence in the
election of such successful candl-
date. There is one thing that he
will do, and that is abide by the de-
cision Of the caucus, and will have
no ill-blood against the members OF
the legislature who do not vote for
him in the caucus. He declares he
is in it to win, but if he should lose
he will be right side UP with care
just the same.
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Realizing that there are two dam
gerous factions in the Republican
party, that is, dangerous so far as
the future success of the Republican
party is concerned, a number of the
leading Republicans Of this city are
bending their every energy toward
uniting the party in King county,
and toward uniting the party
throughout the entire state. It was
only last week that the Pie-maker