The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-10-12
BRYAN IN ABANDONED
FusiOnists Desperate i'm Attempt
To Re; Elect Rogers.
All Other Candidates Are Being
Sacrificed and Traded To
This End.

Seattle, October 1O-(Special CORE
spondence. 1T must be confessed that
until within the past two or three weeks
republican campaigners and managers
were trifie worried over the first re-
ports coming from Whitman county,
showing a dangerous condition of
apathy among republicans in a county
where the strongest possible fight should
be put up. But this is changed to
better and strongly sanguine feeling
since the appearance of speakers. From
all sections of Whitman county most
encouraging reports, giving reasons why
the republican ticket will win, have been
steadily pouring into state headquarters,
and that discontinue awaits the fusion
lists in Whitman.
Abandoned Hope.
The fusion press has continually mis-
represented Senator Frink, republican
nominee for governor. They have
abandoned all hope in this state of win
ming for Bryan or for their congressman,
and in the desire to save something from
the wreck they are concentrating all
their force in the supreme effort to elect
Rogers to a second term. To accom-
plish this, not having anything in truth
to say against Senator Frink, they are
making up their deficiencies by a per-
sistent and shameless Misrepresentation.
Senator Frink's record is above re-
proach in his attitude towards the farm
ing industries. He voted for the Was
son bill. He voted for the Anderson
bill. He voted to indefinitely postpone
the Helm bill, just as Senator Helm hum
self did, because it vas blocking action
on the Morgan bill, which was identical
ly the same as the Helm bill The Nor
gan bill was introduced in the house of
representatives, and having passed that
body, came up in the senate for action
before the Helm bill. For this reason,
Senator Frink, along with Senator Helm,
voted to indefinitely postpone the Helm
bill. Senator Frink was absent on legis-
lative duty when the vote was taken on
the Morgan bill. When Senator Crow
moved to reconsider the vote by which
the Morgan bill was defeated, Senator
Frink voted for it's reconsideration, and
thus showed his friendliness to the meas
ure.
The bill to create q railway commits
sion was defeated not by the republicans,
but by the fusiOnists themselves 1t was
a rider tackled on another bill near the
close OF the session OF the Legislature, and
was foisted on the legislature by the
henchmen OF Rogers in order to place
power in his hands which his own party
deemed would be disastrous at the time,
and hence, voted against it. The re
publicans voted against it on the
ground that 1T came at a late hour in
the session and its consideration would
block other important legislation and
cause the necessity for an extra session
Senator Frink voted against the bare
foot school boy bill, as it is thought the
majority of the Whitman county dele
cation did. This bill would have taken
100000 annually from the pockets of
the tax payers of Seattle, which was
Senator Frink's constituency. He stood
by the demands of his constituency in
refusing to support the bill, and would
have received the denunciati0n of every
one had he not been true to his people
who had elected him to this responsible
position.
His vote in this respect simply demon
strates how loyal he would be to his
broader and more varied constituency
when elected to the gOvernOrship of the
state.
As man, he is above reprOach; sue
cessful In business; firm in execution; sin
cere in all of his life; honorable in every
transaction whether political, business,
social or otherwise, and just such man
as would make an ideal governor.
1t need not be said here what Govern
or Rogers is. The people have the
means of Judging.
School Book Scandal,
The people have begun to hear of the
Infamous school book fraud perpetrated
by the fusion superintendent of public
instruction, Frank j. Browne, who is the
presiding officer of the state board of
education, and the four appointees of
Governor Rogers on the board, and for
whose actions in so gross preparation
he is directly responsible. The people
will hear more Of this, as there is
more to tell. They will also hear of
many other items of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which will be presented and proved to a
demonstration in this campaign.
One of the principal boasts of the
Rogers administration is that it has
been so economical. The facts and
figures proving otherwise are being
gathered from correct sources to dis
prove this.