The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-03-15

POLITICAL P0T-PIE -:

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The report comes from Tacoma
that Senator Stanton Warburton is
a candidate for congress against Mr..
Cushman. Of all the exhibitions of
gall that have ever been witnessed in
this state this certainly takes the
cake. For the past sixty days at
Olympia Senator Warburton has
been known as 'the wObbler." The
title fits him exactly. No man in the
senate has lodged more rolls calls
than he ever since he has been in
the state senate, and he has no fixed
idea about anything except an idea
that he wants to make himself pOpu-
lar whenever he casts a vote. No
more disgusting display Of duplicity
was ever made than he gave an ex-
hibition of on the Sunday theater
question before the senate. He gave
an absolute pledge, it is said, to the
business men Of Tacoma, to vote for
a bill for the opening Of frst-class
theaters on Sunday evenings, and
the first time the bill was up he did
vote for it. It was defeated, and he
voted for a reconsideration of the
vote. A few days later, when the
bill was again to be voted on War
burton sneaked out Of the senate
chamber and went down stairs to
lobby on the fish trap bill, then I'M
der consideration. What interest he
had in fish traps, unless as a retain
ed attorney, is not shown, but at the
critical time his absence was discov-
cred from the senate. All the other
members Of the Pierce county dele
cation were pledged, as Warburton
was, to vote for the bill and did so
as their names were called. Two
members, after voting, went down
stairs and found Warburton and in
sisted on his returning to the senate
chamber IN time to vote on the bill.
He made first one excuse and then
another, but did not return to the
senate. The roll call was finished.
and showed seventeen votes for the
bill-just one short Of the necessary
number. 1t transpires that some rep
resentative Of the WOmen's Chris
tlan Temperance Union of Tacoma
were in Olympia at the time and had
prevailed on WarburtOn to dodge on
the question. Warburton has lost
the respect of every other member
of the Pierce county delegation by
his actions throughout the past SEES
sion Of the legislature, and if he
thinks he is making a record that
will send him to congress he would
do well to make another guess.
Everybody will recall the shame
less record Of Warburton at the time
Of the Pierce county convention last
summer, when he was a candidate
for nomination for state senator. He
lost the fight at the primaries, the
delegation In his district standing
thirty-eight to thirty-Seven against
him. He and his Ankeny agents
went to all the opposition delegates
in their efforts to turn one Of them
over to Warburton, but only one
weak man was found. This was a
young man named Babcock, who was
delegate from the precinct in
which Mr.. Observation-Disclosures OPP
pOnent-lived. Stone had won out
in that district by a vote Of more
than two to one, but young Babcock,
pledged as he was to Stone, was pre-
vailed on by Warburton to break his
pledge and vote to nominate the
wobbler. He did so in exchange for
the nomination for representative
from that district. He got his price
and headed for the legislature. The
district was Republican by from four
to five hundred, but Babcock was
defeated by over 100 votes, and
thus as a result of the chicanery and
double-dealing of Stanton Warbur-
ton, Pierce county sent a lone Dem
ocrat to the legislature, and he comes
from the strongest Republican dis
trlct in the county.
E. W. Ross, Of Castle Rock, is
planning to have himself elected to
the state senate from Cowlitz coun-
ty next time, in spite Of the fact that
he has promised the nomination to
DR.. Sims, Of Kelso, present represen-
tative from that county. Ross