The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-07-18

Railroad Plank: I'VE heartily COM
mend the policy of Governor Mcbride
in his opposition to the railroad lobby,
the railroad merger and the pass evil,
and pledge him our earnest and active
support in his fight to maintain the
rights of shippers as against the un-
just eXactions of the railroads. We
further pledge our legislators to first
support a railroad commission bill
drawn in the interests of the shipper,
and this failing, then a maximum
freight rate bill carrying a rate not to
exceed 1888 1-3 per ton, and any and
all measures which promise to give
the greatest and most speedy relief
to the shipper. We further pledge
and instruct the delegates to the state
the time for the incorporation in the
state platform of a plank embodying
the sentiments of Governor Mcbride
in regard to railroad legislation. We
are also in favor Of the passage of a
law in compliance with our constitu-
ton, making it an offense, punishable
by fine, Imprisonment or forfeiture of
office, for any public official to accept
a free pass or ticket, or to buy a
ticket or pass at discount, other than
as sold to the public generally; and
making it an offense, punishable by
fine and Imprisonment, for anyone
connected with any railroad or other
transportation company to give or
offer to give a free pass or ticket to
any public official, or to sell or offer,
to sell to him a ticket Or pass at dis
count, other than as sold to the public
generally; and to the support Of such
a measure we pledge the honest and
hearty effort Of our legislative nomi-
nees. We pedge our legislative dele
cation to work with the friends of
Goveror Mcbride in organizing the
house and senate along the line of his
efforts to secure railroad legislation"
According to dispatch from Spo-
kane, as was predicted by The Repub-
lican's Spokane correspondent in a
previous letter as well as the present
one, the Wilson men completely
controlled the Spokane convention,
crushing out every opponent. The Op-
in Spokane county, and perhaps the
hardest fight that the opposition to
Wilson has tried to put up at the pri-
maries for good many years, but, as
has already been said, the little wizard
as usual is lord of all he surveys"
in his political bailiwick The Review,
an anti-Wilson organ, although Demo
cratic in politics, made hard fight
against him, but went down to defeat,
as it alwayse does, and now the horse
laugh is on the Spokane journalistic
twins instead fthe Wilson Brothers.
HIS u0duS IIldI HlICOu LuO1nUOIS VI
the legislature will be nominated who,
if elected, will vote for John L. Wilson
for United States senator as long as
there is any show in the world Of his
election, and when there is no longer
any show for his election they will do
that which will rebound to Wilson S
best political interests, just as the
Spokane legislative delegates did in
1899.
AS was predicted by the Pie-maker,
now that Spokane county has indorsed
Mr.. Wilson in way and delegation
to the state convention named to his
liking, Senator Wilson will probably
have the strongest trading delegation
in the state mix-up, for he will not
only have the Spokane delegation, but
he will likewise have other delegations