Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-10-30
ANKENY AT HOME
ThE WAlLA WALLA STATESMAN
ON UNCLE LEVI.
Another Walla Walla Republican Paper Casts
Defiance at the Party Whips. Some More
Wholesome Advice that Nay Well be Taken
in Chehaiis County. 4a

The Ankeny personal organ cannot
truthfullv deny that the chief and almost
the only qualification of its owner for
the exalted position of United States
senator is his wealth. Stripped of that
he would not for one moment be consid-
cred an available candidate. He has
none of the talents of a statesman and
his oratorical ability is a negligible
quantity. S'a''a
1t is said that in 1893, during the
deadlock at Olympia over the question
OF whether or not John B. Allen should
be returned to the United States senate,
Mr.. Ankeny was told that man with
1000 could 60 to Olympia and capture
the senatorship. II have got the
money!" was Lewis laconic reply, ana he
soon appeared at Olympia as a dark
horse in the contest. II have got the
money" has been the Ankeny shibboleth
during every succeeding campaign, and
no one can successfully dispute the fact
that the Ankeny sack has been a potent
influence at every election in this county
and state for the last eight or nine years.
OF course the Ankeny managers are
too shrewd to allow the public to know
all about their expenditures in the in
terest of their candidate. No one doubts
that thousands of dollars have been
spent during every campaign for nearly
a decade in the attempt to control the
saloon vote and the floating vote in the
interest of the Walla Walla senatorial
candidate, and there are the best Of
reasons for believing that thousands OF
dollars will be distributed this year for
the same purpose, but of course no out
slider can tell the exact amount or just
how it will be divided.
Through the influence OF money the
Ankeny machine endeavors to control
the press, the pulpit, the schools and the
saloons. All voters look alike to the
Levites whether they come from the
palaces and temples of culture and re-
spectability or from the slums. The
controlling idea of the Ankeny machine
is that anything and everything can be
purchased with money. and this year, in
the final effort to win the long.coveted
prize of a seat in the United States
senate, there will be no limit to the
amount OF money that will be spent.
The Statesman told yesterday OF the
methods that are being used to influence
the votes OF farmers in this country, and
that is only an example of the tactics
that are being followed throughout the
state.
Through the potency of Lewis barrel,
aided by an unholy alliance, offensive
and defensive, with the railway lobby,
t; e machine hopes to do in this state
what Millionaire Clark did in Montana.
Legislative candidates were selected
in every county OF the state and their
campaign expenses guaranteed as con.
sideration for their voting for the Gross
cup-Stevenson senatorial candidate. The
Ankeny managers claim to have two
thirds of the republican legislative NOM
inees in the state pledged to the support
of their candidate, and according to
Attorney Will H. Thompson, of the
Great Northern, it is absolutely certain
that a majority are also pledged to vote
against the commission bill advocated by
Governor Mcbride and Endorsed by the
state platforms OF both parties.
The Statesman doubts whether with
all of Lewis money and with all of his
alliances, he can win. The people Of