The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-09-12
COMMISSION WON OUT
Gov. Henry McBride's Policy
is Endorsed.
Jones, Cushman and Humpbrax
Nominated for Congress and
HadIey for Judge

Governor Henry Mcbride has won bis
great tight for an appOintive railway
com mission plank ia the republicu1
platform OF the state of washington
Amld the most spectacular aud dramatic
scenes ever witnessed in a republican
convention in this state the railway
lobbyists and supporters went down to
overwhelming defeat and the rennblican
party stands purged of the stencil that
mas haunted and made sick those mem
bers OF the party who stand for civil
rights and persanal Justice. The ma
jority of the delegates in conyention as.
semOled refused to bend the knee or wor-
sup dC Ine SHRINE OF railway greed and
'he party now stands out IN bold relief
DIS the oniy Trend OF the great common
people. Every point that was demanded
Dy Governor Henry Mcbride has received
Che nearly endorsement of the republi-
can party. 1t Is now time for those
VINO nave said that the great masses of
1he republican party were not in sym-
pathy with the governor to "go way
back, and sit DOWN. The endorsement
OF the Roosevelt administration and the
Mcbrlde administration places the re-
puOlcan party In this state upou a
hlgher plane OF moral and political
rights than it has ever been before.
hen the great common people speak
the world stands still to isten!''
How 1t Was Done.
Inc night for the railway commission
plank IN the platform ragged in the plat
form committee all afternoon, and when
the Mcbride forces had won by vote of
IL TO ~, the railway attorneys and
supporters carried it to the floor OF the
convention. Here the great orators of
the railroads locked horns with those OF
the Mcbride forces and for five hours the
battle ragged. Such men as Will H.
thompson and Samuel H. Piles.
railroad attorneys of Seattle, w. II.
RUNNER OF Spokane, I. ]. Humes
OF Seattle, and Howard of Whatcom.
pleaded IN impassioned language Tor
their clients, bat were met upon an equal
plane by such men as Harold Preston.
ii. >. Huston, Herman ID. Crow and j.
NJ. Frlnk. A sensation was caused when
r. W. Bier of Pennington took the floor
and paid bis respects" to the railroads.
he said he was railway empIoye, but
that didn't make any difference with
him. My salary isn't much" he said.
land can afford to lose it. Ii | got as
high salary as Mr. Thompson, mavbe
| couldn't afford to lose it," His speech
was decidedly on the dynamite order,
and coming from the source it did, caused
a great sensation.
Most OF the eastern Washington coun-
ties voted for the commission. Walla
Walla voted solidly against it. Spo-
kane split, 80 for the commission and
Ii against. King county split, AN for
and 45h against. The vote in the con-
vention stood 308H for the plank and
262h against. After the vote C.. w.
Howard OF WhatcOm, railway leader,
moved to adopt the Mcbride plank bv
acclamation, and the struggle was over.
The Platform.
The platform adopted mourns the
death OF Mckinley, cOngratulates the
people upon the unexampled prosperity
OF the nation, reaffrms the st. Louis
and Philadelphia platforms, indorses the
administration of Governor McBrile.
favOrs retention of the Philippines and
admission OF territories to statehood;
lndOrses the foreign and domestic pol
lcles OF President Roosevelt and his at
titude toward trusts and the reclaim.
alton OF arid lands; indorses the state
republican delegation in congress, favors
laws safeguarding workshop employees,
an eight hour law on public work, prac-
tlcal legislation for Improvement of pub
lie roads and an antipass bill; pledges
an economical administration of state
and county affairs and favors an ap-
polntlve railroad commission.