The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-01-10
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and if they insist in saying to the Re
publican workers of King county that
they must have Harold Preston or
nothing some of those districts which
have sent in solid Republican legis-
lative delegations to Olympia in the
past will send Democratic ones. Let
it be distinctly understood that the
workers of the Republican party in
King county have been dictated to
entirely too much and too often and
they will not stand it another single
time. This thing Of commanding Re-
publican workers to support this or
that man when such man is wholly
Objectionable to not only the workers,
but to all of the voters except a
few bankers, won't go any longer
and, mark these words, the vote of
1896 will be repeated in the state Of
Washington if such a deal is forced
upon the Republican workers of King
county. A few men sit back in their
offices and think that they are the
whole thing in the Republican party,
and when the workers go out and
make the fight they enjoy the emolu-
ments The Pie-maker calls for a
halt along this line, and in so doing
he is backed by an overwhelming
number of the Republican workers of
King county. The men who do the
work in the future have decided to
do the naming of the candidates, the
opposition of the silk stocking gang
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Now that the much-talked-of or
ganizatiOn of the Iroquois Club has
been effected and the same has been
landed in Godwin's net it is not like
ly now that Mr. Goodwin will encoun-
ter any more opposition at all for the
Democratic nomination of mayor of
this city. Much talk is being indulg-
ed in by the voters Of Seattle at pres
ent as to the advisibility of eIecting
a business man" for mayor which is
right and proper, and right here come
the representative Democrats of this
city with the proposition that, if it
be business man that is wanted for
mayor, they have a candidate for that
honored position in the person Of J.
W. Goodwin, who is a business man
from stem to gudgeon and will fill the
bill to ct" Neither Seattle nor the
entire Northwest boasts of a better
nor more successful business man
than the candidate they are Offering
for election. He is at the head of the
largest commission house in Seattle
and has been for years. He has sue
cessfully financiered this gigantic
concern through both the hard times
and the good times and what better
proof can be offered that their candi-
date is a frst-class up-to-date busi-
ness man than this, and suited in
every particular for mayor Few men
in Seattle handle a larger volume of
commercial business than does Can
didate Goodwin, and, if any one would
have an eye single to the city's
growth and prosperity, certainly no
one would have it to a greater extent
than he. 1t is limited that the Gro
GERS Association will probably in
dorse the candidacy of Mr. Goodwin
for mayor, and for no other reason
than because he has been a most sue
cessful business man and has always
dealt with them in a fair and square
In casting about for a may
orally candidate the Republicans
would do we'll to bear in mind these
popular qualities of the coming Dem
ocratic candidate or they will have
trouble in electing their nominee.
J. Howard Watson has been named
by Gov. Mcbride as his private secre-
tary. Watson is a well-known news
paper man.