The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-05-28
ROOSEVELT
FOR M'bRIDE
Comes Out SquareIy at
Tacoma Banquet.
ANkENY AND FOSTER STUNNED
The President Likes Course of the
Governor in His Fight With
Railroads.

land Telegram says. IreSlueut l ne
Odore Roosevelt has Endorsed Cover
nor Mcbride for another term as
Governor of the state Of Washington.
This fact so far is but little known
because persons who were present
when the president made the state
ment OF Endorsement had made every
effort TO keel it quiet because Of
their personal and political hatred of
the chief executive of the state OF
Washington.
IL is perhaps the only Endorsement
Of the kind the president OF the Unit
ed States has ever made and at this
particular time. when a certain clique
Of politicians are making such a fight
on the governor, it is very significant
The indOrsemenL was made last
Friday night at a banquet held in Ia
coma. which was attended b. the
president and a half dozen prominent
officials and citizens. among them be-
ing United States Senators Ankeny
and Foster. Congressman Humphrey
and Cushman and ex-senator John l..
Wilson.
Every one of these men. except
Cushman. begged President Roosevelt
10 say nothing about Mcbride They
represented to him that if he did so,
! it would mean the presidents polit-
! zeal doom in the state Of Washington.
| But Roosevelt could not be changed,
and when the time came for him to
speak he referred to the administra-
! ton Of Mcbride as a most excellent
| one, and spoke especially of the good
work he had done in the fight 10 de-
| feat the railroad merger. That was
| the blow that almost killed Foster,
| Ankeny and Cushman. They had
suspected that the president would
say something along these lines, and
he did that very thing. He even did
more He said that Governor Nc
| Bride ought to be returned to the Of
| fee again. and that he certainly in
| dOrsed the present administration,
and hoped that Mcbride would hold
| the Office another term. There was
| a suppressed feeling Of Indignation on
| the faces of Ankeny and his railroad
| followers when the fatal words of the
president Of the United States were
| spoken. The rest of the banquet was
| unpleasant to them. They stayed it
out however, but after it was all over
| they held a meeting of indignation, at
which time certain things were said
and pledges made that perhaps will
never be known. But it is certain
| that the men in question who had been
so cOldly turned down by Roosevelt
did not have the same feeling Of
| friendliness for the president as they
had formerly borne. 1t was an awful
pill for them 10 swallow, but they
took it.
At the same time they swOre each
other to secrecy that the president S
| Endorsement might not be made pub
lie. The Tacoma papers hate Cover
nor Mcbride, and it was ali easy mat
ter for them to be induced. to not
publish word of the Endorsement. al
| though one member of the banquet
board by mistake had let the cat out
Of the bag and COnfided to reporter
what the president had said. Not a
| line concerning the memorable words
to this date have been published
But Governor McBrides friends
! know Of them, and when the proper
| time comes they Will be used.
| coast the cause OF the ill-feeIing of
Senators Foster and Ankany toward
| Mcbride is well known. 1t is because
Of The greal fight the governor made
| for the appointment Of railroad
| commission. 1t started from The
| forming of he Northern Securities
! company President Roosevelt took
an important step when he instructed
| his attorney general 10 proceed
against the mighty trust He did pro
coed and he won his point. Governor
Mcbride wanted to prepare to handle
the big trust when it came his way
| He worked for the appointment of a
railroad commission. Harold Pres
ton, candidate of Seattle for the Unit
ed States senate. and pledged to SUP
port a commission bill. was backed
! by Governor Mcbride The governor
worked with all his might for Preston
He used every influence in his power
to elect Preston. and had it not been
for the treachery of 10 members OF
the legislature from King county he
would have succeeded After pledgine
their support TO Preston. at the last
moment they rallied to Ankeny. the
railroad candidate. and they elected
him, thus defeating the governor il
his plans. The governor began &c
even up when he vetoed a number OF
measures passed by the King county
traitors. His fight against them an,
Senator Ankeny and his barrel Of
money has only compenced the gov
ernor's friends say. His first vic
tory is the unqualified Endorsement
/ nv Roosevelt of the rO1icy Of cCv-2,
nor Mcbride.
! Ankeny is said 20 have made thu
open statement that President Roose-
Welt would not dare to come to the