The Seattle Republican., 1903-01-02
CURRENT COMMENT
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keep. Two more years of training will
started right two years hence and
We'll all butt in and help you bring
him down the pike.
You can elect a man who isn't
hitched to any dead horse. A man
who is your friend; whose largest in.
terests are with you, altho' his home
is not. A man who knows your peer
less city, who is familiar with its
needs, who knows how to do things for
you who will be bulwark of strength
between you and your commercial
enemies when time is called on the
second round of your big battle with
San Francisco.
By pulling yourselves together, and
going down the line in bunch, you
can do two things in the opening week
at Olympia that will save the session.
clear murky atmosphere, prevent the
possibility of a Doodle stain upon oul
states proud name. avoid a needless
badgering of the railroads.&c. which
we must look for much before our fu-
ture is secure-and, incidentally, fix
yourselves solid for the newt twelve
years in the United States Senate.
Puget Sound doesn't want any rail
road commission. You haven't any
use for it, neither have the rest of us,
and yet your man stands for that and
nothing elsel When we get all the
railroads we want it will be time
eNougk to begin figuring on commits
sion. Even then we won't want it to
be little private machine OF the gov
ernor's.
The Governor hornswaggled us last
August. He slipped up on whole lot
of us while we were a-fshing or
asleep. Henry is too much like Caesar
anyhow
What he handed us at Tacoma is a
great big brick, of the kind that acids
eats. It's load, but has to be packed
until it can be dumped You are the
biggest and huskiest packer in the lot
and it is for you to say when.
You can dump it, and dump it good
and hard. You can cut Henry Caesars
little lariat and turn us loose. You
can save the party from enacting into
statute mistake. If you don't do
it the other fellows will, and then
you'll have to swim for it or let the
soup close over you for keeps.
You can, at the same time, save the
state from a disgrace like that in
Delaware or Montana. You can also
do a good and speedy stunt for the
whole of Puget Sound as against the
Columbia river and the Golden Gate.
You can send a friend to Washing
ton instead of an enemy. You can de-
feat Levi Ankeny.
If he is elected-as he will be if
you fly kites any longer-it will be
by your enemies. They are leagued
against you, and stand ready to stick
it into you and break it off-both this
time and the next. You don't need
a diagram and directory to tell you
who they are either.
Your salvation lies in doing things,
and being quick about it. Get to-
gether. Cement yourselves. Amalga-
mate. Agree to go down the line like
a football bunch. Pull down the man
who doesn't stand for you. Put him in
the stall till the next running. Frame
up solid for a man who does stand for
you, who can help you get your own
man two years hence Do these things
before your strength begins to melt,
before the full glow of the golden sun
of Walla Walla is turned on at the
capital. 1t will then be too late. Mems
eyes get batty in light like that
They don't see good. Their vision
dims. Their spirits shrivel, their back,
bones begin to limber-and they quit.
Make a big switch. Do it and do it
now, or your enemies will do you.
Fill up the Wilson wagon, take the
i ribbons in your own hands, start the
band and bring her down the stretch
a winner.
Itiis up to you to have a little sense.