The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1903-07-31

ana the following rather peculiar objections 10 the
gubernatoral candidacy Of John E Humphries from
the Fremont Colleague will bear out the above allie
CATION
J. E. Humphries has announced his candidacy Tor
the governorship of this state The only thing
don't like about this matter is that he is aspiring to
the wrong Office The county and the state needs
his services in the judiciary. Have you stopped
to consider what an elegant judge he would make?
If Humphres should be elected governor, the state
would be put to the expense of buying another and
larger executive chair"
Well he will make Just as good a governor he
would Judge and if nominated (and he will be if
he gets enough) you will see of the airest
executives you have for many years Do not
worry about the state having to buy larger
tive chair Mr. Humphrey is perfectly willing to take
his own stool with him if you will only elect him.
There is no doubt but that Mr. Piles dreams of the
senate chamber, for if he did not he would not be
working day and night to make his dreams stern
reality. Here's what the Island County Times has
to say about Mr.. Piles candidacy:
Attorney S. H. Piles of Seattle has put himself in
the hands of his friends as candidate for United
States senator to succeed Senator Foster Piles is
good man for the place and hope his dreams of
the senate chamber may be pleasant ones"
No candidate for the United States senate that
King county has brought out pleases the editorial
tripod of the Times. 1t does seem that Ankeny
its ideal senatorial candidate has been elected the
Times would not always be ready to jump every
prospective King county candidate with both feet
The United States senator from this state is 60
ing to be King county man, and the Times had bet
ter Jump in the band wagon forthwith if not sooner
it might do its county bit of political harm
And now comes the Snohomsh Tribune with the
following bit of information to of the Pie
makers gubernatoral possibilities:
"Hon F. H. Brownell positively refuses to be con-
sidered candidate for the governors chair according
to the Record. Mr. Brownell has large business in
terests, which he not afford to sacrifice for the
office. He much prefers to be congressman
1t is next to impossible for Mr. Brownel to get to
congress next year. but if he will but his aspir
atons for two years he will go there in a whrl
Should Jones be defeated it necessarily would be
Eastern Washington candidate that would do the
Job If Cushman is defeated it would have to be
Pierce county to do that job 1t would hardly be
fair to defeat Humphrey for second term and King
county wouldn't stand for her only representative in
congress to be taken away from her with only
atoral prospect ahead Taking all of these facts into
consideration Mr.. Brownel seems to have show to
crafty his ambitions before 1906.
An exchange touching the politics of Whitman
county makes the following pertinent remarks:
"The Republicans of Whitman county divided
into two camps, the boxers and the 'repudiators.
The boxers Republicans who refused to support
certain Republican candidates who declined to stand
squarely the county and state platforms. The re
pudiators' Republicans who advocated and de-
Tended the reputation of certain planks in the county
and state platforms Are you boxer a re
pudiator?'"
There is still another class of politicians in Whit
man county-"the defeaters'-who always either de-
feat try to defeat the party nominee, and that too
when the nominee has his point by fair and hon
orable means Every man that has risen to prom
nence in Whitman county proved to be a case of
the ripe and rotten kind owing to the fact
that the defeaters lost opportunity to do him
and this they always wilfuly do, whether the
rose to prominence by either fair or foul means.
Unless this paper has been grossly imposed upon
Editor MaVS is far of the 1Uav in extract