The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-19
|GRATTAN
| DISCUSSES
Hami|ton's Candidacy
for u. s. Senate.
SAYS THAT FOSTER ISN'T IN IT
Has Not Got the Price REQUIRED 70
Get the Prize From Repub.
Iican Legislature.
SAYS THAT FOSTER ISN'T IN II

| w. H. Grattan, editor of the Weeks
Work of Tacoma, is in the city partly
in the interest of his paper, but more
in the interest of Ed Hamilton, who
aspires to the seat in the United
States senate now held by Addison G.
| Foster. Mr.. Grattan made a pleasant
call at the Statesman office and made
a good spiel in behalf of his candidate
from a Pierce county standpoint.
Il called upon Senator Foster a few
weeks ago, before Mr.. Hamilton's
candidacy had been formally announc-
ed and we talked over the probability
OF Hamilton entering the race"
said Mr.. Grattan. Senator Foster
said to me in the course of that con-
versation, Tell Ed that if he wants
the senatorship ne can have it. There
will be no split in Pierce county At
tlat time Senator Foster had little
idea that Hamilton would enter the
race. George Stevenson and other rail-
road politicians had talked with him
and assured him that he was certain
of reelection. | told him that re-
election would probably cost him two
hundred or three hundred thousand
dollars and that seemed to stump him.
He is a little close in money matters
and he said that he could not afford
to pay such price as that. l show
ed him that he was not very pOprlar
either at home or elsewhere in the
state and that his remaining in the
field would jeOpardize Pierce cOunty'i
chances Of retaining the senatOrship.
have not seen him since Hamilton
announced his candidacy, but I am
satisfied that he will eventually with
draw in favor of Hamilton.
"HamiltOn was the chairman Of the
Pierce county delegation in the last
legislature and floor leader in the
senate, and you know that Pierce
county was the backbone of Mr.. Ank-
eny's strength. Although Mr.. Hamil-
ton made a hard fight against the
railroad commission bill, he is not
sure of the support Of the railroads,
as he fears that they are inclined to
support a King county candidate II
Seattle can unite on an acceptable
man. The railroads are playing
the role of good Lord and
good devil with the senatorial
candidates and it is hard to
tell which one will finally get their
support. | believe that John L. viii.
son is stronger in King county than
Sam Piles, but | believe that Hamil-
ton can get more OF the holdover SEN
ators than either of them. He has
the southwest and the northwest be-
hind him and with a fair share of the
votes from other sections OF the
state he will surely win
Mr.. Grattan did not tell how Ham
ilton is to raise the two hundred or
three hundred thousand dollars that
will be required to elect a senator AT
the hands of republican legislature,
UuC IL is VI utuCu tAoS WV
will pay the freight"
Mr.. Grattan has had many years
experience in the newspaper business.
He began writing for the press IN MS
native state of New York. later serv-
ed as a Washington correspondent Tor
metropolitan newspapers. and IN 1879
did special work for the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat in portraying the
conditions of the negroes of the South
under the Thirteenth, Fourteenth ana
Fifteenth Amendments to the nation
al constitution. His wide knowledge
of men and measures and his familiar
itv with political methods throughout
the Union makes him valuable man
for pushing the cause of Hamllton
4Lo forooc hohjDd him