The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1904-09-09
THEY WILL NOT DODGE
Washington Republicans Accept
Gage Laid by Democrats.
Mead's Good Record is TO Be Given
Wide Publicity and the Fight
Made on State Issues,

Seattle, Wash, Sept 3.-Republican
campaign managers will accept the issue
that the democratic politicians have at
tempted to put to the front in an effort
to carry the state. There will be no
effort on the part of republican cam
paign speakers to dodge state issues.
They will be met squarely and fairly and
the fight will be given as mucn of turn
OF state issues as possible.
| The personal character and record of
A. Il. Mead, nominee for governor, will
be familiar to all the speakers that 90
on the stump. OF course all those who
have to do with politics know in a
| general way OF the record that Mr.. Mead
has made, but those who go before the
| people to speak must be well informed.
| The republican gubernatorial candi-
| dates action on public affairs will be as
closely studied by the men who go on
the stump for the republican ticket as
| those who appear for the democratic
nominees
Republican campaign managers hold
there is nothing in Mr.. Mead's record
| that will not rebound to his credit when
the story of his official career is told to
the voters. 1t may be safely set down
that the democratic pleaders will ex
| anime his legislative career closely and
if there is anything to be gotten from it
to use as campaign material it will be
brought forward. Republican leaders
have anticipated this move by going in
to Mead's Legislative and county records
thoroughly and they are thoroughly
satisfied with the result. Upon all legis
lative votes his attitude was one that
did not require explaining.
Mead a Modest Man.
Mead has never been a man who has
put himself forward in state matters
AMI this is largely responsible for the
fact that he is not well known in some
parts of Washington. He has been
staying lat home" In Whatcom coun-
ty, where he served for two terms as
county attorney, he is very strong. If
an intimate knowledge of Mead will do
this in WhatcOm, republican leaders are
justified in believing that it will in other
parts OF the state.
Mead served during the legislative
session that John w. Arrasmith presided.
Arrasmith is now state grain inspector
and has wide acquaintance in Eastern
Washington. A Whitman county man,
his influence is peculiarly one that would
tCit III OEc CoiAlDR
Republican politicians are claiming
that Arrasmith has said that he will
go into Eastern Washington of his own
voition and tell his friends and sup
pOrters what he knows of Mead. ARA
smiths promise amounts to an offer to
vouch for Mead in whatever Eastern
Washington sections he may be lacking
in acquaintance.
Mead has been through Eastern
Washington fairly well on still hunts
He has been spending much of the sum-
mer on that side of the mountains
mingling with the voters. What he
lacked in personal acquaintance after
his nomination he has largely made up
through these tours. When the candi.
date for governor has been heard at
county fairs or on other public occasions
in Eastern Washington he has made a
good impression and this is expected to
grow when he goes out on his campaign
ing tour.
Is . Minority Man.
When Secretary OF the Treasury Leslie
M. Shaw was here the republican state
central committee rendered him an in.
formal reception at committee head
quarters. Politicians are telling a story
of Shaw at this meeting that has an
interesting turn.
In his speech Shaw studiously avoided
state issues and he did not talk much OF
Washington politics while he was in the
state. But during the reception at com
mittee headquarters someone mentioned
Turner and Shaw asked:
II underetaud the democrats are max
ing a great deal of the fact that be was
the minority member OF the Alaska
boundary com mmissiOn?'
Someone told him that this was true
and then the secretary laughed.
"Well," be drawled, 1.-The law provided
that one member must come from the
minority. Turner had belonged to so
many parties that everyone thought be
represented the minority, whatever that
may be-"
Northwest Not for Democrats.
Not much is claimed by democratic
leaders from the Lower Sound country,
better known in state politics as the
northwest" AS a matter of fact the
reports that have come out of the north
west have not been very favorable for
the democratic ticket.
Senator Turner acknowledged while
he was here that be had heard little en-
couragement from the northwest This
was not in the form of confession that
he was weak in that region, but as be
made strong claims for the rest of the
state the fact that news OF Turner
| boom in the northwest is lacking has a
significance that republican politicians
have been quick to grasp.