Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-19
may DIVIDE HONORS
Political Situation in Wash
ington State Mixed.
ROOSEVELT POPULAR
BELIEVED THAT HE WILL GET
ELECTORAL VOTE.
It is Thought That the Republican
State Ticket Will Be Defeated
Regarded as Weak.
ROOSEVELT POPULAR
BY WILLIAM T.. CURTIS.

! BELLINGHAM, Wash. August 49, 1904.
No doubt seems to exist in anybody s
mind as to the presidential vote in the
state of Washington, but the democratic
state ticket is likely to be elected on local
| issues. Even the chairman of the demo-
| cratic state committee comedies Roosevet's
! election, and l have not been able to find
| any one who is willing seriously to predict
| a majority for the Parker electors anywhere
| on the Pacific coast. The President is ex-
ceedingly popular out here among all classes
| They like his breezy style and indorse his
| policy, regardless of politics. They admire
| his personal character and his manly dis
| position and approve of his way of doing
| things. The democratic platform denounces
| him and all his works of course and the
| presiding officer of the state convention
| which met here the other day, declared that
| he is the incarnation of brute force" and
| preached the gospel of might regardless
| OF right; but If that Is true of Theodore
| Roosevelt. the people in this part of the
| country like 1t, and are willing to have
him keep it up another four years.
Inc editor of certain democratic paper
| told me that he should vote for the repub-
| mean electoral ticket, and that he knew of
| many sother democrats who intended to do
| the same. although they are not saying any
| thing about 1t publicly to avoid argument
anu tilc pressure that would naturally he
| brought upon them by their party associ-
| ates He says that they are able to per-
| celVe very little difference between Parker
| ana Roosevelt. Both are gentlemen of abil-
ity and integrity; both under the same
| influences and represent similar interests
| but they know Roosevelt and Parker is a
| stranger. They are satisfied with Roose-
| welt S administration and are confident that
| ne Will follow the same policy that he has
| already pursued Hence they consider II
SAFER to re-eleCt him ha TO
man In charge of things who will be under
| the domination of Tammany If he is not
| under the domination of Hill.
Chairman Godwin's Statement.
Mr. J. W. Goodwin, chairman of the state
democratic central committee in a pub
hshed interview conceded that the repub-
mean electoral ticket will In all probability
carry the state by about $4,000 majority,
out predicted that Turner would be elected
governor of Washington by 10000 at the
lo"est estlmate. Our principal fight this
year SAID Mr. Goodwin, lis to be on state
issues. These come more nearly home tn
the people who are vitality interested in
them We will do what we can, however
for the national ticket"
Marun ). Maloney, who is regarded as the
wise man of the democratic party in Wash
lngton, agrees with Mr.. Goodwin whom he
Is assisting to direct the campaign and
says: we will carry the state for Turner
~ q iLiJotity Oh Io,UUU. -Four years ago we
elected Governor Rogers by a majority of
2'30, although the state went for McKfn-
ley by majority of IS, 900. We cannot ex
pect to do as well with the national ticket
thls year as with the state ticket. great
many democrats who are admirers of BRYAN
don't like the process by which he was
eliminated, and 1t is probable that Roose-
welt will carry the state"
The democrats have nominated a popular
state ticket and have proclaimed the issue
me repuplcans nave weak ticket and
have been placed on the defensive. The
issue Is defined in the democratic state
platform as follows:
we believe that the paramount and all
important issue in this campaign is the
question whether the people Shall regula te
the corporations or the corporations domi-
nate the state. We emphatically assert the
right of the people to regulate the corpora-
tons and therefore demand, first. the crea-
ton OF a non-part1san regulatfve railway
commission, to be appointed by the govern
or, with power to adjust and regulate
freight and passenger rates on all common
carriers and also with power to fix the
value of and levy taxes upon the property
of all public service corporations doing an
interstate or intercounty business; second,
the passage of an anti-pass bill.
Ex-senator Turner.
The democratic candidate for governor is
George Turner, whose term in the United
States Senate expired on the 4th of March,
1903, when he was appointed by President
Roosevelt a member of the tribunal which
arbitrated the Alaskan boundary in Lon
don. He has been leader in four different
political parties during the last ten years
He has lambasted all Of them in turn on
the stump and in the newspapers. and has
said all manner of evil things of his present
political associates and the people upon
whose votes he depends for election, but
that does not seem to be counted for much
out there.
Turner was born in Missouri. began life
as a telegraph operator, studied law while
the key was silent, drifted to Alabama, got
into politics, was appointed United States
marshal by President Grant, At the expi-
ration of his term as United states marshal
in 1884 President Arthur appointed Turner
associate Justice of the territory of WASH
ington His first appearance in Washington
politics was as Blaine republican, and he
was delegate to every republican national
convention UP to 1896, when he joined that
solemn procession which Senator Teller led
down the aisle of the Exposition Hall at st:
Louis The following winter he announced
himself candidate for the United states
Senate as a silver republican, and two years
later was elected by a combination of the
silver republican, populist; democratic and
socialist votes in the legislature.
On the night after his election he
claimed to be a silver republican, but
Immediately aftefward declared hlmseH
"a populist for all time to come. In the
Senate he was ranked at first as silver
republican, then as populist and finally
as Il democrat. He has been an ardent ad-
| mirer and an intimate friend of the
| apostle of 10 to 1, and few men have had
| greater influence with Mr.. Bryan until
! the present campaign, when he went over
| to the PhiliStines and became an active
| member of the combination which NOM
| mated Parker and secured the triumph
| of the gold standard in the democratic
national convention.
| Turner is now a gold democrat. He ap-
proves Judge Parker's attitude on the
| financial question. He admits that the
| silver issue is dead. that the output of
| gold is sufficient to furnish all the money
| needed in that metal and that the pres
| ent standard cannot be disturbed with
| out sacrificing the prosperity of the coun-
| try. In other words, Mr.. Turner has COM
| pleted the political circle and now advo-
| Gates the very principles which he re-
fused to accept in the republican conven-
| ton of 1896.
| Old Speeches Republished.
| AS you would naturally expect, the re-
publican newspapers are reminding the
| people of Mr.. Turner's inconsistency and
| are republishing his old speeches. They con-
| tain powerful arguments on all sides of
all the political issues that have attracted
| the attention of the country during the
| last ten years but do not seem to concern
| the democratic leaders in the least, and