Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-10-03
A WEAK TICKET.

william E. Curtis, the famous cores
oondent who has recently travelled over
the Pacific north west, sums up the Far
rell state ticket in one terse, vigorous
sentence. In Belingham letter to the
Chicago Record Her aid, great journal
that is independent republican in its poll
tics, Mr.. Curtis says:
"The republican convention mig It
possibly have nominated a weaker ticket
if it had tried very hard"
Mr.. Curtis says that Mead is compare
lively unknown and without the needed
experience to fit him for governor; that
Atkinson, the nominee for attorner gen
eral, is a LAWYER who has never really
practiced law; that Rudkin one Of the
nominees for the supreme court, has had
to confront damaging charges, and that
Coon. the nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor, is accused by members OF his own
party with nameess crime.
Mr.. Curtis might have added with
equal truth that Clausen, the Farrell
nominee for state auditor, left Iowa after
the discovery of large shortage in his
accounts as clerk OF the court. his bonds
men having to make good the shortage
and arrange on The side with Mr.. Clausen
to make them whole.
Mr.. Curtis might also have added the
well established fact that Mills, the nomi-
nee for state treasurer, was put on the
ticket at the dictation OF Lords Olympia
| bank, and that Lord had grown wealthy
loaning out the public funds on deposit
in his bank. To make the record COM
plete, he should nave added that Sam II.
Nichols, the nominee for secretary Of
state, is an avowed supporter OF the
IdlITOduS, duO tIldl ~. W. 1NoSS, Wv
nominee for land commissioner. is a
railroad man.
1t would have been amazingly strange
if the ticket had not been weak. The
forces that made it up in the small hours
OF the morning were actuated by one
strong, controlling purpose-to form a
combination with sufficient votes to de-
stroy Mcbride and the commission plank.
Instead Of asking. when name was pro-
posed. els this man fit for this high Of
fee? Is he honest, is he capable, is he
decent ?" they asked, evil lie 20 into
the combination against, Mcbride and the
commission, and how many votes can
he deliver to our combine?'
The slate was first made up in j. ID.
Farrell's private car, the night before it
was nominated 1t was then submitted
to a few political managers in session
behind locked doors in a room in Ia
coma hotel. Word was then passed
quietly around and the complete makeup
OF the slate got into the hands of the
newspaper correspondents, who tele
graphed it TO their papers. That was
long after midnight. 1t was printed COM
plete in the Spokesman. Review the same
morning, and several hours after the peo-
pie OF eastern Washington had read the
news in this paper the convention as
sembled and ratified the slate without a
single change.
Strong tickets are not made up under
such influences and by such methods.
To say that the rank and file OF the dele.
gates to the Tacoma convention, had any
thing to do with the real work ofnaming
the ticket is as ridiculous as it would be
to say the rank and file of a regiment
has anything to do with its maneuvers
on field of battle. Those matters are
determined at headquarters, and hea d.
quarters at the Farrell convention were
in Farrell's private car.-Spokane
Spokesman Review.