Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-05-26
ELECT DO BUSINESS
THE RAILROAD REPUBLICANS
HOLD A CONVENTION.
The Bosses Behind Closed Doors and the
Rank and File Wait Patiently. Grosscup
is Duly Represented and Sullivan Is
There.

Rank and File Wait Patiently. Grosscup
is Duly Represented and Sullivan Is
There.
The railroad republicans of western
Washington have held their convention.
They permitted Eastern Washington
delegates to participate in order to create
a little diversion, for the hundreds OF
visitors.
Eastern Washington has virtually
been read ont OF the republican party, it's
representatives have been tainted to
desert the party if they dared. by the
arrogant manipulators from King county /;
their good faith was questioned, and
their devotion to great principle was
charged against them as being cheap
claptrap calculated to do moae than to
annoy the great (?) republican party.
AS far as results 60, the convention
was composed Of five men of which P. G..
Sullivan, the Mal-odorous candidate for
governor of the old McGraw regime,
Walter Christian Pierce, whose christian
ity consists of servitude to B. s. Cross
cup, and A. ]. Falx nor, of whom little
need be said, were working majority.
Immediately behind Sullivan was ohm
H. McGraw; behind McGraw was John
l.. Wilson, and what was more potent,
Attorney Farrell OF the Great Northern.
Behind Christian, was the Foster and
Northern Pacific interest; Falknor had
charge Of Mr. Lords candidacy, and the
boundless hopes of Scobey and Madge.
II. p. Niles and +. w. Ross were also
members Of this inner circle, which
kneeded the dough that after passing
through the open convention oven, came
out as the republican biscuit.
1t is sour bread with burnt top crust,
and soggy in the center; it not easy Of
digestion and will not set we'll On
republican stomachs.
The steering committees which were
eventually boiled down to the big five
that worked the dough, even refused to
report to their delegations, and the aver
age delegates who we're bedecked with
varcolored bunting, like an admiral's
flagship, stood around the hotel corridors
with gaping mouth and bullying eyes
wondering and expectant for the next bit
OF gossip that was extracted from the
throne room, via tho key hole.
AS far as influencing nominations was
concerned, the rank and file would have
welded just as much, had they re-
NAMED at home and attended to leglti-
mate business.
Behind the locked door, where the
elect did business" the interests OF the
people OF great state were snapped Ike
tutti.frutt among school girls.
Without, the crowd, helpless as chips
on the ebbing tide, waited. Waited for
what? Waited for the announcement that
questionable corporation interests were
not jeopardized; that selt-seeking poll
ticans had sunk their graphing hooks in
the body polite.
That popular movements had been
nipped in the bud that John II. Nc
Graw was satisfied that p. G. Sullivan
had his revenge; that Eastern Washing
ton was squelched; that those who
thought the people had rights were pro-
perly disciplined; that coterie Of
political vagabonds had parceled out the
places of public trust to such as gave
promise OF the most humble subser-
viency, and that personal interest and
personal ambition bad been duly pro-
tected, regardless of public welfare.
If the waiting crowd OF good looking
republican delegates did not expect all
that, it is exactly what was written in
large letters all over the slate that was
exposed to view during the small hours
Of the night.
There was no enthusiasm when the
steered steering committee announced
it's conclusions there was sullen acqui.
escsnce. and the champions OF Mead for
governor found a few delegates who con-
sented to have his badge pinned to their
coats.
The disappointed and their name is
legion, stunned by the revolutionary
methods, were slow to realize how it all
happened, but they eventually yielded,
hoping that some other day they would
have pack Of marked cards Of their own.
In the open session, where with the
usual ceremonies, the result was pro.
claimed to the world, some of the pent
up feelings Of outraged constituencies
found vent, but the combination behind
the compact was firm, and no one turned
states evidence.
TIE candidates named are probably up
to the republican average, there is no
brilliancy, nor is any needed, to shed all
the deserved luster on the creative
machinery.-The Taxpayer.
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