The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-08
MEAD WAS CHOICE OF "BOSS"
FARRELL AND GENERAL
COUNSEL GROSSCUP.
Had Hand in Naming Him
for the Place.

| SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. S.-Albert E
Mead is the railroad candidate for gov
ernor. The allegation was made early
in the campaign by members Of his
| own party, by men who participated in
the convention which nominated him.
1t has since been substantiated in SO
many ways and denied so weakly when
denied at all that the case against him
is now thoroughly established, and it
! remains but for the voters of the
state to declare the penalty in the form
Of defeat
The evidences that Mead is the rail-
road candidate are so numerous that
it is impossible to recite and review
them all in the limits of single news
paper article, but some of the more
convincing ones are:
1. That his nomination was agreed
to in ]. D. Farrells private car in the
Tacoma yards.
2. That he received the support in
the state convention of all the rail-
road forces.
3. That in appointing a delegation
to the state convention from his own
county he made railroad manager
chairman and included two railroad at
torneys.
4. That the convention which NOM
mated him exposed it's subserviency to
the railroads by defeating Mcbride
and the commission plank
5. That he is being supported by
every railroad lobbyist and every rail-
road newspaper in the state.
g. That J. D. Farrell is making a
personal and business campaign to Sc
cure his election, even to attending his
meetings and giving his approval to the
management Of the campaign.
Z. That his political sponsors are
opposing the election of the railroad
commission republican ticket in What
com county.
s. That he defends the railroads in
his speeches, that he apologies for the
violation of promises of railroad
legislatures that he refrains from
criticizing the notorious railroad lobby
and that he refuses to say he is for
any form of railroad regulation.
The charge that he is also the Will
son candidate for governor is equally
we'll substantiated. 1t rests upon the
following facts all of which are now
we'll known throughout the state:
1. That Wilson insisted upon his
nomination.
2. That Wilson went to Bellingham
Immediately after the convention and
held secret conference with him the
nature of which has never been dis
closed
3. That Wilson's man Friday, E. B.
Palmer is managing the Mead cam
paign.
4. That only know Wilson SUD-
porters are billed to address the Mead
meetings.
5. That Wilson strikers are con-
stantly in attendance upon Mr.. Mead
wherever he goes.
s. That Wilson's Post Intelligencer
is devoting it's energies exclusively to
the election of Mead to the exclusion of
all other interests, not excepting the
legislative nominees of the party.
Z. That the ablest news writer on
the Post-1ntelligencer has been detailed
to accompany Mr.. Mead on his cam
paign tours and report his meetings
nightly for publication each morning.
8. That other senatorial candidates
have practically withdrawn their sup
port from Meads candidacy, allowing
him to go down in the sinking ship of
wisconsin.
Both of these indictments are COM
plete, detailed, and established. None
of these allegations have ever been de-
MED, none of them can be denied.
They make up case against the rail-
road Wilson candidate which should.
and to all appearances will, defeat him
today.
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