The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-08

railway lobby referred to Governor
Mcbride and his supporters as two
faced. double dealers and by the dls-
tribution throughout the city a few
DAYS ago of circular prepared py
George Stevenson, the notorious lob
byist, for the purpose Of injuring Con-
gresham Cushman.
Yes. indeed, such harmony is SO
heartfelt and sincere that it is almost
pathetic to the beholder.
How much the Regulators are
willing to concede to the sOcalled
"Roxers" was shown by the stealthy.
surreptitious manner in which the
meeting for the organization OF the
Roosevelt club was arranged and by
the generosity of the Levites in hog
cling all the offices of the organization
except the empty and useless one OF
second vice president, which was tend
cred to a Mcbride republican who was
not present and who cannot be in
duced to say that he approves the
promoters of this harmony" move
ment The Levites are perfectly will
ing that the lion and the lamb shall
lie down together if the lamb will only
consent to go inside the lion.
The Mcbride republicans have not
forgotten how similar club was Sc
cretly organized one night early in the
spring of 1902 in a little twelve by
fifteen room at the court house. After
the ten or twelve republicans present
had elected the officers of the organ
ization they circulated a paper for sig
natures and when the primaries We're
called a few weeks later the right to
vote was limited to republicans VINO
course this was illegal and a contest
ing delegation would have been seated
by the Tacoma state convention in
which the Levites We're in the minor
ity, but the game worked so far as
Walla Walla county was concerned
However, the malcontentS made their
dspleasure felt at the polls by giving
the republican Legislative ticket a ma
jOrity of about seven hundred less than
that given Cushman, who led his ticket
in this county as he did in the state.
The Mcbride republicans will not
again tolerate such tactics The result
of the general election in 1902 and the
result of the city election last July
Ia;
ing it they will not tamely submit to
humiliation and injustice. They are
stronger now than ever before and
they know it. If there are any de-
serters their names have not been
made known. If the Union really be-
lieves that the Boxers" are recOnciled
let it publish few interviews from
their leaders expressing approval OF
the star chamber methods followed III
organizing the Roosevelt club. Every
intelligent republican knows that
there is a regular form of procedure
laid down for the organization of party
clubs. a call should be published ir
the newspapers and all members OF
to participate in the election of Off
GERS and the adoption of rules and by
laws The mere fact that the chair
man of the republican county commit
tee presides 1T such meeting Wher
secretly arranged does not make il
regular. The only excuse for such
methods in the organization of the club
was the fear of the Levites that they
would be OutvOted by the Boxers If
a free for all contest.
The resentment aroused among fair
minded republicans by the manner ir
which the Roosevelt club was organ
| lied is outspoken and determined, an(
| the Statesman. if it chose, might quote
many bitter remarks made by group:
of disguised republicans who gothere(
| on street corners yesterday and dis
cussed the latest phase of machine
| gall, arrogance and presumption
| They will make their displeasure fel
in the proper way at the proper time
| Meanwhile the Levites can continue t
enjoy themselves at their Holy ROl
ler'' love feasts and to delude them
| selves with the notion that they arr
the only people on earth and the onl.
elect for the world to come.
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