The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-09-03

the railroads. We have had govern
ment or corporations. for corporations,
by corporations and the people have
been given only such concessions as the
corporations chose to make and those
were few and unimportant. The peo-
pie now have the best opportunity they
are ever likely to have of dethroning
the lobby and resuming the power
which rfightfully belongs to them.
has earned the bitter hostility Of the
corporations by his championship of
popular rights ever since the days of
the constitutional convention of 1889,
in which he took a conspicuous part,
is the peoples candidate for governor,
while Albert E. Mead, selected by Boss
Farrell Of the Great Northern railroad,
is the corporation candidate. Legisla-
tive candidates as rule are also
aligned on one side or other of the fight
between the people and the lobby.
The result should be determined re-
CARELESS of party lines as the issues
which divide the two great parties in
the nation are not involved in the state
contest Many republican newspapers
and thousands of republican voters
have declared their intention of re-
buking the corrupt bosses who have
usurped control of their party organi-
zation in this state and the outlook is
hopeful for the peoples cause. If
George Turner wins and a Legislature
is elected that will work in harmony
with him in giving the people an eff
fective railway and tax commission, it
will not be a democratic victory but a
victory for the people-the triumph of
honesty and decency in the govern
ment of the state. Such Il result Will
of an electoral vote or endanger its
control of congress. 1t will, on the
y
ington republicans as men of sturdy
manhood and unflinching moral cour-
age VINO cannot be bulldozed by the
crack of a corporation boss's whip into
the support of unworthy men or meas
ures.
If the truth We're known it is safe to
say that President Roosevelt has little
respect for voters who allow them
selves to be driven like cattle to the
shambles by such corrupt bosses as
Addicks of Delaware. The president
himself won his first laurels as an in
dependent republican advocating civil
service reform in opposition to the
spolsmen who then We're the dominant
force in the party councils. Deep down
in his heart he must have the highest
regard for republicans like Governor
La Toilette of Wisconsin and Governor
Mcbride of Washington who have the
courage and the integrity to oppose
the predatory corporations tndI nave
long usurped the right to rule.
President Roosevelt has given the
strongest proof of MS confidence in
the ability, integrity. learning and
sound judgment of George Turner by
Alaska boundary commission to serve
with such distinguished statesmen as
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and
ex-Secretary of War Root of New
York. Turner discharged his duties as
a member of that commission with the
highest credit, and in common with his
collea CUES received the thanks of the
president for nis successful labors. If
Turner was good enough to be intrust-
ed by President Roosevelt with this
important service, he is certainly
worthy to be made governor of the
state of Washington. To accept this
office he will be under the necessity of
making sacrifices that will mean great
personal inconvenience and financial
loss, and only the highest sense of duty
induced him to consent to his nominal
ton for governor.
In electing George Turner the peo-
pie will be honoring themselves while
redeeming the state from the disgrace
of being dominated by an arrogant, in
solent and corrupting lobby.