The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-10-24

urday night to hear former state Sell
ator Stanton WarburtOn. a lifelong
republican who was twice elected to
serve in the state senate from Pierce
county, advocate the election Of George
Turner and the entire democratic state
ticket
The meeting was presided over by L.
P. Gose who introduced the speakers
of the evening.
Colonel Hathaway Spoke.
Colonel Howard Hathaway was the
first speaker He made a short speech
first touching on the national issues
and then took up state issues. He
urged the voters to vote the state dem
ocratic ticket. and especially for Tur-
ner. He said that it was more import
ant to elect the state ticket in prefer
ence to the congressional ticket. and
he was willing to go down to defeat
George Turner as governor, and take
the control of state affairs out of the
hands of the corrupt railroad lobby.
Senator Warburton's Address.
When Senator WarburtOn was NJ
troduced he was received with great
enthusiasm. Mr. Warburton's address
was largely historical. The fight of
the commission forces against the rail-
roads, and the Influences that he al
legged were responsible for that defeat
were reviewed. He spoke loquently.
emphatically and plainly. He drew a
graphic word picture of the lobbying
that was done at the last legislature
He then took up the tax question and
in support of his arguments presented
a number of local figures to show that
the railroads We're not paying their
Just portion of taxes. He scored the
state board of equalization for reduc-
ing the railroad valuations and raising
those on lands and personal property
owned by the farmers.
Hes then passed on to the candidates
for governor and in speaking of the
republican candidate he said in part:
Railroad Candidate.
1t is claimed by Mr.. Mead's apollo
gists that he is not a railroad man.
This is true or not true dependent al
together upon the meaning that We
give the words railroad man. If we
is not an employee of the railroads the
claim may be correct; if We use the
word in the sense that he is an enemy
of the railroad and tax commission
then the denial is not true. This is the
sense in which the term is ordinarily
used and in which | shall use it in the
discussion of Mr.. Mead as a railroad
man. 1t is a fact that Mr.. Mead is
not a railroad man. Mr.. Mead says
SO himself but his statements are SO
lame, inconsistent and shallow that
they are scarcely worth noticing. G.
W. nova ara Oh w lalcOll, fdllfOdu at
torney, and a man who may be found
at every state legislature lobbying in
of Mr.. Mead's supporters in the pri-
maries at Whatcom and one of his
managers in the last state convention
says: Mr.. Mead is not a railroad
man. Mr. Fairchild of Whatcom. who
always comes to the rescue of the rail-
road forces in Olympia when hard
pressed. says Mead is not a railroad
man. Mr.. Donovan. president of a
railroad in Whatcom. man who threw
all his personal influence and the in
fiuence of his railroad in Whatcom in
Mp Mead's favor in the fight in What
com, says Mr.. Mead is not railroad
man. Charlie Chamberlain recently
appointed prime minister of the rail-
road lobby and one who helped bring
about Mead's nomination, says that
he never had any idea at any time that
Mr.. Mead was railroad man. John
P. Hartman, a railroad attorney in
Seattle, who usually does a stunt or
two in behalf of the railroad lobby at
Olympia, who led the fight On the floor
of the convention in behalf of the rail-
roads shuts his eyes in utter abhor-
rance at the suggestion that Mr. Mead
is a railroad man. Will H. Thompson,
who has been a railroad attorney for
years, and who has been one of the
prominent men of the lobby at Olympia
for the last several sessions of the leg
slature, and who is the author of the
famous doctrine that party pledges
and party promises are made to be
broken says that he certainly could