The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-10-06
Some Pertinent Facts for Voters,
To the voters of Washington:


The democratic party of Washington,
in appealing to you to support the
democratic state and county tickets,
does so upon the declaration that the
dominant issues in the state campaign
are:
First. Do political promises mean
anything; shall political parties, legis-
latures and public officials be required
to fulfill the pledges sacredly made by
the party in convention assembled, shall
party performance be made to square
with party promise?"
Second. Shall the people regulate
:he corporations or the corporations
dominate the state: shall our political
conventions express and our legisla-
lures carry out the will of the people,
or shall they continue to be dominated
by corrupt railroad lobby; shall we
have IL primary election law which will
bring the state and local governments
into closer relations with the people?
Third. Shall we establish in Wash
ington a non.partisan, appointive, reg
ulative railroad commission?
Fourth. Shall we attempt, in good
faith, to more equitably adjust the bur-
dens of taxation?
Fifth. Shall the next Legislature
pass, ana the next governor sign, an
effective anti-pass law carrying out the
provisions of our state constitution, as
a means of closing one of the avenues
to official malfeasance and corruption:
We hold these truths to be iEdelibly
written in the political history of
Washington: that the Republican par.
~ in It's state convention of 1902 sa
credly promised the people railroad
commission and anti-pass law, and that
ing under the orders of the railroad
lobby, failed and refused to carry out
those promises; that every Republican
state nominating convention, since the
admission of the state, has promised
the people regulative railroad legisla
ton, and that every Republican admin
any such Legislation, except such as re-
ceived the approval of the railroad
companies: that the recent convention
at Tacoma, which pretends to have
represented the Republican party, was
not, in fact, a representative cOnven-
ton and did not in fact, represent the
voters of the republican party and
seek TO reflect and promulgate their
wishes. but, on the contrary, took its
orders direct from a railroad boss: that
acting under those orders that conven-
ton refused to promise the people of
the state regulative railroad legisla-
ton which the people demand; that the
so-called republican organization in
this state has fallen completely under
the denomination OF the men and tn e
influences responsible for the betrayal
of the convention promises of 1902 and
all previous convention promises OF
this character; that the republican par
ty, if it shall be returned to power, will
not create railroad comm issiOn. nor
will it seek equitably to ad just the bur-
dens of taxation, nor will it throw off
the influences OF the corrupt railroad
lobby, now SO firmly fastened upon it;
that fourteen republican hOldOver
state senators are, on their records. OPP
posed to regulative railroad legislation
and that eight republican nominees
are, on their public records, also OPP
posed to such legislation, rendering it
absolutely impossible to secure such
legislation from republican legisla-
ture, should one be elected.