The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-05
EVIDENCE OF "BOSS" FARRELL'S
DicTATION is PiLING UP
EVERY DAY.
RepubIicans Give Testimony How he
Controlled the Republican State
Convention in Tacoma.

supDort of the indictment that the
Tacoma convention was dominated by
J. D. Farrell in the interests of the
transcontinental railroads, and that
the entire ticket nominated by that
convention met with Mr.. FarrelPs ap-
prevail
The authorities for the Farrell-pri-
vate-car story are prominent republ1-
cans, many of them delegates to the
convention, and their number and
the unanimity with which they agree
upon the main points of the story
makes an effective denial impossible.
On account of the multiplicity OF
authority it is impossible to name all
of those who have testified in one
form or another that the convention
was dominated by the railroads, but
the list, in part is as follows:
l. The story OF the private car con-
ference as told by one of the partici-
pants and published in the Spokane
Spokesman Review and the Seattle
Daily Times, Sunday, Sept. 4. and not
since denied by any of the purported
participators:
2. The official report of the Spokane
county steering committee, T. D.
Rockwell, Charles P. Lund and J. A.
Schiller. This report was issued soon
been retracted by any one of these
three men.
8. The declaration in the editorial
columns OF the Tacoma Ledger, a
republican paper of unquestioned par
ty regularity, made the day following
the convention and never since re-
tracted.
4. The interview of Joseph B. Lind
Sley of Spokane, a republican candi-
date for the legislature, who was
present at the convention.
3. The statement of Lew Wilmot
one of the delegates to the convention
from Ferry county.
s. The statement in the news COL
umns of the Oregonian that Mr.. Far
reil was summoned to Tacoma, to
participate in the deliberations and
to deliver his orders in person. and
following that the editorial statement
of the Oregonian that the Hill railroad
interests defeated Mcbride.
Z. The editorial declaration of the
Lincoln County Times of which l. A.
lnkster. the republican postmaster at
Davenport, is the editor.
8. The statement in the Post-Intel-
Hgencer's account of the convention
that the individual delegate cuts but
mighty little ice in a big and i'm
portant convention like this"
.. The declarations Of the Palmer
Mountain Prospector, the editor of
which, Frank H. Dallam, is a repub-
Hcan and was present at the conven- Z
ton.
10. The editorial in the Yakima
Republic, lobby republican paper
editor Col. w. W. Robinson was at
me convention as delegate, that Mr.
Farrell was sent for in the interests of
Gov. Mcbride.
II. The statement of Coneressn,an
Cushman at Wenatchee that he saw
great many railroad men hanging
around the convention.
L. The editorial utterances of a
score of staunch and now regular re-
publican papers like the Creston News
the Walla Walla Record. the Vancou-
yer independent, the Mason County
journal, the La Conner Mail. the
Pomeroy East Washingtonian. the
Wilbur Register, the Cotton News
Letter, the Everett Record. and q
great many others.
Is. The refusal of Henry Mcbride
TO say a word in support of the ticket
ana win 1t the refusal of such staunch
Mcbride republicans as John H. Pow
ell Harold Preston, E. M. Carr. Geo
billing, Reuben w. Jones, w. H. Waite
James Hart, Nose Gottstein, and Irv-
ing L. Cole of King county, Stanton
Warburton, ]. A. Shackleford. F. A
Luce, II. P. Burdick, E. E. Cushman
and j. M. Ashton of Pierce county
frank 7. Post of Spokane county. W.
X, Moultray, Hugh Eldridge and A. T.,
black of Whatcom county, N. J..
Cralgue of Snohomish county. n p
Mentzer of Thurston county. Henry
dryden of Cowlitz county, Oscar Cain
OF Walla Walla county, and scores of
Others.
IA. The statement of Mr.. Mead at
toifax that if Farrell was sent for
ne was sent for by the King county
delegation. The statement of Mr.
? Mead in Spokane that he did not know