Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-10-31
SEN. WARDURTON
DEPLORES ATTITUDE ON PRO-
POSED RAILWAY LEGISLATION
Pours Hot Shot Into Lobby Candidate Mead in
Disscctine That Gentleman's Speeches,
Says Senator Turner Will be Governor by
the Voice of the People.

SdyS SCudtOT IuTuCi VIII UC OOVCiuOt ny
the Voice Of the People.
State Senator Warburton, of Tacoma,
republican, spoke at Rockford, WASH,
last week, and said in part:
"Mr. Mead is telling the voters in his
public speeches that il Senator Turner
is elected it will be utterly impossible
for the people to get railroad commits
sion, for the reason that the next senate
will be republican, and that being true,
no commission bill will pass.
us this on the theory that ma ority
of the state senators elected and to be
elected are opposed to and will be OPP.
posed to railway and tax commission
bill? Then how will the election OF Mr..
Mead aid the passage of such bill? Is
Mr.. Mead going to convert himself and
them to the commission theory after he
is elected governor? Does he promise
that that will be the result if he be elect
ed governor? No such promise can be
found in any OF his public speeches.
IF this is not what Mr.. Mead means,
and it probably is not, then he certainly
means that the republican legislators
elected and to be elected are so base and
60 low, and will have 80 little regard for
their duty as servants Of the people, that
they are going to vote against com.
mission bill, knowing that the people
want it and demand it, simply because
democrat will appoint the commission.
Is this Mr.. Mead's conception of the
duty of state senator? Does he mean
implicitly TO advise such course? can
not read his speeches in any other light.
1T ia the duty OF state legislator to
act from just as high and patriotic mo-
tives as that of a governor. Will Mr..
Mead's conduct, if elected governor, be
determined by any such narrow, bigoted,
sordid. unpatriotc principles as that?
at Senator Turner is elected governor
it will be by the voice OF the people. 1t
will be because they approve of his
declaration on state issues. They will
4 eject shiEs atogaenos- hecalse they desire,
him u perform the high duties Of that
Office, part of which are to appoint
such officers as the law OF the state en-
acted and to be enacted requires the
governor to appoint. Will the state
legislature, if republican, ignore, defy
and trample under foot the so recently
expressed wish OF the people? Can it
be that any man who has the qualifica.
tions OF mind and conscience that fit
him for the state senate will 90 stultify
himself? Will any man who cares for
his good name so conduct himself?
eff were state senator elected, or a
candidate for election to a seat in the
next legislature, would regard such
statement or suggestion as vile SANDER
upon me. would resent it and repud.
ate it at the first opportunity, unless l
considered the suggestion SO utterly
wrong. so unnatural, that it should be
ignored by silence. 1t is the sworn duty
of q legislator, it is the implied promise
of candidate for the legislature that, il
elected, he will consider every bill ON it's
Vhuu tuC OHiy lhctiNOo thut Will
prompt him will be to carefully ascertain
whether the proposed bill is good or bad,
right or wrong, and then vote according.
ly. If he is going to conduct himself in
any other way me is not fit to hold seat
in the state legislature.
II have been amazed that Congress.
men Humphrey and Jones have publicly
endorsed MIR. Mead's statement that
have mentioned. l want to ask them,
do they act ON any such principle as that
while representing the people OF this
state in congress? cannot believe that
they do so, yet it would be just as
criminal, just as wrong, just as fragrant
violation of duty for st tie legislator
to act upon any such principles as it
would be for IA congressman. The same
high, moral and political ethics ought to
prevail in the one place as in the other.
Gas they have stated in public that
republican Legislature is liable to do
one thing if Mr., Mead is elected and
will do just the opposite if MIR. Turner
is elected, want, in public, to ask them
if they personally approve of any such
doctrine? If not, they ought, as leaders
of the republic an party to condemn such
doctrine both in public and in private.
They ought to denounce such a doctrine
at its first suggestion, so that our party
may not be disgraced at Olympia by the
carrying out of the threat.
'"This statement of MIR. Mead, stripped
of all its cunning, is that if the people
of the state do not elect Mr.. Mead gov
ernor, the republican legisla ture will not
serve the state honestly and faithfully.
1t is deplorable fact that some legisla-
tors in every legislature will, for bride,
vote the bride giver's will. But no man
is elected to the legislature with the
thought or belief in the voters mind
that the candidate will yield to any such
temptation or be guilty Of any such vile
offense. Yet it seems to me that such a
bride giver or bride taker might properly
claim to be on as high moral plane as
the legislator who would conduct him
self in manner that Mr.. Mead suggests
our next republican legislators will do if