Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-10-20
COL. w. H. DOOLITTLE
FORMER CONGRESSMAN SPEAKS
FOR DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
Hon. Doolittlc is for Roosevelt and the Ticket
Headed by Hon. George Turner, and
Gives His Reasons Therefor. He is
Warmly Received in Chehalis County.

Hon. w. H. Doolitte, of Tacoma, who
is life-lJng republican, and has lived in
the state of Washington since 1897, and
served two terms in congress, is stump.
ing the state in opposition to the Farrell
ticket, headed by A. f. Mead, and has
been in this county since Tuesday after
noon, speaking at Elma Tuesday after
noon, to an audience of about 50 people !;
Tuesday night to we'll filled house at
Montesano, and last evening at Ho.
quiam.
Two electric cars carried the crowd
from Aberdeen last evening to hear Col.
Doolittle at Hoquiam, where the opera
house was fairly we'll filled with most
appreciative audience.
Hon. Geo. Mudgett, Of Spokane, demo-
cratic nominee for state treasurer, was
the first speaker introduced by Chair.
man j. J. Carney, who briefly explained
the position OF himself and comrades on
the ticket with reference to the Belling-
ham convention. He was followed by
Hon. Lee Pardin, county treasurer OF
Kittitas county, and candidate for state
auditor in the same Wien, and both were
well received.
Hon. Stephen Judson, candidate for
lieutenant governor, was the next speak.
er. Mr.. Judson has been resident OF
Washington for 81 years, and has held
many positions of trust in Pierce county,
where, politics aside, he has the respect
of all for his sterling honesty and his
faithful efforts in upbuilding the state of
Washington. Mr.. Judson's address was
brief, but to the point, and he was fire.
quently interrupted with applause.
Col. Doolittle was the chief speaker of
the evening, and he began by explaining
the position he occupies in this cam.
paign. He is an ardent supporter of
President Roosevelt, but declared his in
ability ~ s,'.@port the ticket named by
the railroad lobby at Tacoma, saying the
hirelings of j. J. Hill had stolen the
name and banners of the republican
party named ticket of railroad men in
the hopeful expectation that the name
of Roosevelt would enable the transcon-
tinental roads to practically assume the
government Of this state. In support of
his condemnation of the methods adopt.
ed at the Tacoma convention, Col. Doc.
little read an editorial from the Tacoma
Ledger Of the day succeeding that con-
vention. which called the convention
"a Railroad Ratification Meeting" and
prophesied its failure when gu ojected to
test at the polls.
The ex'congressman waxed eloquent
as he progressed, and said his attitude
was difficult one for him to decide up.
on adopting, but. according to the rule
laid down by President Roosevelt. the
true American citizen never halted when
the issue became one in which the good
of the state and the good of the party
we're opposed that he was an American
citizen first, and republican afterwards.
| After exposing the characteristic at
tempt OF the Hoquam daily paper to
discredit him in good natured way,
Mr.. Doolittle eulogized Ex-senator
George Turner, and exposed the weak
attempts Of the lobby press to abuse that
grand citizen by showing that President
Roosevelt had such confidence in his
ability as an international lawyer and
his honesty as to place him upon the
Alaska boundary commission, with Ex-
secretary Root and Henry Cabot Lodge,
after his term IN the senate had expired,
and after those speeches were made that
are now being misquoted in the P..I.
and its cuckoos, concluding with the
assertion that if George Turner was good
enough for the president he was good
for him. and would he good enough for
the people OF the state of Washington to
elect as governor of this grand state on
November 8. Mr.. DooIittle was vocfer.
ously applauded as he closed.