Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-07-07
STATE POLITICS.
REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BADLY
DISRUPTED.
Eastern Washington Republicans in Open Re-.
volt, and the Rank and File in Western Wash.
ihston Rebels Against the Railroad Ticket
Dictated by Democrat.

The state of Washington is normally
republican and will give Roosevelt from
$1,000 to 10000 majority is conceded;
that the CO. poration lawyers and lobby
lists who control the machinery of that
party overestimated the party fealty OF
its rank and file when they so openly
showed their hands at the Tacoma cen.
vention is equally true. Never in the
political history of this state did major
ity SO abuse its strength as dill the rail-
road-Farrel -Ankney gang at Tacoma,
although slight sample of what was
coming was displayed at the Chehalis
county convention, held in this city.
Not content with defeating the advo-
Gates of railroad commission, the
bosses decided to crush out all sentiment
in favor # retiring the railroads from
from the government OF this state. But
as frequently occurs, they overdid the
| job, with the result that in the comirg
state caE!pagn party lines will he oblit-
eratAd and the fight will be to decide
whether the railroads or the people will
govern the grand state of Washington.
While the state is republican. perhaps
no other state in the union contains so
large a PERCENTAGE of independent voters
who can neither be led or driven to vote
for part against the best interests of
the state. This was exemplified in the
elections OF 1900, when the state gave
Mckinley $4,000 majority and elected a
demo- ratio governor by majority Of
5000. That the actions of tho g in con-
troll of the Tacoma convention were the
result OF deep laid plans is very evident.
The calling OF a convention to nominate
a state ticket six months in advance of
the elections-three months earlier than
lever tefore-was part Of the scheme, the
ftdea icing that six months to work in,
tEtfe Sshelious rank and file could be
whooped, whipped or cajoled into
shouting for Roosevelt and the whole
ticket"
To show that this talk is not the rides.
| CCue v. a W.
reproduce the following editorial from
the:Spokesmar Review, of Spokane, the
leading republican newspaper Of Eastern
Washington, which appeared under the
caption, CAS- Republicans View It,"
"Several CT the railroad organs are
urging republicans to be loyal to the
Farrell ticket and they make the pre-
posterons claim that the men nominated
at the dctation of the representative of
Jane j. Hill are as deserving of repub-
lican support as are the men nominated
at the convention in Chicago.
"The conditions under which Mead and
his o'iates were named and those un'
der which Roosevelt and Fairbanks were
nominated were diamaterically different.
The delegates at Chicago responded to
popular demand. They nominated Thee
dore Roosevelt because the people want
ed him; because the people approved
the man and believed in Roosevelt poll
cies.
"The delegates to the Farrell conven-
ton nominated their state ticket at the
dictation of a democratic railroad boss,
and to do it repudiated Governor Nc
Bride, the peoples choice. The entire
work at the convention was abruptly
halted until the representative of Mr..
Hill could arrive on the scene and let
the delegates know what would meet
with the approval of the railroads. Not
a man was named who had not received
railroad Endorsement. Every plank in
the platform to which the railroads OBJ
jected was stricken out. At the dicta.
ton of the democratic railroad boss, a
governor who has insisted that the rail-
roads live within the law and be wisely
regulated by state authority was denied
denomination. 1t was not conven-
ton representing the republicans OF the
state; it was gathering OF men control
; ed and managed by railroad boss, by
railroad attorneys and by professional
political manipulators in the pay OF the
railroads.
, Thousands of good republicans who
will enthusiastically support Roosevelt
, and Fairbanks are asking themselves
whether it is any worse. from the stand
point of party loyalty, to vote for dem
ocratic candidate for governor who fav
3 ors reasonable regulation of railroads
in the interest of the public, than it is tc
vote for socalled republican candidate
tor governor who was nominated by
, democratic boss and who will be ex
pected to yield to the wishes of those
who made him. Few men are disposed
to consider themselves greater than
their party, but when republican con-
s vention hastens to make its actions con
form to the pleasure Of a democrat, ISM
! it about time to take steps to restore
= control to republicans, even at the ex
pense OF a defeat?"