The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-10-26
YAKIMA DELEGATES DID
NOT SELL OUT COUNTY
Emphatic Denial of One of Them in
Reply to the Charges rlade
in the Democrat.

The last issue of the Yakima Democrat
prints lot of stuff under the heading.
Yakima County Was Traded Off, in
when it is made to appear that the
nineteen gentlemen who went to Ia
coma as delegates to the last state con.
vention deliberately agreed to a propo-
sition whereby an alleged railroad lobby
was gwen the support of the Yakima
delegation IN anything it desired. pro.
vided the convention was allowed places
ON the ticket for w. L. Jones for
congress and +. IT. Rudkin for Judge of
the supreme court; that to secure these
two concessions the delegation bound it
self hand and foot to do the bidding of
the railroad lobby. The editor of the
Democrat claims to have gotten It
straight from the delegates that they
traded off their votes for the two offices
named. This editorial was meant for a
crusher, as it would doubtless prove 20
an extent bounded by the circulation of
the writer's paper, were it not for one
particular, and that is that it is false
from beginning to end. the statement
by Edward Remy of Fairview, who was
one of the 10 delegates to the state con-
vention, is doubtless sufficient for all
of them. and knowing his reputation for
truthfulness, we cheerfully give space
to his statements
North Yakima, Wash, Oct. 24.-Ed-
ltor Herald: l have read the article in
the last weekly issue of the Yakima
Democrat regarding the Yakima delega-
ton and its actions at the state repub-
lican convention held in Tacoma last
June, and | wish to state emphatical-
ly that the allegations in the article
headed. Yakima County Traded OFF, -
and printed i'll the paper referred to-
are utterly false and without any foun.
dation in fact.
In regard to the charge that the del.
egation was coerced or forced to sell out
to the railroad lobby, and vote as the
railroad interests of the state saw fiji
to demand, l deny it in toto. If there
was railroad lobby, large or small
present in Tacoma at the time of the
convention its presence was not known
to any of the Yakima delegation and
am pretty sure they would have known
of it in case it existed. The first thing
that the 10 delegates from this county
did upon reaching Tacoma was to go in
to a caucus. Later they held a meeting
at which the matter of nominations wa:
discussed, and the nominees for state
offices who were favored by the delega
ton were named. In the decision tn,
delegates arrived at regarding the gov
ernorship they were guided and actu
ated only by the fact that the candi
date from the eastern part of the state
was Il known and pronounced railroad
man. The delegates from Yakima
knew, or else they saw at the Tacoma
convention enough to convince them thai
Mr. Mead was not a railroad man, an(
that if the railroads We're not fighting
him they were at least not supporting
him, or attempting to bring about hi
nomination. Therefore they declined t.
affiliate with the railroad delegates ant
stood out for an anti-railroad man whom
they believed, and whom l now believe
they found in Mr.. Mead
Regarding the railroad commission
bill, which has been the cause of so mucl
discussion, l just want to present thes,