The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-24
REPORTED THAT CAMPBELL HAS
ASPIRATIONS TO SUCCEED
SENATOR A. G. FOSTER.
Claims Made That He and Governor
Mcbride Are Working Hand
in Hand.
in Hand.

TACOMA, Wash, March 24.-Have
Governor Henry Mcbride and Mayor
L. D. Campbell formed a personal and
political alliance? is a question that
the politicians of Pierce county have
been asking themselves since the ad-
iournment of the meeting of the coun-
ty central committee Saturday after
noon.
A second question akin to that
which the politicians are asking them
selves is this: rs Mayor Campbell
seeking reelection to third term in
order to strengthen his candidacy for
the United States senate at the COM
ing session of the legislature?"
These questions, which frequently
took the form of positive assertions.
were banded freely about Saturday,
having been called forth by the appar-
ent utilization of the mayors and the
governors forces in the desire to have
a postponement of the date of the
county convention.
Evidently, it was said, the mayor
and the governor were working toward
the same end. Some of the support
ers of the mayor We're reported to
have said that he had arrived at an
with the governor, and
that each had offered the other strong
assurance of support.
Other supporters of the mayor were
only in the belief that
election to a third term would adver-
tise him as one Of the most popular
politicians in Tacoma and would place
him in line for the senatorship.
Worries the Politicians.
The mayors reputed alliance with
the governor and his senatorial aspi-
ratiOns We're at once connected. Why,
the politicians asked themselves,
should the mayor, ally himself with
the governor but for his senatorial
aspirations? Why an alliance should
be formed could not be comprehended
by the politicians except on the hy-
pothess that the mayors ambitions
ranged higher than a third term. The
information that the mayor hau such
and that he had Joined
had come, it was claimed,
from direct and unquestioned sources.
The friends of Senator Foster and
is said, been thrown into a flutter of
by the rumors and have
gone on a still hunt
They are now trying to figure out
the mayor and his managers
were solely interested in the city cam
paign when they insisted on a post
ponement of the convention date. |
They profess to suspect that it was |
desired, partly in the interests of the |
governors candidacy and partly be-
cause it would strengthen the senator |
lal canvass of the mayor in it's incip- |
lency. The governor wanted delay. it |
was reasoned, for purposes or his |
OWN; the mayor wanted deIav for |
similar purposes, and for the addi-
lonal reason that it might have its
effect or the legislative delegation |
from Pierce county
Wants to Break the State.
The delegation, it is figured out. ac-
cording to the present slate, is for
roster. Mr. Campbell it is thought, |
By the politicians desires to change |
the slate 1t is believed that the
mayor Will rely on the delegation be-
ing in favor Of Pierce county man. |
and that as betwiXt himself and Fos-
ter the present senator will be second |
choice. If he is not first choice with
all OF the delegation Mr. Campbell |
would want to know it. and this. it is
argued, is the reason for desiring q
May convention, when there seems to
be no tangible reason for believing
that the county convention hold at