Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-09

The people OF the United States
have expressed their faith in the ad-
ministration OF Theodore Roosevelt
and the principles OF the republican
party, and at the polls on November
Sth, the complete national, state and
majority of the county tickets we're
elected. Great majorities have been
rolled up for the national ticket, and
Theodore Roosevelt will be elected
with the largest electoral vote OF any
president ever chosen in the United
States. He will have 343 to Parker's
1873. The state ticket has carried and
the Hon. A. E. Mead will be the next
governor, together with those con-
gressmen who are proving an honor
to their constituency in the legisla.
ture at Washington, the Hon. Wesley
i, Jones, Francis w. Cushman and
W. Z. Humphrey.
Republican success is everywhere
assured and Adams county Is in line
by electing Hon. j. D. Bassett as rep.
resentative in the next legislature,
G. E. Amsbaugb, county auditor; E.
ID. ellison, sheriff; ii. r. Smith, coro-
ner; E. l.. Bradley, assessor; Fred
Kembel and ii. J. ALERT, county COM
missioners. w. Il. Warren OF Viii.
bur, has been chosen superior Judge,
and Charles T. Hutson OF Cornell,
joint senator. The democrats have
filled the Offices of clerk, treasurer,
prosecuting attorney and surveyor by
electing Geo. +. Christensen, Cecil d.
Linn, Walter Staser and Ohio O.
Hauschild, respectively.
W. ]. Lansing, superintendent Of
schools, was reelected with no oppo.
sition.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific
the great wave Of Republican enthus.
iasm has swept, and once more we
start new era with we'll tried forces
backed by the conservative, conscien-
tious integrity Of Theodore Roosevelt
and the cohorts Of republican con-
stituents throughout the breadth of
broad and prosperous land. Our gov.
eminent is in safe hands for four years
more, and American citizenship will
continue its ascendancy.
There is law in this state which
makes gambling felony. 1t was
placed on the statute books two years
ago by a republican legislature. There
is one city in the state where the Ia W
is openly defed. That is the city OF
Tacoma. At the head OF affairs in
that city is democratic mayor. Con.
gregated in the city, by reason OF the
fact that democratic administration
has made Tacoma a safe haven OF
refuge for law-breakers, are practically
all OF the gamblers, bunco steerers,
macquereaux and like disreputables
OF the rthwest-outcasts from the
cities which are fortunate enough not
to have democratic mayors. 1t is the
presence OF this unsavory element in
Tacoma, and its unwonted activity,
which gives color to the democratic
hope that Turner, the democratic can
didate for governor, may carry Pierce
county. 1t is said that these fellows
are lined up by the hundreds under
control OF the saloonkeepers and the
boss gamblers. 1t is further said that
an unprecedented tax is being levied
upon the fruits OF their toll, and up on
all forms Of vice in Tacoma, to pro-
vide money for the Turner campaign
there and elsewhere. The word has
gone out that if the democratic party
is successful at this election it will re.
peal the anti-gambling law. 1t is
strange, but not unprecedented, that
in Tacoma the voice OF this riff raft
blend tremendously with those OF a
so-called "Anti-Saloon League" in the
demand for Turner and REFORM
Yakima Republic.