Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-12-22
CAPITAL GOSSIP
ABOUT THINGS POLITICAL AND
OTHERWISE.
Senatorial Speculation is Rife. Large Receipts
Of State Land Office. Morning OIympian
for Wilson. Candidates Must Have County
Endorsement. Society on the qui vive. etc.

Senatorial speculation has been tenn.
porarily neglected to second places and
the all absorbing topic is the arrival of
the governor.elect and his family to take
up their four years residence in our
midst.
Not for eight years has such an event
occurred and as capital city society cent.
ers to considerable extent round the chief
executive and his family it is in hutter
at the occasion.
Advance extracts from the report of
Land Commissioner Calvert show that
the annual receipts Of that department
are approaching the million dollar mark.
Mr.. Callvert's recommendation as to
legislation will meet The disapproval of
members who delight IN "cinch" bills
for he declares against some measures
that will be backed by a we'll. Financed
lobby.
This report shows that the common
schools receive something over quarter
million annually from the land depart.
ment.
Work on the PEDESTAL to the monu-
ment 10 the late Governor Rogers to be
erected in Capitol Park is in progrefs g..
The monument is expected to be in place
by the time of the meeting of the legis-
lature.
Society will depend for its principal
excitement on the efforts OF rival senator.
ial candidates. If the contest is long
drawn out it will be brilliant winter
If short and sharp society will suffer &C.
cOrdingly.
The sale of the Olympian to Messrs
Crawford and Cork. of the Aberdeen
Bulletin, has changed that papers status
in the senatorial campaign. Mr.. Scobey
was Foster man but the new manage
ment have. evidently. Wilsonian lean
ings of decided nature.
The report that Mr.. Mead will require
the endorsement OF county central com.
mittees to applications for appointive
office seems to be taken seriously in this
county. As five applicants for armorer,
a 5000 job, showed up at its first meeting
some idea can be gathered of the rush
which will occur when candidates really
start after the good jobe.
Personally. we expect to see this rule
mora honored in the breach than in the
observance. To send applicants by the
devious route of county, and perhaps,
state committee endorsements lessons
the pressure at headquarters. But it is
not always capable men ror men of the
executives choice who pass the gauntlet.
But it makes for interest in compact
organization and no real harm results.
Interest in proposed legislation does
not yet stand much chance with the all
absorbing topic of senatorial succession
and society speculation. Members with
embryo bills are arriving, however to
81 1kn< 81 kbn oko IN
Some hitch occurred in the expected
washing Of the capitol annex. and unless
some one gets "a move on" the legisla.
variegated wonder in all its half.washed
splendor.
Tho new lobby, ball room and parlors
will be- completed by the time the session
opens and will more than replace those
features lost by the burning Of the Olym-
pia Hotel besides being more convenient
to the capitol.
Spokane bids fair to contribute not q
little to the z aiety, not to say the fnanc.
ing Of the senatorial campaign. Besides
Mr.. Sweeny is Mr.. Campbell who is Q
candidate and not pauper. and other
gentlemen in the same city are reported
willing to part with . portion of their
worldly goods to disappoint the laudable
ambition Of Mr.. Sweeny.
There is no doubt. however, but the
new capitol will do sway with the pres.
sure heretofore brought upon outside
facilities Of this kind for it has rotunda
which 10 certain to supercede in q large
measure any gathering place outside the
building.
A season Of com parative quiet in all
lines is certain to occur until after the
hold avs. Then things will he humming,
including varied assortment Of sens-
tosial be 90.