The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-09-21

inhabitants are part and parcel OF
their assets and to be trafhcked IN as
they would their own commodities. Inc
railroads can safely trust the people
but if they do not do this, how can
they expect the people to trust them?
1.-The Ledger stands by the ticket
and admires the genius Of its manipu-
lators, but dos not hesitate to say that
it damns their conception.
Let NJ E. Hay, of Wilbur. Wash,
take the stand Mr.. Hay was formerly
mittee In a letter published in the
Seattle Republican shortly after the
convention, Mr.. Hay said:
WILBUR, Wash, May II. 1904-To
the Seattle Republican: l note your
regret relative to my not having Sc
cured the nomination for lieutenant
governor and would say in reply, that
personally l feel no disappointment in
this matter whatever, as l would hard
| ly have cared to accept the nominal
ton on the platform as forced upon
us by the west side. Neither do l con-
slider it good politics for any OF us
| from the east side, advocating a rail-
| road commission, to accept any faVOrs
| from that faction of the party upon
whom we look as being controlled by
the railroads. There is one thing alb
solutely certain-this question will
never be settled until there has been
| railroad commission appointed. Our
people have fought for this for years
| and they are more determined on the
| question now than ever. we 1eel tnal
| the west side republicans are trying
| to force us to repudiate everything we
/ have stood for in the past and are anx-
ious that this portion of the state be
! turned over to democracy. Personally
and so far as l can influence my
friends shall do what l can to secure
the election of Mr.. Mead and the bal
| ance of the state ticket.
| The only hope l have Is that the
railroad lobby will snow their nand as
brazenly in the democratic convention
as they did in the republican. in which
case it will be horse and horse. very
respectfully yours,
M. f. HAY"
Call Howard Spinning. editor Of the
| Wilbur Register, who was delegate 10
| the convention: gray haired man
who prides himself upon never having
bOlted the republican ticket in his life
In the issue of his paper of July l, ne
says:
The advocates of the lobby ticket
| point with pride to Mr.. Mead'S record
in past sessions of the legislature
showing that his aptitude and iabors
have been with the people as against
the railroads. Disgruntled republicans
| have said not one word against MI
| Mead He has scarcely been under
| discussion. The only consideration has
been that Mead and all the rest nave
| been forced on the party by an unprln-
! cipled gang of heelers, directed by a
| democratic railway boss and even
though Mr.. Mead might be as sweet
and as pure as angel food, they Will
not have him forced down their
! = hy-c If a
! sOnabIe to believe that Mead and the
rest would serve the best interests OF
| the public. after being put forward in
! the interest of a gang that is dong all
! in its power to thWart the desires or
! the people The desire for railway
| commission. on the part of all the IN
! habitantS of eastern Washington is
! practically unanimous, regardless of
| politics. The railroad lobby is deter
| mined that there shall be no commas
| sion. and Mead is the lobby candidate
| I'm the face of all the facts. can the
! lobby tools hope to hOOdWink the peo-
! pie of this side by recommending Mead
| to be commission sympathlZer we
| care nothing for Mead or any other
| candidate on the ticket. We only know
| that the platform was dictated by
! our natural enemies and that they are
| in the saddle"
Call Frank NJ. Dallam, the founder
of the Spokane Review, lifelong re-
| publican. and. by the way, a man who
! is supporting the republican state
| ticket In his paper, the Palmer Noun
| tain Prospector, Mr.. Dallam says:
"A very few republican papers in
| the state. with a poor opinion of the
| intelligence of their readers, claim that
! the late state nominations were not
| dictated by the railroads. Now let us
| be honest and loyal. There is not
man in the state capable of reading
| that is not satisfied in his own mind
| that the convention was not dominated
| wholly by railroads. SO what is the
| use of making bad matter worse by
| fibbing? Accept the situation and keep
! mum on that subject and get In and
drill for the party
Call L. A. Nnkster. postmaster at
! Davenport and publisher of the Lin
coin County Times. who is another
supporter of the ticket nominated at
! Tacoma. In his paper Mr.. Inkster says:
Repeated declarations made through
the press by delegates and others, that
j. d. Farrell. agent of Jim Hill, APP
peared at the state convention upon
| invitation, and arrOgantly forbade
King county's lis delegates. and
through them majority of the dele
gates in the convention from entering
| into any arrangement by which Nc
| Bride should become the republican
! nominee for governor, or which en-
! dorsed his fight for commission, alb
| solves republican newspapers and re-
| publican voters from all obligation TO
| support such a ticket. Mcbride has
! charged the railroad lobby with cor
| rupting legislatures and dominating
political conventions. The action OF
| the west side delegations in inviting.
! caucuSing with and bowling to the Will
| of j. d. Farrell, democrat. and a
railroad official. proves his charges to
| have been true.
| Put the Vancouver Independent, a
republican paper, upon the witness
stand. 1t said substantially, just after