The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-31
PIERCE COUNTY REPUBLICAN
BOILERS ARE SAID TO BE
VERY FRANTIC.
Want a Chance to Get Even for Defeat
Administered at City
Election.

TACOMA, Wash, May Silt will
hardly be possible to wipe out all trace
of the factional bitterness that caused
the republican split in the city cam
paign. The influence Of that bolt will
have an effect upon the fall campaign.
Local republicans are intoxicated by
the effect of one successful bolt, and
they are thirsting for more trouble.
This is the feeling that has grown out
of the city campaign, and it is one
that will be hard to overcome, though
six months time ahead of the workers
should be sufficient to wipe out most of
the trouble.
Those republicans who tasted blood
in the city campaign are talking Of
indiscriminate knitting in the fall.
There is apparently no discrimination,
nor no sound basis for such talk, and
this is the condition that gives party
leaders the belief that the trouble will
very little of it will be carried into
the campaign. When the dissatisfied
republicans find they are striking
blindly and without justification it is
likely a reaction that will strengthen
the ticket will follow. OF course that
bitterness growing out Of bitter fac
allayed, and it is the fact that this
is cropping to the front occasionally
that keeps much of the agitation alive
Bushwhacking In Pierce.
The Pierce county democrats intend
to conduce a bushwhacking campaign.
Pierce should give the head of the re-
publican national ticket a majority
approaching 1000 this fall if natural
percentages of increase can be depend
the past. With such a working ma
jOrity to go on there seems scarcely
any hope for the democratic county
ticket, and leaders of that party ac
knowledge they are practically out of
the county fight. But here and there
the Bourbons will try to pick off either
a county or a legislative candidate.
For instance, the democrats want to
make a fight against the reelection Of
State Senator G.. L. Stewart from the
twenty fifth district, eff" as a promi-
nent democrat explained, I'VE can find
candidate, and we have not been able
| to locate one yet" Stewart was born
trict he represents. The chances for
his defeat are meager.
Charley Plass will be nominated to
defeat Line Davis in the tWenty-eighth
district, and Plass has an old grudge
| to settle. Davis won out over him four
years ago by a margin of seven votes.
Since that time two heavily republican
precincts have been added to the dis
trict and that should help Davis mate
rally Davis will be Endorsed by the
railroad employees and will have the
support of the liberal element, the two
| factions that exert the most powerful
influence in the district. He should
win and should be able to carry S. A.
Crandall, legislative nominee from the
district, whom the democrats will try
to pick off, with him.
Other candidates the democrats will
try to defeat are Fred Eidemiller in the
| thirty seventh representative district,
and David Levin. in the thirty sixth.
| Open Fight On Foster.
| The remarkable feature about the
democratic legislative campaign is that
democratic leaders declare their inten-
ton to make an open fight against
Foster. They will insist throughout
the county that Foster has no chance
of election and that the election of
| democratic lawmaker will give Pierce
an influence with that party.
The plan is a rather bold one, for it
involves the danger of arousing local
prejudice which, if they become strong
enough. would overwhelm the entire
democratic ticket. A shrewd manipu-
| lator could turn such a movement
back upon the democrats. But party
leaders here declare that their only
hope of carrying a portion of the legis-
lative ticket, which they want above
all else, is to convince the voters that
lSenator Foster is out of the fight, and
they are determined to go into the con-
test on that basis.