The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-05
GOVERNOR MEAD SHOWS HIS
DEEP RESENTMENT BY RE-
wARDINc WORKERS
Made FairchiId, a Noted Lobbyist, the
Chairman Of the Railway Com
mission-There Were Others

board of inquiry that lobbying is lost
art in this state, and that during the
last legislature the advocacy Of any
bill by a lobbyist was sufficient to kill
it, says the Seattle Press Times. The
executive does not speak as strong
against lobbyists as he did in his mes
sage to the legislature, but that is not
to be taken in itself to mean the gu
bernatorial viewpoint has changed.
The most active of all lobbyists at
the last session of the legislature was
H. A. Fairchild, and just to show that
the governor is determined to suppress
lobbying at all hazards, has slowed
away Mr.. Fairchild on the railroad
commission. T. D. Rockwell brought
a railroad commission bill to Olympia
and was in the capital city in the in
terest of that fight and in the interest
of John L. Wilson. ]. B. Yakey made
an Olympia trip to lobby for Wilson
and for the passage of the Kitsap
Judgeship bill. The gubernatorial
wrath against lobbyists blazed forth
when the names of the two lobbyists
were mentioned last, and he punished
them by giving each a state job.
]. HI. Esterday spent practically the
entire session at Olympia, devoting
most of his attention to the passage OF
a tax commission bill that provided for
three new jobs. To demonstrate to the
public that lobbyists could not expect
the gubernatorial sympathy, Governor
Mead fastened one of the commission
jobs on Mr.. yesterday.
Frank L. Lamb, secretary of the
Washington Timbermen's association,
put through the bill that provides for
a state board of forest commissioners,
and when the governor learned of Mr..
Lambs activity at Olympia, he was
so thoroughly angered that he gave
Mr.. Lamb one of the appointments.
John L. Wilson put in most of his
time in Olympia during the legislative
session Mr.. Wilson was the most per-
niciously active lobbyists that visited
Olympia He lobbied in his own inter-
est for senator, he fought capital re-
moval, he spared around on the rail-
road commission, and escaped being
tagged by other advocates or oppo-
nents of the bill, and he told the gov
ernor what to do upon all occasions.
Wilson in his minw when he asserted
in his lobby letter that the advocacy
of any measure by lobbyist was suff-
ficient to kill it.
But the gubernatorial vengeance in
voked against lobbyists in general has
been directed toward Mr.. Wilson in
particular. Because of his activity
and the ignoring of the executives
edict toward lobbyists, the responsible
ity of debating gubernatorial policies
has been directed to Mr.. Wilson, and
the executive office is maintained as a
Wilson press bureau.
1t was Mr.. Wilson who took to
Olympia one H. r. Clayton and George
Jeffries. This combination was broken
after Wilson failed of success in the
senatorial fight, and Jeffries slipped
out of Olympia in time to dodge the
gubernatorial wrath against lobbyists.
But Cayton stayed and to demonstrate
that he was still fighting the lobby
with undimmed ardor, the executive
had mis- picture printed in a publica-
ton Clayton issued. He talked at one
time, too, of appointing Colonel F. D..
Heustis, at whose home Clayton, JET
fries and Wilson lodged, on the rail-
road commission, but Mr.. Heustis had
not been very active in the Wilson lob.
by and he escaped the gubernatorial
club that is out for lobbyists.
c. J. Lord was such busy lobbyist
that the senate finally locked the doors
against the Olympia banker to keep
him from continuing his work on the
floor of the senate. Having warned
the legislature against the pernicious
effect of the lobby, Governor Mead
sprang to the legislatures assistance
and punished Mr.. Lord severely. He
instituted the court proceedings
against the land commission to pre-
vent the purchase of Port Townsend
water bonds. So long as the purchase
is deferred the money stays in Mr.
Lords bank. Every night when he
counts up the cash on hand, Mr.. Lord
is overwhelmed by the weight of the
executives displeasure against the
lobbyists.
There are others of the lobby and
there are others upon whom the gov
ernor's hand has fallen heavily in
wreaking vengeance upon the lobby.
1t is not of record that the lobby fail
ed to accomplish. anything and the gu
bernatorial reference to the diminish