Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-07-03
R. R. COMMISSION
IS Unsatisfactory To FARMERS
and LUMBERMEN.
The Waila WalIa Statesman CriiiCiSeS
the Appointments of Governor
Mead. Says He Has Violated His
Anti-EieCtiOn Pledges, and Com
miSSiOnerS Are PrO-RailrOad Men.

Governor Mead has at last appointed
his railroad commissioners. They are
Harry A. Fairchild of Bellngham, John
5. McMillin, of Roche Harbor, and John
Q. Lawrence, of Garfield. Not one of
these men was ever known as an advo.
cate of railroad commission prior to
the last election. Fairchid and McMillin
were lined up with the railroad lobby
against Governor Mcbride and his pro-
posed railway commission in the republic
can state conventions of 1902 and 1904.
The Lawrence family, in Whitman coun.
ty, is identified with the Pickrell. Gaddis
railroad faction Of the party. Perry Law
renee, a brother of John, is one of the
most notorious henchmen of the rail
roads in that county.
1t is with regret that the Statesman
records the fact that Governor Mead has
not kept his pledge made repeatedly to
the people of eastern Washington in his
speeches last fall that, il elected govern.
or and it should devolve upon him to
name a railroad commission, he would
appoint as commissioners only men
known to be in thorough sympathy with
the spirit and the purpose of the law.
Not one of the three men named by the
governor fills the bill. Not one of them
has lined up with the commission forces
dn the strenuous days of controversy that
tried mems souls. Two of them were
outspoken opponents OF commission
and the third was member of the fac.
tion in his county that has always done
the bidding of the railroad lobby.
The Statesman had hoped that Gov.
ernor Mead would rise above the influ-
ences that dictated his nomination and
keep bis pledge to name as commission.
ers men in thorough sympathy with the
spirlt and purpose of the law. The gov.
ernor's selection Of Judge Chadwick, who
was Afterwards found to be ineligible
under the constitution, showed DISPOSE
tion to do the fair and generous thing,
and it gave the people renewed hope
that the governor would select good
commission regardless Of the wishes of
the railroad bosses.
But it seems that the governors good
resolution was soon "sicklied DER with
pale cast of thought" and after all bis
4ine pledges he has selected commission
that is pro-railroaded to begin with, and
there is small hope that it will ever be
anything else.
The grain producers and shippers OF
eastern Washington are not the only
people Of the state who are disappointed
In the governors selection of commits
siUners. The organized lumbermen OF
the state assert that the governor prom.
ised them one member OF the commits.
slon, and they unanimously endorsed w.
L. Benham, of Seattle, president of their
association. The governor has repudiated
his pledge and has treated the appeals Of
the lumbermen for rep. sltation on the
commission with indifference, if not con.
tempt. It is not forgotten that the com
mission law was made possible only by
the aid given by the lumbermen of Puget
Sound to the grain-growers of eastern
Warrington. 1t was the votes of mem.
bers Of the legislature from the timbered
counties that gave the commission bill
majority 10 both houses in spite of all
the railroad lobby could do to send it to
the morgue.
Naturally the lumbermen are very
tore because of Governor Mead's action
and the farmers and shippers of eastern
Washington will be no better pleased
with the commission.
However, the Statesman would advise
the people to hold their judgment of the
commission in abeyance until it has had
i fair opportunity to show the stuff it is
made Of. "By their fruits we shall know
them" II the commission law is made
Z success the commissioners appointed
lby Governor Mead and the governor
himself should be given full credit, but
IL the law is made farce, just censure
will be visited upon the same devoted
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