The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-09-25
GOOD MEN
FOR LEGISLATORS

For that section of the city OF
Spokane which embraces the Sew
enth senatorial and the Sixth rep
resentative districts the democracy
has placed in nomination candidates
who, by virtue of their experiences
in life and because of the struggles
they have made, are admirably
fitted for the best work in the ca
pacities to which they aspire. They
represent neither extreme of Ameri-
can society. Each and all. they
have hewn their own way. By self
achievement they gained their own
vantage. They illustrate in their
own careers the best which may
be got out of American life. They
know the ups and downs which
have to be travelled before success
comes; and now have the added
advantage of the experience which
results from actual touch with the
vicissitudes of all steps of progress.
Such men have never gone without
the sphere of life which surrounds
every man who gains by his own
endeavor, and their sympathies are
for the great middle class Of Amerl-
can citizens who are too often for
gotten in the turmoil of legislation.
In the cases of these three men the
past is a promise of the future, and
the past has been in the interest
of those things which most concern
the great middle class of citizens.
Heskett for Senator.
For the senate Thornton S. Hes
kett has been nominated. He has
been in this county and state for
nearly decade, during the greater
part of which time he has been
closely associated with men who
have the interests of home and
family at stake. Mr.. Heskett has
thought as he worked. His early
life was spent in Kansas, where
there has always been enough to
tulHh dUOul. olhCC NoiiiihSo W
Washington and Spokane county he
has kept up the habit gained in
earlier years from the panorama of
events in the making. AS printer
he has kept in touch with the mat
tiers which are always in the at
tention of the fourth estate"
A workingman himself, he has kept
in view the position of the common
man. His fellows have placed him
in positions of trust and representa-
ton. He has served as secretary
of the Spokane Trades and Labor
Council, and in that position has
come in contact with both sides of
the great struggle. He has also
represented the state of Washing
ton in the capacity of fraternal dele
gate to the Oregon Federation of
Labor. These experiences in bodies
where free interchange of opinion
and expressions of ideas and argu-
ments have fitted him eminently for
inc WUIh VI d lCs3 ISihLoi' ouI vi
his varied studies in the problems
of life, Mr.. Heskett has formulated
the following as his appeal to the
people:
Il would support the direct pri-
mary law as the surest way for
carrying out the wishes of the PEG
pie So with the initiative and ref
erendum. There should be no mid
dlemen in the choice of United
States senators and their nomina-
ton and election should be by the
people direct. | believe that both
labor and capital have rights that
any and every man should be bound
to protect, but | also believe that
neither should be allowed to en-
croach upon the other to its detri-
ment. would support any measure
which will prevent public carriers
from enforcing discriminating
freight rates
A. w. Jones' Platform
For three wears Arthur w, Jones