The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-08-10
PARADISE FOR
POLITICIANS
ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING AT
THE HOME OF WAsHINGToN's
UNITED STATES SENATOR.

| Walla Walla is becoming paradise
for politicians. There is always some
keep the pot boiling.
There are the city primaries in June
the city election in July. and this
year the July election was as good as
two.
The county and state primaries
which will likely be sometime III the
early fall of next year. The county and
state election in November next year
Then Walla Walla is the home of a
United States senator, and many
prominent politicians.
Here is located the state peniten-
tiary, it's incumbent appointed by the
governor, the former in turn having
the distribution of great number Of
plums doled out in the form of jobs
as guards and stewards.
Also Walla Walla is the center of
a great, wealthy and populous dis
| trict, the control of which by candi
dates for political honors, is a
mountain of strength. Hence state
politicians turn wistful eyes Walla
Wallawards and WOO her favor ardent
lily.
The coming year will be busy for
the politicians. There will be county
nominations, ranging from sheriff
down to constable, there will be sew
eral state nominations on the mar
ket, and there will be a legislative
ticket, too. The overshadowing event
will be the fight for the nomination for
United States senator
| Closely following on the primaries
will come the state conventions for
selecting delegates to the national
! conventions, and the nomination of
presidential electors for the battle in
November. There will be all kinds and
varieties of politics, state, county and
municipal. The latter brand is held in
a year of itself, so councilmen cannot
be elected on national issues.
At present the candidates for SEN
ator are doing the most noisy cam
pafgning, but the men who wait the
smaller billets are not asleep at the
switch. Names are already being men,
| toned for congress and county and
state Offices.
| Governors Busy.
The campaign for the office of gov
ernor is warming up nicely. Goldman,
of Dayton, has opened up with
boom. His skirmish line has been
thrown out, volleys of newspaper poll
ties have been fired into the defence
less public repeatedly
Also S. G. Cosgrove of Pomeroy is
busy Not long ago he was in Walla
Wala. He has been elsewhere. He is
giong elsewhere and wherever he goes
| the smoke of political war hangs low
And there are many others who dream
to some day put their feet on the CUB
erratorial foot stool, all of whom are
up and doing.
The political microbe is overworked
The everyday citizen has arrived at
the stage where every time he is in
troducd to a stranger he takes it for
granted the said stranger is on the
trail of some nomination. The days
of the short, whirlwind campaign APP
policy is in vogue and the surprising
feature is that there are so mary early
birds
Formerly in the days of boss rule, a
politician who stood in made his ar
rangements with the boss, received the
promise of a nomination and said
nothing until the day of the cOnven-
ton. After the convention the can
didate disappeared until the last three
weeks before election, When he began
sending around cigars and a keg OF
beer to the mushroom ward clubs. AS
every voter is a boss under the direct
primary, the man who wants a nomin-
alton must get into the game early
and devote at least a couple of months
to the ambition, although in the case
of United States senator candidates
will have campaigned a year before
the people have a chance to make a
preference.