The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-09-05

auditors must collect the filing fees provided by
the law
The opinion as to vacancies applies only to the
parties which cast more than 10 per cent vote last
election.
In discussing the merits of the iudgeship ques-
ton with republican last week. the question was
asked why the Examiner did not publish facts in
regard to the personal character of Judge Carey
the same as the Statesman-Index and other papers
have purported to do regarding John B. Slater.
The intimation and inference were that Mr. Carey
would be more likely to suffer in this event than
would Mr.. Slater.
The answer to this question may be definitely
stated as principle upon which the Examiner is
being conducted under the present management
Dirty politics and personal attacks find no place in
the columns of any reputable newspaper News
papers are not for that purpose and present-day
politics should be above them.
Whatever may have been Mr.. Carey's misdeeds in
his personal life, they are matters which do not nee
essarily enter into the discharge of his official duties
Many other men have been victims of dissolute
habits, yet have served their country in official
capacities and have received great credit for their
work. The Examiner does not in the least ap-
prove of Judge Carey as man who should be
placed upon the official BENCH yet it approves less
OF any newspaper which will lower itself to the
level of candidate who attempts to gain office by
attacking the personal character of an opponent.
This years campaign for the judgeship has
been marked by candor and fair play upon the part
of John B. Slater. Neither he nor his news
paper supporters have attempted to charge Mr..
Carey with any wrongdoing except in official life,
which is proper matter for public discussion.
Compare this position with the undertaking
methods of Judge Carey and his adherents, and
choose whom you will have for your next judge.
Do honesty and clean politics count for anything,
or do they not?
And the Statesman Index, would-be comptroller
of republican politics. is having more trouble with
the selection of candidates. For several weeks it
has attempted to dsquaify and oust the Newport
candidates on the republican ticket in order that
few personal adherents might be favored. Mr.
King is hardly mentioned as the candidate oppos-
ing Jesseph, who belongs to the ring in control of
the Index. And now Thayer, candidate for rep
resentative is receiving the odum he has brought
upon himself by not consulting the Index editor
regarding the nomination, and was last week
cartooned as man who smokes cigars and who is
supposed to be favorable to Levi Ankeny.
On August IA the Index stated that it was "the
acknowledged representative of the republican
party in this county," If this were true it would
mean that the republican party in this county sup
ports Wesley L. Jones for the United States
senate, and approves of the scavenger methods by
which Jones is seeking to defeat Ankeny, and ap-
proves Of the Index over all other republican
papers in the county, and approves of Colville and
its candidates as against the world, and approves
of the Index rotation-in-offce aggregation, and
approves Of maligning representative men of the
county for personal reasons. This may all be true
of the republican party in this county-depending
entirely on who constitute the republican party.
We dislike to appear in doubt of the authenticity
of the Index statement that it represents the
party yet it would be sound slap at the best
republicans in the county to believe it.
Several months ago Mr.. Thayer was so unwise
as to tell the editor of the Index what he thought
of him. Since that time Mr. Thayer has not stood
we'll with the republican party" Messrs. King
and Sutherland of Newport are more friendly to
the Newport Miner than to the Index. AS soon
as this fact was noticed these gentlemen also lost
standing with the republican party" A large
number of the republicans of the county favor
Ankeny for the senate, yet the republican party"
as shown by the Index, favors Jones because he
furnishes free garden seeds to the Index.
Verify the republican party in Stevens county is
of wierd and varied character, and all is not joy.
Very carefully prepared editorials from the lily
white hands of Judge Carey sitting in his court
house sanctum on $4,000 per year salary, COM
mendng his virtuous candidacy for superior Judge,
are regularly appearing in the republican papers
of the county. The Judge can really say nice
thinps about himself and should be commended for