The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-10
THE GUBERNATORIAL SITUATION
Continued from Page One.)

/ the nomination for governor -four
years ago at the Tacoma republican
convention, the Review bolted the re-
| publican ticket and supported tn,
democratic candidate as opposed t,
Governor A. E. Mead, whom the.
charged with being tool of the rail
| roads and puppet of the bosses. Sc
bitterly did they fight Mr.. Mead and
to such extremes did they go in their
allegations to the effect that he was
an unfit candidate, and so wrathful
did they become in their warfare
upon him that they have been unable
to overcome their prejudice created
at that time or forgive him for de-
feating, first Mcbride for the nomf-
nation, and second Turner, the demo-
cratic candidate for governor, in the
election that followed.
Three years of clean, progressive,
constructive administration, in which
time all of the unjust allegations
made against Mr.. Mead have been
refuted and disproved by his actions
and accomplishments in which time
he has clearly shown that he was not
a tool or puppet in the hands of So
called political bosses, but on the con-
trary that he is free, fearless, indie
pendent executive, whose highest en-
deavOr has always been and is sill
secure for he people hose hings
hey so earnestly demanded, and who
hs consistently advocated those meas
ureS necessary to keep pace with the
marvellous growth and development of
this state; three years of an able ad-
ministratiOn of this character has
not been sufficient to placte the Re-
view or win from it a single fair ex-
preston of approval, or to overcome
it's original deepseated prejudice
against the man.
In it's hatred of Governor Mead
and still believing that Henry Nc
Bride embodied those virtues with
which it endowed him four years ago.
it welcomed his entrance into the are
ma again this spring. Immediately
following the latter gentleman's an
nOuncement of his candidacy, the Re
view inaugurated through it's news
and editorial columns a series of ma
licious attacks in the nature of persO-
nal abuse and ridicule of Governor
Mead. Mcbride, doubtless, manac, 4
to extract from this no little sOlace,
possibly sufficient to overcome the
surprise and chagrin at the Indifferent
manner in which his announcement
was received throughout the state in
general
Suddenly, however, the Review
ceased its attacks upon Governor
Mead and became silent as the
SphynX regarding state politics in
general. What annoyance and con-
Germ this may have caused Mcbride
and his principal conferees can only
be cOnjectured But, when within
the last ten days this cooling process
on the part of the Review developed
into an apparent change of heart, dis
played in the news columns of that
journal through an article or two
from its correspondents in different
parts of the state slightly favorable
to the candidacy of Governor Mead,
genuine alarm and CONSERVATION
seized upon the Mcbride camp.
Something must be done imme-
diately to prevent this very evident
stampede on the part Of the Review,
and herein that astute politician,
Henry Mcbride, or possible one of his
shrewder and keener advisors, hit
upon a daring but effective plan for
driving the Review back into the fold.
Again, to develop the plot. it is
necessary to relate briefly little of
the political history of The state.
To those who have read and fol-
lowed the attitude of the Spokesman
Review for the past several years
its deathless and frantic hatred of
John l.. Wilson, one time senator
from this state, is as familiar as the
very makeup of the paper itself.
That opposition to the aspirations
and ambitions of Wilson has been
the principal political creed of the
Review, and his name has been red
rag in the eye of that paper.
Even though unfair, unjust and
Indignantly vindictive in it's treat
ment of whoever and whatever it
has opposed, the Review has appar-
emily been honest and at least con-
sistent in its warfare waged against
railroad influence in politics in this
state. 1t is altogether probable that
its recent change of heart toward
Mcbride was brought about by its
discovery of the fact that those in
fiuences, represented in the persons
of J. D. Farrell George Stevenson,
B. D. Croker and their kind wera
really responsible for the candidacy
of Mcbride and are the men ut pres
ent secretly behind hie camDaign.
This being the case the Feview real