The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-08-01

Hunt for the clerkship it dawned upon Mr.. John
son that there must have been mutual under
standing between Carey and Hunt to get in to-
gether on the front seat These are straws in the
wind that do not look good to Johnson and he has
become so excited over the situation that he can't
help talking about it. and it is said that he is say
ing things in confidence about the Carey and Hunt
combination that would not sound we'll in print.
Clair Hunt is also making discoveries that are
novel and interesting, and he is unusually active in
drawing logical conclusions Clair is great thinker
and he speaks guardedly, with precision He thinks
Auditor F. A. Savage handed him lemon when
he refused to file more than one declaration of
candidacy by taking the declaration of Judge
Carey and making Trunnels return to the foot of
the list. Savage says that at the state auditor s
convention resolution was adopted that where a
messenger appeared in the line with more than one
declaration of candidacy he should be permitted to
file only one, and must return to the rear of the
line and take his turn before he could file another.
Hunt has been reading the newspapers and
noticed that in King county, in Kittitas county, and
in number Of other counties the auditors received
declarations in punches from messengers and filed
them. In King county the auditor received %
declarations from one messenger in line and filed
them without invoking this rule. The result is
that Hunt treats Savage with cool dignity, coupled
with peculiar sort of poteness that would indicate
that they do not think much of each other
Johnson has concluded that the policy of con-
ciliation that he has pursued during the many
months will avail him little. He has discovered
that there is factional fight in the ranks of the
republican party and that he now has to- get off the
fence and down into the Savage pasture with Jes-
seph and Turk and Kirkpatrick and their camp
followers On the other side Carey and Hunt are
marshaling their strength with firm determina-
ton to control the primaries. They are supported
by Frank Ferguson for sheriff and DR.. Sutherland
OF Newport for commissioner and with the railroad
and corporation whip in hand they propose to
thresh the political hide off any one who opposes
them.
johnson feels humiliated, and shows by word of
countenance that he believes his many kndnesses
to Carey have not been returned in generous
spirit. For many months while deputy clerk un-
der Mr.. Shaver, he has been preparing reports of
the court proceedings and sending the same to
newspapers which he wished to favor, and signed
his name to them as deputy clerk These reports
were looked over and approved by Judge Carey,
and, according to Lon, where there was decision
which smelled Of corporation influence, the taint
was extracted or the thing cut out altogether.
as in the case of ]. A. Meyers vs. the Gherhart-
Bradrick Lumber Company, where So, 700 verdict
of a jury in favor of Meyers was set aside and
judgment for costs rendered in favor of the corpo-
ration; the idea being that there were some things
even in the proceedings of the superior court that
might just as we'll be kept from the public eye
But all these things are the way of politics.
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President Cleveland and the democratic party
had to bear the burden of panic during his ad-
ministration, although the trouble began under his
predecessor in Office and President Roosevelt and
the republican party can't escape evade like re-
sponsibility, especially as the appalling conse-
quences of the Roosevelt panic far surpass those
Of the Cleveland panic According to the Mime
apolis Commercial West, after compiling the fig
ures. the record shows that the country has
passed through the greatest panic in forty years.
For the first six months of 1908 there were 1850
failures against 1924 in 1897 and 6,528 in 1894,
while the liabilities were $178 555 OO0 or $8 555 900
more than in 1894 and $73 555 900 more than in
1897" The republican party will have to accept
the responsibility. 1t was in power when these
things occurred. Seattle Times.
The good work of the republican administration
in destroying the trusts is shown in the fact that
Schwab has just succeeded in organizing an inter-
national steel trust.
The corporation advocates of Mr.. Taft are plan
ming to place the best speakers in the party the
stump this falls. No need to take special action
along this line. They're all up stump now
MAN wants but little here below" Amt it the
truth? And he gets but the little that is left from
the greed of the giant combinations which prosper
under republican rule