Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-04-09
GHOST OF Division
MAY PLAY A PART IN ELECTION
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
ChehaliS County Republicans Said to
Resent Interference in County,
Division Fight by John L. Wilson.
Ankeny Men Say Jones will be
knifedafprimarieSin Consequence


published in the Seattle Times of last
Sunday, under an Aberdeen date line,
and is reproduced here for what it is
worth. If it possesses an element of
truth, 1T reveals a condition in the
republican party of the county that
may result in nice little scrap later
on:
County division is not a corpse in
the western part of Chehalis county
the county of Grays Harbor which
once existed through legislative en-
actment, but which was given a sup
posedly lethal wound through the
decision of the supreme court. For
from being down and out for good
and all, it is extremely lively, and
promises to remain with the people of
Washington for some time to come
1t has bearing, weighty and over
Whelming, on the campaign today;
1t will be felt decisively at the Sep
tember primaries; and it will rise up,
full of life and action, at some future
session of the Legislature, should Alb
erdeen fail to secure the county seat
by election two years hence. A DEATH
blow was aimed at county division,
but county division is still here to
work for the undoing of the forces
that attempted to assassinate it. The
sentiment it has engendered is going
to make many a vote for Levi An
keny for the United States senate; it
is going to cost many vote to AL
bert e. Mead for governor, and it is
going to cause no end of trouble to
those aspirants for the supreme bench
who will come up for election before
the people next fall
Wilson Is Held Responsible.
They say that county division af-
forded an unexampled opportunity to
John l.. Wilson for playing the kind
of politics in which the aging arbiter
of the peoples destiny once excelled
and that he made the most of the
chance to carry water on both
shoulders" At the east end of Che
halls county, the sentiment, especial
ly around MOntesano, was emphat-
ically against division; just as in the
west end around Aberdeen, it was
unreservedly for division. To gain
the support of the west end of the
county for Jones, Wilson was under
stood to favor division; to gain the
support of the east end for Jones,
! Wilson was understood to oppose div
carried, Aberdeen and other cities in
the western section felt that Wilson
had made good his implied promise;
and when division failed, through the
decision of the supreme court, the
people in the east end of the county
also felt that everything was all
right.
| Then, after due reflection, a great
light dawned on the people of the
west end and also Of the east end,
and today they are beginning to be-
lieve from one end of Chehalis coun-
ty to the other that they have been
strung" and they are holding Will
son responsible for that condition of
affairs.
The effect on the candidacy of
Wilson's man, Jones, is already show
ing signs of utter and irreparable
disaster, for through Wilson, the
name of Jones has been brought into
this uncomprOmisingl bitter county
division fight, and both sides are
against Jones.
Tough Shedding for Mead.
Similarly, Gov. Mead will find Che
halls county, from west to east, as
tough bit Of Shedding as ever tried
his nerves during political cam
paign. 1t is related that he agreed
with the people of Aberdeen to give
them always his staunchest support,
and then failed them. The Montesano
Vidette recently said editorially that
Mead's support wouldn't amount to
corporal's guard-that the people
owe him nothing-that he signed the
bill. and then that the bill was null
lifted by the court, two of the men,
bers Of which were appointed by him.
Further. 1t is related here in Aber-
deem that Mead. hearing Of talk OF
renewed agitation of the question,
sent an emissary to say to the anti
divisionists that II they would prom
ise him support he would agree to
veto such bill in case 1t should come