The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1908-07-18

tions.
No contribution of over $10 600 shall be accepted.
All gifts over $100 will be made public October Is.
Thereafter immediate publication will be given
Contributions under 500 will not be published.
No money will be received after November 1.
Compare this policy with that of the republican
party.
Last Friday morning the campaign for county
offices was inaugurated in Stevens county by the
filing of declarations of candidacy Strictly speak
ing the campaign of the courthouse ring was started
Thursday afternoon, and six of the overzeaous re-
publican office seekers started their campaign for
office one day before the legal time, part of them
sitting up all night to have their names head the
list the others having their deputies or agents
do this work for them.
The primary election will occur September g. and
this election will determine who will be the candi-
dates to be voted upon at the general election in
November, with the one exception of superior
judge. This office has been made non partisan and
the candidate for judge who receives the highest
vote at the primary election will in reality be elected
for his will be the only name for that office to be
placed on the general election ballot in November.
Numerous questions have been asked as to the
policy to be pursued by the Examiner in this cam
county politics. 1t is owned by democrats scattered
throughout the county, and was endorsed by the
democratic county convention held here this spring.
For these reasons it is evident that the Examiner
not be used to further the interests of any one
man or any set of men. On the contrary it's avowed
purpose has been and is to work for the best in
terests of the party as a whole. On any matters
where difference of opinion may exist, the Exam
iner will endeavor to give the facts in the case for
the consideration of the people, Advice as to how
voters should act will be left for those papers
whose subscribers are not considered capable of
Judging for themselves.
The people of this nation differ almost as widely
on questions of political policy as they do on mat
ters Of religion. Each man has right to his own
belief If through a presentation of facts the
position of democracy may be brought to thorough
understanding of the people, the proper political
purpose of democratic newspaper will have been
attained.
In county affairs the Examiner has no personal
ak to grind. Some conditions exist in the manage
ment of county affairs which are manfestly i'm
proper but these are of no more vital concern to
this paper than they are to the rest of the taxpay
ing public and such questions must be left for the
decision Of the voter. A public office is not always
handled as public trust but it should be. Where
county official Of known integrity performs good
and efficient work for the public, no paper should
have license to attack him except upon general
political grounds. When county official prosti-
tutes his office for personal gain all newspapers
should unite in proclaiming him man unfit to re-
main in the public employ.
The campaign of 1908 in nation state and county
promises to develop into contest of intense rivalry
In the state and national campaigns there are i'm
portant questions to be decided as to future policies
In Stevens county the selection of courthouse
officials will prove lively topic for discussion The
senatorial fight between Jones and Ankeny will be
settled at the primary election in September, and
this in itself has already usurped the news space of
many papers Of the state.
Presidential election years have generally been
marked by slight business depression, or rather
tightening of money. The reason of this has not
always been plain. With the opening of the 1908
campaign comes the question as to whether or not
business will suffer to any extent and the prevalent
newspaper opinion seems to be that business will
not vary much from the present condition, with
some belief expressed that the business status may
change for the better.
But the reason for this belief is not stated by re-
publican papers. For full explanation, the pub
lie should turn it's memory to the period of money
stringency which was started last fall It is we'll
known that the moneyed interests of the east
caused that panic to be started in order to show to
the public the power and strength of capitalism
Theodore Roosevelt had been assiduous in his efforts
in behalf of the people as against the trusts and
corporate combinations of wealth, and partially as
result of the publicity given his utterances, and
the awakening which followed, Wall street found
itself possessed of millions of shares of various