The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-08-26
ANKEKY, THE
UNDESIRABLE
AS SEEN BY COLLIER'S WEEKLY.
WOULD KNIFE JONES AND TAFT.
c. p. Connolly Tells Why Walla
Walla Man Should he Defeated.

United States is closer to the bs.nule
IN every way than the Golfers, pub
lished in New York. It has special
standing as factor in politics, and
when its columns are open to an arti-
Gle the statements that are made are
almost absolutely correct. For that
reason the following article, written
by G. p. Connolly, known throughout
the country as political writer, and
dealing with the situation of the
Washington senatorial contest, is NJ
extreme value.
The article appears under the
caption "Ankeny of Washington. The
History of Senate Undesirable Who
is Unfit Personally and Politically to
Represent His State, and Whose
Main Strength is His Bank Account"
1t is as follows.
In response to an aroused and I'M
trifling public sentiment, determined,
among other things, to prevent the
United States senatorship from be-
coming the plaything of millionaires
and to make it the unbought gift OF
the people, the last legislature of
Washington passed a direct primary
law. Under it's provisions the voters
of Washington will express their
choice for senator on September s..
OF the members of the legislature, all
but twenty-one hold-over state sem
ators are to be chosen on that date.
Levi Ankeny. man whose office was
bought, is candidate for reelection
by the next Legislature
The only candidate against Ankeny
Is Wesley l.. Jones, who has served
several terms in congress. The Seat
tie Times, before it switched to the
support of Ankeny. said of Jones that
he never belonged to any of the big
combinations and that he Is of the
race of men to which Jackson and
Lincoln belonged. Jones is poor
When he first ran for congress, his
political opponents pictured him a
"clod-hopper. He is a lawyer and
Hives at North Yakima. Coming up
from the soil, he is sturdy, unblem-
ished public figure.
Washington, up in the north west
corner of the union, is the last land
that links us to the North Seas. 1t
is a gateway to the unfolding COM
merce of Alaska and the Orient. In
land it has every product of mine and
soil. This young, lusty, advancing
commonwealth, calling by right for
the highest qualities Of statesman
ship in its national representatives,
has at Washington a senator not only
personally unfit, but the representa-
tive of bribery and corruption shame
fully open.
Levi Ankeny's real name is Smith,
o. Schmidt. When a boy he was
adopted by Captain A. p. Ankeny,
an old Oregon sea captain. In the
sixties, Captain Ankeny bought his
adopted son pack-train, with which
young Ankeny journeyed to Lewis
ton, Idaho, and engaged in merchan-
dizing. In Lewiston he acquired
sufficient wealth to move later to
Walla Walla, then the most consid-
erable town in Washington, where he
opened bank.
Ankeny had a good many of the
qualities which marked the early pio-
neers. He was manly, and while not
particularly sociable, was democratic
In his ways. He knew those things
which only the pioneer who has
roughed it knows. If an old farmer,
whose vocabulary was confined to
trading terms, numbered into
Walla Walla, Ankeny spoke his ver-
hacular. On the other hand, he was
thoroughly familiar with one volume
of English history, and, by quoting
frequently from its pages, left last
ing impression of scholarship on the
minds of the farmers. The old pio-
neers in and around Walla Walla,
VINO have not been in touch with An
kenys public career. have warm
feeling of friendship for him.
The Ankenys were in the early
days of Walla Walla. and are now,
good neighbors. If anybody in the
neighborhood was sick-and 1t mat
4srcd not what was the social posi-
ton of the invalid-the Ankenys
stopped daily to inquire for them. or
sat up with them at night. They are
as kindly neighbors, and as genial,
as one could know. The springs of
nature in them were easily and sin
cerely touched, and responded in in
expensive ways. Ankeny was looked
upon as a penurious man, except po-
litically-to control county conven-
ton he has been known to spend