The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1908-07-31
FARMER-LAWYER FOR GOVERNOR
indications Point to His Certain Election
Seattle News Letter

strength the Cosgrove cause is gaining
here. More and more local politicians
are realizing that the bitter fight Mead |
and Mcbride are waging against one
another is having the effect of throwing
much support to Cosgrove, the only
candidate whose cause never seems to
show any backward movement. 1t has
all along been conceded that the
Pomeroy man was very strong in the
eastern counties and the supporters of
other candidates are now reluctantly
admitting that he is stronger over this
way than they ever had any idea he
would be.
The peculiar part of the fight from
purely political standpoint is the total
failure of any of the other candidates
to find anything against Cosgrove on
which to make fight. Mcbride him
self is no longer paying any attention
to Mead but is directing all his fight at
Cosgrove. And the only thing he has
as yet said against the lawyer-farmer is
that he is fast losing strength. He has
advanced no argument why he should
lose, but merely states it as fact that
he has. The record OF the Pomeroy
candidate has been searched in vain
for flaw but there is absolutely nothing
in it that can be distorted into an argu-
ment against his candidacy. Voters are
realizing this as the campaign grows
hotter and for that reason Cosgrove is
gaining strength every day.
Mcbride is probably weaker in King
county than he is in any other part OF
the state. 1t is now four years since
he ceased to help the party in this
county or the state. Two years ago
Cosgrove made eight speeches in King
county and at that time Mcbride was
appealed to in vain to go on the stump
for the republican ticket. During the
mayorality election in Seattle this spring
Mcbride refused to even allow his
name to be used in behalf OF John
Miller, the republican nominee. His
intimate friends were lined up publicly
in support of Moore, Miller's leading
opponent and prominent democrat.
1t was stated freely at the time of the
election that Mcbride was going to vote
for Moore and the man who is now
asking the republicans of the state to
honor him with the office of governor
did not even go to the trouble of deny
ing the report This record is being
used with telling effect against him in
King county.
The following newspaper comment
indicates the most recent drift of pub
lie opinion:
Mr.. Cosgrove's chances are looking
brighter every day. A conservative
estimate of leading republicans Of Day
ton gives him IS per cent. of the
republican vote TO be cast in the COM
ing primary election in Columbia, Gar
field and Asotin counties. The voters
are daily turning to Mr.. Cosgrove,
whose name is synonymous with honor
and politics in business and in private
life. Columbia County Dispatch.
There is strong sentiment among
the voters in this county for Hon. S. G.
Cosgrove for governor, and it is daily
spreading and growing. Many of the
leading farmers in this section have
indicated a preference for Mr.. Cos
grove and say that they will work for
him during the campaign. He is able
and capable, thoroughly in touch with
all sections of the state, its varied
resources and needs, and would give
the people just such an administration
as they are now demanding, wise, econ
omical, progressive and impartial
Franklin County Register.
Cosgrove really seems to be the
favorite of the gubernatorial candidates.
If the primaries were held tomorrow in
Puyallup he would probably get
plurality vote, if the few good workers
at the polls could be induced to take
charge of his ause.-Puyallup Repub
lican.
Probably the most noted change
during the past month is the enormous
falling off in the Mead support, and
corresponding increase in Cosgrove's
strength. Mcbride was the strongest
man by far at the beginning of the
contest. He has lost none of his own
strength, but the transfer of Mead's
supporters to Cosgrove and the general
concentration of heretofore unallied
forces on Cosgrove is bringing his
stock TO the front amazingly. The