The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1908-08-05
PROHIBS DIVIDE.
Talk of Another Candidate for the
Legislature on Cold Water
Ticket.

lICkCts
Combination of the democrats and
the prohibitionists of Yakima county
is not entirely pleasing to some of the
cold-water people, who are declaring
that they will present another can
didate for the legislature despite the
fact that DR.. Granville Lowther, a
pronounced prohibitfonist, is the only
democratic nominee so far. DR.. Webb
is being talked by the cold water
people.
Indications are that the combina-
ton made by number of the leading
members of the two parties is not
meeting with immense favor with the
democrats, although there is no pros
pect of a disruption as result. The
following anonymous communication
has been received by the Herald re-
garding the situation, and indicates
the feeling of some of the prohibi
tionists:
The statement in the Herald and
the dispatch to the Seattle Times to
the effect that the prohibitionists of
North Yakima had combined with"
or "gone in WITH" or been "swal-
lowed up by the democrats" was
wholly unauthorized. The way is
open at all times for prohibitionists
without dishonor to leave their party
and join any other party, but for any
one man or two to assume the re-
sponsibility of selling out the crowd
and carrying them over into another
camp, shows a measure of gall that
is extraordinary and dangerous.
PROHIBITIONIST.
P. Sit is fully understood that
the prohibitionists will hold their
nominating convention on the day If
the primary election, the second
Tuesday in September. P.
Editor Herald:
You and other publishers of this
city and some of the sound publish
ers having published set of resolu-
tons purporting to have been adopt
ed by the Prohibitionists of Yakima
county, and also the statement that
the Prohibitionists and Democrats
have fused in order to defeat Mr..
Meigs, / therefore take this means
of inc Nf hn
bition party in this county.
The resolution mentioned was not
voted on in our meeting and was not
authorized by our central committee,
and so far as l am able to learn
copies sent out bears no mans sigma
ture. Let me says here any docu-
ment coming from the Prohibition
county central committee will bear
my signature SO long as / am chair
man of that committee.
Again we have not had any meet
ing with the Democrats, and have
formed no agreement with them
about the candidacy of DR.. Lowther
or any other man. If DR.. Lowther
secures the nomination on the Demo-
cratic ticket he will be compelled 10
get his support from the Democrats,
for we as Prohibitionists have no
legal right in their primaries. Under
the law, on September Sth, while Re-
publicans and Democrats are making
their nominations at the primary cleo
| ton we will be compelled to make
our nominations in a mass conven-
ton, and a convention will be held
in this city on that day for that pur-
pose. But l am not able to say what
IL any nominations will be made as
our party is not governed by bosses,
| but by those men who are followers
OF our party, and who choose to take
part in our conventions. We have
no fight against any man before he
has been nominated on some ticket.
| There is no reason why we should
wish to knife" Mr.. Meigs because
he failed to sign the petition to the
city council. for that petition was not
a product of the Prohibition party,
but of the National Issue club, which
is made up of men of the three
parties.
The party or parties who gave the
information to the press is either
grossly ignorant or untruthful. Ev-