Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-07
The TRIBUNE BOLTS
TACOMA TRIBUNE REFUSES To
STAND FOR MCCREDIE.
Republican Paper OF Tacoma Bolts
Nomination Of "The Gentleman
=. from Oregon" and Gives Reasons
THAT Will Appeal to Republican
Voters of GrayS HarbOr.

Tacoma and Pierce county cannot
support Judge McCredie of Portland,
Ore, for congress.
That McCredie belongs to Portland
is not seriously disputed. All his in
terests are centered in the Oregon
metropolis. Business men of that
city are to give McCredie a brass
band reception upon his return home.
They boldly state in a message Of
congratulatiOn, wired to Olympia,
that McCredie may be depended upon
to do all in his power to provide
appropriations to continue the i'm
possible task of making the Columbia
river passable to great ships. They
expect McCredie to give Portland
millions to eXpend in digging out
uuicksands-wh will Immediately
drift back-and to give nothing to-
ward dredging the Puyallup-or do
ing anything the Sound country may
ask for.
Judge McCredie practically lives
in Portland. He risdes in .Vancouv-
tr--a Portland suburb, reached my
street car from the Oregon city
because he has to in order to sit
On the superior bench of Washing
ton. But the Judge spends his spare
hours at the Portland club, has ali
his moneyed interests in that city
owns the two baseball clubs of Port
land-the Northwest league ana
Coast leagues teams-and his natural
interest and loyalty is due the city
of his chOice-Portland, Oregon.
Had this patent fact been made
known in the convention at Olyml il
il Is likely that the ambition o+
Judge McCredie would have died
a-horin.' In the excitement of the
contest the delegates forgot all but
to defeat Pierce county because the"
imagined that James H. Ashton was
under the domination Of the wilson
Perkins influence something they
could under no circumstances stand
for.
Had the nominee of the Olympia
convention been Harmon or Finch,
or any of the many men mentioned
save McCredie of Portland, Tacoma
would have loyalty supported the
choice of the convention. But neithe:
Tacoma, nor Pierce county-nor any
other county in the district-can
reconcile itself to sending to con-
gress man whose interests are all
in another state, where he is mem-
ber of the clubs and business organ.-
cations of that neighboring state,
and where he would naturally throw
the weight of his influence in con-
Cress.
As for Tacoma and Pierce county,
McCredie is not entitled to single
vote. The yellow dog" theory in
politics long since disappeare
Parties must exercise due Judgment
in selecting candidates for their con-
stituents to support. And the de'e-
gates to the Olympia convention
must not expect their handiwork to
be blindly accepted on the theory
that Republicans must vote for the
Republican nominee, be he accept
able or impossible, as is Judge Nc
Credie.
The situation opens up an oppor-
tunity 70 rthe Democrats of the Sec
ond Washington district to send a
member of that party to congress to
fill out the unexpired term Of the
late F.. w. Cushman. McCredie
should not be given single vote in
Tacoma and few in the county. The
Tacoman who would vote for an
Oregon man-and Portland man at
that-and thus betray his home city
and congressional district, should be
invited to emigrate to Portland and
enjoys the fruits of his vote.-Tacoma
Tribune.