The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-08-04

gates cheered and then voted for James Ashton for
mer general counsel for the Northern Pacific rail
way and Judge Reid, present general COUNSEL as
the favorites, with b. w. Coiner, another "stand
pat lawyer as third choice.
But who is going to elect this con g r e S S ma
from Southwestern Washington?
Are the politicians and the corporations going
to do it the people going to furnish the votes
And if the people must furnish the votes, do
they want Irregular" who will lick the boots of Joe
Cannon and bow the neck to Senator Aldrich to
labor night and day for special interests while the
people groan under the burdens of trust controlled
necessities of life2
Do they want "stand patter' like Humphreys
of Seattle, who is nonenity except as office boy
ito errands for Senator Piles, or do they want
man like Judge Poindexter the Spokane congress
man, who has manhood enough to stand in the house
of representatives and give expression to the right
eous protest of the people against the dictaton OF
Joe Cannon?
Mr.. Mccormick told the boys yesterday that the
regular man was the only one who can "get
things at Washington .st
WE'LL Tacoma knows Ey dear experience that
la congressman, whether regular or not ''gets'
mighty little for his town when he bumps up
against United States senator with pull And
are the people going to turn back the tide of progress
against the rights of the special interests for the
sake of getting things
Tacoma wants congressman. She wants man
who is loyal to this city, Who will work for it day
land night and will have strength of G character
enough to impress himself on the national lawmak-
ing body, but Tacoma hardly wants a man to go to
Washington to barter away the sacred rights of the
great people Of these United States to the Aldrchs
and Cannons and the party machine to .'get
things"
There are some things even more important
right than getting things in the shape of Of
lficial pap. President Roosevelt started movement
Ito the natural of the nation for
Ithe children of today. He inaugurated movement
waite citizens obey. He was responding in small
way to the pressure of public sentiment for a.
square deal But today the reactionaries com
ling back. The corporations are reasserting their
power. The party lash is swhipping the weak -kneed
into line and turning back the dial Of progress.
And the self appointed mass meeting yesterday
asks the people to join in the movement to send
regular" to Washington to help in the backward
trend.
But the people won't do it.
That term stinsurgent'' has ceased to have ter
|rors to the public mind.
They want more insurgents in the halls of con-
lgress who will not be wooden pawns to be shifted
around by the party bosses on the chess board of
Legislation to checkmate the people in their strug
lgle for square deal.
The people will not tamely submit to any deal to
lfasten on this new and progressive community a.
politician of the old breed They want d new deal.
They demand progress. They do not believe in
letting well enough alone but want to advance with
the times. They know Tacoma will grow and they
believe public thought and public legislation should
keep pace with industrial advancement
But they deny that ali wisdom and virtue and
ability to serve the country s tied up in the candi
party machine to give the special interests free rein
to rob the masses.
Tacoma should send man to Washington who
will join with judge Poindexter Of Spokane in the