Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
GUM Shoe CAMPAIGN
A NOISY SILENCE Is ADOPTED BY
MCCREDIE MANAGERS.
a Still Hunt Campaign Is Being Made
IN the Hope of Deiuding the Rank
and File Of Republican PARTY into
Voting for "The Gentleman from
Oregon"

1t is very evident that Judge
Credle and his managers are con-
uuctlng a gum shoe campaign, and
tne reason for this singular stunt bv
the dominant party is equally plain.
Our republican friends fully realize
the hoplessness of any attempt to
arouse enthusiasm in the party for
and oregon candidate for congress,
and especially an Oregonian who,
while judge on the superior bench
or the state of Washington, openly
flaunts his contempt for the consti-
tuition and laws of the state he
serves as judge and desires to re-
present in congress.
The following dispatch from Ia
coma will serve to indicate the style
of still hunt that is being made by a
candidate that fears to come out in
the bright sunlight:
Judge WV. Mcbride, before eav-
ing for his home in Vancouver last
evening, named r. l.. Mccormick as
chairman, and Judge w. H. Smell, Ar
thur G. Prichard and George b Kan
die as members of his finance COM
mittee for the congressional cam
paign.
HE will return to Tacoma Mon
day, leaving the next day for Port
Townsend, where he will hold a con-
ference with Ed. Sims William Bish-
op and other political war horses of
Jefferson county. From there he will
go by automobile to Port Angeles,
where he will spend Thursday on a
like mission. Returning to Tacoma
Judge McCredie will visit Shelton on
Friday, Olympia on Saturday and
come back to Tacoma to rest over
Sunday.
yesterday the Vancouver man
called upon county officials at the
court house and met many of the pO-
litical workers employed in that
building. His quarters in the Don
nelly are visited daily by well known
Republican workers, included in the
number yesterday being several from
out of the city,
There you have it. A private fin
ance committee to hold up prospec
tive candidates for federal appoint
ments, as we'll as, perhaps; the pres
ent incumbents of those positions,
and then a gum shoe spin to Jeffer-
son, Clallam, Mason and Thurston
counties. Consultations are to be
with the local bosses only, who are
believed to hold the votes of the rank
and file of the party as personal as
sets, to be sold or traded where they
may to the best advantage of the
little boss.
How the mighty have fallen.
Uusually in this state a candidate for
congress. was accustomed to canvas
the district, to meet the voters; call
public meetings, in which he would
inform the people where he stood on
public questions Of general or local
import. None of this for McCredie,
and therein he displays good judg-
ment. Some embarrassing questions
might be fired at him. For instance,
he might and would, be asked how
he squares it with his conscience to
run for congress when the cOnstitu-
tion of the state declares him ineligi-
tiOn of the state declares his ineligi-
BILE to hold that office-and he has
taken an oath as judge to support
that constitution; he might, and
would, be asked why he definatly re-
fuses to obey the law enacted by the
legislature requiring superior court
judges to wear gowns while holding
court; he might and would, be ask
ed to give reason for holding on
the office of judge, and collecting the
salary attached to that position,
while running for another office,
leaving the litigants of four counties
without superior judge two months,
although they are taxed to pay his
salary.
O.
Credie's nomination is considered, it
is not surprising that discussion is |
avoided. The astute managers, who
assume to vote the average citizen to
order, realize that to win with this |
candidate they want no noise. He
must win, if win he does, by divert |
ing attention from his personality, |
and trusting to his party ticket carry
ing him through, a plan that open
discussion would make impossible
But, there are several flies in this
ointment Party enthusiasm has not
been aroused by the actions of the
Republican members in the pres
ent congress, and few members of
that party are not aware that the
tariff legislation of the special ses-
sion practically obliterated party
lines in both houses of congress, and
most of them would rather know a
candidates position on important
public questions than the name of
the political party to which he owes
his nomination.
In Chehalis county. we all desire
the development of Grays Harbor. by
the completion of two jetties to high
water mark. and to accomplish that,
we care as much for the political be-
lief of a congressman as we do for
the color of his eyes-no more. The
same applies to Pacific and Thurston
counties. whose harbOrS demand i'm ,
provement for the proper develop |