The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-09-01

passed through on No. today for
Cashmere, where he will address a
Cashmere audience, commencing at
o'clock this evening. This meeting
will last until 7:45, when the speaker
is to be brought to this city in NJ. P.
Spencer's automobile, and will ad-
dress an audience here, commencing
at $40. The distinguished insur-
gent was met at the depot by COM
mittee of local republicans, who went
to Cashmere with him. The Spencer
automobile went up later, carrying
several friends of Judge Poindexter.
and he will be brought to this city
in time to commence his address here
at $40.
The meeting in this city will COM
mence about o'clock. Thomas H.
Atkinson, candidate for the legisla-
ture, will be the first speaker and
will hold the audience until Mr..
Poiniexter's arrival here at about
$50. The band has been secured
and 1t is expected that there will be
a large audience at the Wenatchee
theatre. Attorney r. S. Huntington
will preside at the meeting this even
ing.
Following the meeting tonight
Judge Poindexter will go to Leaven-
worth, where he is billed to speak to-
morrow night. Requests have been
made to him for a meeting at Water
vile, but his dates are so arranged
that it is doubtful whether he can
make the trip to the Big Bend.
CONGRESSMAN PoindeXter has been
making a spectacular, campaign all
through the state. Three months
ago his friends thought he had acted
very foolishly in deciding to enter
the senatorial contest. 1t was fore
gone conclusion that he could have
been returned to congress with but
little opposition, but deciding to en-
ter the race for senator as success
sor to Samuel H. Piles, Judge Poln-
dexter has stirred the state as it has
never been stirred before, and it is
confidently believed that every coun-
ty in the state will give him a large
majority. In fact, it is thought that
notwithstanding the fact that Judge
Burke and John L. Wilson have made
a very bitter fight against him, that
he will carry the state with a popu'
lar vote equal to that of Senator
Wesley L. Jones two years ago.
In my opinion the progressive
movement in Washington has
reached the dimensions of a revolu'
ton
Thus spoke Miles Poindexter, who
showing but slight traces Of his
strenuous campaign on the coast and
quietly confident that the situation
becomes hourly more favorable to his
candidacy.
Underestimate Resentment.
1.-The mistake that my friends
Judge Burke, General Ashton anC
John l., Wilson have made" said the
great progressive, sis in underesti
mating and belittling the tremendous
and deep-seated resentment that is
apparent in the present political stu
alton.
at is not a personal question. II
is not a qeustion of any of those
gentlemen or myself. 1t is something
like a wholesale revolt against the
corrupt and selfish little ring OF
politicians that has Systematically
fooled and deceived the people.
'Tammany Hall in New York, the
Quay crowd in Pennsylvania, the
Guggenheim- Weyerhaeuser crowd il
this state and the Cannon-Aldrich
combine in congreSs-all financed by
the same money and all devoted te
the same interests-that is the SORT
of thing that has caused the progress.
siye movement, and that is the sort
of thing that has made it impossible
for any of the gentlemen | have men
toned to be nominated.
Attacks on the Tariff.
1.-THE tariff is the ostensible poin'
of attack, but I am frank to say that
it more the fashion in which the
tariff was framed rather than the
known iniquities of the document it
self that has caused the indignation
against the interests and the crowt
that serves them.
when half-dozen men, absolute
" oblivious of the peoples right:
> and regardless of the country's needs
can frame a tariff bill of over 1900
items and generously submit five
schedules to open amendment-nt
more. and the rules of congress per
mitted this outrageous tyranny
then, they argue, it is time that thu
machine of the interests in Washing
ton were smashed.
"They haven't studied the tariff