The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-05-11
POINDEXTER AND THE MACHINE

NO thinking man familiar with
the most elementary principles or pol
tics has taken seriously the charge
made against Congressman Miles
PoindeXter, the leader of progressive
republicanism in this state, that he
| is attempting or has attempted to
build up following by promises of
| political rewards. The ability of any
representative in congress, or any
senator to control patronage in his
district or state depends entirely on
his standing with the administrator.
a school boy or school girl of the
present day knows this. Even a
hopeless lunatic knows that the re-
commentator of a congressman to
appOintiVe offices in his district is alb
Solute if the administration is sat
iSied with his attitude. On the other
hand, if he is not in accord with the
administration, no more attention is
paid to his recommendation than if it
were made by member of an oppo-
site political party.
The disgusting, inane, senseleSs
blarney that has been INDUCED in by
those who sought to discredit the mo-
tives of Congressman Poindexter has
not misled thinking men and thus far
the world has paid no attention to
it. There is not an intelligent man
in Chelan county who does not Know
that the reason why Congressman
PoindeXter is not permitted to con-
troll the patronage of his district is
because he voted against the Payne
AIdrch tariff and because he voted
to remove Speaker Cannon from
membership on the committee on
rules and also voted to relieve him
from his duties as speaker and thus
| incurred the displeasure not only OF
the administration out of all other
members of the Washington delega-
ton. The enmity manifested by his
colleagues from this state, together
with his unyielding hostility to Speak
er Cannon deprived him of a right
enjoyed by his colleagues to make re-
Communications for postm asterships
and other offices that r1gntfully. ac-
cording to custom, belong to him.
There is not demented old woman
/ living who has not sense enough left
not to know that if Congressman
PoudeXter had allied himself with
the CInnon-Aldrich faction Of con-
ercss IS Senator Jones and the two
/ othc. representatives. of this state
have done, that his recommendations
would have been acted on favoraDY.
The cheap buncomDe that has been
| put out about THE people" means
substantially that some half dozen
men who represent the old time Or
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enactment OF the disuict primary law
and who dictated the patronage of
this locality heretofore assumed to
themselves the divine right to speak
/ for the whole people of this COM
munity. Unde" the system now in
vogue the people speak authoritative
/ ly only at one time and that is when
! thcy vote at primary elections. There
is no evidence at hand that the peo-
! pie of this community or of any other
community have ever been consulted
about the appointment of postmas-
tors census enumeratorS, census SUI
/ pervisor, register or receiver of the
Ian donice or in fact of any other
office, hut there is evidence that the
so-called political leaders have been
suneultd
| Congressman PoindeNter deliber-
ately chose to forego the right ac-
corded to the other congressional
representatives to control patronage
in his district rather than to retain
/ 1t by submission to the Cannon AID
/ 'ich faction which has the backing
/ of the Administrations He made his
/ campaign as an opponent of Can
/ nonism. and his course in congress