Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-05-26
U. S. SENATORSHIP
SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Sketches
THOMAS BOURKE.
Evidently rtr. BOurke Will Have Hard
Road to Travel In Home CITY. The
Repub'ics" Opposes Great North.
ern Counsel, but Wilson VIII Suit
J. J. Hill as Well.

Lest ye forget, The Seattle Repub-
iican" will in series of articles here
in, from time to time, endeavOr to
give the Republican voters of Wash
jngtOn some reason why they should
not vote for Thomas Burke for Unit
ed States senator to succeed Senator
Piles. These series of articles will
be the exploiting of the following
facts concerning Judge Burkes pub.
lie career: Firstly. He was life
long Democrat up to few months
ago, when he announced his complete
conversion to the Republican prin-
ciples, faiths and beliefs and, at the
same time, made known the fact that
for him condenscending to renOnuce
Democracy he expected the ReLub-
licans of the state to send him to the
United States senate. Was he NOV
triOtic motives? Despite the fact,
ed to fly under Republican banner
for the sake of being United States
senator, Is he really yet a dyed in the
wool Republican? AS a Democrat he
was a rabid free trade agitator and
tariff for revenue only. AS Demo
crat he bitterly opposed the doctrin-
es of protecting infant industries, but
wanted European countries to flood
the markets of our country with their
prison made goods. AS a Republican
he is favoring a tariff that fosters
trusts and combines, thus turning the
entire government over to the cor
pOration grabbers. He is, therefore,
Just as violently opposed to the poor
man as Republican as he was as
a Democrat.
Secondly, He has been corpora
tion lawyer for so long that he hard
ly remembers when he had an or
dinary case. Had he Sbeen corpora
ton lawyer with the view of keeping
his companies out of court and see-
ing that all sides got square deal
he might be forgiven for that offense,
but in the capacity of general coun-
sci for the Great Northern railway
company, he has likewise been fix
er. That is to say, he went before
the city council and by sharp prac-
tices got franchises for the asking,
for which any business concern would
have paid multiplied thousands of dol
lars. The success of the railroads
getting control of the country has
been his life study. He worked along
the theory of, Poor men have no
rights that railroad corporations are
bound to respect" In the United
States senate he would continue TO
advocate that policy, which fully ac-
counts for the railroads wanting to
see him elected to the senate.
Thirdly, Thomas Burke aided and
abetted by the Great Northern Off
cials has endeavored to flood this
country with Japanese labor to the
exclusion of all native help. TO show
to the world that he is perfectly will
ing to practice what he breaches
about the Japanese, he uses no other
kind of help in his household except
Japanese. 1t was Judge Thomas
Burke, without authority or just cause
who headed a riot call, sounded by
some of the men who favored Chin
ese help, that took up his shotgun
and fired into a crowd of innocent
white men killing one of them and
wounding others and for no greater
cause than that there was consider
able anti-Chinese talk in the town.
II sent to the senate Thomas Burke
will make strenuous efforts to open
our emigration gates to Chinese and
Japanese without restraint. Do you
want that condition to prevail on the
Pacific Coast?
Fourthly, No man in the entire
state was more responsible for the
defeat of Harold Preston for United
States senator than Thomas Burke.
and he did this because he believed
and verify knew that, If Preston
should be elected to the senate he
would not favor railroad legislation
as would Levi Ankeny. There is no
denying the fact that Harold Preston
at that time was favored by great
majority of the voters of the Republi-
can party for United States senator.
1t was Judge Burke that rose in a
public meeting in the Seattle Theater,
which had assembled to endorse Pres
tons candidacy, and attempted to
break up the same in the interest of
Ankeny, the railroad candidate. If
he should be elected to the senate
would he not at once begin to work
for railroad legislation to be passed
by confiress? Think Of these things.
Seattle Republican, May 20.