The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-18
WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER

John E. Chilberg Of Seattle, has
lately spent some time at the capital,
and during his stay gave to a reporter
for local newspaper an interview which
has caused not little discussion among
those interested in the senatorial fight
in the state of Washington. With
three candidates residing in King
county and two in other parts OF the
state" Mr.. Chilberg is quoted as say
ing, the contest for the seat now &C.
cupied by Senator Piles is exceedingly
uncertain. If all these candidates go
into the primary, it seems a sure thing
that no one of them could receive a
majority vote, and I doubt if the legis-
lature Of Washington would feel obi
gated to elect the man getting a plu-
rality. 1 am inclined to believe that
the members would be disposed to dis
regard the primary and go ahead and
elect some man of their own choosing.
When the above was shown to repre-
sentative Miles Poindexter, he smiled
broadly and said: The suggestion
that the Legislature should ignore the
mandate Of the primary is one whose
honesty and good faith can best be ap-
appraised by the voters of our state,
but made thus early in the campaign by
one Of Judge Burke's chief supporters,
it seems to me very much like con-
fession OF defeat. Speaking as one oil
the candidates for senator l am glad to
say that I shall abide by the verdict Of
the primary, and if any other candidate
has in mind contrary course OF action
he will find before the fight is ended
that his political future is already be-
hind him.
According to William Allen White
the famous Kansas editor who is spend
ing some time at the capital, the fight
the Progressive Republicans of Wash
ington are waging under the leader
ship of Representative Poindexter is to
have its counterpart this summer In
every state of the middle west. Kan
sas is republican" says Mr.. White, but
our state organization, our governor and
most OF our state officers are entirely
out of sympathy with the Cannon-Ald-
rich Interpretation Of the National Re-
publican platform. The fact that six
out of our eight congressman adhere
to the Aldrich-Cannon Interpretation
has put them out of sympathy with
Kansas, and in every Kansas district
represented by an Aldrich-Cannon man
there is now irregular republican can
didate announced against him. In the
two Kansas districts represented by
Murdoch and Madison, who are in
sympathy with the republican organiza-
ton in Kansas, there are no opposing
candidates, and we have dared the
Cannon-Aldrich fellows to trot out can
didates against them.
"All of the regularly organized re-
publicans, who are running against the
standpat congressman in Kansas, have
put out personal platforms. Each can
didate pledges himself to stand by the
Republican national platform and to
redeem one Of its pledges by doing all
he can to revise the tariff downward.
He pledges himself to be a public, and
not party servant and to stand by
no action which he regards as inimical
to the the interests of the country.
Attorney General Jackson, who is run
ming for congress in the fourth district,
after pledging himself to vote against
Cannon and against the candidate
named by the Cannon wing of the
party, says in his platform: l shall
serve the party only when the party
serves the country. This phrase is
paraphrased in the platform of every
candidate running against the Cannon
incumbents.
"These conditions are not peculiar
to Kansas. In Iowa, where the ma
iority of the delegates follow Senator
Deliver and Senator Cummins, there
are candidates running against the