The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1910-07-01
TAXATION, EXPENSE,
POLITICS At SEATTLE
Taxation Committee of Chamber
of Commerce Report.
Senatorial Campaign Warming Up
--Poiiticians Admit That Miles
Poindexter Has Not Been Gain
ing Ground of Late.

Seattle, June % The taxation com
mittee of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce created sensation last week by
rendering a report in which it stated
that the county officers of King county
are extravagant in their business
methods. and that 100000 to $4,000
year might be saved if the county
affairs were handled in a business like
method. This report has of course
brought warm replies from the officers in
question, but the taxation committee be.
lieves that expenses have risen faster
than the increase OF business necesstates.
The report Of the taxation committee is
in line with the whole present public at
titude toward taxation and public ex-
pense. Tax leagues are springing up
everywhere, and the taxpayer is begin
ming to take more and more notice OF
where his money is b eiDg spent. There
is talk at present Of organizing a state
tax league to watch the expenditures Of
the state Offices. and to keep close eye
ten millions. like the last one did.
The death in Seattle last week Of John
FL. McGraw, who was governor Of the
state of Washington in the early 90's,
and since then has been leader in public
affairs of the state, an earnest advocate Of
every measure which has helped to pro-
mote the growth of this commonwealth,
will be mOurned in every section of the
state. John McGraw came to Seattle in
the pioneer days, and was sheriff OF King
county at the time of the famous Chinese
riots in 1886 He rose in public life to
the governorship, post which he occu-
pied with dignity and force. In busine's
life he was head of one of the largest
real estate and insurance firms in the
Northwest. His death was caused by
typhoid fever, from which he had been
suffering for some weeks.
The Senatorial Campaign.
With Thomas Burke and John L. Will
son actively campaigning throughout
the state, the friends of Miles Poindexter
on the alert pending his return from
Washington, and John E. Humphries
flooding the mails, the senatorial con-
test may be said to be warming up. 1t
is early yet and the people are not
greatly excited over the situation, but
the issues are shaping up and the live
liest political fight the state has ever
seen is in prospect. 1t is generally 8d-
mitted among politicians that POindex-
ter has not been gaining ground Of late.
Next TO the eenatoriaI campaign, no
political movement is quite so active
locally as the equal suffrage fight. which
is being busily waged by we'll organized
force OF women here and all over the
state This week the Washington Equal
Suffrage Association is starting its
workers out without expense money, but
with a bundle OF cook books under each
arm to pay .heir expenses. The cook
books were printed especially Tor the
suffrage workers, and they are sold at
one dollar each, the funds being used
to finance the campaign. Dr. Cora
Smith Eaton, treasurer of the Washing
ton association, declares that the cook
books are not only valuable in raising
campaign funds, but they serve to
illustrate the fact that women who are
asking the ballot are hOme-makers.