Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-08-18
Ashton and
FORDNEY
DISCUSS POLITICAL ISSUES AT
The GRAND LAST night.
Ashton Abuses POindexter, Yet Pro.
nOunCeS Platform of Latter Good
Republican Doctrine. Genial "JOe"
fOrdney. Makes Standpat Speech
In Defense OF CannOniSm.

FOrdney. Makes Standpat Speech
In Defense OF CannOnism.
A fair sized audience greeted Col.
James M. Ashton, Tacoma candidate
for the United States senate-believed
to be a stalking horse for John l..
Wilson-and Congressman Joseph
Fordney, of Michigan, member of the
ways and means committee-the most
regular of the regulars and recogniz
ed high priest of high protective tar
if duties, at the Grand theater .ast
night, attracted largely by a desire
to hear the genial Michigan congress
man, who has been a firm friend of
Grays HarbOr during his IL years in
congress.
Following, as the meeting did, so
close the PoindeXter meeting of Mon.
day night, many expected to hear his
speech torn to pieces, but were dis
appointed in that particular 1t was
plain that no conference had been
had between Ashton and Fordney, as
there was more divergence between
their statements that there was be-
tween either of them and Judge PO-
indeXter's talk.
Col. Ashton read from the PoinGeN-
ter platform. and said everv plank
in it was good republican doctrine,
and was either taken from the ma
tional platform of the party, or was
measure heartily endorsed Dy that
party. He said he was a progressive
republican, and favored the reorgan-
iZation of the house and senate, and
in fact, read Judge Poindexter back
into the republican party--if he ever
was read out.
So far as Col. Ashton took the aud.
ience into his confidence the only
differences between himself and Po-
indeXter are, that he opposes all in
come tax, despises Col. Roosevelt and
favors a state control of natural re-
sources, that acts so kindly 'oward
the Weyerhauser and Morganheim in
terests. So far as the fight of Poin-
dexter against Cannonism goes, he
secured clean bill of health from
Ashton. 1t was noticeable that P0n
dexter was the only competitor nam
ed in the speech. So far as could
be learned from this talk Col. Ash
ton is innocent of any knowle l9n that
John L. Wilson, Judge Burke. llum-
phries and Freeman are in the cam
paign. and the fight lies between him
self and the congressman from the
third district.
When the Hon. Joseph Fordney
was introduced by Chairman Eugene
France, it was evident the Michigan
der was among friends from the hear
ty applause that greeted him. The
name of his friends on Grays HarbOf
is legion, and is entirely apart from
his political views. AS was to be eX-
pected, Mr.. Fordney made a good
stump speech from the standpoint If
a standpatter who, as he said, "nev-
er was denied recognition by Spea':er
Cannan." A condition in congress
that our own lamented Cushman failed
to find.
Mr. Fordney attacked the insurgents
cannonized Saints Aldrich and Cannon
and defended the new tariff law. in
| the defense of the PayneAldrich tar
| iff, our standpatter friend proved too
| much, as frequently occurs in the
demonstrations of the over Jealous.
| He pictured the distressful period
that marked the Wilson tariff law,
which, he said, was because the d.
| ties We're too low. With the knOwI-
edge gained by service on the wavs
and means committee, Mr.. Fordnev
| had the schedules at his lonG'.e's
point. He had scarcely finished tie
doleful story of the low Wilson law
when he began to eXtol the bill fran.
ed at the late unlamented SPECIAL ses'
sion.
| Right here, the audience, Which had
been closely following the maize of
congressional statistics, were thrown
off their mental feet by the statement
that the duties of the Payne Aldr,ch
ariff were lower than those of the Vii
son law. This to prove that the high
cost of living was not to be attributed
to the tariff, and that the revision
was downward. and that downward
revision-that had wrought such ha-
voc in 1S93--Was making the present
unprecedented prosperity. Of course,
| if Mr.. Fordney had time, he could
explain how it is that at certain con-
ditions of the solar system. down
ward revision of the tariff wrecks
prosperity, while at others-tle pro
pitious moment being selected by thS
steel ard other trusts and their stand
pat friends-has a directly opposite
effect, and causes property to gnah
forth from the rocks at the touch OF
this modern Moses wand. The Her
aid does not desire to differ with The
Michigan congressman. and will con
fess that inability to understand THIS
hocus pOcus must be the result OF
a mental deficiency hitherto unsus-
pected.
Enneral servfces nvnr the remnine