The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-15
Hon. WI. JOneSOn The Senatorial Situation

Washington, Hon. w. L. Jones, came
out in letter to the press last week,
taking position on the senatorial
fight which will in all probability be
settled at the primary election in Sep
TENDER, when a successor to the pres
ent incumbent, Samuel H. Piles, will
be selected.
In declaring it as his opinion that
the senator to be chosen this fall
should come from the west side of the
Cascade mountains he put himself
squarely on record as opposed to the
election Of Hon. Miles Poindexter. Mr..
Jones makes the ingenious argument
that it is unjust to the western part of
the state to select both the senators
from the eastern portion Of the state.
His friends will scarcely credit him
with entire sincerity in this statement.
If Mr.. Poindexter is elected, and he
is sure to be if he lives, four years
hence Mr.. Jones must decline to be a
candidate for reelection, or move. It
is the belief of this paper that light
will break on Mr.. Jones when he comes
home, and to save his political face he
will move before the election.
With very large majority of the re-
publican voters of the state of Wash
ington at the coming election the
principles for which a man stands will
count for much more than the particu-
lar spot on which he stands and calls
home. Those who have had their
hand on the political pulse count two
out of every three of the republican
voters in favor of the progressives, or
insurgents, if you choose to call those
republicans insurgents who refused to
vote for the ubiquitous Cannon-Aldrich
tariff bill.
That republicans in about this same
proportion are insurgents in Massa-
chusetts is borne out by the returns
from special election held in the Old
Bay state few weeks ago, when TO-
900 republicans voted for an insurgent
democrat rather than vote for a stand
pat republican. A flop OF over 10000
republicans in less than eighteen
months points to but one conclusion,
and that is that they are not satisfied
with what has been done politically by
the party in power.
The chances of the Hon. Miles
Poindexter being a senator from the
state of Washington grow brighter
every day.
The Spokesman-Review of a recent
date had the following comment on
Mr.. Jones' doubtful senatorial position:
Senator Wesley L. Jones opposes the
election of Congressman Miles Poin-
dexter to the senate because he be-
lieves the new senator should be a
resident of western Washington. Living
in the south central part of the state,
but east of the Cascades, he thinks
himself a representative of eastern
Washington in the senate. If we are
to Judge from the actions of many
other states the desire for sectional
representation in the senate is in itself
scarcely valid reason for not support
ing Mr.. Poindexter.
Senators from twenty states reside in
the same or adjoining sections of their
respective states. In six states the two
senators from each state reside in the
same city. The senators from Florida,
Arkansas and Colorado all hail from the
capital cities of their respective states,
while Portland is the home Of Bourne
and Chamberlain, Reno of Newlands
and Nixon, New York city OF Depew
and Root. Both of Louisiana's sena-
tors reside in coast cities, and Grand
Rapids and Kalamazoo, two cities in
southeastern Michigan, are the homes
Of Michigan's solons.
Montana's senator's both reside near
the Idaho line and New Hampshire has
disregarded sectional representation for
years by choosing two men from Con-
cord and Manchester, cities only few
miles apart. Ohio has Dick from
Akron and only last year chose Burton
from Cleveland, city only few miles
farther north, in preference to a man
from the southern part Of the state.
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