The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-08-05
POLITICAL DRIFTWOOD
WIDESPREAD and Favorable Comment BY
Citizens and Outsiders on Miles
Poindexter's Candidacy

that IS again stirring the animals up
in the cages of the Standpatters.-
Harlinda Sentinel.
What would like to know" said a
Burke man yesterday, is how Hum
phries gets so much space in the P.-I.
Looks to me like a back fire. =
Spokesman Review
This community is fairly alive with
Poindexter supporters, said ]. c. Mar
low, a leading real estate agent of
Seattle.
I feel confident that Poindexter will
carry Renton and adjacent precincts,
leading all candidates, said Lee Mona
han, president of the city council.
Nearly all the farmers around me are
for Poindexter, said Fred Nelson, a
farmer from Renton Junction, three
miles away.
In this state it is the young men
who are rallying to the support of Poin-
dexter. They are followed by the
older men who know from experience
that it is advisable to send young men
to Congress. They recall the days
when Cushman and Jones entered the
lists when they were less than 40 years
of age. Right here in Wenatchee it is
the young men who are revolving against
ring rule and standing in the forefront
of the progressive movement. And
they are being aided by the older
men in whose veins the fighting blood
of former years is still coursing We
natchee World.
An Arizona astronomer finds that one
part of the comet is about 5000 miles
ahead of the other. That comes
pretty near describing the conditions
of the Republican party in Congress.
Leon B. Kenworthy of Dayton, Wash.
writes as follows, regarding the situation
in Columbia county. The facts are
that I firmly believe that Poindexter
will receive as many votes here as all
other candidates put together. The
old politicians are true to their first
loves, but in their hearts they would
like to get divorce if it were not dis
disloyalty to the old ring.
No member has done more for the
republican reform movement than your
representative, Mr.. Poindexter. 1--WE
know him as an honest man, possessed
of very great ability. 1t is not my in
tention or purpose to say to you what
action you shall take in regard to Mr..
Poindexter, but I simply want to tes-
tify to what he has done here in con-
gress. He has, by his work, proven
himself to be man of very high char
acter and capable and hard worker,
always championing the cause that will
help the common people. He has
shown by his independence that he is
not controlled by corporate interests,
but is true servant of the people
whom he represents. Congressman
A. ]. Gronna, North Dakota.
Judge Poindexter interprets the
spirit of the times and is fearless, able
and clean. He has the vigor of youth
and the enthusiasm of ideals, the ca
pacity to construct them into prac-
tical legislation and the courage to
fight for them. Senator Alfred ]. Bev-
eridge.
With few more people like the
present Progressives in the senate,
that body will become responsive to
the peoples will. Great problems are
now in the balance and it appears to
me that the people are in earnest by
wishing them to be solved right. Mr..
Poindexter has been tried on important
questions and we know him to be
equal to the emergency.-Congress-
man Lindbergh of Minnesota.
The Insurgents in Congress are re-
ceiving support from all classes of cit
liens. A man for representative in
stead Of tool is what is demanded. =
Seattle Union Record.
Miles Poindexter is giving the cor
poration candidates for the United
States Senate fearful scare on the
Coast. The Bellingham labor unions
unanimously adopted a resolution pied
ging their support to the Spokane man.
Reports from Tacoma say that Poin-
dexter is making good in his cam
paign in Pierce county. The doctrine
of protest, as announced by Poindexter
strikes the average citizen as being the
proper idea 1t used to be watch and
pray" but with the Insurgents it is
fight and pray."-Wenatchee World.
Representative Miles Poindexter ad-
dressed the Seattle Central Labor
Council on Tuesday night by special