Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-09-26

The ratification meeting, al the
Grand theater Friday night, under the
auspices of the Lincolu-Rooseyelt Re
publican ciQb. was altouGcd BY sim
d, not more jLan Zt0 persons
being present. While the meeting
was not extensively advertised. the
fact that COngl Fordney. of
Michigan, and Stanton Warhu1tou
were to speak would ordinarily have
drawn a larger house. But the fact
is, that the campaign in this state
from now until November s, will be
listless. There are practically no con-
tests to inject singer into the scrap.
The battle was fought at the primar.
les, ana little remains but to formal
ly ratify the nominations at the gen
eral elections. There may be few
contests for local Offices, but they
will be made on personal, not poiiti.
cal grounds.
The meetings Friday night was rath-
er disappointrent to the insurgent
contingent. to whose efforts Mr.. War
burton owed his vote in this county.
His address, aside from denial of
his alleged agreement with local
standpatters to support Cannon for
speaker should he be the choice of
the republican caucus, was in the ma
ture of a compromise with the reg
ular' element He declared he would
participate in no caucus that was
pledged to CanOnn, as he considered
the reelection of the speaker meant
the country would go democratic in
1912. He put a bunch of questions to
Maurice Langehorne, his democratic
opponent. that are scarcely relevant
and which will occasion Mr.. Lang
horne no serious effort to answer.
Insurgents present rather expected A
reafiirmation Of the principles under.
lying the sO-called movement that car
ried the state of Washington, and the
second congressional district, princ-
pies for which they were fighting
rather than for the men to represent
3hem. They realize that the SCRAP
IN the late session Of congress was
but skirmish compared with tho
battle to be fought out in the next
and that the privileged interests,
whose dethr0nement is aimed at, will
put up the fight of their lives in the
next congress.
The meeting was presided over by
Judge J. G.. Pearson, who. in open-
ing the meeting, adopted a conciia-
tory tone, and suggested that now.
the standDatters had been dutifully
spanked all differences should be for.
gotten, and all join in supporting the
republican ticket
The first speaker was Judge f. T..
Cushman, of Alaska, who devoted his
time to the question of woamn suf-
frage amendment to the state cOnsti-
tuition that will be voted upon in No
(vember. Judge Cushman opposed the
extension of the franchise to women
and claimed the movement was a
deep scheme of the Mormon church
to control the politics of the Pacific
Coast states through it's women. He
was inclined to eulogize Speaker Can
non and the rules of the House, the
former, he said, being victim of a
vicious sensational press.
Congressman Fordney delivered a
stirring address, in which he annOunc-
ed his Willingness to sacrifice Cannon
If need be. "for the good of the Par
ty' and defended the Aldrich-Payne
tariff law as the best ever. He blam.
ed combinations, not the tariff, for
the increased cost of living and gave
some bewlderng figures showing the
extravaganza of the American people
in the consumption OF soda wafer,
chewing gum, tobacco, whskey, Jew.
elry, etc.