The Seattle Republican., 1910-09-02

If you be law abiding citizen; if you abhor cor
ruption in general and in public officials in particular;
if you believe in the doctrines of fathers, who
founded the United States the corner stone of lib
erty that the people mght rule, then in the senatorial
contest in the thrtyseventh district vote for Frank
G. jackson as against Edward B. Palmer
The voters of the fourth ward years ago nominat'
ed and elected Edward B. Palmer a representative to
the legislature of the state and he went there pre-
sumably an ambitious young lawyer to make an hon
orabe name for himself, but has he done so?
He had no sooner taken his seat in that body than
he began to plan for his own personal aggrandize-
ment at the expense of the people, Unsolicited he
worked for and supported every corporation bill that
introduced that session and eXacted no pay for his
work But when he came home he went to the cor
porations with his record He then and there ap
pointed tax attorney for the Puget Mill Company at
almost fabulous yearly stipend especially in compar-
ison to what he had been earning Other mill COM
panies poured in their business On him and soon he
formed great law firm with himself as senior partner
and it his duty to get the business and the other
fellows to look after the court work.
He again sought the nomination for the house and
by the extravagant of money succeeded in winning
his fight His record in the interest of the corpora
tions and in the support of cnch bills more
notorious than the previous. He then sought seat
in the senate and by the extravagant use of money
which supplied him, he won in that fight AS
Senator Palmer and with two terms in the legislature
ahead of him he became the leader of lot of egisia-
tive looters who passed legislation that robbed the
state of it's rights and give the to private ind
viduais The timber lands, the school lands, the oys
ter lands all less caught in the drag ret
of which he played a conspicuous part. His oyster
land holdings at present simply enormous, he has
tracts of agricultural and timber lands scattered about
over the state that almost priceless in value espec
tally to person of moderate means. His Soap Lake
Lo1l ol/o ndo
pendent for the balance of his natural life.
All of the above Edward B. Palmer has accumulat-
ed within the past twelve years, he being practically
penniless when he first elected member of the
legislature of the state of Washington.
Mr. Pamer's support of railroad while
a member of the legislature should not be overlooked
In the senate he to have been the commun
icating organ to the legislature for Ben Grosscup,
at that time chief counsel for the Northern Pacific
and for E. S. Cotton the general counsel for the O.
&N 1t was not long before the local attorney for
the Northern Pacific fell to Mr. Pamer's Office and in
order to deceive the people he formed partnership
with Judge Carol K. Graves of Elensburg and had
him named as the Northern Pacfc's Seattle attorney.
This was done with view of permitting Mr.. Palmer to
continue doing politics and regularly going to the leg
islatre to keep up the good work for the railroads
Milo A. Root, who was then partner of Mr..
Palmer's had been slated for the N P. place. but
position on the supreme bench for Root more favor
ably impressed Mr.. Palmer than the local N. p at
torneyshp and that secured it would be two instead
of one stronghold Mr.. Palmer through his corpora
alton influence was elected to the state central
mittee and in that position he handled thousands of
dollars in electing Albert E. Mead governor of the
state The price Mead had to pay for his election,
far as Palmer was concerned, that Meade would
aid Palmer in having the legislature add two new
members to the supreme court and that Mead would
appoint M. A. Root and H. D. Crow to those positions.
The program worked like charm. In the time
Graves appoint ment NJ P. counsel and his ad-
mission into partnership with Edward B. Palmer