The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-09
HOT POLITICAL
FIREWORKS
PROMISED
KING COUNTY MUST SETTLE DIFF.
FERENCES OR ELSE THERE IS
NO CHANCE FOR JUDGE BURKE
OR JOHN l.. WILSON.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 9.-It has
just come to the ears of the King
county politicians that Congressman
Poindexter has been promised the
support of several Influential U. S.
senators from the middle west in his
fight to succeed S. H. Piles as Unit
ed States senator from this state.
If that prove true there are GER
tainly some political fireworks in
store for the voters of the North
west. The senators who are said to
have promised Poindexter support
are of the insurgent stripe AMI they
are said to be among the ablest ora
tors in the senate. 1t is their inten-
ton, it is stated, to come to the
state of Washington during the cam
paign and make a number of speech
es in Poindexter's behalf
King county expects to try to set
tie her senatorial muddle within the
next few weeks. Senator Wilson,
who it is reported will be a candi-
date to succeed Piles, is expected
home next week. Judge Burke and
John E. HUMPHREYS are still in the
race. HUMPHREYS refuses to date to
go into primary for the purpose
of determining who shall be the
King county candidate. Burke says
he is willing. John L. has written
from the East that he is willing to
do what the other candidates are"
And there you are! 1t is conceded
that unless King county gets behind
one man there is no chance of land
ing the senatorship. With two
strong men like Poindexter. and
Robert Mccormick of Pierce county
in the fight it is certain that King
county would lose.
State Land Commissioner E. w.
Ross came to the city this week and
''nosed around" among local poll
ticians. While Ross has not come
out and said so it is certainty that
he will be candidate for governor,
unless he changes his mind. His
political friends here admit that he
he consulted them about entering
the fight; that they have advised
him to do so and that he has as
sured them that he will make the
race.
Officials of the Anti-Saloon league
who make their headquarters in
Seattle, say there is no truth in the
intimation given out by a former
officer of the league in this state,
Rev. w. ]. Herwig, the new super
intendent in Idaho, that the league
will not for the present go after the
saloons in the larger cities of Wash
ington. On the contrary, it is stated,
that as fast as the league can get
around to it the fight for a dry
town will be made in all of the cities
of the state. AS this information
comes from Boyd Doty, the head of
the league in this state it should be
accepted as authentic.
Washington suffragists are jubil-
ant over word just received from
their state president, who is a dele
gate to the National Divorce con-
gress at Washington, D. c., to the
effect that Governor Brady, of Ida
no, has promised to stump Washing
ton state for the suffrage amend
ment next fall, provided he is not
a candidate to succeed himself.
Governor Brady, Senator Borah and
other members OF the Idaho dele
cation in congress have pledged
themselves to pay the salary of
charming Idaho woman to tell the
pCOplC VI washington WAdI tnC Ddi-
lot has meant to the women OF Ida
no, during the last five months of
the campaign.
Good roads enthusiasts profess to
be greatly elated over the prospect
OF a record-breaking attendance at
their convention at Aberdeen, Feb.
% and "a. A rate of one and third
fares granted by the railroads to
those who secure certificates at their
home stations will undoubtedly swell
the attendance very materially. There
is no concealing the fact, however,
that widespread dissatisfaction with
the present state aid law causes the
lea ders of the movement great anx-
iety as to the outcome. The county