The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1910-07-01
POLITICS AND THE POLITICIANS

own country for accumulation that they can return
upon And has only been account OF the unexcep
tona conditions of the Pacific coast that we have been
enabled to stand this drain for twenty years. And so
say this question is grave We have to the east OF
us 100000 of dscontented people and to the west Of
us 100000 of uneducated and unchristian races.
rFTJpon this our native land meet these two great
streams the white and the other yellow and 1t has
been said by they cannot flow peacefully upon
parallel lines but as the translucent waters of the Miss
ssppi and the yellow food of the Missouri mngle, the
greater and clearer stream stained and flows polluted
to the sea- Let us then perform duty without re-
gard to politics. with courage and with conscience IN
defense of the labor of this country Let us do
Justice and under no circumstances forget duty and
our obligations to our native land" applause Com
gressional Record-House, pages 1850, 256l
He also said in this speech: The people are intensely
interested in this (Chnese question, and sir they are
interested in it without regard to party, for 1t is
battle of the white against the Asatc OF the Amer
lean labor against the than pauper labor OF Asia
Further on he said cit is battle that we are making
for the labor of section of the country; it con-
test between the cheap labor of the Orient and the more
cultivated and civilized labor of the AnglOSaxOn. In
the same speech speaking about emigration he sad 1.-The
importation Of convict cooe other labor OF that char
acter is unmitigated evil
'Speaking about that Burke club list, it is spur
ous " said welEknown Seatleite that you can safely
say that if it made trpets of it would not be far
of the way. really do not believe that there are
over 5000 bonifde voters that list that will stand
for Burke in the primaries and those men did not sign
the paper with the intention of being member OF
Burke club Republicans hesitate before going on rec
ord support Democrat for the highest office III the
gift of the voters of the state
There may be Insurgent spirit among the voters
of Seattle but is slight that it is hard to find It,
The voters Of King county for either Wilson or
Burke. Outside of King county the Burke sentiment
is Just as slight as is the nsurgent spirit in Seattle
The voters and business of Seattle, who want
United States SENATOR figure it out for themselves
In Seattle the race is between Wilson and Burke; out
side of Seattle the race is between Wilson and Poin-
dexter Wilson will come to the county line with sufi
votes for the Of the county to overwhelmingly
nominate him. Burke will leave the county with not
half enough votes to nominate and will get practically
no more. Now Mr. Seattle Spirit, in your opinion,
which of these two senatorial asprants is it your duty
to support? N Al
Representative Ed. Bradsberry of SedrO-W oolley,
who was in Seattle day this week. does not think it
probable that Burke will cut much figure in Skaglt.
Henry Mcbride to the contrary Notwithstanding. In
my opinion said he ''Senator Wilson will get many
votes as all of the other senatorial asprants in Skagit
county. Talk is cheap but getting the votes is quite
another thing Skagit county has always been for Nc
Bride when Mcbride for himself, but now that he
has shifted his position and is fighting for the men that
have always fought him. it's time for the Skagt county
voters to do little shifting for themselves, and in my
opinion they will come pretty nearly doing It,
FYou say the southwest is in good shape for John L.
Wilson? Well in my opinion it is utterly impossible
for the southwest to be in onehalf good shape for
Senator Wilson as is the northwest. Mark this predc
tion the northwest will give Senator Wilson majority
over ALL and if that is going some then me-
came from prominent politician OF SnOhOmsh county
day this week.
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