Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-06-16
CANDIDATE BURKE
A REPUBLICAN VIEW OF WOULD Be
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
The Seattle Republican Saws Burke
Is Railroad Candidate, Running on
Railroad Money. Says Corporation
Agents In Congress Are WreCking
the Party.

Scratch a railroad man and you
will turn up Burke bug pretty soon
thereafter. Railroad attorneys and
railroad men who figure as leaders
are working like Dick nailers for
Thomas Burke for Senator. When the
railroad leaders go for man it is
a splendid plan for the people to go
for the other fellow. An aged Negro
in Louisiana had been importuning
his old master to vote the Republi-
can ticket. To draw the old man out
the former master turned upon him
one day and said: "Jim, il all the
white men would vote your republi-
can ticket, then what would you dO?''
"Vote de Dimicrat ticket de next min
ute, sah," he promptly replied. When
asked why, he said, 81 know dat when
all de white folks go for a certain
party, dat is not party fur de black
man." The railroad situation in this
country is almost an exact parallel TO
that colloquy. If the railroad men are
all out for a certain man, it's best for
the working people to vote for the
other fellow, whether they personally
like him or not. The railroad mag
mates are all for Judge Burke for
statement be correct and it is, then
the working men had better not monk
ey with the buzz saw, but get in and
vote, and vote like the very devil, Tor
the other fellow. A railroad attorney
in the Senate will not be instrumental
in passing very many laws in the in
terest of the common people.
Did you ever hear of Judge Burke
being in court only as corporation
attorney? DO you think man can
take care of that kind OF business for
a quarter of a century, amass Tor
tune out CT it, and then go to con-
gress and truly represent the people,
to the detriment OF the corporations
We say TO the detriment OF the cor
porations adyisedly, because the cor
porations always insist OH having the
lions share of the legislation OF the
land. They declare every piece OF
legislation that is passed by any legis-
lative body to be detrimental to their
interest unless it gives them all UNI
disputed opportunity to rob the peo-
pie out of millions of dollars.
The Republican party all over the
country is all but wrecked on account
of SO many agents of the corpora
tions being sent to Congress, who
vote on every matter as the hired
attorneys of those corporations direct
them to- Yes, indeed, they make for
tunes out of it, but the fortune that
they make by doing the bidding of
the railroad magnates is mere baga-
telle in comparison to what the cor
porations squeeze out of the common
people. Judge Burke will follow in
the footsteps of those who have caus.
ed the very foundation of the repub-
lican party to be shaken should he be
elected to the senate, and every good
citizen should see to it that he is elect
ed to continue as advising counsel for
the Great Northern Railroad COM
pany.
His campaign is costing his daily
hundreds of dollars. He is able to
pay such enormous sums of money
because he has amassed fortune by
representing railroads in court, and
also because he knows the railroads
will refund him every dollar he pays
out in his campaign. There was a
time in the history of this state when
the jingle of gold had soothing ef-
feet on the senatorial situation, but
that time has gone, and Burke should
not get enough votes for him to even
think he also ran,