The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-09-15
WILLIAM PITT TRlMBLE
Whose Candidacy FOR Governor Was An
nounced Last Week

ne IolloWlng, from the headquarters
of Mr.. Trimble's campaign committee,
is printed for its news value, without
any compensation whatever, and for the
reason that the editor entertains high
opinion of Mr.. Trimble both as a man
and citizen.
After considerable casting about on
the part of number of the foremost
business men and we'll know citizens of
Seattle for a suitable gubernatorial can
didate from King county as successor
to the present Governor of the great
State of Washington, they finally reach
ed the conclusion that VIM. Pitt Trim
BILE, a we'll known Seattle business man
and extensive property holder in Seat
tie and other parts of the state, is the
most logical man for Seattle to put
forward, providing he will permit the
use OF his name in that connection.
Those people who have interested
themselves in the gubernatorial success
sion, on speaking to Mr.. Trimble of
their conclusions, found him rather re-
ticent on the subject and before giving
it any serious consideration he desired
to have some expression from the vo-
tiers and the state press, There is
however, no doubt in the minds of
those who have been seeking broad
gagged and liberal minded man for the
Republican gubernatorial nomination
from Seattle, that great majority of
the voters OF King county would give
Mr.. Trimble their undivided support,
thus making OF him the acknowledged
King county gubernatorial candidate,
if he showed any strength in the other
counties of the state.
VIM. Pitt Trimble is a man of won
derful personality and makes his mark in
whatever he undertakes. He is man
OF high ideals and man who stands
for the purity of home in the broadcast
and most liberal. sense of the word.
On all public questions he is fair and
just, exacting of no man more than he
himself would be willing to give. His
theory of the solution of all public
questions is that men should consult
together without either the majority or
the minority imposing upon the other
and happy conclusion of the whole
reached after having reasoned together.
For more than twenty years Mr., Trim
BILE has taken an active interest in the
development of Seattle, and he has al
ways argued that the rich and the poor
one and alike, should be fully heard on
all matters of vital importance to the
taxpayers that justice be melted out to
all concerned.
Mr.. Trimble believes that taxation
in the state OF Washington is two high
and that it is either taking from the
poor and middle classes the homes
they have previously paid for or it is
preventing such persons from acquir-
ing homes at all, and unless this evil is
radically remedied it will have de-
pressing effect on the future develop
ment of the state, for the real wealth of
any state or community is the exten
sive owning of homes on the part Of
the working men and women thereof.
When the taxes on home is as great
as the rent for the same property
would be, there is no longer an incen-
tive to own home, and as soon as
such condition is brought about, class
feeling arises. The state seems to be
top heavy with commissions, travelling,
auditors and inspectors, whose salaries
and travelling expenses are largely re-
sponsible for the excessive taxation
with which the property holders are
burdened, and it should be the duty
of the next administration to make an
honest effort to bring about retrench-
ment along that line.
Few if any persons in the state have
been more active in the development
of good roads than Mr.. Trimble. He
has always contributed literally for the
good roads campaigns and has been on
hand at the meetings held to further
on the cause. He believes that the
building of good roads throughout the
state means rapid development of the
varied resources Of every section of the
whole northwest, the workingman, the
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