Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-02-27

BY BUSINESSMEN
Popular Candidate For Mayor
Has Practically no
Opposition
BEAM FORCES WEAKEN
All Their Attemps to Create
an Issue Have Utterly
Failed
BEAM FORCES WEAKEN

AS the present mayoralty campaign
draws to a close it is being conceded
in all quarters that James w. Parks
| is going to receive the nomination by
handsome majority.
The lines being drawn between Mr..
Parks and his only competitor for the
honors, is that which exists between
the producer and producer, the
man who employs labor and the man
who does not give employment to the
working classes.
| Everybody who knows Mr.. Parks
speaks in the very highest terms of
him as man of business and man
of honor. Testimonials as to this
/ character are being volunteered by
him; from his employees, with whom
he is thrown in daily contact; and
from his competitors in business, as
we'll as from the people at large All
are unanimous in saying that his word
is as good as his bond, and that his
character is above reproach. Splen-
did eulogies these, and many men
would be proud to be the recipient of
| the 4.
The fishermen. who deal with him,
tell how Mr. Parks advances money to
those of them in need, paying their
grocery bills, when necessary, no
notes being taken and no interest
charged
From his employees come authen-
tic statements regarding the splendid
manner in which they are treated by
| their employer.
From the competitors of Mr.. Parks
in business one hears that James w.
Parks is as square and upright bust.
ness man as the commercial world
ever knew, and from all this the only
conclusion to be arrived at is that
Mr.. Parks Is eminently fitted for tho
responsibilities Of the office of mayor,
and that under his administration.
Aberdeen will receive clean, business
like management.
All his life Mr.. Parks has been
thrown in contact with the business
and laboring world. This has fitted
him in every way 10 handle all the
problems which confront this mum.
cipality.
Frank Beam is an untried neophyte
as far as business goes. He may make
a good mayor, and again, he may fall
way short of the requirements. This
is matter of conjecture, and at
this stage of Aberdeen's development
it is, to say at least, an inopportune
time to experiment with men.
AS a lawyer Frank Beam has been
fairly successful; but, in all fairness
to the man, it must be said that he
has as yet failed to demonstrate
wherein he has ever done anything
for himself. or the city at large, to
warrant him seeking the office of
mayor. Viewing him, as he stands
at present in the community, Frank
Beam was summed up to a total by
John Douglas, of Douglas Brothers,
founders, who in all sincerity said:
Il understand that Beam is a nice
boy"
Experience, that greatest Of all edli-
Gators, is what rounds youth into
manhood; and it is due to his strenu-
Gus battle for place in the business
world which gives to James w. Parks
the matured wisdom and judgment re-
quisite to handle the problem which
confronts Aberdeen at the present
time.
Mr.. Beam, whose whole education
and training has been for profession
al career, must of necessity lack the
essential qualities, which Mr.. Parks
possesses. In business experience
Beam is still boy.
Then, too, Mr.. Beam is compare
tive stranger in the city, while Mr..
Parks is pioneer in the local field,
and it is all these things which has
brought the men who pay the bulk of
e.