The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-02-23
POLITICS
WARMING UP
CANDIDATES FOR STATE OF
FICE ARE INDUSTRIOUSLY
BUILDING UP POLITICAL
FENCES-CAMPAIGN WILL
WITNESS SOME WARM PO-
LTTICAL SCRAPS.


be at the boiling point. Prospective can
didates are doing their preliminary
skirmshing now, each with Il weather
eye out for the man who has designs on
the same job he has. Hither and yon
across the state the would-be office
holders are scudding, meeting any and
all persons whom they think may be
useful in construction of political fences.
When one considers the cares, anXeties
and pitfalls that beset the daily path of
the average office holder in these days
of turmoil and unrest, it is really amaz-
ing how many persons we have of heroic
mould who are willing to sacrifice them
selves upon the altar of their country
for small monthly cash consideration.
Surely patriotism is not dead in our
midst
The gubernatoral fight will of course
be the headliner event in the biz tent,
the loop-the-loop thriller of the political
contest. Other numbers on the program
will furnish some thrills nevertheless.
Even the office of lieutenant governor
will furnish several aspirants. The pop
ular mind fixes that office as a quiet
resting place, created for the payment
| of political debts or for trading pur-
poses. But you never can tell" says
NJ. i. Hay. Lots of things may happen
and the dais in the senate chamber holds
a peculiar dignity and satisfaction for
some gentlemen.
Those with yearning for senatorial
toga must possess their souls in patience,
No chance this year. That does not pre-
vent divers and srndry gentlemen from
whetting up their stilettos for Senator
Jones' Two years is none too short a
time to prepare for the fight for Mr..
Jones seat in the American house of
lords
Several progressives - both of the
real and near" variety-have their
eyes set on the seat in congress now
graced Tor "disgraced' according to
whether you are a standpatter or an in
surgent) by our own dearly beloved VIM.
E. Humphrey of ship subsidy fame, The
shadow of an approaching Nemesis
hamts Wan. +. State Senator Bryan.
Tom Murphine of Seattle, who bobbed
into the spot light during the Poindexter
campaign, Prosecuting Attorney Murphy
of King, VIM. Biggar of Bellingham, are
all said to be maneuvering for that seat
soon to be reluctantly but surely vacated
by Mr. Humphrey. And believe us, it
is going to be some scrap.
Next to the gubernatorial scrap the
piece de resistance is going to be the
state land commissioners Job. Mr.. Ross
is to step out of the office but he will
be there with bells on in the fight to
choose his successor The hatchet never
will be buried between Ross and Hay this
side of the Great Beyond. Mrs. Tamb-
lin, who has been in the land commits
sioner's office for ten years past, ad-
vancing steadily to her present position
as secretary of the board, is in the race
Some say Mr.. Ross will back the candi-
dacy of Mrs. Tamblin. c. V. Savidge OF
Olympia is an avoWed candidate for the
place Mr.. Savidge has been resident
of Olympia since 1888. For nineteen
years he was in the postoffice service
which work he resigned to take up field
work for the Grand Lodge of X of p
He is grand instructor of the order and
his duties have taken him to every por
tion of the state. lie claims an intimate
knowledge of land values and promise,
if elected a clean. efficient administra
tion.
No less known that either Mrs. Tamb
lin or Mr.. Savidge is another avowed
candidate for the land commissioner.
office w. II. kaufman of Bellingham
Everybody knows Kaufman and that he
is the sworn and implacable foe of the
land speculator and timber hog Tan
lodging corporations jump whenever the
we'll known single takers name is men
toned and those Bellingham fish men
have their fingers crossed yet. It's a
safe bet the Hay crowd doesn't like the
looks of any of the candidates above
mentioned for land commissioner and
the Morganheim "fiXers" will probably
dig up a candidate of their own soon.
Less noise emanates from the follow
ers of Jefferson but it must not be as
sumed that no scheming and plotting is
going on among the democratic poll
ticians. With the high born courage
that never dies" they are preparing for
the fray and hopeful that at last the
time foretold by the prophets when
democracy pnre and undefiled shall en-
compass the land, is near. There is a
cloud, at present mo bigger than mans
hand" but still cloud, upon the political
horizon. The real wise old longhorns in
Ipoltics, who by the way can be mum
bered in about the same ratio as Bryan's
battle cry of 1896, can scent the coming
atmospheric disturbances, and they are
running around in circle with their