Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-11-08

of the issues of the campaign and en-
tirely devoid of abuse, won. Lister
deserved election as being the ablest,
most sincere and most honorable of
the three candidates.
Had he had as long to campaign
Washington as Wilson had to cam
paign the nation, undoubtedly his
plurality in this state would have been
president-elect. That he did make SO
successful q race in the shortest cam
paign in the states history, illustrates
the caliber of the man, the strength Of
his earnest, consistent, business appeal
and his standing as man before the
people of his state.
Washington will have in Ernest
Lister undoubtedly the best, most efii-
cient, most businesslike, most represen-
tative governor it has ever had, not
excepting Governor Rogers. Ernest
Lister was Rogers chief lieutenant
and the business brains of the ad-
ministration of the only governor to
whom the people of Washington grant
ed q second term. Since then he has
developed his capabilities, enlarged his
interests, deepened and widened his
study of the state government and the
state institutions until he is still better
qualified to be the states executive.
He will remove our state from its
psuedo-business basis to a business
basis in fact; he will re-organize it fl
nancially, departmentally, making 1t
simpler, more efficient and more like
the well-organized, closely-working
corporation it should be. He will be
its business manager in fact and deed.
He has promised a reduction of 40
per cent. in the cost of its manage
ment. provided he is given a leg
islature to work with him. He knew
what he was promising when he pledg
ed that and he will carry it out, for
Ernest Lister never promised any
thing he could not accomplish.
1t is high time such q man should
come into that Office. Lister is of the
character of men we want in public
Office, the kind of man we hope to put
there and the kind of man we rarely
get q chance to place in such posi-
tion. His is not the office-hunting
kind. 1t was not until he realized
the condition of the states affairs,
u0tll ne saw SOLuctuIHS MuSI Uc uUuC
and done quickly, that he offered him.
self as q candidate. He was the last
man to enter the primary race for gov
ernor; he was the last to receive the
nomination yet his election was as
sured practically from the hour the
first ballots were counted.
The next four years will be years Of
greater and sounder progress than
Washington has known recently. With
the opening of the Panama canal, the
business and the population OF the
state will grow by leaps and bounds.
Lister, already experienced In our
state government, a capital business
man, a peerless executive. Is just the
character of man needed to guide
Washington through that period. to
steady 1t and to push it forward. to or
ganize it to meet the ever-changing
problems 1t will have to confront and
to establish it upon the sound financial
and business basis it must occupy.
And as the people and the Democra-
tic party have won great victory In
the nation, so they have done in the
state. Ernest Listers election is not
merely his victory-it means the elm
ination of the INSCRIPTIONS Perkins
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