The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1912-09-21
The editor returned last week

The editor returned last week
from month s trip through Mon
tana. both Dakotas, Minnesota and
Iowa. In all these states pros
perity is reported-not resultant
from the G.. O. p, but from the
bounteous crops. Some OF these
states report the greatest crops IN
their history. I,
Politically. things are mixed.
The Roosevelt strength in Iowa,
Minnesota and the DakOtas is en-
tirely underestimated The writer
followed in the wake of Roosevelt
from the Minnesota state fair to
Spokane, and found that he has a
considerable strength except IN
Montana. In that state Taft has
the best of it, inasmuch as the
Amalgamated company is for Taft. {,
But in Iowa, Minnesota and the
i Dakotas Roosevelt will run strong
er than Taft, and well up with Will
son. Considerable sentiment was
expressed by stand-patters that it
it became necessary, they would
vote for Wilson in order to keep
Roosevelt from carrying the state,
believing that if they did not kill
off Roosevelt, he would eventually
kill them off.
When election time comes, it
is very likely that the central
states will 60 for Wilson--not be-
cause there are so many demo-
Gratis, but because the prOgressives
are getting so strong and so fight
imbued that they are making the
old party members sore enough to
retaliate. Of course there is con-
siderable democratic gain for Will
son in the central states, but pos
sbly not enough in itself to elect
Wilson. But with regular republi-
| cans trying to save their own party
| from RoOsevelt's s aggression, Will
son will gain greatly from genuine
republican votes, the republicans
believing that if they can beat
Roosevelt this time he will have to
quit and leave the old party i'll
position to elect in 1916.
Commercially, the state Of
Washington and the west are re-
ceiving much attention, and many
people are eager to know what we
can raise here, what the climate is,
and how much land is worth.
The editor found that Colville
is not known at all in the central
states. Places like lone, Metaline
Falls, Davenport, Colfax, etc, are
known, because they are listed in
the freight tariffs. But Colville
is not. The writer tried to find
the household rate from a central
Iowa point to Colville. No one
! there could find it, for Colville was
not known. Telegraphic advices
from Cedar Rapids quoted an old
rate now abrogated, and only St
Paul could give the correct rate
And at that, it was not a through
rate, but a combination of rates,
one from Iowa to Spokane, another
from Spokane to Colville.
At the same time, any small sta
tion in the central states can quote
Immediately any rate to Metaline
Falls or to Moscow, and the rate is
less than the rate to COlvllle.
The reason is that Colville is on
the Jim Hill line, and this line does
not give rates from the east equal
to other places in Washington.
All other roads give stations in the
Inland Empire the Spokane rates.
The matter of west-bound rates
into Stevens county has been hand
led by the editor for about a year,
and the st. Paul office is now CON
sidering the demand for equality
for this section, with the promise
of decision at an early day. If
the company decides that Stevens
county is entitled to equal rates
with other counties, this county
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