Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-11
ISSUES OF NATION
AND STATE WILL Be
OFFERED To VOTERS
o. G. Wilson of California and E.
I o. Connor to Present Cam
paign Principles.
SIX PRECINCTS ARE VISITED.
County Candidates Given Rousing
Receptions Throughout Dis
trict This week.

| Striking the keynote of the national,
congressional and state campaigns, o.
C. Wilson, of California, and E. o.
Connor, of Spokane, Democratic can
didate for cOngressman-at-large will
be the speakers at rOuSing meeting
the Democrats of ThurstOn county will
hold next Thursday evening, October
II, in the Forum, adjoining THE WASH
INGToN STANDARD office on Columbia
street.
Democrats, Independent voters and
many Republicans from all over the
county are expected to attend the meet
ing, which probably will be the larg
est of the campaign. The announce
ment of the date and speakers had
been anticipated by the local leaders
and when made Wednesday by George
Ryan, chairman of the speakers COM
mittee of the Democratic state central
committee, it was greeted with much
enthusiasm.
Through these speakers the voters of
Thurston county will be told in many
ways why Governor Wilson and Gov
ernor Marshall are the most popular
candidates before the people today;
WHY 10 lflO StdHudIu " lOAlOW
and why the old, graft-ridden Repub-
lican machine. wholly Indifferent to
the peoples wishes, should be shunted
into oblivion.
This meeting will stimulate further
the fear that is already paramount in
the local Republican ranks, what with
the detection of the Bull Moosers and
particularly with the remarkably ag-
gressive and enthusiastic campaign
the Democratic county candidates are
conducting. For Thurston county
Democrats are showing these once self
satisfied Republicans what they can
do when they get their "dander" up,
knowing that theirs is the popular
cause and that when 1t becomes known
to the people, the people will strongly
endorse it at the polls.
The meetings this week have been
even more enthusiastic than were
those of the first week of the cam
paign. With John S. Lynch, candidate
for prosecuting attorney, continuing as
the leader in the speaking, the candi-
dates have been greeted with rousing
meetings wherever they went.
Monday night B. F. Wall. of Bucoda,
candidate for sheriff. Mr.. Lynch, ]. h.
Dever. who is running for county aud
itor. Robert A. Aver, Of Lacey. and
Allen White, candidates for representa-
tives. A. ]. Frisch and D. M. Kagy
drove out to the Grange hall at Nc
Lane where 25 voters, among them
quite a few women, had assembled to
hear them present the issues of the
campaign. All of the candidates join
ed in the talking, calling attention to
the increasing cost of the county gov
ernment, pointing out the reasons why
and promising to eliminate those rea-
sons
Monday night also others of the can
didates journeyed to Sherlock, where
they encountered another rousing
meeting and an interested group of
voters. Harry l.. Parr, candidate for
state senator, ]. F. Brown, who is run
ming for commissioner, Fred SchOm-
ber. candidate for assessor, and DR..
George V. LYDIA. who undoubtedly will
be the next coroner, addressed the
meeting, all of them making an unus-
ually favorable impression. They came
back overjoyed at the reception they
had received and confident that they
had made many votes for themselves
and their party.
Tuesday night came the stellar meet
ing of the campaign to date, when the
candidates were greeted by some so
voters who came from miles around
in the sparsely settled district on
Schneider's Prairie to attend the meet
ing at the school house. A particular
interest in the Democratic candidates,
national. state and county, was dis
played by the voters and the meeting
was an unusually good one. Candi-
dates Lynch, White, Dever, Brown,
Schomber, Aver and Ouellette at
tended.
Wednesday night the candidates en-
joyed another successful meeting, this
times at Hayes school house. just out
side of Olympia, where they were
greeted by another group of 40 voters,
among them many women. Charles l..
Dufault, J. F. Brown, A. j. Frisch, d.
NJ. Kagy. DR.. George V. LYDIA. and
John S. Lynch were present, Dufault,
| Brown and Dever making interesting
talks on the subject of taxation, and
Mr.. Lynch discussing campaign issues
| from a national standpoint.
Thursday night there was another
rousing meeting at the Black Lake
mill. where in territory supposedly
| hostile the candidates met with large
i representation of the voters and were
very we'll received. Tonight, Friday.
! they will go TO the Grange hall at
| Sturgeon creek, where another good
reception is expected.
The second week of the county cam
paign has developed remarkable in
terest among the voters already reach
ed, the candidates say, and presages
crowning victory November 5. Dur
ing the next three weeks they propose
to carry the campaign into every pre-
cinct in the county, until every district
is reached.