Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-04


that justified existing rates. Congress
and congress alone can settle the tariff
question.
Roosevelt Is D,sisi,iiin@.
(VancouVer Columbian. Republican,
SO long as he posed as d friend OF
the people. fighting their battle as a
free, thinking public man. Roosevelt
deceived many people who thought
him worthy of admiration. AS dis
appointed candidate for office, boiling
and doing all he can to destroy the
party which made him, he begins to
dwindle nightly in public esteem. He
is headed for very small hole. where
soon he will be hidden entil2ly.
Attacks Primary LAW.
(chchalis Bee Nugget. Republican,
Each succeeding primary election
demonstrates the fact that the pres
ent primary law does rot fill the
bill. This paper was one of those
that urged the enactment CT the
measure. and is willing to confess
that we are somewhat disappointed in
it. We are not yet ready to say that
it ought TO be repealed, but it does
need lot of mending.
1t is becoming more and more ap-
parent that the second choice pro
vision of the primary law is a snare
and delusion. Another defect
which we will confess we do not see
Just now how to remedy, is the fact
that it does not keep the party lines
drawn. 1t allows members OF one
party to take part in the primaries
of another, thereby allowing them a
chance to nominate weak candidates
who may be easily defeated at the
general election. Another defect that
appears in the present primary is that
it will continue to be harder to get the
right kind of men to run for Office.
Under the primary man desiring to
hold Office is accountable 10 no one. Tie
simply declares for Office, pays his
filing fee and joins the scramble.
| Another criticism of the primary
law is that not sufficient number
of voters take enough interest in
them, and thus it is possible for a
small minority who are seeking Ger.
tain ends to nominate the men they
wish.
Primarily, the primary law was
passed upon growing demand that
it be made easier for men of mod
crate or small means to become can
didates for public office. as it is gen.
orally conceded that many men OF
that character are desirable public
servants. But in actual practice this
law works just the other way. The
man with the coin now has greater
advantage than ever, in fact has
things almost all his own way, and
the fellow with no money to carry
on campaign, travelling, etc, is
practically out of the running.
Wilson's Tariff Prospects Better.
Golfers Weekly.)
Had Grover Cleveland been success
full in the great fight with German
over the tariff, we should not now be
facing on such an extreme scale the
related problems of CD monopolies-
many of them created by the tariff
(2) the high cost of living, CD the
vast inequalities of wealth, "a the
subordination of the country to the
city. If Wilson is elected. he will bt
COAllO Will SOAuC CAti ChCIy mai
work which the Democratic party ha(
an opportunity to do under CLEVELAND
and refused, with the result that thu
Republicans. In the spirit of Hanna
proceeded to manufacture that pros
perity" from which we are suffering
now. Wilson finds the Democratic
masses much more convinced thar
Cleveland did; he finds a large par
Of the Republicans sick to death of thu
Payne-Aldrich bill; and he finds tn
La Follette-Cummins type Of Progress
sive Republican leaders as determine,
about the tariff as any Democrats
although slightly differing with then
in matters of degree. The prospects
therefore, for successful correction o
tariff graft under Wilson would be ia
better than they were under Cleveland
who saw his own party divided. Will
i the Republicans were unit in con
, vincing the workingman that the
! could make money out of the public Il
, general and put it into his dinner pal
!. or pay envelope.
Predicts :.0OO.0OO for Wilson.
(Pasco Progress, Democratic.)
t That the election of Woodrow Wi
: son next November is an absolut
certainty is becoming more and NOR
apparent as the date of the ballotin
approaches. The undercurrent Q
Wilson sentiment is growing stronge
and leading Republican and Progre.
sive leaders admit in private that tn
q Democratic candidate will win, a
: though in their public utterances the
still profess confidence for victor
of their own party.
In power for sixteen years, the RI
! publican party has grossly abused tn
confidence of the people &. the last tw
y administrations and Theodore Roost
, welt is hardly the man to purge tn
!, body polite. The Democratic part
under Wilson is the one hope of tn
: honest, independent voter and ever
indication is that he will be electe
by an overwhelming majority. w
are willing to 60 on record as predict
ing that Prof. Wilson will have clea
majority in the electoral college an
I will receive from 100000 to 100000
votes more than his nearest rival.
The Bosses Again.
Gynden Tribune, Republican,
The standpat daily papers whic
!, are so vigorously opposing Rober
: Hodge, man Of the people, have ar
other guess coming The crowd O
political heelers did all in their powe
to secure the Progressive party nom
nation for Hodge. 1t was the bose
who were behind the infamous attemp
to wreck the Progressive party in thi
) state at Seattle on September 10.
/ was the old political ring of the RI
t publican party in this state that eI
> deav0red to name the Progressive car
. didate for governor at the Progressiv
r primaries on September Z. 1t
r openly charged that this bunch Q
1 political pirates were behind the car
;, didacy of Paulhamus, because ''the
, liked" Paulhamus and did not like
e Lawrence or Case. They wante
Paul, but were caught at trying to tur
the trick.
This political gang who have bee
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