Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-07-04
FIGHT ON SUMMIT
LAKE PLAN WAKES
HOTTER EVERY DAY
Controversy Centers Around 1880
Registered Electors for
Next II Days.
VOTERS SEEK INFORMATION.
This Will Be Forthcoming, Com
mittee Says, Putting Taboo
on Personalities.

Reaching point of interest to
whith the recent electric franchise
fight probably would have attained had
not the special election on that ques-
tion been called off, the Summit lake
water works campaign this week
showed signs of developing into one
of the most hotly contested municipal
fights it has been the will and pleasure
of Olympians recently to engage in.
When the poll books closed at 8
o'clock last Monday night, only 1899
voters of the city had registered, where
$3.50 voted in the presidential elec-
tion last fall, but strenuous work by
few days prior to the close of registra-
tion increased that registration con-
siderably above what at first was fear
ed would be low point. Around
these 1899 voters the campaign will
rage in the II days between now and
July 81 and it may be that before the
fight Is over some of those who did
not register will wish they had.
The opening week of the campaign
was marked by the issuance of several
circulars. one being distributed yes
terday by the committee of 38 voters
who signed the call for big registra-
ton while two others. almost entirely
devoted to personalities, saw the light
of day earlier in the week. The vot-
ers, however. are clamoring for the
real facts in the controversy and these
none Of the circulars purported to
give.
The voters committee, however. let
it be known that it proposes to satisfy
that clamoring just as soon as it could
obtain the facts, and 1t also let it be
known that it did not intend to en-
gage in personalities during the cam
paign. This circular, re-published on
page s of this issue, clearly sets forth
the issue as the committee sees it. The
committee also took this means of no.
tifying the voters It was not in SYM
pathy with the articles being published
in the daily newspapers in Olympia
and did not authorize them.
| The fight from this on apparently
will center about the determination of
the real facts involved in the contro-
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tee Is concerned, and this doubtless
will appeal strongly to those voters
who are more or less disgusted with
the personalities that have been in
dulged in. They are seeking 1.-The milk
in the cocoanut" and don't want It
curdled by abuse and mudslinging, or
the facts and issues SO beclouded by
such means that they will not know
how to vote intelligently when cleo
tion day rolls around.
Rapid developments, then, are ex-
pected during the remaining days OF
the campaign and are being awaited
with keen interest. Many rumors are
rife in the air these days on all kinds
of points relative to the question at
issue, some, indeed. only remotely re-
lated to that question, and doubtless
before the campaign is over more stor-
les of one kind and another will be in
the air than any local question has re-
Gently aroused. AS it is, the campaign
is the chief topic of conversation and
discussion on the lips Of most of the
residents of the city and whats 60
ing to happen next?" is the principal.
question.
There are only II more days in
which 1t can happen and, as the col
lege freshman says, 'Tempus fugits."