Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-11

OLYMPIA, Wash. Mar. 10.-(Spec-
iaD-Routed, scattered, beaten, the
Republican machine in the House
and Senate which under the cloak of
good roads enthusiasm tried to foist
on the taxpayers of Washington the
most eXtravagant, most expensive
biennium in the states history, fight
ing, swearing, blistering man as they
are, were driven helterskelter, dis
rupted, disorganzed and demoralized,
last Saturday when Governor Lister
threw the gauntlet directly in their
faces and called halt to their waste
fulness.
Lister Establishes New Precedent
He had done something no other
governor of Washington had ever
done when he appeared before them
to deliver a special message in per-
son and to call their attention to
the unwarranted total Of their pro-
posed expenditures, and he had done
something, too, no other man in the
state had dared to do Sle s,ed faced
the machine leaders in public, expos
ed their schemes and the methods
they were employing to put them
over and declared he would not be
party of them.
Like a whirlwind he swept them
aside with an unanswerable argument
and with a spontaneous outburst the
people who crowded the Senate cham
ber cheered him until it rang and
rerang and he was forced to stop
until it subsidized. They were with
him, heart, body and soul, with him
and they hesitated not to show it,
for he it was and he alone who stood
between them and the crowd of leg
islators who proposed expenditures
that would have doubled the tax rate
and they cheered him so there would
be no mistaking where they stood.
And for a moment he burst forth
into that militant, fighting spirit
which carried him through the cam
paign and, referring to the incident
at his home the night before, he ve-
hemently declared he would move
from the governors mansion into his
home if he were not permitted to
have there the few hours of privacy
he believed every public citizen was
entitled to.
The occasion. the most exciting of
any during the session, came as the
climax to date of the fight between
the executive and the legislature over
appropriations. Specifically, it arose
over his veto of the so-called COM
promise state road levy bill provid-
ing 11s mill levy for 1914 and mill
every year thereafter, the incident
when Chief Clerk Maybury and Rep
resentative McArdle tried to break
into the governors mansion last Fri.
day night and failing, threw the road
appropriation bill, based on that levy,
into Mrs. Listers face, being pre-
dominating sidelight. Again the gov
ernor threw into the faces of the ma
chine leaders the declaration that
trades right and left had been made
to insure the passage of the bill over
his veto in utter disregard of the tax
payers and again he denounced such
tactics.
Governor Routs Machine
How strong the people who
jammed the senate chamber endorsed
his position was illustrated when
they hooted, jeered and laughed down
Senator Nichols, the chairman of the
senate roads and bridges committee,
when he asserted that so far as he
knew not a single trade had been
made on road legislation in this ses-
sion. Nichols himself has been the
kingpin about which all the trades
have been made has in fact himself
made most Of them, and the brazen
statement that he knew Of none was
too much for the onlookers to stand
and they laughed him down.
The governors speech, as I sail,
routed the machine forces. They hal
figured he would not dare fight them
on road legislation, but he did dare,
and his prompt, persistent, belliger-