Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-10-23
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BROWNS SELECTION
TELLS HOW "BILLI" HOPKINS
BEAT ROCKWELL WITH
ROCHESTER MAN

gossip as has been floating around
here this fall lies behind the selection
of J. SoX Brown of Rochester as one
of the Republican candidates for the
legislature, after an exciting meeting
OF the Republican county central COM
mittee week ago last Saturday. Fact
is, the story's too good to keep--too
good, for one thing, because Brown
himself was the most surprised man
in the crowd when he discovered he
had been selected
The story begins with the assertion
by several persons that only a few
minutes before the meeting w. Dean
Hays, the primary nominee, vowed
he would not resign, though his res
ignation was formally presented to
the committee only a little while lat
err, and it ends with W. w. Hopkins,
the Republican state committeeman
for this county, nominating and OBJ
tanning the election of a man as can
didate whom he did not know and
who had "bawled him out" as the
story goes, earlier in the meeting.
Where the Racket Started.
The racket of course started with
the tangle surrounding the Olympia
Bank e Trust company, in which w.
Dean Hays was the chief figure, and
from the time the first charge was
placed against him as the result of its
closing. the Republicans had been en-
deavOring to get him to withdraw
from the ticket. One man after an
other was sent to persuade him, and
the rest of the candidates went up in
to the air every time the "persuader"
came back and told them Hays
would not quit. That left them pref
ty frantic and then when T. ID. Rock
we'll, next high candidate to Hays and
Morrison, the nominees, in the pri-
mary, decided he ought to be named
in case Hays should withdraw, the
antics got quite lively.
Immediately the cry was started,
by Hopkins so the story goes, that the
candidate should be chosen from the
south end of the county. That did
not stop Rockwell--he just worked
little harder, and at Tenino Satur-
day morning, before the committee
session, the Republicans of the south
end of ThurSton county after can
wasting the entige field, decided they
would prefer Rockwell to any other
candidate William Macarthur, pre-
cinct committeeman from Teniro, was
SO instructed and at the committee
meeting nominated Mr. Rockwell.
The minute that happened, the
story goes on to say, Hopkins got
"riled up" He is credited with not
wanting Rockwell as a candidate, but
that did not deter Macarthur in ac-
cusing him of breaking his promise
that the south end of the county
should select it's own candidate, and
| it prompted one J. Sox Brown to get
up and remark that things were "too
cut and dried by the ring to suit
him" and to inquire "who this fellow
is that's trying to run things" for
Hopkins had just made little talk.
Things Are Warming Up.
From now on the story gets inter-
esting. A few acrimonious remarks
were passed back and forth and dur
ing the discussion, Hopkins turned
around to some one near him and
asked: "Who is that long lanky fell
low, anyway" -. Sox Brown of
Rochester" was the answer, and Hop
kins said: "I'm going to nominate
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the committee put Brown through.
There was just one more act to this
little tableaux. When Brown was
elected, Hopkins jumped up said: 81
welcome you into the ring Mr..
Brown" and though he "got" the lat
ter's goat" for minute, Brown got
up and made little talk.
The story does not stop theree OF
course. Rockwell and Rockwell's
friends, it goes on, are pretty badly
peeved and aren't making any bones
about it, for Rockwell got 10 votes
to 13 for Brown and for r. B. Ober
of Tono, whom Tom Gaines nominal
ed, on the final ballot. Or. G.. w.
Ingham and Mrs. Kate L. Young, the
two other Republican candidates for
the place in the primaries, did not
cut much figure in the committees
balloting, though both were nomi-
mated.
One More Touching Feature.
There's Just one other little touch
ing feature of the story. Hopkins, it
says, was prespiring pretty freely
when he walksd away from the meet
ing. He had won but it was an ex-
citing little tussle, and for minute
it looked like his admitted control
of Republican affairs in this county
might be broken. Hopkins does no.
deny running Republican affairs here.
nor does any other Republican--what
"Billy" says, goes.
Naturally, there are those who call
the Republican ticket this fall Hop
kins' ticket. They claim that vote
for any Republican county or leaisla-
tive candidate is vote for Hopkins
Be that as it may, ]. SoX Brown is one
legislative candidate-and BILLY"