The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-12
SNOHoMISH COUNTY NEWS
AND NOTES
Review Of the campaIan.

Review Of the Campaign.
The election Is over, but the cam
pagn never. We are just beginning
our campaign of education and the
election Is but roll call The Sno-
homish county campaign has been
carried on perhaps more extensively
this year than formerly, Automobiles
carried the candidates from place to
place holding meetings, literature was
sold and distributed and throughout .
the entire campaign not one appeal
for votes was made, but In every case .
an appeal to intelligent reasoning and /
an understanding of what Socialism Is .
was asked for all, The campaign will /
bear fruits as this year for the first
time active work was begun among
the small ranchers and wage workers
in the unorganized parts of the
county and in the large towns. The
campaign began in July with county
wide tour of John DeQuer, who spoke
In 80 different places in the county |
This was followed by a monster anti
war demonstration and county cam
paign picnic held at kdmonds, Wash, !
on Labor Day, which fully LOO So
cialists and friends attended. On Sep
tember % the speaking campaign be-
gan at Mukilteo. The county candi-
dates were divided into four crews
covering every portion of the county.
! Comrades Olinger, Ulonska, Crosby,
( Cort and HUSKY travelled a circuit Of
/ 1 200 miles, speaking in all ut So meet
/ ings. Meetings were held in rs places
4 in the county, which were attended by
approximately 5000 people During
( the campaign 1876 square inches of ad-
vertising matter and press notices
was secured free of charge from the
capitalist press OF the county. An au-
tomoble squadron composed of ten
autos was organized with crew of
IS distributors, and on October 49,
10000 copies of the Washington So
cialist were distributed in every nook
and corner of the county, Special eff
fort was made in the weak points in
the county; two literature distriDu
tions were made in Snohomish, where
the campaign was brought to a close
on October 81 by an address by com
rade A. II. Barth. In Everett weekly
distributions of literature were made
and meetings held. George e. Boom
er, congressional candidate, spoke in
six places throughout the county, and
A. H. Barth in two. Eight-hour
phamplets were distributed and in all
over $4,000 pieces of literature were
distributed and sold. The campaign
revived three old locals and organized
a new one, it also aroused a new in
terest in the movement The cam
paign meetings and literature brought
us new listeners, the literature was
eagerly read and the campaign meet
ings well attended In Gold Bar, a
town of scarcely three or four hun
dred, over 100 attended the campaign
meeting held by r. w. Thompson and
w. S. Keller. Towards the close of
the campaign novelty was tried out
with success, "Whirlwind troupe"
was organized and music, entertain
ment and speaking combined The
troupe conducted seven meetings in
the more out-of-way places in the
county. These meetings were especi-
ally successful in attendance and the
enthusiasm aroused. Comrade John
Worswick furnished an entertainment
in his famous sketch "Mr. Block"
comrades Svarrer, Hebert and Mon
! grin the music, and comrades Salter
and Ulonska spoke.
The campaign was brought to a
close by a series of mass meetings
held in the four largest towns in the
county. At Edmonds 1926 people heard
Glenn Hoover, j. G. Brown and the
county candidates; at Monroe L. e.
Katterfeld addressed like crowd; in
Arlington about 275 people filled the
Princess theatre and listened to the
"WhirlWind Troupe" In Everett the
largest political meeting ever held in
that city took place when $500 people
thronged the big Everett Coliseum to
hear A. II. Barth and the county can
didates Preceding the meeting an
immense eight-hour parade was held
in which over 700 workers participat-
ed. The watch word everywhere was
Workers of the World Unite, You
Have Nothing to Lose, But Your