The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1914-07-04

duties on the Examiner, after a
trip of several weeks over the
state, the editor found a surprise
awaiting him in the form of the
Stevens County Progress, the
new weekly paper of the progress
sive party printed in Colville and
edited by T. w. Shaughnessy,
former editor of the Loon Lake
Times.
The Examiner has always bid
welcome to every new publication
in this county and makes no ex-
ception now. The progressive
party is strong enough in this
county to warrant a fair support
to paper which shall express its
principles. Just how good that
expression may be, time will tell.
The editor of the Examiner,
after studying the matter over,
is firmly of the opinion that the
progressive party holds the key
to the political situation, not only
in this county, but in state and
nation. The progressive deter
minationN to effectively kill the
boss-ridden party which shut out
the progressives from Aberdeen
and Chicago, was put into action
last election, with the result that
the old guard of the republican
party was forced to step out of
Office and go to work.
Since that time, the former re-
publican bosses have used every
effort to bring the progressive
voters back to the fold, that they
might help to put the old bosses
back in Office. But so far there
has been nothing doing. The
progressives have maintained
their organization, and announce
thatif the republicans want office,
they can get it ONLY through
the progressive party and its plat
form. And starting with Roose-
velt, and all down the line, the
progressives are maintaining their
strategic hold on the situation
allowing no known loopholes for
the old bosses of the Barnes
Penrose party to creep into their
former fiowery beds of political
ease in Office.
What will be the final result?
We don't know. For the pres
ent, the democrats are largely in
office-kept there in many cases
by the action of the progressives.
1t is indeedipleasing to the demo-
Gratis, and it is not tended to cause
any particular democratic hatred
toward the progressives. 1t is
completing the disruption of the
former republican machines, and
bringing many expressions of
bitterness toward progressives
from those old republicans whose
chief desire in life had been to
keep in office for what there was
in it.
The old-guard republicans will
not unite with the progressives
nor with the democrats-so they
say. Yet in this state the repub-
licans in state convention adopt
ed the progressive plank for a
a non-partisan tariff commission,
showing that the republican party
is tending toward progressivism
because it has to; while the
progressive party has not changed
any of its planks.
The moose intend to control the
situation. By keeping up their
party work, they enforce the de-
mand that a republican can not
win through the republican party,
but must enter the contest under
the progressive banner if he de-
sires anything. This course, if
maintained. is bound to win
eventually, as the study of Am
erican party politics shows.
Thus far the result to the ma
ton has been good. But should
there come a time when the dem
ocratic party becomes untitled
for power, the progressives have
it in their power to swing the
balance and change conditions;
they will not take a step back