The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-09-22
WI" Is who According to the Returns
anu Those Who Also Ran and
NO Doubt Wish They Hadn't

republicans do not want m ha
soothed into over confidence nv tho
siae OF the democratic vote cast at the
primary elections. Democrats ca,Iad
ioi republican ballots to help, one 70.
puDhcan candidate out or to floor an
other There were no contests on tho
democratic ticket SO it was not neces.
sary to stick to party. The woods arc
pretty full of democrats, notwithstand.
ing the size of the primary vote, and
some or the candidates on the repub.
llcan ticket will have to hump them
serves to pull through.
In the fight, for the Joint senator.
snip Howe carried Douglas county nv
a substantial majority. Waterville. his
nome town. going for him almost to a
man. He also carried Ferry county
by small majority. Okanogan gave
boilinger a stiff majority, and Grant
county was also carried by BollinRer
bollinger ran in by 200 or 300 major
lty. on the combined vote of the dis
trict.
mart, for congress received more ad-
vertising in the country press of the
district than any other one of the
seven candidates for congress and in
consequence pulled big vote in the
COW counties. He fell down hard in
Spokane because the Spokesman-Re-
view backed him so consistently.
Murphey carried every county in the
district except Spokane and Okanogan
where he was led by both Cookery and
Hart, Hart carrying the county. MUIR
rhey lost the plum in Spokane city
and county, where Cookery led all the
flock by 1900 votes.
Hartley was the surprise of the pri-
mary election. He ran for governor
on straight platform Of giving every
man a chance and came out second
| high in the race. From the size of his
vote 1t would seem that the, sentiment
is growing that this is a free country.
Reading the Spokesman Review
prior to the primary election one
would be led to believe that Sutton
was the only candidate for governor
who had a ghost of show to win.
Everything was Sutton according
to the SIR, from Vancouver to the
boundary line and from the Pacific
ocean TO the Idaho border. No other
candidate had look in Everybody
VINO knows the tactics of the SIR, in
it's handling of political dope knew
this to be false, for the chief aim OF
that paper in a campaign is to mislead
the people. Its correspondents are sent
out to color the news just as that pa
/ per wants the coloring applied. In this
| instance the correspondents did their
work thoroughly, and the returns
proved them to be mighty poor prog
lnOsticatOrs.
Had Bryan, who had no show at any
time, been out of the race for senator
the toga in all probability would have
fallen upon Humphreys shoulders,
where it belonged, both on account OF
| his service in congress and because
the west side is entitled to- senator.
The contest between Picken AMI
Hummer was a hot one and so close
that Mr.. Picken squeezed through on
very narrow margin. Sectional feel
| ing cut much ice in the vote for rep
resentative. The effort to defeat Rob-
ert was desperate and considering the
fight made against him 1t is WONDER
he did not go down to defeat under
an avalanche OF votes. ~
| Mrs Mcclure secured her nomina-
tion by a margin of over 1000 votes
indicative OF her popularity. Mrs. NC
lCh,re has made one OF the best County
clerks this county has ever had, and II
would really have been voting a pre-
m,ur, for inefficiency had she been
I,urrcd down. This does not mean thar
|ber armament was incapable, for he 70
. very worthy young man, Dut II
would have meant thatthere Is no re,
ward for doing your duty faithfuily anu
wei, in public office had Mrs. Mcclure
lbeen relegated to private life. .
| AS JACK Flynn had no oppf sition
Cor county treasurer he had smooth
sailing with no nightmares prior 70
a. nr;maries. It will be the same way
Of the general election. He VIII go IN
der the wire like scared JACK raooi''
Chair Ward had no walk away IN
securing the nomination for sheril1,
although Mr.. Maloney did not deve'Sp
Tine strength that was expected py
those who we're dallying with the pup
lie pulse prior to the election. From m
the drift of talk it seemed tnat war war
was to be pigeoned hoied. inc ilt.,e
o" we" developed unexpected strength,
AS he made a corking good deputy >,
goes without saying that he VIII '"aNe
a first class sheriff. ou .he
There was battle royal over tne
authorship, with three contenders ~
tho lists Messrs Quackenbush, Huo'
hard and Hannah. Although MT
Iouackenbush's campaign was mese e.
a.,orarv he showed up WONDER