Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-03-10

Hutton of Spokane was a member of
the delegation, so the selection of a
woman delegate is not without prece-
dent.
Apparently it's a game of anything
to get Lister, and in it the state SUI
preme court or anything else is to be
dragged. Dirty politics. of course,
finds its abode in the Perkins Press,
but when the Seattle Post-Intelligen-
Ger jumps into the mire, too, and
publishes vicious editorial, almost
word for word like those of the Per-
kins papers, on rumor which it
itself declares it believes is unbound
ed, one gets glimpse Of the seamy
side of politics in this state. These
editorials sought to convey the Inn
preston, to put it mildly, that Gov
ernor Lister had urged Judge Baus-
man to resign from the bench this
spring, SO he could appoint another
Democrat to it who would have the
prestige of the ONCE to carry him
through the campaign this fall. The
governor didn't mince words in his
answer-he called the report IAN un-
mitigated lie." II can conceive Of
its use only on the ground that It
probably comes from sources whence
many 'rumors' of like character have
emanated regarding this depart
ment." he added. II have urged
and it has been my hope that Judge
Bausman would see his way clear not
only to remain on the bench until the
end of the term for which he was
appointed, as he will do. but also that
he would become candidate to sue
coed himself"
A set-to between Governor Lister
and Representative L. d. McArdle Of
the state bureau of acconutancy over
the latter's report of an inspection of
the state fish commission, enlivened
the weeks political events. McArdle
hasn't any love for Lister, Heaven
and everybody else knows, and Lis
ter has less for him, but McArdle,
under the guise of bureau report,
broke into politics so strongly in an
argument designed to show that little
or no improvement had been made in
the supervision of the state fisheries
during Listers administration COM
pared with that of his predecessor,
that the governor immediately caught
him up on that portion of the report
which stated that Governor Lister
had been absent from every meeting
of the commission last fall. The gov
ernor did not attend the commission s
meeting August 81 last, being at that
time at the Governors Conference in
Boston, Mass, but he did attend the
meetings on September 9, October 80,
November 80 and December 80, so he
wrote State Auditor Clausen, Nc
Ardle's chief, and asked him for an
explanation. McArdle didn't have
any, except that ditto marks meant
the governor was present!
Apropos of this little tiff, an edito-
rial which appeared in the Tacoma
Tribune, recalling bit of legislative
history, is interesting:
81. d. McArdle, erstwhile Repub-
lican legislator from Jefferson county,
who has been continuously attached
to the state payroll in one capacity or
another for many years, has again
bobbed up in the limelight. When
the Tribune and other papers printed
a story last year that a bill of his was
designed to provide soft nesting
place for one l.. d. McArdle during
the interval between legislative ses-
sions, McArdle rose in a fury Of pro-
test and denial in the house. When
the session was concluded and the
bill passed it was found that the
much protesting McArdle was an in