The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-11-02
GIMAX OF THE
COP. CAMPAIGN
TOMORROW EVE
go Henderson Expected to Put
FINISHING Touches on the
Speaking Program
vEK HAS BEEN NOTABLE
~. Sneakers Have Urged Return of
Republican Party in the State
and Nation

rho climax of the republican CAM
o.ign in this end of the county, SO far
:. the state and national tickets are
,oucerned, will be reached tomorrow
Friday) evening when Scott q. Hem
d.rson, assistant attorney general,
v;ll address the voters in the CONNER
.;al club rooms. Because OF Mr.. Hen
derson's large acquaintance in the
county and of his reputation as
forcible speaker it is expected that
Friday's meeting will be record
breaker in point of attendance and
enthusiasm.
Il is understood that Mr.. Hender-
am will devote considerable time to
discussion of the Adamson, or So
called eight-hour law. He has been
chosen by the state committee to
speak upon this issue because OF the
fact that he was formerly railroad
employe and was raised from his era
die DAYS in railroad" atmosphere,
his father having been conductor
for years.
It is expected also that Mr.. Hen
derson will deliver some telling shots
At the Lister administration as his
duties as assistant attorney general
has brought him into close touch with
nearly every department of the state
government.
The past week has been a notable
one in tie annals of republican his
tory in this county. Never before have
so many party orators visited the
county within such rapid succession
and never before has party interest
been at such high pitch.
E. X. Brown, of Ellensburg, spoke
Saturday afternoon at the candidates
meeting held in Richland under the
auspices of the Strawberry Grang'
and Saturday evening he spoke in th'
Commercial club rooms here.
Mr.. Brown is an ardent progressive
and in the 1913 legislature was tn
leader of the progressive forces in tn
lower house of the state Legislature
In his speeches he appealed es
pecially to the progressive wing o
the republican party. In maintaining
that the democratic party is unfitte
fundamentally to carry out the prin
cipals for which the progressive par
ty contended he begun at the begin
sning of things political in this cour
try and reviewed the histories of tn
two leading parties from the adoptio
OF the constitution to the present tim
Regardless of the now issues whic
mad become paramount in the nations
government, he said, the democrat
party still adhered to the old princip
OF states rights and that in his hant
ling of public questions President Wi
son had shown himself to be stror
advocate of localism, which woul
ever prove a stumbling block to
strong and virile national government
IN his remarks he laid special sire
upon the attitude of the two nomine
toward union labor. He recited Il
long list of laws favorable to the |
oorlng class enacted in New Yo
curing Hughes administration
governor and quoted the Legislati
Labor News Of New York as follows
Now that Governor Hughes h
retired from politics and ascendcd
nigh place on the highest tribur
IN the world, the fact can be ackno
,eaged without hurting anybody's /
htlcal corns, that he was the great.
friend Of labor law that ever oct
pied the governors chair at Albal
During his two terms he has sigr
90 labor laws, including among tn
.ne best labor laws ever enacted
.nis or any other state. He also ure
tne enactment of labor laws in
message to the legislature, even
ing SO far as to place the demand
labor law in onc of his messages
"n extra session of the legislature
only 1852 labor laws have b,
enacted in this state since its erect
~ l87-in 133 years. One-thi-d
.nese, exceeding in quality all 9th,
nave been enacted and signed dur
''Vernor Hughes term of three ye