Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-22
HIST! THERE'S A ROW ON.

Conflicting claims by rival factions
in the ranks of Thurston county Re-
publicans as to control of the county
central committee, composed of the
precinct committeeman elected at the
recent primaries, gives promises of a
lively session of that committee when
it meets in this city Saturday after
| noon to perfect it's formal organiza-
ton as required by law.
After the first rush of the primary
had passed by, the spokesman for the
organization, headed by State Com
mitteeman w. w. Hopkins of the
state land commissioners office, fam
boyantly spread the news forth that
they had retained control of the
county committee, meaning thereby
that Hopkins would be reelected
state committeeman and that Ed San
ford might again be allowed to call
himself county chairman.
But then by and by the informa-
tion leaked out from the other side,
captained by l.. l.. Bowers, former
deputy sealer of weights and meas
ures for this county but relieved of
that responsibility some months ago
by County Auditor Annie CASTOR, and
J. p. Thacker. one time local Repub-
Sh0c y,, HI s,,a so1
days Sam Perkins right hand man,
that the Hopkins machine didn't have
all it claimed to have and that all the
signs portended considerable revo-
luton in the management of the
county central committee and the per-
sonnel of the state committeeman and
county chairman.
But the chief of the Hopkins lieu
tenants, comes forth now with the as
sertion that "L. l.. Bowers isn't going
to be county chairman or Ted Nc
Lafferty state committeeman" which
is just that individuals way of saying
that the Hopkins crowd had again
garnered unto themselves the control
of the county committee.
There are rev of the committee
men who aren't ''pegged" yet. Some
of these gathered together the other
afternoon but failed to reach any
common status quo, and the maneu-
vering Of the intervening days appears
not to have settled things smoothly
and quietly. So, barring of course all
eleventh-hour compromises. settle
ments and agreements, the commit
tees session promises to provide some
interesting and perhaps some exciting
and upsetting entertainment Saturs
day.
The upshot of it may be that the
two factions will agree on a compro-
mise candidate such as Joe Peters or
George Draham, eliminating both
Hopkins and Bowers and setting as
clear a san Gthey can for the county
campaign this fall. For there are not
few of them, especially among the
candidates, who would like to escape
the odium of being called Hopkins
candidates" if they could and are
even now muttering among them
selves the advisability of 'ditching"
Hopkins and taking on a new leader.
Anyhow, it's shaping up for fight.
An amusing feature of the jockey
ing-both "ante" and post" the pri-
told of the antics of rather
recent conner from Tacoma to the city
of Olympia whose ambitions spur him
toward becoming political power OF !
no mean importance hereabouts.
Needless to say he failed, of course,
but not before he had suggested to
the Hopkins forces the great advisa-
bility of electing him a precinct COM
mitteeman and had been turned down,
and had then turned to the "antis"
and recommended that they not only
make him a precinct officer but state
and received more
prompt rejection there. His next
move was to "ball out" the "antis"
with what vehemence he could and
up" to the Hopkins forces;
but the end is not yet.
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