Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-09-29
LISTER STANDS
ON HIS RECORD
Both Candidates for Governor
Have Record Of One
Term Served
MUST STAND ON THEM
Friends Of Governor Lister
Advance 20 Reasons Why
He Should Win
MUST STAND ON THEM

In the present campaign, the stat
of Washington has two candidates fo
governor, each of whom have serve
term of four years, so that the vot
er has the record of each for a guide
and those records are sure to con
front both. BY them they must stand
Governor Ernest Lister is perfect
willing to rest his claim to a re
election upon the record he has mad
during his present term, and hi
friends give the following twent
reasons for his reelection:
l. The state departments unde
Governor Listers control saved an,
turned back into the treasury durini
his first two years $714,739, or 13 pc
cent of the appropriations asked b.
the prior republican administration.
2. AS a direct result of his vetoe
in 1913, over $4,500,OOO was cut from
the appropriations of that legislator,
in spite of the fact that appropriation
amounting to $5OO,OOO were carried
over his veto.
8. The Industrial Welfare Commits
sion appointed by Governor Lister ha,
established the best apprentice sys
tenn and the highest minimum wag'
of any state in the Union and has fal
outdistanced all other states by guar
anteeing a living wage to over Is PEI
cent of the women of the state EN-
ployed in gainful occupations.
4. The State Labor Department
under Governor Lister, has brough
about real cooperation between EN-
ployers and employees to prevent &C
cidents to workers.
5. Governor Lister has caused thu
strict enforcement of the eight-hour
minimum wage and child labor laws
procuring in three years 211 convic
tions as against 20 convictions in thu
preceding 16 years.
6. He vetoed the bill to repeal thu
eight-hour law on public works.
Z. He has established the honol
camp system for prisoners, abolished
dungeons in prisons and correction
cells in the Boys Training School ant
instituted military training in pena
and corrective institutions.
8. Through his efforts there was
established the State School for Girl.
and a State School for Adult Blint
(only one other in the Union). He
has caused professional examination
to be made Of the blind children will
a view to the restoration of sight, the
first move Of the kind ever made il
this state.
9. AS the result of Governor Lis
ter's road building policy of pay az
we Co." the Highway Department has
constructed 6O3 miles of state roads
and gravelled 151 miles of old roat
during the past three and onehal
years without incurring a cent o.
bonded Indebtedness and the pilins
up of interest charges. In the eigh
preceding years only 1913 miles O
state roads were built.
10. He has inaugurated a system
of state parks along our scenic high
ways.
II. Governor Lister vetoed the in
iquitous Whitney election bill which
attempts to take us back to the day
of boss-controlled conventions ant
partybound candidates, which meas
ure is now before the people on re
ferendum.
-. He vetoed the measures which
propose to nullify the initiative, refer
endum and recall. These measures
are also before the people on refer
endum.
13. He has stopped petty bicker
ing within and between our state
institutions of higher education.
IA. He has entirely removed tht
National Guard from politics ant
brought it to the highest efficiency il
its history. Washington sent the onl.
full recruited and equipped regimen
to the border.
Is. Upon Governor Listers re
commendatiOn, an agricultural de
partment was created to take care o
the growing agricultural interests 0
the state.
16. AS the result of Governor Lis
ter's close, personal supervision, th'
state institutions are in the finest con
dition in their history, and the cos
per inmate has not been increased
II. He was instrumental in bring
ing about the speedy survey and plac
ing on the tax rolls hundreds o
thousands of acres of railroad grant
ed and lieu lands, hitherto unsurvey
ed and untaxable.
IS. In spite of the most villianou
attacks of the gray wolves Of politics
who sought to hamper him at ever
turn. Governor Lister has cleaned u
the Industrial Insurance Department
and brought to justice those guilty Q
looting its funds.
10. Notwithstanding the fact tina
the fisheries department under Gov