Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-04-07
OF THE POLITICAL CLANS
Continued from Page One.

forth in the precincts of Olympia
and Thurston county as well as
everywhere else in the United States,
as the great and only savior of the
country-how they are going to do
that with the same vociference, the
same gusto, the same eclat with
which they PANIED him and cussed
him and all those that were his, just
four short years ago. There's rap
ture in the wondering, as just said
and also little Joy.
The Republicans are dead up
against it on the Roosevelt question
"ain't no gettin' aroun' it,"
A local Republican political writer
tried to poke a little fun at US the
other day for the remark recently
made in these columns to the general
effect that the Non-Partisan ticket of
two years ago was apt to remain in
the archives of political history,
there to repose as q somewhat
shining and spectacular example Of a
good thing gone wrong; but he kid
ded himself worse than he did US. for
he went on to say that the Demo-
Gratis here and elsewhere through
out the state we're worrying about
how they were going to get around
the non-partisanship issue they raised
q couple Of years ago.
He kidded himself. because the Re-
publicans are worrying far more
about that than are the Democrats,
for the success of the non-partisan
movement-and this newspaper be-
lieves in it intellectually as to city
and county affairs, providing it is
real non-partisanship and not merely
the vehicle by which q man who was
once q Republican and then q Pro-
gressive rides himself into ONCE 80
he can decker and deal and go over
to those who have spurned him be-
fore-the success of the movement
means the "scatteration" of city and
county Offices among others than
those who now trot with the party
organization; 1t means really open
ing up those Offices as they should be
opened up, to the best men in the
city and county, regardless of the
party label they may bear, to be
chosen for their capabilities and not
because they are "in."
And by this sort of non-partisan-
ship, we mean the blanket ballot
upon which all candidates appear as
themselves, and there isn't any Dem
ocrat in the state who's trying to
hedge" on that proposition. But
that sort Of non-partisanship is not
attainable under the present system
was done here in Thurston
county two years ago was the best
sort of makeshift possible under the
present statutes-and 1t doesn't take
very many contributions to Repub-
lican luncheons to convince one that
1t is a good thing gone wrong"
]. E. Frost, former state tax COM
missioner, whom the Camas Post
seems to be awfully anxious sto get
into the running for the governor
ship, and George A. Lee. on whom
Hays mantle has descended, formal
lily entered the free-for-all for the Re-
publican nomination during the past
week. There was nothing startling
Tor strange or remarkable in their Of
fetal announcements-as platforms,
both we're gloriously vague. Lee has
been in the game for two or three
months now. and Frost has been
flirting around the back yard, rath-
er nonplussed by the Perkins-Bone-
Cowles edict that he "get out and
stay out" so that neither occasioned
any surprise when the trumpets
blared forth their entry.