Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-12-29


administrations to task for their direliction
in giving colored Republicans political
recognition and it bitterly fought all gu
bernatiorial aspirants, who would not 90 on
record to politically recognize the colored
vote in case OF nomination and election, and
to that end it vigorously supported Roland
H. Hartley for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton, but Henry Mcbride won out in the
primaries and this paper shed no crockadile
tears, when he lost out in the general cleo
ton, simply because he did nothing for the
black man when he was governor and
would make no promise Of doing anything
for him in case of reelection. No official
is greater than his party and if he or she
expects to be elected to office by his party
vote he or she must expect to do his or her
brit to build up the party machinery and,
in order to win, votes must be had, and
the vote cast by black person swells the
whole number of votes just as much as the
vote cast by white person. To hold all
factions and classes of voters insoluable all
factions and classes of voters must be re-
warded when the spoils of party are being
passed around.
In the last gubernatorial campaign the
editor hereof called the attention of E. F.
Blaine, one Of Governor Listers appointees
tenants, to the governors mistake in not
recognizing the colored vote and he prom
Used and verify did take it up with the
governor and was informed by him (the
gOvernor) that he had repeatedly advocated
such political move, but the heads of the
various departments absolutely rebelled
and on the subject he found himself not
only standing alone, but at absolute vari-
ance with his respective appointees. It
had not been done and while Cayton's
Weekly did not openly support the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nominee, yet it had
nothing to say for the Republican and was
more or less neutral. Gov. Lister succeeded
himself and evidently the seeds he had pre-
viousy sown which were nurtured by E. F.
Blaine, began to sprout, and though they
were long time getting through the crust,
yet they finally came through and as a re-
suit Emmett H. Holmes is now filing an
important state position under Henry Drum,
warden Of the state penitentiary In the
past Mr. Holmes has not been able to per-
suade many Of the coored voters of the
state to follow him into the local Demo-
cratic camp, but it is suspected he will
not be near lonely in the next state
campaign as he has been in the past. It
matters not how well educated or politically
influential a colored man may have been in
the past, an appeal to his Republican
friends for position on account of past DO
lltical favors, moved said official to get busy
at once looking up a janitorship for him
and it none are to be had then he is told
'there is nothing doing"
The auditor of this state has the naming
OF nearly one hundred employees and yet
when colored man, who in the past had
been one of his staunchest supporters, ap-
pealed to him for position, he could find
nothing at aall for him to do. There will
come change some day.
If any colored man in the state can and
will fill political position with credit to
himself and the class of voters with whom
he is racially identified, E. H. Holmes will
DO so, if it can be done, and it can He is
fearless in his advocacy of square deal
for the black man the same as for the