The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-10-21
HART BACKED BY
PRIMARY RIVALS
Hartley, Conan, Gellatly, Skin.
ner and Lamping are All
Supporting Governor

I1dTI DcSdu LiS dCIASS S1AaPoiSh Ava
election last week, touring Whitman
county and visiting Spokane in COM
pany with C. L. Babcock, of Port An
geles, republican nominee for treas
urer, then swinging back to the West
side to attend the Western Washing
ton fair at Puyallup. All republican
state and congressional nominees con-
ferred with Republican State Chair
man Charles Hebberd, Monday, to
complete arrangements for the final
stages of the campaign in this state.
Several republican speakers al.
ready are in the field and arrange
ments are being completed by the
state speakers bureau to send out a
strong corps of orators, all of them
thoroughly familiar with both nation
al and state issues, early next week.
Gov: Hart started his speaking
campaign with the assurance from all
the candidates who contested with him
for governor at the September pri-
maries that they will take the stump
in his behalf and for the whole repub-
lican ticket before the campaign ends.
All of Gov. Harris rivals for the re-
publican nomination except Senator
George B. Lamping, who has not yet
fully recovered from the automobile
accident he suffered last August, are
prepared to enter the campaign inn
mediately. Senator Lamping an
nounced this week that he would take
the stump as soon as his phyhicians
will permit him.
The offers of support in the final
weeks of the campaign that were
made to Gov. Hart and the republican
state committee by the unsuccessful
candidates for governor were spon-
taneous and enthusiastic. Represen-
tative John A. Gellatly Of Wenatchee
in telegraphing his congratulations to
Gov. Hart added to his message an
offer of his services in behalf of the
republican ticket. He is an indefatig-
able worker who has covered every
corner of the state and the commit
tee will call upon him.
Senator Ed T. Conan, of Spokane,
not only offered his services promptly
but this week came to Seattle to con-
fer with Chairman Hebberd and Gov.
Hart on plans for his activities, agree
ing to go on the stump as soon as ar
rangements can be made.
The spirit of the Republican candi-
dates was illustrated accurately in a
letter from Col. Roland H. Hartley, of
Everett, offering his aid. He wrote:
sIn closing the biggest and broadest
year of my life it will be pleasure
to do all I can to assist you to win in
the finals, Nov. End next. I will glad
ly respond to any call that may come
from you or the Grand Old Party"
And John Stringer of Seattle, who
wrote to Gov. Hart that anything !
can do to help you will be pleasure
added the prediction that the entire
Republican ticket from president to
constable would be elected
Before he started on his campaign
tour, Gov. Hart had a. short confer
ence with Senator Lamping, who af-
forwards authorized the following
statement:
GAS soon as my health permits, the
republican committee can call upon
me for speeches in support of the re.
publican ticket. I shall be glad tt
make any speeches for the republican
party, believing it represents the rea
progressive thought of the country as
exemplified by the great progressive
leaders of the party, Abraham Lin.
coin and Theodore Roosevelt"
| Miss Hester E. Horsford, widely
known lecturer and writer who was 9
lecturer in France during and after
the war, is speaking this week in west.
ern Washington and will make tour
of eastern Washington, beginning
October 18th. She was sent to this
state by the republican national com.
mittee. A. A. Lee, an ex-service mar
of Fargo, N. D., has been speaking
to large Western Washington audi
ences, telling of nonpartisan league
activities in North Dakota. Former
United States Senator Samuel H. Pile.
will be obliged to go to Oregon anc
California as soon as he completes hi:
present tour of eastern Washington
as the republican national committe.
has called for his services.
Walter F. Meier, corporation coun
sci for the City of Seattle, begins :
tour of eastern Washington, October
18th and will be on the stump unit
the close of the campaign.
C. d. Cunningham, who prosecuted
the I. w. w. found guilty of the Cen
tralia outrage on Armistice Day las
f year, A. S. Kresky, an alternate t,
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