Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-03
IN THE POLITICAL WHIRL,

ton following soon thereafter and a state
campaign for state and county nominations
accompanying the WHOLE the political game
in the state of Washington, the most of the
present year will be a more or less fasci-
mating one. The fight for the mayorship of
Seattle already gives much evidence of be-
ing hot number, which may enter into
the national and state campaigns, though
the gubernatorial aspirants will hardly show
any preference for the success of any one
OF the various aspirants for the Seattle
mayoralty. Washington has presidential
aspirant who, in all political probability, will
receive the united support of all factions
and Poindexter delegation will go to Chi
cago to the Republican National Convention.
Tacoma too will hold a municipal election
in the earaly spring and that also will at
tract more or less political attention, as
Tacoma, just now, is the political center Of
the state. In the various municipal cleo
lions partisan politics will not enter into
the contests and Clayton Weekly will sup
port the MAN. That is to say, it has no
candidate, but will make it's own selection.
In the presidential delegate campaign Cay
ton Weekly will support Poindexter dele
cation and that too without second choice in
structions. The party platform too is at
tracing more or less attention and the
party leaders among the Republicans are
anxious that, in a way the people them
selves be personally responsible for the
spirit, if not the actual words, Of the plat
form, on which the campaign will be fought
in the state. By this it is meant that men
and women in all walks Of life will make
suggestions for the platform.
Of course President Cardwell Of the Wash
ington State Colored Republican Club and
the various presidents of the different county
organizations of like complexion, will see
to it that the colored voters of the state
are fully represented in the state conven-
ton and we would suggest that at least
three of their number be elected on the
state central committee from at large Tn
times past such a plan was followed and
worked very satisfactorily. There is no
reason why an altogether campaign is not
staged by the Republicans that the state
may fully come into her own as in days Of
yOre.
IF the presidential nomination is awarded
on the grounds of patriotism then Washing
ton states presidential aspirant will have
no superior.
During the war Miles G. Poindexter,
United States senator from Washington,
stood by the president Of the United States
by working and voting for him to have
every necessary aid and support to prose-
cute the war to a successful finish. Senator
Poindexter denounced slackers and Bolshev
lists and waged relentless war on them
both in and out of the senate. He not only
voted that they be imprisoned, but that the
law hunt each and every one Of them down
and put an everlasting quietus upon them,
and that too irrespective of their social or
financial standing. Since the war Senator
i'oindexter has stood in the gateway and
protested against the president turning over
the affairs of this country to the European
powers He has denounced in mmeasured
terms the Versailles Peace Treaty and like
wise the League Of Nations, and in adopt
ing this he was not ga me too," but an
originator He opposed these measures be-
cause he vieewd them as un-American and
in that view. it is safe to say, an over
whelmng majority Of the citizens of this
state. yea if not the United States, are un