Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-09-04
THE PASSING THRONG

IL you knew COl. Hartley as dO you ana
every other colored man in the state would
be for him. In my opinion no one now
running for the gubernatorial nomination
has shown as much genuine friendship for
the meritorous colored person as has COL
Hartley and in substantiation of the above
statement he will get every colored vote in
Snohomish county. AS l am talking to you
concerning Col. Hartley, so have all Of the
other colored men in and about Everett
talked to me about him and [ therefore am
voicing the sentiment Of all of them, who
know him best, when [ say to you with Col.
Hartley in the gubernatorial chair Of this
state the colored man has a true friend at
court
The last intermarriage bill introduced in
the legislature of this state was in 1915 and
was introduced by member from Whitman
county by request and it was the concensus
of opinion that the person making the re-
quest was State Senator b. L. French, who
is now candidate for lieutenant governor
The colored voters in Spokane have en-.
dorsed the candidacy of Senator Fipps for
lieutenant governor on the assumption that
he was instrumental in the defeat of that
particular bill, which is sad mistake The
bill originated in the House of Representa-
tives and died in the committee room of the
same and the cause Of it's death was due to
W. w. Conner, Speaker Of the House, who
requested the chairman Of the committee to
which it was referred to smother it to death
by never reporting it out. Had Speaker
Conner so desired the bill would have been
reported out and might have passed the
House, but he set himself dead against it,
which resulted in the bill dying borning
If Senator Fipps or any advocate of his
1o
mental in the killing of that particular bill
then such is said in order to deceive That
Senator Fipps was exceedingly courteous to
committee Of colored men that visited the
legislature to lobby against the bill, if re-
ported out, is not denied, but he (Fipps)
had no hand in killing the bill because it
never reached the Senate. Vote for Conner
So hot was the fire which Senator Jones
reigned down upon the head of Bill Inglis
the other day, when he, Jones, spoke to an
audience of very interesting listeners on his
pre-war record that the Star beloved like
a bull | read Mr.. Jones' statement the
next morning and as I did so great big
tear stole into my eye for just then I re-
membered when the Teddies went marching
off to war, but never marched back again
Then [ thought for moment and compared
the attitudes Of Jones and Inglis as to our
in my mind s eye [ saw Jones standing be-
tween Mars and the brave boys of our fire
sides, saying not yet, no, not yet; but old
Mars would not take no for an answer and
then did the mighty Jones hurl him back
again and again and so on until he himself
had to give way. But what of Inglis? He,
with eyes attention, covered with gilded
stripes and silvered sword paraded before
the public and actually chafed for the sig
nal Doubtless he looked forward to the
time when Bill would come marching home
from war and the people would fall down
and worship him and declare him their
Moses, though he was only educationaly fit
ted to be their porter. I love to fight when
[ have to fight, but I refuse to fight in or
der to pose as bully or hero
Steadily increasing strength in the rural
districts of the county is claimed by the
managers of Joel F. Warren, Republican
candidate for sheriff. as the result of the
Warren plan for organizing a systematic