The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-24

g. c. DIN was expected 10 70
safier Governor Hart hammer
and longs 10 his speech today.
A week ago last Friday. Mt an
editors banquet nj Ephrata. Din
had little brush with the gov
crnor. In the course Of a speech
al the banquet Din said thu best
thing 10 do was to elect. regard
Ic-s OF party. mrn and women
who win wos<< for tar reduction.
and In this connection he made
tho abatement that taxe~ had ad.
vaDccd from sii.coo. 600 In 1917
to $1,000. 900 In 1891. Hart ehai
ienEcd this statement. urging tho
editors not to publish these fig
urcs until they were sure they
were right.
Din didn't say snythine-but
he did q little studying himself.
As . result he was all prtned to
tell tho convention today that
he had made = mistake. that, In
stead cf the $4,000. 900 increase
In taxes being made In four
years. 10 had been made In one
~ the 1890 tar levy was only
slf 900 900. ~ against sf7 .ooo. 900
the very next year. In 1917 tho
taxcs were only 81 .ooo 900. 40 the
incr~asc In four years ha. been
xfo.eoo. 900. ~ more than 100 per
cent. according 10 Din.
Speaking Of taxe-. the democrats
IRE prepared 10 pledge a reduction
" s3is per cent n they get control
n the Legislature: In other words. a
oyy OF approximately $4,000 600
md they say they'll give Just as good
, government as the Hart admins
ration has-whateycr they mean BY
hat
Come Of tho delegates were on
posed 10 coming out specifically
against tho SOTO school levy. But
Chairman Christensen didn't think
hey could express themselves toe
strongly on that subject. lie comes
rom skamania county. which Is
forced to pay $4,000 year toward
he upkecp OF tho University oi
and hasn't single stu
lent In that institution
Christensen. incidentally. n
running for state senator from
Skamania and that $4,000 for tho
university il one Of his big talk
ing points. Sksmania. he says,
II about tho most tsx.ridden
county In the state. With tho
exception Of some 30 miles along
the river. It's all forest rcscrva-
ton. so the entire tax burden Of
the county falls on no more than
= 30-miIc strip.
Pend Orcir'c county II quite proud
Of Itself. Altho farther away from
Olympia than any other county ir
the state and also the "baby county
OF washington, It's batting over 800
in attendanco--that Is. it's entitled u
six delegates. and two arc here. NJ
NJ. sammons Is chairman OF the "del
cgauon."
-Four hundred Delegates were ex
pected at tho convention II KIM
kept It's promise and sent u
full quota of 90. Between $50 and 2o'
delegates arrived yesterday.
G. G. Dill and Lyman Seelye. on
posing candidates for the senatorial
have different campaign
methods. Scclye is distributing cop
les OF his book, Genesis OF Coco
while Dill pins hi
faith to blotters and cards
IT. y. Merritt. of Spokane, execu
tive secretary Of the state commits
sion. was one OF the most promipen
figures In pre- convention conference
J. n. Sovereign. Of Keller. Is
one Of the most picturesque dele
gates nj the convention. He's AN
old labor warhorse. having been
head Of the knights Of Labor he
fore the A. Y. Of J.. came into the
state. lie runs n paper called the
Eagle on an Indian reservation
up In the mountains.