Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-04
P''0NDEX'T'|E||'R| Is
Chief ISSUE IN
C0ASTPRlMARY
Opposition Centers Around
Mrs. Frances Axtell and
Clarence Dill. +;

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4 Mrs. Frances Axtell and
n. Clarence Dill.
Seattle. Wash, Sept. 4.-The ques-
Q OF whether Miles Poindexter, the
Junior United States senator. from
Washington who was swept into Of
nee on the Bull Moose tide in 1910,
Ns1ll be returned to office, is the out
standing M in the state primary
election September ~. One of his
opponents for the Republican .nominS
Auo Is a woman, Mrs. FrancessChve-
land Axtell of Bellingham. $Sss3s
Senator Poindexter, who has been
engaged for weeks inf a vigorous
speaking campaign throughout the
state, asserts that newspaper and la
DOR bosses are responsible for chang
:es that he was recreant to progress
sstve principles when he raised large
campaign funds, voted for the four
power treaty Inc for the seating of
senator Truman H. Newberry of
j Michigan.
Woman Opposes.
The opposition to Senator Poindex-
ter .centers around two personalities,
one in the Republican party in Mrs.
Axtell, and the other in the Demo-
+ cratic party, Clarence Dill of Spokane,
q former congressman. ~
Mrs. Axtell was the first woman
member of the Washington legisla-
tnre, her term beginning In 1913.
From 1917 to 1921 she was a member
Sof the federal employees compensa-
ton commission and is chairman Of
the Washington state organization for
reduction of armament by interna-
tional agreement. q = ."
Charge Reactionism. !
She declares that she represents
"the general protest against the reac-
tionary record of Senator Poindexter."
denounces the seating of Senator
1Newberry. asserts that the senate has
been different to the welfare of farm
ers and promises to work for a SOL
Sdiers' bonus, child welfare legislation,
Iupholding the Volstead. law and for
the avoidance of entangling foreign
relations.
Mrs. Axtell's campaign began with
endorsements by a group of represen-
tatives of the Railway Mems Political
club, a statewide association Of or
carnations with Is 1000 members, and
by the State Federation of Labor and
the State Grange. Her opponents as
sert that members of this group.
which is styled the conference for
progressive political action and, which
met on aJSnnday with a scanty pre-
vious announcement only seemed to
represent the farmers n labor.
3 t.+ Labor for Iamping.
The rank and file of labor, accord
b. Lamping, a member of the Seattle
port commission: Lamping's appeal
tofthe public is a claim that he is the
author of a bonus received from. the
state by all, men and women who e
listed from Washington in the fighting
services in the world a He was 8
member of the state senate when the
bill was passed. Z
George H. stevenson and Austin E
'Griffiths of Seattle and bee Title OF
yakima are the other Republican can
didates. Griffiths is a superior Judge
and once was a candidate for mayor
Din in Congress.
Former Congressman Dill is q. Spo'
kane lawyer who was private secre'
.tary to Governor Ernest Lister II
1913 and 1914 and vas in congress.
from 1915 to 1919. In congress HI
voted against the declaration of wal
with Germany, a fact which his op'
ponents in the Democratic senatorial
rae are using against him.
A picturesque candidate for tn
Democratic nomination is James
Cleveland, Longstreet of Port Town
) send. who is an inmate of govern
ment hospital in Colorado for lunl
trouble incurred by service in tn
world war, and announces that he will
not return to Washington his season
but will conduct his campaign from
his bed. In 1918 while in France will
an engineer outfit he ran for congress
Lyman Seelye Of Bellingham is tn
third Democratic aspirant. j
James A.. Duncan. secretary OF tn
Seattle Labor Council and one Of tn
leaders in an attempted general strik
in this city in 1919, has filed paper
for nomination as a candidate Of TIL
Tarmer-Labor party. p
Many Women In Field.
Encouraged by the election of tw'
women to the Seattle city council las
wear. many mi are aspirants TO
a office throughout the state. and on
az them is seeking a Democratic nom
nation for congress-. She is. Mrs
Minerva E.. Troy Of Port Angeles. Al
i've of the present Washington con
gressmen are Republicans.
. Albert johnson of!HoQuiam, chair
mai OF the house immigration com
mittee and author of the three pc
cent immigration bill, and who ha
spent a. decade in congress, is Oppose
for the Republican nomination in tn
& Third district by Q. NJ. Nelson Q
Montesano, who says the time ha
Ecome to restore wine and beer to lega
rsspectability. j. M. Phillips Q
aberdeen is the Farmer-Labor candi
Z date in this district.
The other congressional candidate
are as, follows:
First district: Republican: John T
Miller of Seattle, incumbent; J "
Rryan of Bremerton, former congress
q. man: Philip Tindall, Seattle council
man H. Alvin Moore, a labor lead
,ar: Thomas. Jefferson Casey, :Seattl
tsiawyer. Democratic: Edgar G.. Sny
der. Seattle. Farmer-Labor: Fred \
!. Nelson of Bremerton.
n second district: Republican: Indie
TI,a,oy Pel1fnpham incumbent