The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-06-12

srhere goes King county try.
ing 60 hog Il all again.
"kleet a king county man
cisalrmans should say MOTT
When Ed Sims set out last Fri.
day night 20 defeat Malcolm
Douglas. seattle progressive re-
publican. Who was candidate
for tcmporar, chairman and hey.
note speaker for the state rcpuh-
Iican convention. he had csneh
Of II.
The Cow counties" hold deep and
bitter feeling against Seattle. II isn't
all due hy any means TO the Palmer
reapportlonment Initiative. which
would cut the Cow county" lcgtsla'
tive strength. Much 81 II is due TO
the anti.Seattle bitterness that has
been engendcred IN the Industrial
fights OF the has, % years, Dele
gates from Skagit. sknmania. Lin
coin. Clarke. spokane-.they all AIS
trusted King county.
There was no candidate opposing
Malcolm Dougsas when the fight
started to beat him. lie had the
hatred OF tho federal brigade" com.
posed OF federal officeholders who
owe their Jobs TO federal patronage,
because he had criticised the vote OF
senator Poindexter In the Newoerry
affair. Douglas also was hated by
the Hart organization. tho that ma
chine was very feeble.
Ed sims. organizer and ruler Of
many a legislature. a reactionary OF
~ a
poinfess in the state government.
lcapcd into the fight. He had the
Hart and poindextsr men with him.
He selected Ray Greenwood. young
Rremerton attorney. as his candidate.
Greenwood Is Hartley for'govcrnor
man.
Thus the Hart. Polndexter.Hartley
crowds were brought together 10
heat King county's candidnse. Ana "
became a "ccw county" against King
county battle. The "cow counties
had the votes. and they fiocked TO
SIMS. standard with a YELL and Doug-
lnx was hopes~sssy beaten. inc ae-
feat Of Douglas was not simply
machine move. Had Douglas hailed
from any other town In the state
than seattle he could have won.
There isn't any moral to this. an
,~~s seattle wants to make one.
rhere are just plain facts
f.ox.rnor Louis Folweli Hart
wrirxisd out of a predicament int"
4 handful OF applause At chenAha
,..t saturday when he informed the
nase republican party convention
~ letter that N It THE poll TAX y
only TO be paid by the poor people
who are working for wages then the
1aw ought 20 be repealed" Thas
l4,ter from Hart 10 Charles Heb
herd. state chairman. was the cicN-
crest political play OF the entire
convention.
without attending the convention
and fsxhtinr for the poll tar. as II
was indicated he planned to DO. he
announced that official business
kept him elsewhere 50 he just sent
. letter. The wLsest and shrewdsst
politicians in tho convention ball
pfonounced the move masserpiece-
HAD Hart attended the meeting and
put up a fight he would have been
trounced and Inundated He stayed
away. hoped aboard the hand
wagon. Joined In the hooray for the
q. o. p. and kept what little
strength he had.
Hut Hart was spanked Just
the same, despite his sudden
flop On the poll tax question.
He WAS spanked by the party
plztform committee which did
exactly what the women repre-
seufing the State FEDERATION Of
Wouen's Clubs wanted done
about the Wouan's Industrial
Home and Clinic
since he vetoed the appropria-
tion for the clinic a year and a half
ago. Hart has been pummeied and
f1ayed b. the women's clubs thru
out the state. He thought he had
found a way out when he recon.
mended that the state convention
20 on record for reopening Of the
clinic with the provision that Il be
made only a clinic and not a penal
or reformatory institution. But The
Women's club representatives al
Chehails refused to accept that
change.
So the committee bowed and
adopted a plank: we recommend
the reopenlng Of the Woman's In.
dustriaI Home and Clinic" That's
exactly what Hart didn't want done.
but IL complies exactly with the
wishes OF the club women OF the
49, H. - T. -
directors and political advisers.
tried to argue with the club women
and urged the platform committee
70 go slow. but the committeeman
didn't listen. That was Hart's
worst defeat Of the convention.
when the plank was read TO the
convention II was greeted with
cheers.
The high lights Of the convention
were:
I. The weakness Of Gov. Hart.
He had few friends in the con
venfion. Delegates from all parts
Of the state spoke sIightingIy OF
him and predicted his defeat.
2. The strength Of senator
P0indexter. The recent disclos-
ure Of the large sums OF money
spent 10 elect Clifford Pinchof.
progressive. In Pennsylvania,
hearfened the Poindexter folks
who feared the Newberry issue.
Undoubtedly Poindexter gained
strength at the convention.
3. The weakness Of King
county and Seattle. Maybe the
Palmer initiative 10 reapportion
the state IL responsible for the
sneers and slams Mt King county.
Antipathy Of the "eow counties"
toward Seattle was evident at ev-
cry turn Never was Seattle, po-