Evening star., 1922-05-21
.PO|NDEXTER AS TARGET !
FOR POLITICAL BIG GUNS
Echoes Of Seattle Mayoralty Fight
Rumble in Senatorial
Campaign.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SP''"i Dispaicu u Inc Star-
TACOMA. Wash, May 2O.-Echoes
from the Seattle mayoralty election
are beginning to rumble through the
senatorial campaign in this state, and
United States Senator Miles Poin-
dexter is looming up on the political
horizon as the target upon which the
Eeavy guns will be trained.
{, According, to the report from the
seattll fight. Senator Poindexter
loaned his influence to the camp of
State Senator Daniel Landon, the de-
feated candidate for mayor. and by
so doing opened a breach within the
ranks of his own following in King
county, winch casts approximately 80
per cent of the entire vote in the
state.
Threatens Poindexter Defeat.
George H. Stevenson, for manv
years one of the wheel horses of the
republican organization in the state,
a former railroad lobbyist, and a man
considered to still be a power among
the old wing republicans, has notified
senator 'Poindexter that he will seek
ing primary elections. Stevenson
now is actively engaged in seeking
out candidate from the republican
ranks with personal following
strong enough to make a hard fight
against Poindexter. He is making no
secret of his intentions.
Bull Moose Leader May Run.
Former State Senator w. H. Paul
hamous. Bull Moose leader in 1912,
who early in the year was inclined to
come into the fight. but then lapsed
into silence, is beginning to show
signs of life again. George Lamping,
member Of the Seattle port district,
now in Washington. D. c.. another
progressive or Roosevelt man, is
being talked of among the Poindexter
followers as possible candidate.
In the meantime John E. Ballaine
Of Seattle, whose candidacy already
has been announced, is rapidly form
ing Ballaine clubs in various sections
or the state, and is making a strong
appeal to the woman voters of east
ern Washington. in Poindexter's own
stamping ground.
Former Representative c. c. Dill of
Spokane county will have little If
ranks. it appears at this time He is
making rather fast campaign for
so early in the race, but this cam
paign is gathering headway so fast
that opposition in his own party is
becoming shy.
Congregational Outlook.
Congressional candidates are be-
SlHHluS 10 snow up. Representative
John Summers in the fourth district
will find opposition among the wool
growers Of his district, and wool
growing is one of the leading in
dustries of that section. A. D. Dunn,
prominent in cattle and sheep grow
ers' circles for the last twenty years,
has been urged to come into the fight
in the fourth district by members of
the Wool Growers Service Corpora
ton.
In the third district Albert John
son is finding opposition from o. NJ.
Nelson, who is basing his campaign
upon a purely wet and dry issue.
In the first district Phillip Tindall
of Seattle, a former war veteran, is
being groomed to make fight
against Representative John F.
Miller
Representative Stanley Webster, in
the fifth district, will probably be
without opposition within his own
party. The democrats are bringing
out Francis Garrecht, former United
washington, and expect to give
Webster hard race.