Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-11-12
STATEWIDE HARTLK
] RECALL SUCCESSION

SEATTLE.--E. +. Blaine, chair
man ef the statewide Hartley Recall
organisation, has received advices
from workers in various parts Of the
state Of the activity Of the payroll
brigade Of the Hartley machine In
organizing the circulation Of q pro-
test against the recall.
Mr.. Blaine quoted from campaign
document issued by Governor Hartley
two years ago when he was running
for governor, in which Mr.. Hartley
said: III I am elected governor,
win seee that the people who repre-
sent gon and who are paid from the
tax money stay in Olympia and at
tend to business. And If l ever catch
anyone running about the state en-
gaging in politics for me or for any
body else, | viii tie the can to him. .
In commenting on that statement
and the recent activities Of the Hart
ley payroll brigade, supervised by
George w. H. Davis, who Mr.. Blaine
charaeterizes as former head of the
brewery lobby" at Olympia, Mr..
Blaine said: "Can it be that Goverfi-
or Hartley did not know that 20 ap-
pointive officers Of the administra-
tspn were at the Longview convention
Was he unable TO see the faithful of
the payroll brigade who helped or
ganize the recall protest committee
Ia Seattle a week ago Sunday7 Has
Governor Hartley gone to the state
Handitor's office to investigate the ex-
pense accounts turned in by his pay
roll brigade members who went over
the state ostensibly on buslhess but
who went for politics? Has he
checked up to find out that state
automobiles have. been used for trans
porting the faithful from Eastern
Washington to meetings Of the pay
roll brigade ?"
ASome Of the payroll brigade who
hav ebeen counted upon to help head
off the recall are Olaf Olsen, director
Of business control, who draws q sal-
ary Of $500 q month; jay Thomas,
state printer, who draws salary pf
$500 a month; Representative Chas.
a. Moran who drawn e201 4 month
as special assistant of business cons
troll; Representative George Over
meyer, of Chehalis, who got a plum
as a physician at the Boys Training
School, whose name appears in press
dispatches as the organiser of the
Anti-Recall organisation in Chehalis;
Senator Robert Grass, Of Seattle, who
gets $500 q month from the Inherit
ance Tax division.
Among the others who have been
active in the ANTI Recall fight are
Senator Fred Smart, Of Tacoma, who
gets $3.50 : month as inspector of
motor vehicles dipisiont Senator w.
H. Kirkman, Of WaIla Walla, inspec-
tor Of warehouses, $500 a month;
Earle Barnes, Of the department Of
conservation, who, while supposed to
be looking after the farmers inter-
ests, is busy telling groups what
fine governor his chief Is; and then
the head Of them all-George w H.
Davis, who was recently given spe-
ciaI job in the inheritance tax divi-
sion, after resigning his office as head
of the department Of efficiency 50 as
to devote even more time to politics.
It was Davis who direetsd the legis-
lative lobby IN the last session and
made the so-called Hartley business
survey, at cohiderable expense to the
public.
"Then the activities Of F. D. Dam
skin, Of Spokane, speaker Of the
House, who. gets $500 9 month under
the designation Of inheritance tax
collector are well-known in Eastern
Washington"
MI. Blaine said the state law pro-
hibits the payment Of any money by
the recall Organization to solicitors,
whose work must be gratuitouss while
those circulstlng anti-recall petitions
can be paid by the Hartley defense
organization, whose executive person
mel Is largely dominated by wealthy
iumbermen.