The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-10

marathons are training their feet in
order to reach II ahead of time,
and race royal it promises to be.
Though badly disfigured. yet do not
overlook the fact that one Roland
II. Hartley is still in the ring, and
though down is by no means out.
He is surrounded by an army of
satellites, who are as politically un-
scrupulous as they are mentally
shrewd. and who would as soon
scuttle the party ship as tow it
into port, and with the political
machinery of the state at their
command, nothing. save the violent
uprising of the people themselves,
will head them off from continuing
their ruthless rule or ruin state
policy. So beware! So beware!
Z Political desperation now prevails
in the camp of the Hartleyites and
with them, it's do or die. Hartley
must succeed himself if the wolves
are to be fed, and they must be fed
or they will eat themselves up in
stead of grub, and it is up to them
to win at any price. Win honestly,
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years ago, it will be remembered,
Hartley won the nomination by
only seventeen hundred plurality,
which plurality was given to him
by the ten thousand colored voters
of the state, but, he having fragrant
ly insulted that vote in more ways
than can be here expressed, not one
of that entire number will do in the
coming primary what all of them
did four years ago. vote for Hart
ley. Hence 1t doeth not appear that
he will be as strong in the coming
primary election as he was four
years ago. No less pronounced
against Hartley than are the colored
voters are the educational. the tenn
perance and the union labor voters
of the state, all of whom were
more or less for him four years ago,
all of which prompts the writer to
predict for the governor primary
thrashing no less severe than his
recent convention thrashing, when
from the chastising crowd the shout
went up, lay on McDuff and to hell
with him, who cries enough.
King County is to be the chief
battle ground and. according to the
last state primary election returns,
Hartley and French only received
twenty-one thousand of the sixty-six
thousand votes cast in the county,
and again it doeth not appear that
either of them is a whit bit strong
err in King county today than he
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not less than fifty thousand votes
will be cast against them, which,
in all human probability will go to
some gubernatorial candidate, who
has a better contact with the voters
of the county than the aforesaid al
ready avowed candidates.
Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the state convention Claude
G. Bannick, sheriff of King county,
announced his intention of entering
the gubernatorial contest, and, on
last Sunday, all of the daily papers
of the state carried his announce
ment, which has been widely COM
mented on both pro and con. The
friends and advocates of Sheriff
fled with the results thus far, which
they say. are sufficiently encourag-
ing to justify them to prepare TO
push their candidate with venge-
ance. Sheriff Bannick is the one
outstanding candidate that promises
to bring political peace and pros
perity out of the political chaos,
which has reigned supreme in this
state for the past four years. Though
only sheriff of King county for one
year and four months, yet he, mas
made record in that office, the
equal of which is not to be found
in this or any other state in the
Northwest, If verify in the whole
family of states of this country.
Who will be the next chairman
of the state central committee is
another much mooted political ques-
ton and forecasting on the outcome
at this early date is nothing short
of idle speculation. One thing seems
certain, Sam Sumner will hardly be
able to succeed himself, and in that
he will share the fate of Richards.
The executive committee of the
Washington State Colored Repub-
lican Clubs will meet in Seattle in
the very near future to arrange for
the convention of county clubs to
be held either in July or August.