The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17
POLITICS and POLITICIANS
BY Horace r. Cayton

their resentment of such treatment
by working against Governor Hart
ley and they will continue to do so
to others until some man is nomi-
mated and elected who will keep his
promise and. treat the colored group
with tile same political consideration
as he does the other groups Of the
state.
II. r. Cayton was in Tacoma the
past week on his way home to &c.
9ttle from Olympia. Cayton is
strong for Claude Bannick for gov
ernor and really thinks the King
county sheriff has chance to get
the nomination. Now we can see
why so many folks believe there is
SantH Claus. - Ryan's (Tacoma)
Weekly. The above is true case
Of wish being father to the thought.
The writer hereof does not claim to
be either prophet or the son of a
prophet. politically speaking, but the
candidate he has supported from
time to time has invariably won. He
supported Louis Hart for governor
and he won. He supported Roland
Hartley for governor and he won.
He supported Wesley Jones for sen.
ator and he won. He supported John
Miller for representative in congress
and he won.' He supported Edwin j.
Brown for mayor of Seattle and he
won. He supported Bertha Knight
Landes for mayor as against Browns
third term and she won. He. sup
ported Frank Edwards for mayor as
against Bertha I.andes' second term
and he won. Now that is a pretty
god record for an old Santa Claus.
Two years ago he supported Claude
G. Bannick for sheriff as against a
field of fifteen Republicans and he
won. He is now supporting Bannick
for governor and, il he does not win.
even the editor of Ryan's Weekly
will be greatly SURPRISED. his 10y
atty to Governor Hartley to the con-
trary notwithstanding. He has often
regretted the fact that he did SUD-
port certain candidates, especially
after they had been elected. as in
the case Of Roland II. Hartley, but
the fact remains, he always showed
a keen political sagacity in select
ing his candidates. Wrote a promi-
nent business man to a friend in
California, when the late mayoralty
campaign was at white heat, al am
certain Edwards is going to win the
nomination and election. because II.
r. Cavton is out for Edwards. and
he seldom. il ever, misses his pO.
litical guess" "The best laid plans
of mice aind men oft gang aglee."
and in selecting Claude Bannick as
his gubernatorial candidate. he may
be making an election mistake. but
old Santa Claus is going to make his
last stand fer Bnnnick for governor.
81 see by the, papers," said a
prominent politician to State Treas
uer w. q. Pots, "that Claude BAN
nick has been brought out as Hart
ley stalking horse" to which Potts
replied, Claude Bannick may be a
stalking horse for Governor Hart
ley, but he don't know it. Claude
Bannick. may never get the guber-
Doniination. but he is going
to fight for II on the square and in
the open. 'and will play second fiddle
to no huylan being on esrth. No
fairer or sqparer man ever lived than
Claude Banick and am not saving
this because | mean to or not to
support him for governor. | am only
speaking CT him as man and as
know him. Claude Bannick is all
wool and full yard wide"
For a moment it loked as il the
United States senatorial contest
would no straight fight between
Judge Macintosh and Miles Poindex-
ter. Charley Myers having with
drawn from the race to go into the
congressional fight in the fifth rep
resentative district. but not so, Mary
Ann, Judge Austin f.. Griffith is
about to shy his hat into the ring,
and if he does. there will be things
doing. 1t will be remembered that
Judge Griffith was the runner-up
against Senator Jones two years ago.
If he gets as many votes in the
coming primary as he did in the last,
it will mean that. the fight between
Macintosh and Poindexter will be
IN a faro you upll finish