The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24

ndLeu Ut the coming primary eecIlOn
and nomination will be equal to cleo
ton.
Under different leadership the OPP
position to Josephine Corlis Preston,
state superintendent of public in
struction, might make a far better
showing than it has in the past and
what it will do in the future, even
with Saltwater, the well known edu-
Gator, who was kicked out of the
Cheney normal school by Gov. Hart
lev, as its candidate. Mrs. Preston
might have done better in office
than she has; someone else might
have done better than even she
might have DONE" as there is al
ways room for improvement, but
every four years it's the same King
County bunch of disgruntles out for
her political scalp, being neither
based on sins of commission nor sins
of omission, but on Josephine Corlis
Preston, and, Carthage est delindo.
Each time new Moses is trotted
out to turn the trick, at which others
so signally failed, but n willing
Barkus is always found. This anti
Preston sentiment appears to be
more the personal spleen of a few,
longing to feed at the public crib,
than for the educational or admins
trative shortcomings of Mrs. Pres
ton. of which the voters seem fully
advised, which being a fact, it is safe
to say, Mrs. Preston will show up
Just as popular in the coming pri-
mary election as she has done in the
past. the opposition of the disgruntles
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Somebody seems to be trying to
play politics at the expense of Frank
Edwards, mayor-elect of Seattle, but
Edwards is sitting tight and is as
dumb as to his appointments as
mummy, and he promises to so con-
tinue until he is actually mayor, and
for which he must be commended.
A man of the experience of Mr.. Ed
wards is sufficiently versed in men
and measures to figure out his own
future. and if he does not, then it's
Gust too bad" for him, and a pros
pective bright future for him will
end in political cloudburst, which
will sweep him down to political per-
dition. A gang of highbinders ca
ioled Mayor Landes into doing their
biddings in the appointment of one
Bill Soaring as chief of police, and
she will never hear the last of it, and
was shamefully defeated for re-
election on account of it. Let Mr..
Edwards profit from her experience
and make his own selections for his
official family.
Under-Sheriff Harry Lewis has
been favorably mentioned by the Ed
wards slate-makers as being the next
chief of police. Now, Harry would
make an ideal chief of police for law
those in the city who have hurried
hence under the assumption that as
soon as Mr.. Edwards was inaugural
ed the town would automatically
swing open, la Klondike style, and
rich harvest would be the result.
Just what will happen to them I'M
less, they carry their return tickets
in their inside pockets, ready for i'm
mediate use as soon as Soaring re-
tired and Lewis assumed, is matter
of amusing speculation. Maybe there
is nothing in this Harry Lewis chief
of police story, but it has set the
tongues to wagging and it is current
ly reported that Dick Sweet is much
disturbed. and is wondering if Frank
Edwards has really lost his mind.
Much is being said about the two
Democratic gubernatorial aspirants
as to their chances of election against
the Republican nominee. and both
of them being allegedly wet and the
majority of the voters being sup
posedly dry, the question is, how can
a wet get the dry votes? If the dry