The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-17

Speaking about Governor Hart
ley's wonderful popularity, which it
is alleged will enable him to easily
capture the coming gubernatorial
nomination, and likewise that of Sem
ator French, the runner-up in the
last gubernatorial primary election,
who also hopes his personal popu-
lality will win for him the nominal
ton. the facts hardly justify the al
legations. -Four years ago there were
cast 244.l41 votes for all of the GU
bernatorial aspirants, and of that
number, Governor Hartley got 3d.
705 and French got 56,906, and
their combined vote was 1891,
which was 6,459 votes less than half
of all the votes cast for the guber-
material aspirants. If the voters of
the state, in the coming primary cleo
ton, are Of like mind as were they
four years ago, then some outstand-
ing candidate will win the nomina-
ton over both of them, and do so In
a walk. The voters of the state are
beginning to realize that they are
being used to pull the chestnuts out
of the fire for certain big interests,
the representatives Of which are
scraping among themselves as to
who will be able to get the biggest
slice of the states assets. An out
standing, honest-to-god candidate,
who is tied up with neither of the
factions, both of whom have been
campaigning ever since the last
gubernatorial C a m pa ign closed,
40 nd ,.afsrhA.,a nrnnl Ok 30 ,..s,,
the nomination and that too, whether
the said outstanding candidate be
well known in state politicraft or
not.
Some paper recently quoted Jay
Thomas, Hartley claquer, as being
delighted at the declaration of
Claude Bannick entering the guber-
material contest with, "now, we have
them on the hip-King county is di-
vided." Unless local public senti-
ment has undergone radical change
of heart, King county was never
united for either Hartley or French;
yea, public sentiment was never so
much as partially divided between
the two. Four years ago Hartley
only received 1861 votes and
French 6,334, out of a total vote
in King county cast for guberna-
torial aspirants of Ga ,635; the two
receiving less than one-third of all
the votes cast for the governship.
Neither, Hartley nor French seems to
have made any great amount of
gains since that time. and, if the 49,
$40 votes cast for the governorship
against both Hartley and French. are
still of ike mind, then the afore-
said outstanding gubernatorial can
1idate, and especially, if he is
King county man, is liable to leave
the gates of King county with 50,-
900 votes to his credit, lacking but
5000 votes of being as many as
Hartley got all told in the last pri-
mary election. and 5000 as many as
French got all over the state. Any
candidate able to get $4,000 votes
in King county will get a decent
vote in most all of the other
of the state, which would
probably give such candidate at least
! 100000 votes in the primary cleo
ion. and thereby result in his NOM
WIN IllillhS
,he gubernatorial race is confined
only to Hartley and French, and that
no one else has chance, must be
Dasing his or her opinion on, the
noise that is being made in their re-
speetive camps, instead of on the
facts and figures as the reports of
The last gubernatorial primary point
1ut. Remember what Lincoln said
about fooling the people.
Speaking about the Hartley vote
n King county, the writer is remind.
ID, that out of 1851 it is a safe bet
he colored voters cast 5000 of
.hem, not one of which he will get
N the coming primary election, and.
Il he hopes TO hold his own, he will
have to draw heavily from some
other source to make up for his loss
IF the colored vote. The candidate
hey will support in the coming pri-
nary election, in case he is nomi-
mated and elected, may be just as
Unfair to them as has been
Roland Hartley, but thew will show