The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1932-09-22
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POLITICS
(By Jimmie K. Browne)
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(By Jimmie K. Browne)
After eight years in office, Gov.
Roland H. Hartley steps out of the
picture next January The voters
on Primary day supplied him with
walking papers by nominating
Lieutenant Governor John A. Gel
latly of Wenatchee, while the
Democrats, selected Clarence d.
Martin, mayor of Cheney, flour
miller, rancher and active bust
nessman as their candidate.
This brings two Eastern. Wash
ington men into the battle for the
governorship. 1t promises to be
lively scrap.
One thing is certain: From this
time on the old line Democrats will
not be so completely and thorough
ly sold on the direct primary in the
future as in the past.
Every two years the Democrats
have either sat back and aided
so-called ultra-progresive or lib
eral candidates, Ga charitable way
of saying radically, to use the Re-
publican primaries. The Democrats
have even assisted at times by
using the Republican ballots pri-
mary day themselves.
This year the shoe is on the 9TH
err foot. The radicals swooped down
on the Democrats, walked off with
the higher nominations, and then
threw the old guard, the lifelong
battling Bourbons into discard 1t
would be funny were it not so trag
ic for the faithful
To add insult to the injury, the
same radical element nominated
for vice governor on the Demo-
cratic ticket, Vic Meyers, jazz
band leader, whose campaign for
mayor last spring in Seattle was
in reality used to point out how
ridiculous the Primary nominating
system is. Vic gathered in so much
publicity that today he is the
Democratic candidate to preside
over the most deliberate body in
the state, the senate.
The entire election was peculiar.
The radical element walked over
in q body and took charge of the
Democrats. This group discard
ed young Steve Charwick; it
sought to nominate Judge w. III.
Pemberton for governor; it named
Vic Meyers for lieutenant govern
or: it selected Homer T. Bone,
ersewhile Socialist, Farmer-Lab
orite, Republican, and Democrat,
for the United States Senate. In
the first congressional district it
nominated Marion Zioncheck for
congress; and named Otto Case
for state treasurer.
just how the rest of the state
can swallow this ticket is not un-
derstandable.
The invasion of the radical
hordes into the Democratic party
gave the Republicans an oppor-
tunity to go to the primaries
without interference from those
mug-wamp groups. The results
means that the Republicans have
purged their party and cleaned
house.
One reason why. the rest of the
state is so suspicious of Seattle in
matters political is to be found in
the recent primaries.
The Seattle group engineered
the radical movemnt to grab the
Democratic party. A study of the
vote will show that Pemberton was
only defeated by the COW counties
this despite the fact he held the
Grange support. These counties
saved the party but were unable
to stem the Bone tide. In fact they
aided it under the idea that Bone
was their friend because h advo
Gates municipal ownership, ant
preached the doctrine that indus
try and business should be abol
ished as private enterprises an,
!. turned over to the politicians II
operate.