White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27
Left Wing Representatives Will Make
Coming Legislative Session Wild One

least the complete program of the
Commonwealth Builders, designed to
make this state the Utopia for all of
the INDECENT and unfit of the nation,
along with demand to repeal all
syndicalism laws, and abolish all state
police and military forces.
Virtually all Of the measures EMU
merated above have been either drafted
or are IN the preparation stage to be
introduced among the first here next
January.
| With green Legislature, that Is, a
body in which the majority rests In
the hands Of untried and unexperi-
enced law makers, it is not to be Won
dered at why there Is slow and steady
trek Of capital out of this state at
the present time, and why 1t is almost
| impossible to obtain any encourage
ment from financial centers in trying
to interest investors in the future of
Washington.
The program of the Commonwealth
Builders alone is enough to bring out
the stop-look- listen sign against the
state. On top of this the state trea-
surer with his ideas for launching the
state into the banking business and
/ the gasoline business is just another
straw showing which way the wind
blows in Washington.
In the westside counties one can hear
on every side that the left wing groups
in the House have control of that
body OF course, this is far from the
truth yet those outside of the state
and not familiar with conditions here
do not know this Hence the belief
that Washington is headed for an ex-
pertinent in state socialism similar to
that which wrecked the state of North
Dakota and brought ruin to the finan
cial structure of South Dakota not
so many years ago.
| Il X X
The left wing, and this means the
Commonwealth Builders, would estab
| lish a state-owned network of social
istic farms and industries.
| It would build factories for the pro-
duction of flour, meat, clothing and
building materials and other manu-
featured goods for "the relief of the
unemployed"
Il would establish a state system of
chain stores, operated by the unem-
ployed.
scrip.
The Commonwealth Builders assert
! that all stores could be operated just
! as the liquor stores are now handled
I Such a program naturally causes
| alarm, but with the control of the
| Democratic party as it is now consti-
tuted slipping slowly into the hands
of the left wingers, it is not surpris-
| ing that the farmers and small home
owners of eastern Washington and
the industrialists of western Washing
ton are restless and express deepest
anxiety over the outcome of the COM
| ing session.
The left wingers in the House can
now count 35 solid votes for their pro-
gram. Incidentally they also call these
IS votes anti-Martin votes, placing the
left wing squarely on record as oppos-
!. ing the governor and his program.
This is one reason for the present
uneasiness around the chief executives
office. The future does not look so
bright. The governor naturally is
businessman and pot a left winger by
any manner of means. Yet it has been
rather difficult for him to explain to
the more conservative Democrats just
how it happened he sponsored a part
of the left wing program which laid
the foundation upon which the pres
ent structure is raised.
Nor is it easy for the governor to
explain how it is that he maintains on
the state payroll as one of his ap-
pointees one of the men who is an ac-
tive left wing leader
Political observers in Olympia feel
confident that the election of either
Robert Waldron or John T. Ledger
wood as speaker would be blow to the
left wing group as Waldron, while lib
eral, is level-headed enough to try to
prevent anything detrimental to the
states future being enacted by the
House; and Ledgerwood, being an old
line Democrat with years of expert
ence, would stand solidly against pro-
posals which ultimately would wreck
the party and do irreparable harm to
the state.
Fortunately, one of these two men
will be speaker of the coming session.
No left Winger can make the grade.
Also, it is doubtful if any left winger
can force either of the two to barter
for their votes by trading committee
occin ,tc.