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SEATTLE, Dec. 1.—Though the of
ficial returns are not yet completed,
the fact that Senator Miles Poindex
ter carried Washington by about 65,
000, while President Wiison and Gov
ernor Lister ran close together, las
excited a great deal of comment
among politicians. Mr. Lister prob
ably will be about 4,000 behind Wil
son, who should run better than 17,
000 ahead of Hughes, assuming that
the few missing precincts keep up the
same ratio of democratic gains.
Only two democrats were elected to
the state senate to join a solitary
Bourbon holdover, and but 15 were
elected to the lower house where they
will find 82 republicans. The entire
republican state ticket, except for
governor, was elected.
Politicians have been cudgeling
their brains to find a reason for all
this. They are no nearer a solution
than they were nearly three weeks
ago.
Many politicians now will admit
that during the closing days of the
campaign Hughes gained rapidly up
on President Wilson. And the same
politicians will admit now that Lister
forged to the front at the last, but
none of the explanations offered seem
to fit the case.
Tariff Issue Booms Hughes.
It is probable that the bulge in the
Hughes vote is accounted for by the
fact that toward the end of the cam
paign the tariff became a more prom
inent issue in Washington state and
that some of the glamour wore off
the Wilson campaigners. It was a
sort of last-minute decision on the
part of thousands of republicans to
stand by their ticket.
The Lister gains—and he did pick
up remarkably fast at the close of
the campaign—have been explained
by a variety ■ of reasons. The most
important were the switches of the
labor vote and the effect of the stea
dy plugging of what is popularly
known as the “church” element in
politics.
Looking back upon it now one can j
see that when Governor Lister broke
with State Chairman John B. Fogar- ]
ty, charging the latter was a “wet”
and that as he intended to make a
“dry” campaign he could not do so
under Fogarty’s leadership, he left a
lasting impression on the minds of
the voters. He undoubtedly wished to
and unquestionably did create the im
pression that he was sacrificing some
thing for principle. So when he
preached a “dry” doctrine it took.
Previous Policy Ignored.
When the republicans, late in the
campaign, tried to prove that Lister
had been a “wet” and the hotel men’s
candidate four years ago, they talked
to a people already convinced of his
sincerity, for, the voters asked: Had
he not thrown overboard a “wet”
state chairman and risked his chances
of election?
That is the way politicians, after 10
days of analizing, size up the wet and
dry fight. Maybe Mr. Lister foresaw
it all, but certainly his democratic
friends and many of his own appoint
ees did not, for many of them freely
predicted he could not win. Some of
his supporters will lose their jobs be
cause they were bad guessers.
One of the last-minute blows that
hurt the most was the advice sent out
to railroad employees to vote the
straight democratic ticket. Secret
meetings held just before the general
election resulted in a decision not to
take chances in scratching the ticket,
and as the Railway Men’s Nonparti
san league had been sending out ad
visory ballots piecemeal the last word
probably carried a great deal of
weight.
Mr. Hart Wins Over Opposition.
By way of parenthesis it might be
said right here that the railroad men
urged the defeat of several prominent
republicans who are to be in office
next year when the railroad men
come around seeking legislation. Lieu
tenant-Governor Hart is one of the
conspicuous examples of successful
candidates who were opposed to the
railroad men’s organization, and the
lieutenant-governor has considerable
influence in legislative matters.
But as to Lister: Unquestionably
his repudiation of the five referendum
bills that he signed and the empha
sis he placed on the fact that he had
vetoed the three referred political
bills switched the big majority of the
labor vote. Instructions were sent
out to support Lister on this state
ment, and the returns indicate these
instructions were followed.
Compromise Is Declined.
Jt was put up squarely to McBride
I that unless he repudiated the referred
bills he would be opposed but McBride
I refused to make a compromise on
I matters of principle. Probably he did
not favor all of the referred bills,
but he refused to bring those ques
tions into the campaign. And so he
lost, probably, enough votes to have
elected him.
Nor should the effect of the big Lis- I
ter advertising campaign be over
looked. Lister’s advertising rivaled
that of Colonel Roland H. Hartley
during the republican primaries.
A pretty shrewd republican politi
cian has added the extra observation
that the election, after all, shows that
one cannot undo the effects of four
years of favorable advertising in a
two months’ campaign. What he
meant was that, aside from the in
dustrial insurance commission and
assessment scandals, Lister had been
constantly paraded before the public
as a successful governor, and that his
popularity had been built up on so
solid a foundation that it could not be
destroyed in a brief political fight.
There is more in this statement, than
appears on first reading, for anybody
who studies politics knows that a pop
ular idol cannot be dethroned with
out unusually good reason being as
signed for the dethroning.
Warning to Managers Ignored.
As far as the Wilson result is con
cerned politicians argue that if
Hughes had not visited this state, if
the suffragist special had not come
out here and if Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt or some other prominent
progressive had campaigned in
Washington, Hughes would have car
ried the state. All that is true enough.
It is also true that if the national
committee had listened to any one of
scores of letters advising the Hughes
managers that Washington was in
clanger, the state might have been
saved. But all that has been told be
fore.
There really isn’t anything to be
added to the Poindexter situation.
As heretofore pointed out, he not on
ly was extremely popular himself and
had squared the conservtative element
in the party, but his opponent ex-Sen
ator George Turner, did not have the
loyal support of his own party.
The fact that the republican nomi
nees for state offices were re-elected
was predicted. If no other explana
tion were needed the fact that they
were known and that no serious criti
cism had been made of them would
be sufficient to tell why that hap
pens.
It is a curiously interesting fact,
however, that the same voters who
turned down the referred bills passed
by the last legislature, just as enthu
siastically re-elected the members
who passed them. There wasn’t any
“go and sin no more” sentiment about
it either, for the members who voted
to pass these bills never attempted to
excuse their action.
Members Better Known.
About the only explanation that
can be given is that these members
were better known in their home dis
tricts than were their opponents and
that on general principles they were
more acceptable.
Some of these old members are
coming back somewhat chastened in
spirit and inclined to be cautious next
winter, but none of them has sub
scribed to the extreme views of the
radicals.
“We’re not going to pass anything
that will give the governor a chance
to make a popular vote,” said one re
publican leader the other day, and
when one gets all the meaning out of
that statement, he understands the
temper of the new legislature.
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