100 years ago in Spokane: S-R endorses Sen. Miles Poindexter for president

The Spokesman-Review editorial page strongly endorsed “Poindexter for President.”

U.S. Sen. Miles Poindexter, of Spokane, had recently announced his official candidacy for the Republican nomination.

The editors were strongly behind him.

“The times call for just such unflinching courage as Senator Poindexter exhibits,” the editorial said. “The country has urgent need to rally with spirit to the support of public men who, like the senator from Washington, show a fine scorn for the arts of the political trimmer and trickster, for dangerous men are seeking to undermine the foundations of our government. With these foes of the republic and their deluded sympathizers, there must be no compromise.”

Poindexter, the editors said, had declared “undying warfare upon ‘red’ doctrines in every shading, from communistic crimson to the pink parlor brand of bolshevik communism.”

From the heating beat: The Spokane Daily Chronicle’s editorial page said it was high time that hotel and apartment landlords provide something fundamental: sufficient heat.

A recent Chronicle investigation showed that many landlords were providing little or no heat to tenants, even those landlords who were advertising “steam heat.”

The Chronicle demanded an ordinance requiring landlords to comply.

Renters deserved sufficient heat as a matter of basic fairness, considering how high the rent had become in rooming houses, apartments and hotels.

Yet the editors also advanced another argument for heated rooms: cold rooms fostered illness.

“Nobody is desirous of having a recurrence of the influenza epidemic like that of last year,” the Chronicle said.