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Show DEFEATED RICH SENATOR I Wesley L. .lones, Republican candidnte lor gggSv 'lit' United States senate In the stale of Wash Ingion. Ih n living nrguincnt for the prltnnp $ 1 r-li-ci Icin syHlum hy long odds tin- most pow- Ik crflil and convincing argument that ha been t?Ki'V l offered for the primary system, and particular- IgfvgpS Hm Ctt ,y valaahlij In IIiIh time when there seems to MfjlL, v .7 In- a growing fear that primary election, after TlllLw I ""' iH "10 "II",M',1 1,,,HH'K 11,1,1 wo liai1 Vf feo" f fondly hoped. . .lones Ih a poor man. n man wllhout weal- V$W "'5' ,,!,clu'l'H "r ItiHueiitliil champions. He has llji ?MfJ '"H'n " "l,',ll',,'r "f congioss fiom tho statu at JJlWMli la,R" rr ""' 1"H' ,('" 'r!,l'H n,", 1,IH ""' lnl11 IUiilUlll! ,,slll' ""y "rt'nt ,,,,,0,l,,t of wi,1Hi 't "f 1,lM fffifyap W' ffllllwmlwll salaiy thai goca with the olllce. When he entered en-tered the canimlgn for the 1'nlted States sen-atorahlp sen-atorahlp It was lo oppose the leeler.llon or Senator Levi Aiikotiy. one of the wealthiest men In the tioithwcst. Ankeny knows what It Is lo spend money In politics. .Inst how much he had paid for his first election to the senate In 1801! Is not a matter ol record, hut It Is said to have been In tho neighborhood af $100,(100. lie had spent as much more In two previous campaigns In which tho goods were not dellveicd hy tho legislature. " Tho conies! seemed nnylhlng hut an even one. and most unpromising sr. far as perlalned to the chances of Jones, who had no avallahle assets othet than a family and a record or honesty In the lower house at Washington. It was the first trial of the slate-wide primary In Washington, and when tho voles weie counted It wns found that the poor man had defeated the multl-millionaire multl-millionaire hy a majority that left no room tor question. And this, too, In the face of the fact that Ankeny was supported hy some of the most lulluentlnl newspapers In the state, although notoriously unlit for tho position. Mr. Jones Is 15 years old, a native or Illinois, and a lawyer. |