Part 5: The First Cowles: “Safe, if conservative, hands.” August 25, 2009 Spokane’s change to at-large, non-partisan elections in 1910 had the effect of routing all of Spokane’s politics through the offices of the Spokesman-Review.
By William Stimson
One of the hardest things to recall about life in Spokane in the first half of the 20th century is that it was a world without much media – no Internet,