Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-03-18
Mr.. NETCALFE RXPLAIYS.
HI SAYS DONALD Aup cccusAHH DID HoI
KIss AND MAKE Up II HIs OFFICE.

Friday evening about 10 o'clock, Mr..
James Hsnilton Lewis called d this
offi,e aud detailed TO . reporter the
main facts IL The artisls which eppeafed
yesterday mosnipe on the hrst page G:
the PosT-IsyrLLioExcrs under the
heading. "pourina oil upon the troubled
vaierA." Az the time the story vas re-
lated ey Mr.. Lseis the other actors al
lodged to have been participants in the
truce had gone to their respective homes
and Il vas impfAotioabie 10 verify the
sicry a. thai time, owing to the iateness
OF The hear. Mr.. LxWis is FL attorney
Ut Law 10 good sts odipg 81 the bar In
this community, and man Who had
been honose6 By this people 10 q high
official position. His statements we're
taken withoot veYinosti0n.
Yesterday morning Proceeding A.
tofuey Ronald. In explaining the mat
ter, said: "DarinR the 8 3st fe0 days ]
have had considerable coevessatiop
with Sheriff CJct r. Ne 90 business mat
tesl, aud tsve tsiktd 70 him on the
street and in my ONCE. bot ve have uos
settled DOR I Is Jonal differences. | oan.
not adefo. however, to let nv dislike
for the man sud his conduct interfere
With my busint relations. did mot
kiss him, and u vili be O cold day
when do. A. regards that bill which
the attorney general 10 Considering,
passed upon that four months ago.
TIE only DIGESTION l have TO your ar
,iele vas the unintentional reflection on
Mr.. Mstoaifs."
Next Attorney General Metcalfe vas
50 q IN regard to the matter, and during
tie coarse Of long tntessieW be o. oks in
substance a. follows: Yes, I read the
article oaptioned Pouring OIL on the
Troubled Waters. and Vers u not for
the fact that by implication 1t reflects
upon me both officially and personally.
l should remain silent. The statements
are untrue except 10 one particular, and
that ~ that the territorial auditor has
referred the accounts Of Sheriff Coch-
rane spoken Of 10 me. Neither Mr..
Ronald nor Mr.. Cochrane we're ip my OF.
dee together At ety time. They did
not have any conversation with each
other IN my preseacs, psr y my kaovi
edge, at all, uIou eJy tutisos. Tue
Hon. James Hamilton Laws did not
appear - M. o. lire ,e's attorney, pro
PC se any truce, (n such IL, or has been
necessarily nor make any argument be-
fors me. M. Ronald did mot appear
for the territory, that, IN such matters
10 tbs province Of the attorney general,
nor make an Argument upon any SUIT
jecs whatever. No proposition vas
mace By any one 10 settle any dispote
" any character, and no olttics we're
discussed. No compromise Of any char
sctcr vas either talked. thouahs or
dreamed Of. Finally, have not 20
X. q" any bilis.bot beg leave 10 cay. that
l am giving the accounts IL controversy
patient exauinatioa. and when I have
satisned myself ~ 10 the Law,
snAil With due resr,cs 10 the opin-
Ism Of any and all. Who hereto
fore tXpse sed upon The sohjscs, ad-
wise the t,rritorial auditor TO pay
them II they sre legal. TO disregard
them II they are nj. Furthermore l
have the pleasure 30 state that I have
too much pride In the dignity Of the
oboe Of attorney general OF Washing
ten Territory to trail tts hsnor in toe
@ire Of partisan politics
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