Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-17
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An editorial appeared in the Seattle
Press-Times Of last Tuesday, headed
"Laughton's DiabOlical Campaign"
which was so utterly monstrous that
the HERALD was puzzled whether or
not to consider it seriously. But it is
being followed up so Systematically by
that paper that one is led TO believe
that the writer really intends to at
tempt TO impress It's readers with the
idea that what it says has some foun-
datlon In fact. One paragraph from
the editorial referred to is enough.
From the middle Of the diatribe the
following is excepted:
1t Is now the distinct intention of the
Laughton gang to harass and worry Gov
ernor Ferry until his health fails, and il
becomes absolutely necessary for him To-
seek rest from the eXertions OF official life
leaving the state again at the mercy OF
the lieutenant governor.
On the day following that, the
Olympia correspondent OF the P.-I..
the malodorous II. Henderson Boyd.
who is known by those who know him
best, TO be an utterly insincere, ire
sponsible, treacherous, lecherous trai-
tor TO those who have befriended him.
and common prostitute in the calling
OF Journalism that he disgraces, writes
a long, and, OF course, lying letter To-
the P.-l., under date Olympia, July II,
which he begins with the following
paragraph:
The fight between Governor Ferry and
the late acting governor may be said Ia
De falrly on. Laughton Is aided In his
attacks upon the governor by State
treasurer Lindsey. Their mouth piece
Is the Tribune Of this city. Opportunity
10 become such was given first to the
FaltnaVeE HERALD and then TO the
Kettle Falls Pioneer, but Visscher of The
nrst named journal, proved to be an en-.
tertalner, not an instructor, and Adams.
OF the second named paper a vandal, moi
creator; so after much persuasion.
baft0h' OF the Tribune, was induced To
take hold Of the Job.
AS to the other newspapers men
toned In this paragraph, we do not
pretend to speak, but il is natural to
Judge as to them by the facts as here.
below, stated with regard to this
journal. The statement that the
fAlRHAyEN HERALD, or any one
connected with it, was ever ap-
preached in the most distant or indi-
rect way, or in any other way, with
even so much as a ghost Of a shadow
OF suggestion such as this BOYD
would undertake to convey is an utter,
vile and Infamous lie, conceived in a
brain mess of depravity that is posi-
lively ineffable.
The Fairhaven HERALD has been
the friend Of Lieutenant-Goyern
Laughton in the unreasonable war
against him by clique of newspapers
and scheming politicians, simply and
solely because it believed he was being
made the victim of conspiracy to down
MIN In the interest of some who were
afraid he would be in the way of their
own selfish ambitions in the next
gubernatorial campaign, and for the
further reason that the Fairhaven
HERALD always desires to be loyal 10
the governments of its city, county.
state and nation, and Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor Laughton was at that time the
head OF the state government, and is
at this writing the secUnd official in
authority OF the commonwealth.
As to Governor Ferry the HERALD
and its editor have been his unwaver-
ing and faithful friend and admirer.
In Office and out. The editor as the
editor of a Tacoma paper during the
campaign In which he was candidate
for governor worked early and late for
his election, in type, on the stump, in
private and at the polls, and there has
never been even so much as the slight
est hiatus under any circumstances in
this personal situation OF the editor Of
the HERALD, or OF the types over
which he has had control as regards
Governor Ferry. The attempt of this
shameful liar, Thomas Henderson
Boyd, to create In the mind OF Cover
nor Ferry or any Of his friends, an i'm
preston that this journal, under the
circumstances, could be even so much
as approached as suggested in the
paragraph quoted above from the
Olympia correspondence of the Press
Times, is UNANIMOUSLY villainous, and
no one would know that better than
Governor Ferry himself, II his atten-
ton should be called to the matter.
The Fairhaven HERALD is Repub-
lican journal which, in so far as IL has
anything to do with politics, is dis