The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-11-01
ooh, YES; THAT LETTER."

Under the above caption last
weeks issue of the Republican
devotes something over column
to ridiculing the idea of sending
farmer to the legislature, and other
wise insulting every toiler in our
county. In the first paragraph we
find this remarkable statement:
1--WE have known Mr.. Tullock for
good while, and Farmer Tullock as Far
mer Tullock is alright. But Farmer Tul-
lock playing statesman reminds one OF
the old fable about the goose trying to
play eagle. But as Farmer Tullock you
find him reclining with easy grace upon
his pillow handles, and he chats with you
about his apples and prunes and crops ana
stock with an intelligence that shows at
once that he knows what he is talking
about. He is Farmer Tullock now, but
take him from the embrace OF his ploW
handles, and hoe and put on his Sunday
go-to-meeting clothes and assume therole
of statesman, and he at once presents
grotesoue appearance that like the gravity
of the comic play actor, his very serious
ness adds zest to the farce"
Observe that the writer says, ave
have known Mr.. Tullock for good
WHILE" AS Mr.. Tullock has never
met the present editor of the ere
publican" it is quite evident that
someone has been taking advantage
of the notice in the previous issue
and purchased a column of space
cat the usual rates." Dear readers
we believe that the highest ambi-
ton of the man, who actually did
write that article, is to get an
eighteen per cent mortgage on
every home in San Juan county and
that is why he would ostracize
every farmer in this a free country.
In another place the article insin-
yates that if Mr.. Tullock should be
sent to Olympia, that he would be
set to sweeping the floor and
cleaning the spittoons. Has the
person who wrote that sentence
any use" for farmer, except as
he can utalize his vote to advance
his own selfish purposes?
The article further says:
"Well Farmer Tullock and his friends
Farmer friends) ''may sleep in peace,
He shall not be sent to Olympia to go it
blind no not by a big majority. He shall
he allowed to remain at home beneath his
own vine and fig tree where he can see
his way clearly. And while his fruits
mature and his pigs ripen he can turn his
great genius into the paths of literature"
How do you like the tone ofthat
YOU men who work? How do you
like the spirit which prompted the
above, you farmers sons, who cast
your first vote this fall? The man
who wrote the above article is I'M
doubtedly preaching "Vote Ter
straight"
On the other hand has two terms
in county Office particularly fitted
Mr.. Tullock's opponent for legis-
lator? Or was his early training
Gin the backwoods of Missouri, the
dust of which state has not yet
fallen from his shoe soles.) such
that it makes him more fitting
representative, of San Juan county,
than man who titled her virgin
soil nearly quarter of century
ago?
Dear readers we leave you to
decide, next Tuesday, as to whether
or not a man who farms is only fit
to "Sweep the floors and clean spit
toons," while the professional poll
tician "legislates" two Or three per
cent taxes, and the farmers get
nineteen cents a bushel for wheat
and the railroads get fourteen cents
for carrying it across the state.