Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-07-02
~ Remember that One
Million Dollars has been
appropriated to improve
Yaquina Bay.
Either Foolish, or Worse.

at Albany, called the Imprint, sure
ly takes the prize for downright
gall and nerve, if not something
thing worse. In a recent issue
this paper said:
when the Imprint determines
to do thing, it knows no such
word as fail. Pursuant to request
of the Imprint about twenty Siletz
indians were in Albany during the
week for the purpose of being
interviewed upon the late election,
and ascertaining if fraud were
lurking in the ballot box in the
reservation precinct. An interpre-
ter and two attorneys were sent for,
and the Boston men" and Indians
got right down to business. Each
Indian was armed with a govern
ment document proclaiming his
right to vote. 1t was learned from
the Indians that there were 1es
Indian voters in the Siletz reserva-
tion precinct. Out of this number
69 were avowedly for Vanderburg,
while the remaining Sc stood upon
doubtful grounds. The official
returns show that just two Indians
voted for Vanderburg. Does this
SAVIOR of fraud? Does it bear the
ear-marks of a free and honest
election? The Indians are ready
to swear that they wanted to. and
believe they did, vote for Wander
burg and Yaquina Bay, but where
are the votes to show for it? Two
Indian votes out of 1875, for Van
derburg, when 60 were openly
anti Tongue! The Imprint will
continue its investigation, and there
may be some fun yet"
Of all the rot ever published by
paper, the above is the worst
In the first place the statement that
twenty Indians, or any other num-
Der of them, went to Albany on the
request of the editor of the Imprint
IS fabrication, pure and simple.
Again, we seriously doubt if there
are twenty Indians on the reserva-
tion that cannot speak English, and
great number of them can speak
and write it much more fluentlv
than the editor of the Imprint.
We would like to know just what
kind of a government document"
the Indians had at Albany which
evidenced their right to vote?
Then again, how could twenty
Indians speak for sixty-nine?
The fact of the matter is, that
the whole gush of the Imprint in
the above article is pure fabrica-
ton. We venture to declare and
dare the Imprint man to disprove
1t, that there wasn't twenty Indians
from the Siletz in Albany at that
time; that there never was an
Interpreter and two attorneys sent
TOR; that not one Indian ever told
the editor of the Imprint that he or
any other Indian voted for Van
derburg. Now if the Imprint man
did not create his article out of
whole cloth, let him give the names
OF the twenty Indians that were at
Albany, or the name of any one of
them; let him give the name of the
interpreter, or the names of the
attorneys.
The LEADER is and was as much
opposed to Tongue as the Imprint
man could possibly have been.
Not only that, but it believes in
honest elections, and if Mr.. Van
derburg was elected it will fight
just as hard as the Imprint to have
him seated. But if Mr.. Wander
burg depends OH the manufactured
stuff as published by the Imprint, !
all his efforts will only take him
farther away from his seat in con-
gress.
1fMr. Vanderburg was defrauded
OF his election it looks very much
like it might have occurred right in
Albany or in Linn county. Let