The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-24

81. That - the reason taas .he ccsooa -
saways interesting and never nnorotonoas-
It win be observed that TIA author Of this
astng his own facts co. Of the EsinitAbIe
depths CT his Imagination. He has rsck-
lessly and Internationally attributed 20 tbs
Poss-Ints4iigencer statements thai II has
never made. and. fur;hermoce. usai every
reader knows 1t has not made. II may be
that the pubic cares VERY little about the
figures given or obtained by Ar. Hanna"
bat II h certain tia: Il cares 4 great dead
about the numerous and frequent nsisssase-
ments ard deliberate Misrepresentation
made By a congressman OF the state OF
Washington In his pubic addresses Let u
examine the many srrors-so u<e . MD
terns--in this letter about ,hA Comancas
sale
W5sen and wflere has the Post-inteiisgen-
Ger posed az the defender and advocate
Of Hanna" In thas transaction? How has II
ever done other than make an earnest ef-
fort to get the truth and pressn, IL 10 the
pubic? When did II produce a confession
that while acting as the friend OF tn.
pressdeui' Hanna used his Influential
place to sell his famisy's discarded junk 10
the government?
When and where DID the st-Intelhgen-
csr say that rtae yacht was worth SIS, 90,
1t printed letter from tho Globe Iron
Works saying the original cos, was si55.so
When did the Post-Tn.siiigencer lrssist
that Mr.. Hanna never sold any zach, TO
the governmentY' No statement of tia,
kind or any like II was ever made Nor
was It ever sad tina. his brother had sold
no yacht.
Where can Mr.. LOWS find any assertion
In the columns OF this paper from Mr.
Hanna that the zach. cost over $50. eoo?''
IL has not only not been made in three
instances" bat not at all
Where In the Congressional Record has
Col Lewis said that the COS, OF the zach,
was sits.ooo, In his speech nominal,y made
February g. 1885, page 7.7is, he gave the
price a. $4,000. In other inxtances he has
declared that It was yiis.oo and nse.coo,
and he has var.ousIy said that the original
cost was tis.ooo. $500 and $4,000.
The colonel declares tina. neither he nor
this paper has been able to get "the truth
from Hanna" DID he ever tryr
Why was Col Lewis unable to consult
tbs records in Secretary Longs Office,
where the Pos.-Inteligencer and every
other inquirer has been able TO get from
official sources the exact figures as to the
purchase price OF tho yacht, Did he trya
Or did he merely repeat as fact the Idle
and base.ess stories OF disrcputab,e yellow
journals about this affair? And IL he did
and they conficied glaringly. how Ia he
relieved OF Accountability As the retailer of
falsehoods started BY othsrsa
Who besides Lewas In a responsible posi-
aion has charged that Senator Hanna used
his place to force hts brothers pleasure
yacht on the nations Who besides him and
his associate yellow pabllcists has ever pro-
nounced this yacht. built In l:9s. worthless
junk,
When waa II ever said that llama could
get slss.0oo for tbs yachif
How has Mr.. Hanna been corrected OF a
$4,000 m.sstatement by the last letter from
the constructors
by what peculiar process Of divinas:on
has Col. Lewis aseertainei tina; the POST
Intelligence knew that the GLOBE Iron
Works was partly ewntd by Mr. Hanna?
Are they The Posi-lntelige has no
information on this subject other than from
Col. Lewis. and IL Is bound TO add that Ii
IL somewhat skeptical as 10 the selia o!.Isy
OF Its authority.
It VIII be noted that Col. Lewis has felt
obliged. in order TO explain away one OF
his glarIng misstAtements. to declare that
che Post-Intelligeneer purpose!y changed
the figures IN tho Malonsy letter
from sios,oo0 TO sl9s.oeo This IS sim
ply a desperate device 10 squeeze
oat OF tight place. II Col. Lewis.
or any OF bis friends, or the pub
lie generally. II It has sufficient interest
will take the trouble To examine the ales
OF the Seattle Evening Times 1t will md
tha. the Maioney letter was printed there
tn Saturday. July is ard on page :, nsth
column. appeared the paragraph referring
TO the Ccngeaehe sale. and the figures were
given as si9soce.
The public in \ previous conspicuous
instance. was assured by cal Lewis that
he knew intimately the details Of the pri-
vate correspondence % congress.,aen
Grosvenev and Dinghy. l. transplred
that the colonel did not know wha, he was
talking about: hu; 81 wiG perhaps net he
surprised 10 see tha, he knows or says
he knows. the exact dA;ss os letters writ
ten TO the ros,-In,ellisencer by four aon-
gressmen. and suppressed by Il; The fsct
shat a letter from one ~ the four was
prominently printed appears 10 have beer
overlooked by MIR Lewis. on August -
the following was published by shis paper.
"panviile III. Jaly Nj. isas
ITO the Editor. | ans In receipt Of yeii-
letter Of lith ifsst. snSoaang 81. Dpsng fssgu
Seattle s-intcilxencsr wtf'ch poTrorfs
to publish letter dated July ate, from II on.
JAMES Hamilton Lewis I tave. as ycs:
requested. read that portion in wssca he
snss after making certain chsrgfs that