The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-10-28
the RING 0RGAN'S
COAT OF WHITEWASH
Is not Thick Enough to Cover the De-
feets in Englehart's Legis-
Iative Record.

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The waves of public fury breaking
higher and higher against the ragged
rocks of Englehart's railroad record, are
fast churning him to political death. In
his distress the wrecked mariner is now
frantically clutching at his legislative
votes on uncontested matters of course,
in hopes on them, as political liie-sav-
ers, to weather the storm raised by his
official betrayal of Yakima county.
The Republic, organ OF the ring, whose
candidate he is, last week inflated with
sophistry and falsehoods, these suppos ed
political life-preservers, and tossed them
on the angry breakers, to the wretched,
struggling victim OF his own betrayal of
public faith These votes, by the Re-
public ostentatiously paraded and pulled
up into imaginary lfe-preservers round
the ring candidate, fast drowning in the
bitter waters of his own political per-
hiv are his votes in favor OF the pure
food bill, the pure fertilizer bill, the
dairy bill, the druggist bill, the sheep
scab bill and some other equally matter
of course measures, that met no organ
lied opposition, and that were voted for
by Englehart, as by others, on their
merits, because no corrupt pressure was
brought to bear on legislators for or
against them. Apparently, the Repub-
lie, in view of Englehart's betrayal of
his constituents by his vote against re-
ducing freight rates, and by exerting
his influence to defeat the proposed APP
preparation for the Gold Hill Road, and
by his efforts to fasten upon the Dell
Haven Irrigation District bonded debt,
for which no consideration was received,
deems that it is necessary to apprise the
public to the contrary, else they would
think he actually voted in favor of i'm
pure food, adulterated fertilizers, incom-
petent druggists. and filthy and diseased
dairy products. While the information
that he did not thus vote may be we'll
timed to overcome a presumption to the
contrary, naturally arising from his rail-
road Gold Hill and bonded debt records,
it surely cannot initiate his self-con-
fessed breaches of public trusts and be-
trayals of his constituents exhibited in
the last mentioned records.
When Ira p Englehart was elected in
1898 the burning question that deeply
reused the political energies of the peo-
pie OF this and many other counties was
not the regulation OF diaries, druggists,
grocers, sheepherders, nor vendors of
fertilizers, but the regulation of railway
companies, whereby they would be
shorn of their power, by extortionate
freight rates, to reap the fruits of the
farmers work. Upon this question, not
on any druggist, dairy, pure food, pure
fertilizer or sheep scab question. Mr..
Englehart made his campaign in 1898.
In nearly every precinct in the county
he personally and publicly appealed to
his fellow citizens to vote for him. de-
nouncing the railway companies for hang
ing round the neck of this common
wealth the weight OF eXtortionate rail-
way rates, and solemnly pledging his
word and honor that if elected he would
bend all his energies to pass a law re-
ducing the maximum rates that rail-
roads might legally charge; that he
would champion bill for that purpose
by speech, influence and vote, and
would if necessary prepare and intro
duce it himself. The public believed
him, reposed confidence in him, put
their trust and their public interests
into his hands by electing him. The
legislature to which Yakima county sent
Mr.. Englehart, armed with its vote, as
its avowed champion of freight rate re-
duction, met; the railway lobby also