Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-01-01
OREGON ANKENY
LEVI WOULD REPRESENT OREGON
SAYS THE TACOMA LEDGER.
LEGISLATORS and Newspapers that Support
Uncle Levi are Under Suspicion. and Ankeny
Methods are Responsible. His Free Use
Of Money Being Known. Suspicion Is
Natural.

When The Ledger announced its oppo-
sition to Mr.. Ankeny it did not expect
the praise OF the people commonly looked
upon as property OF the gentleman from
Walla Walla. The fact that Mr.. An.
keny's agents had for years been active
in spending money, made reasonable the
surmise that they we're buying some.
thing with the money. Now that the
time of election approaches, the public
finds that certain Individuals upon whose
support Mr.. Ankeny can have no legiti-
mate claim, or at least, no logical claim,
declare they will vote for him. They find
also that certain papers assume SINH
lar attitude with all the same apparent
lack of reason. Nobody has said of an
individual that he has been corrupted.
Nobody has said of paper that it has
been purchased. Both individuals and
papers have been rankly warned that
their course brings them under suspicion.
When Mr.. Ankeny is known to use
money freely in promotion of his as
pirations and he is being given in some
quarters exactly the support that his
agents have been seeking regardless Of
cost, there is no way to avoid the COR
clusion that the ones according this sup
port are in danger of being regarded as
having been debauched.
AS explained before, they must either
permit this view to be held by obser-
vers, or they must clear it awav by the
confession OF deep and inexplicable
stupidity. The Ledger has said that
Mr.. Ankeny is an unfit person for the
office he hopes to get. 1t has told why.
1t has d. seemed no ground for retracti, n
of any part of it's opinion. a senator
who would be regarded at the capital
simply as a sum OF money would lie
there without influence gave such as
might be expressed by his vote. Ii the
senator were more friendly to Oregon
than to Wash ngton, this vote would be
apt to be cast in favor of Oregon when
the interests of the two commemorative
clashed.
The affront to this state through the
action of the trained convention OF Mr..
Ankeny in Wala Walla county ought to
have been enough in itself to exclude
him from the race. 1t was small, how
ever, compared with the effrontery of
placing his field campaign in the hands
of the representative OF Il railroad comp.
any that is distinctly hostile to WASH
ington, and is doing all in its power to
retard the growth OF Washington for the
benefit of Oregon. If Ankeny were a
lend OF the people whose senator he
hopes to be, corporation inimical to
the same people would never have con.
coded the loan of its hired man to for
ward the Ankeny campaign. AS to the
future growth of the Northwest much
depends upon the comparative growth
OF the ports of Oregon and Washington.
Mr.. Ankeny indentifes himself with the
factors that work to the advantage OF
Oregon. The citizens Of Washington
who uphold him in this are proclaiming
that they are almost to the point Of holi-
ness. They are trying desperately, and
failing palpably, to make out case for
themselves. This is merely the happen
ing of the expected. 1t neither surprises,
alarms, nor convinces