The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1906-01-05
NOT POOLING HTS READERS.

It's issue OF ldSG Saturday.
In telling the story the Re
public takes occasion to say that
it is the only independent news
paper in Chelan county, and that
since it bolted the republican
ticket in the spring of 1905 and
supported Arthur Gum against
Mr.. Reed, the regular nominee
of the republican party, the peo-
pie of the county have looked to
it for unbiased news.
"Angels and ministers of
grace, defend US.
1t says further that the politi
cal pool desires an ''organ in
Chelan county which will sup
port all the measures of the ring,
and which may be used for pur-
poses of offense in the coming
state and county campaign" and
that it evil be at the back of
the politicians" that "its col
umns may be used for the cook
ing of such dope as the ring may
think it we'll to feed to the farm
ers and business men of the
community and valley"
"Thou contest in such a ques-
,tionable shape, I'll speak to
thee"
In the last campaign the Re-
public posed as a republican
newspaper, though the only evil
dence that it was such was the
oft repeated assertion. If a
newspaper is Sknown by its
works, it certainly was an un-
known political quantity. In
the campaign two years ago the
Advance was very emphatically
democratic-every issue brim full
of democratic thunder. The re-
publican party of Wenatchee
was sorely in need of the sup
port of newspaper. The read
ers of that paper remem Der that
it gave the ticket no support
whatever. T h republican
county central committee was
told that the support of the Re.
public would cost the committee
$500, cash up and no grumb-
ling. The committee refused to
pay this amount and as a conse-
quence got no support. Three
weeks before election day the
committee did give that paper
ESQ Tor the use of one page for
three issues of the paper, the
matter for which was prepared
under the direction of the com
mittee.
Four months after the general
election in November there was
a special election for state sena
tor to fill a vacancy caused by
the death of Senator Sharp. In
this campaign the Republic
came out in support of the demo
cratic candidate. The reason
for this never reached the pub
lie ears. Perhaps it may some
day. Mr.. Reed, the republican
candidate received the nomina
ton in the regular way, and it
was not even charged that he
was in any way unfit for the
place. He was entitled to the
support of the party voters and
the party press.
Under this statement of facts
it was very natural that the re-
publicans of Wenatchee should
want at least one paper that
would support the ticket under
all proper conditions. Well, in
April of last year there was talk
of starting genuine republican
paper in Wenatchee. One that
would support the ticket from
principle and rely upon party
support. This talk reached the
ears of the Republic and in its
issue of May 9Th, with the very
evident purpose of heading off
another paper, it came out in its
editorial columns and declared
in the strongest terms it could
employ, that it was a republican
newspaper from that time on.
Ever since the World was estab-
lishsd it has been evident that
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