The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-11
.LORTON AND HIS MUCK RAKE
Seattle Times Hands Wd||a Wa||d
Editor a Juicy Roast
ALL OVER HIS ATTACK ON A. F. SLATER
BROOKLYN EAGLE PRAISES FOR
MER PRIVATE SECRETARY TO
SENATOR ANkENY.
ALL OVER HIS ATTACK ON A. F. SLATER

Covert insinuations made by Eugene
/ Lorton last fall in an open letter that
he issued soon after leaving the en-
ploy of Senator Ankeny as managing
editor of the Union in which A. F..
Statter formerly secretary to Senator
Ankeny and now private secretary to
Secretary Shaw, was charged with act
ing as agent for certain Walla Walla
Walla Walla saloOnmen and gamblers
for protection, has attracted public at
tentiOn in Washington
The Washington correspondent of
the Brooklyn Eagle, in announcing the
appointment of Slater as secretary
to Secretary Shaw, in a letter to his
paper, speaks in praise of Statter
The Seattle Times in repro
ducing the letter says that
inasmuch as Statter has been attacked
and the motive Of Senator Ankeny in
permitting his secretary to be promot-
ed assailed. it will be interesting to
Statter's friends to note the follow
ing from that letter:
Shaw Has a New Private Secretary
when John S Edwards was pro-
NOTED from the position of private
aa
ter was flooded with applications for
the vacant place from a host of am
bilious young men, all of whom
seemed to think that the place was a
sure stepping stone to $500 job as
assistant secretary. Mr.. Shaw select
ed A. F. Statter an Iowa boy.
"Statter did newspaper reporting for
several Iowa papers. and a few years
ago went to the Pacific coast to seek
his fortune. He fell in with Senator
Ankeny and was captured by the lat
ter and brought to Washington in the
capacity of private secretary to the
senator. Slater did not seek
the jo in the treasury de-
partment. 1t was offered to
him by Secretary Shaw, and before
it was accepted the offer was re-
peated Slater has the qualifications
necessary to follow the footsteps of
Howell, Allies, Vanderlip, Armstrong
and Edwards, all of whom were pro-
NOTED to the assistant secretaryship
after having served as private secre-
taries to the head of the treasury de-
partment."
What the Seattle Times SAYS.
at is of interest to observe how a
man whose mind has been distorted
by political disappointment will get
out his much rake and throw mud
wholly without regard to former con-
ditions or former friendships.
This fellow Lorton, who was
turned out of the Ankeny camp and
dismissed from employment on one of
Ankeny's papers, has conducted him.
self like a lunatic and a degenerate
ever since
incidentally, in order to get be-
fore the public he has begun the pub
LEGATION of an alleged newspaper of his
own, and daily fills the same with
filth about his former friends, and
anybody who happens to stir the ire
of this deposed political wire-puller
and newspaper manipulation
Thus Mr.. Statter became the OBJ
ject of LOTIONS hatred and there has
been nothing too vile for him to publish
touching Statter's retirement as pri-
vate secretary to Senator Ankeny and
his employment by Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw in a similar capacity.
This article from The Brooklyn
Eagle, however, shows in what respect
young Slater is held at the national
capital