The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-10-27
The Shultz Meeting
At West Sound

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sioner's office. When he said in his
venomons speech that if he were to
hand Culver 'stwo- bit piece" il
would be sufficient compensat ton for
all be has done for him, he merely ex-
pressed the base idea of an migrate
and renegade. When he mentioned
the names of a number of prominent
| Republicans of the state-not one of
them resident of this county, to
whom he acknowledged some obliga-
ton, he might have added, but didn't,
that not one of them, with the pos
sible exception of Judge Calvert,
whose son he let in on the land grab,
wants to see him succeed in his pres
ent efforts to disrupt the Republican
party in this county and injure the
men to whom he owes every political
honor he has ever had and every dol
lar that he has today. Although he
left the land matter still dark to
those who had not read about it,
he made it quite clear that he has no
more sense of moral or political OBJ
legation than a jackal
He then proceeded to speak most
contemptibly of Prosecuting Attor-
ney Wynn. He charged him with be-
ing "a poor man, which is true, for he
does not regard public office as pri-
vate graft and has not the faculty of
amassing a fortune in three years out
of the princely salary OF thirty three
and one third dollars month which
he receives. He charged him with
not being property owner or tax
payer liz the county, which is false,
for he owns fifteen acres of land, and
a few days ago sold forty acres which
he bought from the county. He
made the blackguardly charge that
the county commissioners were oblig-
ed to provide him with a separate Of
fee for the reason that he is too
tony to have one in the court house,
although he knew very well that the
attorney and school superintendent
have an Office together for the reason
that there is no room for tnem in the
present old court house, and that the
county pays just the same amount of
rent for their accommoda ton that it
paid for years before when Messrs.
King and Thacker held the prosecut
ms attorneys office jointly and re-
ceived for their services more than
twice as much as is paid to Mr..
Wynn.
He told his hearers that he had
been resident of the county for six
teen years, but he did not tell them
that twelve of those years had been
spent in public offices given him by
the Republican party and out of
which he has secured as salary and
graft considerably over $4,000. He
had been in the county only about SIX
months, in a little clearing in the edge
of the woods on Shaw island, and
knew hardly a score of people in the
county when Isaiah Jones and John S.
McMillin took him under their pro-
tecting care and secured for him the
nomination for auditor. He held the
office for tour years at salary of
500 year and found it's duties so
onerous that he called upon the com
missioners to allow him to employ a
clerk, and he employed his wife for
many months and she drew from the
county several hundred dollars. No
other auditor since then has ever
asked for clerk although there has
been a very great increase in the
work of the Office during the past few
years, the volume of business now
being nearly three times what it We s
fifteen years ago.
Upon the expiration of his second
term as auditor the favor of Mr.. Nc
Millin secured for him the legisla tive
nomination. 1t was senatorial year.
He worked and voted against the
successful candidate, Senator Wilson,
and so failed to secure his endorse
ment either for appointment as post
master at Friday Harbor or Deputy
Collector of Customs at Roche Har-
Dor. Having no Office to support him
and failing to make a living in the
boot and shoe business here, he had
two or three lean years. He went to
Alaska and while he was there sought
Office here again and the party to