The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-07-06
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The following Open letter has
been mailed by Congressman Jones
to Senator Ankeny:
North Yakima, Wash, July 3.
Honorable Levi Ankeny, Wallas Wal
la, Wash: y.
My Dear Senator-Under, date of
June % l appealed to you in per-
sOnal letter to sign with me an agree
ment that the one receiving the les
ser vote in the September primary
election as a candidate for the Unit
ed States senatorship, would not al
low his name to go before the. leg
islature, but would except the YER
dict expressed by the people as final.
This agreement l proposed TO
make on our part with the "repub-
licans and The people of the State
Washington.
Ten days have elapsed since 1
wrote you, but as yet l have received
no reply.
On June %, while in Seattle, my
attention was called to publication
in the Seattle Times of what .pur-
ported to be your answer to my COM
municatio of the 23d ult. Had you
prepared the Times letter yourself,
l feel reasonably certain that you
would not have overlooked the COM
mon courtesy of the occasion and
transmitted to me a copy.
Although manifestly cOntrived in
all it's contrarieties and confusion of
ideas by your manager, Mr.. Croker,
it is presumably intended to remain
,f or1 6r1nf Of
Accepting it as such, / wish to point
out that under the most shallow pre-
texts you have declined publicly to
assure the republican party and the
people of this state that you intend
to consider the primary vote decisive,
and that in obedience to the will OF
the majority you would, if YOU, re-
ceived the minority vote, refuse to
let your name go before the legis-
lature. My intention was obvious
since | have entered into that agree
ment myself. 1t was not to invite
any deal or compact of hidden or III
terror motives that l addressed you.
in rejecting my proposal, you ask
with mock indignation why l should
assume 10 state your position before
the people and add that you have al
WAYS been able o make yourself un+
derstood.
beg to call your attention 70 the
fact that you have never made yeEf-
self understood with reference to
your attitude toward the direct pr;-
mary law.
In other words, your platform! is
myth invented conveniently by
your boss, Mr.. Croc'lcr. or by one
of hi; literary satellites. You have
risinterpreted Sec Sc so frequently
and with such tires0me reitera-i2n
tna5 one may be pardOnei for sus-
pecting that you have adopted d
program of evasion with reference TO
the full intent Of the direct primarE
law in so far as it relates TO the
election of United States senators.
Let me advise you, senator, that
Section SO simply prescribes a duty
to be performed by the Secretary of
State. This duty consists of certi-
flying to the legislature the names of
the persons of each political party
for whom the highest number of
votes are cast at the primary cleo
ton. You will observe that this duty
is perfunctory. 1t has nothing
whatever to do with the privilege
extended to the people of. controlling
the election of United States sena-
tors. It merely registers with the
joint assembly the names of the
party candidates receiving the high
est number of votes. and carries with
it no mandate as to the election in
the legisla ture.
Do you stand for Section 31o Why
not come out in the open and say
yes or no?
It would cast light on one of the
many dark spots in your statement
could you explain how you would be
acting against public policy shou1i
YOU make the agreemeDt ! have pro-
posed, AMI by what contortion of
meaning you could extract from the