Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-06-24
JUDICIAL DISTRICT
WASHINGTONIAN ERRS IN ACCUS.
Ing ABERDEEN OF BAD FAITH.
The Record Shows Aberdeen to Have
Acted Not Only Fair but Generous
with HOquiam In the Entire Court.
house Contention, While HOquiam
Has Not TOted Fair.

The Hoquiam Washingtonian oil
June -, accuses Aberdeen of not act
ing fair in the matter of the loca-
tion of the sub-courthouse, and says:
"The Aberdeen Herald devotes al
column to the protest of Hoquiam
against second judicial district, and
declares that Hoquiam is acting the
part of spoiled child. The Herald
says:
1.-The press of Hoquiam has much
to say of a square DEAL and the
keeping of pledges by Aberdeen
that look well in print but will not
bear scrutiny. When did Hoquiam
tote fair with Aberdeen in the en-
tire struggle to establish court
house on Grays HarDor for the con-
venience of its people? Had Hoquiam
stood true to Aberdeen-and ITSELF
there would be no courthouse discus
| sion now. Hoquiam would have been
the seat of county government for
more than two years. Had our squall-
ing neighbOr kept faith with Aber-
deem the whole matter would have
been settled long ago. Was this
/ grouchy bunch giving Aberdeen q
square deal when they attempted
this spring to MAKE Il lineup with
: Montesano to place the sub-court-
house in Hoquiam? The less Ho-
quian-or rather the small coterie
that is making the present howl
have to say about keeping faith and
giving a square deal the less atten-
tion will be given their perfidy il,
every move to secure the convenience
of a courthouse on the harbor.'
"The quickest way to answer
Editor Carney is to print the minutes
of the joint meetings held by commit
tees from Aberdeen and Hoquiam.
The Herald is quite wrong in all of
its statements, as the following re-
ports will show"
Then follows the minutes of the
meetings of March 10 and 20, which
instead of proving the Herald wrong,
substantiates it's statements. The
minutes of the first meeting simply
shows that both committees were in
the air on the subject; that they
could do nothing that would bind
the county commissioners, and, on
|
two chairmen confer with Commits
sioners Hopkins and Davis, and re-
quest them to attend the next meet
ing of the joint committees. 1t is
true that a motion prevailed calling
for tossing a coin as to the loca-
tion on either side of the line be.
tween the cities, but it was recogniz-
ed as useless unless the commission
ers would abide by the result, and
the meeting adjourned without hav-
ing definitely obligated anybody to
anything.
The committees met again the next
day, with Commissioners Hopkins and
Davis present, and again found them
selves up against a snag, in the abb
sence of Commissioner Arland, who
had not been invited. Davis said
he was willing to abide the decision
of the joint committees as to the
location, but Hopkins declined to
commit himself in the absence of
Arland, and the meeting again ad-
journed without accomplishing any,
thing or obligating either side to any
proposition, merely directing the
chairmen to confer with the COM
missioners, and If possible, come to
definite arrangements with them,
and, to quote the minutes: "if fav-
orable to the judicial district, the
two delegations shall at once pro-
coed to settled the matter of loca-
tion of the sub-courthouse."
The foregoing is the substance of
the minutes of those meetings, to
which the Washingtonian points and
says:
"These are the agreements that Alb
! erdeen is now going back on. Neither
Editor Carney, nor any of the people
of his bailiwick have the slightest
intention of 'toting fair 1t Is not
in their makeup, so arguments
amount to nothing with them"
| Where are "the agreements that
Aberdeen is going back on?" There
was but one agreement made-to toss
a coin for the location-and that
was made subject to the agreement
of the commissioners to abide by the
result, without which agreement the
casting of lots would be useless.
| Whatever kick Hoquiam has COM
ing in this entire matter, it is at the
commissioners, not Aberdeen. The
commissioners declined to obligate
themselves to agree to location
made by the committees, and of
their own motion designated Aber-
deem as the point for the holding of