The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-09-08

In the good old, or bad old days
the newspaper on the eve of an eiec
ton proceeded to tell you just VINO
was your duty to support and yippe'
and howled for you to get into hh'
and ..voter straight As a matte
Il fact the good old, or bad old days.
are not 30 far away that some pa
pers are not doing that way yet.
Well / am not going to do Una
way. In the first place ! don't De
lieye you would pay any attention u
me II l did tell you how to vote. III
the second place I wouldn't th1nh
much of you If you would pay amy at
tention to me.
During the campaign l have print
ed lot Of paid matter concerning can
didates, and / have had few person
nj opinions about candidates in the
paper. reckon you have read them
| think you have just as much IN
telliRence as l have and 50 l reckon
ycu are perfectly capable OF making
up your own minds without my help.
However, like all other citizens for
some offices / have chosen the can
didates for whom / will vote. Where
ever / have made chcice l nave
my reasons, and there Is no law
against my giving them.
OF course / shall vote for Bixby.
When Bixby was first spoken of, !
hesitated about supporting him. l
had confidence Ia the man, but l
IL there was sufficient op-
positd IN to Livesey to give Bixby
show. However when investigated
bit I found there was pronounced
to Avesey. found that
many grangers were even better in
formed on his record than was. The
most they had against him was his
failure to bring evidence before the
grand jury last fall, but what seemed
to count more than that was the neg
ative quality CT the. man. They
lid not consider him first-class at
torney, and they felt that the cunty
should have a first-class man. That
being the case there was an opening
or q good man, and l readily gave
ny support to Mr.. Bixby.
Least among Mr.. Bixby's qualifica-
ions is that Lynden is his homa, yet
10 good reason for supporting him
litieu by the county. We have 60
,er cent Of the votes and surely some
4 the county officers should be coun-i
ry men. Mr.. Bixby is an able at
orney and an honest one. He would
20 into office II elected as "a repre-
sentative of all of the people. He has
10 tangling alliances. II grand jury
s called he can and will prepare all
evidence to put before 1t. He is clean
md progressive.
Next in importance of the county
'fficers are the commissi oners. Of
he candidates in this district the TIL
,une ravois se--ga H, Buffers. As
between he and Mr.. Simpson We be-
ieve there is little choice. We like
he appearance Of Mr.. Simpson very
much. but we do not believe he has
A chance of winning. We believe the
fight Is between Mr.. Buffers and MT.
Hemmi. Our reason for opposing MI.
Hemmi is that We think he misrepre-
sented when he announced that he was
the unanimous choice Of the Ten
Mile precinct.
The Tribune has had a solicitor in
that precinct for four days. He was
instructed to ask every man whether
or not he attended the Hemmi meet
ing. Here is what he learned:
Out of 20 men interviewed three had
attended the Hemmi meeting. Twelve
said they expected to support Mr..
Hemmi. s me at least of the IL were
men who were working in Mr. Hem.
mis- mill. Two of the % expected
to support Mr.. Simpson. The Others
were for Mr.. Buffers. In other dis
tricts We have found that Mr.. Buffers
will get much larger per cent CT the