The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-10-07

cans. Nay more than that, at every
election for the past six years from two
to three candidates for Office on the re-
publican ticket were saved from defeat
by the loyal support given the ticket
at the Leavenworth precinct. Wenat-
chez republicans have in the past six
years slaughtered a dozen republican
nominees. The slaughter began with
the defeat OF the republican nominee
for state senator six years ago on the
slim pretext that the democratic nom
inee was Wenatchee man, and ended
with the defeat Of the republican nom
inees for treasurer and auditor at the
last election, and but for the loyal sup
port of two other candidates at the
Leavenworth precinct, they would have
gone down to defeat in the Republics
republican slaughter pen. The We
natchee republicans who are furnishing
dope for the Republic might review
the record with profit to themselves.
The Republic has never supported the
republican ticket, and will not do so
in this campaign. 1t is not newspa-
per for principle, but always for pelf.
There is a widespread belief that it
supported Judge Burke for consid-
Grafton, just as it is now supporting the
nominees of the Tacoma convention
for SUPREME court judges.
The Echo is perfectly willing to go
before the voters of Chelan county with
the non-partisan judiciary ticket and
the record of its editor, here or else
where, in the serene confidence that it
will whip the Republic and its pro-
motors to a FRAGILE" You may quote
us on that.
So much for the Republics sopho-
moric verbal splitter about consistency
and principles.
Deed H. Magyar never appeared be-
fore the resolutions committee of a
democratic convention at Tacoma, tho
he was an interested spectator at a
convention OF democrats which met for
the purpose OF nominating a non-parti-
san Judiciary ticket, and finally after
nine hours OF strenuous labor nominal
ed the ticket which had been passed
up to them by the non-partisan repub-
lican meeting Of the day previous. A
conference committee of seven was ap-
pointed, Of which Deed H. Magyar was
one, at the meeting of republicans, to
meet like committee from the demo-
cratic convention; but that convention
did not see fit to appoint the conference
committee, consequently there was no
meeting. Neither did he inform any
one that Judge Grimshaw would &C
cept the nomination; but he did 60
from Tacoma to Wenatchee to ascer-
tain if Judge Grimshaw would accept
the nomination, and until he could
have talk with that gentleman he
suppressed the contents Of the tele-
gram. One who steals will not hest
tate to tell lies.
Largely due to the advertising given
it by the Republic and the World, The
Echo has about one hundred subscrib-
ers among the business and profess
sionel men OF Wenatchee, and about
three hundred readers, some OF whom
have frequently laughed over the stale
news printed in the Republic, news
they read in The Echo the week pre-
vious. The Republic makes prac-
tice Of "cribbing", Ia newspaper syn
onim for stealing,) news from The
Echo and palming it off on such of its
readers as do not take The Echo, un-
der the head Of special news service.
1t is merely suggested here that a
change of word here and there would
make the theft less apparent, and the
lack OF enterprise less noticeable. To
tell the truth, the editor of The Echo
acknowledges the obligation he is un-
der to the Republic. 1t is not often
that the editor of an unpretentious
country weekly can command so much
space in great metropolitan daily as
was devoted to him last Saturday.
The editor Of the Republic reminds
this paper of nothing so much as a
monkey climbing a pole. The higher
up the pole he climbs the more the
public sees of his editorial behind.