The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-10-07
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Writing under the stimulus OF an ar
ticle that appeared in the Wenatchee
Republic of Oct. l, publication with
which this office is not favored, by the
way, wherein Deed H. Magyar, the
publisher OF The Echo, is charged in
sophomore language with inconsist-
ency and other political crimes and
misdemeanors, lowing to the point Of
view of more or less serious nature.
Let US stop here, patient reader, long
enough to say that there is just one
grain OF truth in the whole story. To
the mild impeachment of having lived
in Texas he pleads guilty. Tho this
will not be considered greater crime
than coming from Missouri.
The Republic charges Deed H.
Magyar with having gone to the republi-
can convention held at Tacoma on
August Sd as delegate from Chelan
county.
The Republic printed the proceed
ings of the convention which elected
the delegates to the Tacoma conven-
ton, and its editor should have known
that Deed H. Mayors name did not
appear among the delegates. Someone
asked him if he desired to go, and he
unqualifedly declined the honor. So
much for that willful falsehood.
He began voting the democratic
ticket in Denver in 1874, while en-
ployed on a republican newspaper, and
continued to so vote up to the time OF
Cleveland's first election, then as now
reserving the right to scratch, any
mans name whom he deemed morally
or otherwise unfit for office. For the
reason that there was but one ticket he
continued to vote the local democratic
ticket in Texas from 1880 to 1892.
That year the populist and republican
parties in Texas fused, and Deed H.
Magyar took modest part in reducing
the brutal democratic majority in the
next ensuing four years something
more than one hundred thousand votes,
which so frightened the democratic
party that it adopted every plank in
the populist platform save two, when
next the party met in convention at
Dallas; one of which condemned Civ
ing railroad passes to state and county
officials and the other, free whiskey at
democratic conventions. These two
the democratic convention did not see
fit to swallow, for obvious reasons. If
the editor of the Republic is doubtful
about the political activity of Deed H.
Magyar in Mills county, Texas, from
1892 to 1900, there are still some
democrats living who will bear regret
full testimony to the fact.
In 1900 he removed from Texas
to Washington, and in 1901 to
Wenatchee, and has lived in Che
Ian county ever since, his po-
litical activities finding vent in the
republican party. The Echo, under
his management, has always consistent
ly supported the republican ticket, al
ways, and repeatedly asserting his right
at any time to decline to vote for or
support men for Office who are incom-
petent or corrupt. The men nominal
ed at Tacoma fall under these disqual-
living reservations, and he refuses here
and now to vote for or support men for
Office on the republican ticket who he
has the best OF reasons for believing
are wholly unfit to sit in final judgment
on matters wherein the public is inter-
ested. There is not arepublican voter
in Chelan county with the nerve to go
before the people and ask them to vote
for or support any man for office, high
or low, who they sincerely believe is
unfit. 1t is within the memory Of
many republicans that the editor of
The Echo in the recent past opposed
openly and ardently men for Office who
were nominated by Wenatchee repub-
licans, who after being nominated re-
ceived the loyal support of every re-
publican voter in this precinct, but