The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-07-28
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Now | want the whole 1amiis vi w
-15OO- to sit down and talk it owe
with me.
This is our paper--not mine-ah'
iust because | happen to be running
il | don't want you TO think that
think | know it all. don't-don
know it all and don't think | do.
Last week | wrote an editorial OF
the senatorship. | think l SAID apou
what | thought. I'm most awful.
opposed to getting both of our seha
tors firm the East Side. But, apparen
tly what | said didn't please any
BODY. The PoindeXter supporters thlhi
was untrue to progressive princl
Dies and several have not heSltated u
say so-in a friendly way. Wilson sup
porters say 1t is my duty to come ou
openly for him. Burke's friends say
tie same. Ashton's friends declare m
opportunity to get in the band wagon
is ripe.
mad no thought of pleasing any
body but myself when | wrote what
| dld. That was the way slzed vi
the situation and | said SO l thlhk
it will be unfortunate for the Nesl
Side if PoindeXter Is elected.
AS for Wilson, Burke or Ashton
all good men | guess think 1t Is un
fortunate for anyone OF them That the
otner Two are candidates.
Now as | SAID | had no thought OF
trying to please anyone. Or course l
am sorry | didn't please someone but
nevertheless | am glad | wrote what
| did This senatorship is a mighty
important matter and ii | started any
body to thinking about it | did Ser
wee. We ought TO know what We are
doing when we dictate to our legiS-
lature who it shall name for the Office.
The only way We can know Is to talk
it over and think it over.
The Tribune is not political dope
sheet. give you my personal opinions
but | am not trying to dictate yours
or your neighbor and as | said at
the beginning | don't think | know 1t
all. My opinion is no better than
yours, probably, and you are welcome
to express yours in the Tribune. IL
gladly print your opinions on this or
any other live subject,i If you will write
them plainly, short, and get the copy In
:?
Connected morality is as repellant
almost as immortality There are men
you know who figure every man but
themselves wants TO be crook
that no one else is honest and fair
from choice. For instance one man
who visited our office this week re-
peatedly made the assertion: "All
ask for is a fair deal-fair treatment
There had been no intimation that
we We're unfriendly even. His repeat
ed remark amounted to an intimation
that we were in the habit of treating
people unfairly.
insurgency in the county is but
a myth says the Bellingham Herald
in it's heading over a report of the
county republican convention.
Is it?
If the Herald believes Insurgency is
but myth in Whatcom county ther
| have not a great deal of respect fol
the Herald's sources of information
The fact that the delegates to the
convention did not make any demon
stration in favor of PoindeXter or die
not make speeches in favor of Rebel
ion is no indication that there are nc
Insurgent republicans in the county.
Many Insurgents do not favor Poin
dexter for senator. Few If any In
surgent republicans OF this county wan
or expect to win purity in politics by
scraping in a convention hall. In
surgent republicans are, mostly, goot
republicans. They propose to RICH
their wrongs at the primary poles.
Take this precinct as an example.
confidently believe that nine out o
ten republicans believe in conservation
as it was practiced under the R0ose
welt administration. They believe
that Taft while an honest man, an(
capable under a good leader, is too
easily controlled. They believe tha
Balinger should have been ousteC
long ago. Yet this precinct sent ;
delegation to the convention with NJ
instructions. 1t was understood, gen
orally, and rightly, that this conven
ton had nothing to do but to cleo
delegates to a state convention thai
will select candidates for supreme
court judges. That is duty that re
quires sense, but the less politics mix
ed up with it the better. Our caucus
selected delegates that We're goo(
republicans. Some of them were in
surgents and some were old line re-
publicans. but they went to the con
vention as just republicans, friends
neighbors. In spite of the speech o
the convention chairman, republicans
as a rule do not regret the old con
ventiOn days.
The republican party. is party O
progress. We have learned the evils
of the convention system and we have
discarded it, We have learned the ev
rs Of organized dictation of candid.
ates and principles and we are dis
carding it. The mere fact that the
rural republicans of the county die
not go to this two for a cent con
yention and "holler their heads off
against the paid organization ATTORNEYS
is no indication that they are heartily
in sympathy with those same paio
attorneys or with the organization.
They are insurgents.