The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1912-01-19
The EdmOndS
Administration

4 the tlnliHHI press The rIIluII1i oi
tho Everett Tribune oft january g. lala
regarding the socialist movement i'm Ed
monds, would call forth a mighty ex
elamation OF protest and nm intense and
righteous Indignation at such a con
tcmptiblc lie.
Many of Us are very familiar with
these tactics; and while these editors
should be piticd for their ignorance and
short sightcdness. no one who has the
interest of the movement at heart as
have would hesitate to defend himself
and the socialist party against such a
slanderous, malicious attack
And ignorance on their part is no ex.
cuso. Any newspaper that makes ne
attempt to verify its statements, espe-
eially its editorials, has no moral right
to exist.
It is very evident that the Everett
Tribune got its choice ~ information
from the Edmonds Tribune Review; and
they would have you believe that the
Edmonds Tribune Review is the Organ
of the party" I wish first to make
that correction.
The Edmonds Tribune Review is not
and never has been the organ of the
party. THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF
EDMONDS HAS ABSOLUTELY MOTH
ING TO DO WITH THIS PAPER. Mr..
Boomer the editor, is not a member of
the party here or elsewhere The social
list party of Edmonds completely ig-
nores the Fdmonds Tribune Review, Its
raying, manical shoot .up-the-t town"
policy has caused many who are there
by disgusted and want the TRUTH, to
investigate. All socialists know what
this investigation means. We see its
effect continually in the way of new
members in the local.
EDMONDS SOCIALISTS DO NOT
THINK THEY ARE "STUNG." If the
editor of the Everett Tribune or anyone
else wants proof of this I refer him to
the resolution passed unanimously and
amidst much enthusiasm at the regular
meeting of the Edmonds socialist local
on January 7, 1912. The sense of the
resolution was that;
THE SOCIALIST LOCAL OF THE
CITY OF EDMONDS HEREBY HEART
lily ENDORSES THE SENTIMENT
EXPRESSED BY MAYOR DEWEY AT
THE LAST REGULAR MEETING OF
THE CITY COUNCIL ON JANUARY 8,
1912, WITH NO EXCEPTIONS.
The Edmewds Tribune Review, and
still worse Bic Everett Tribune mis-
quotes my remarks before the city coun
ell Wednesday evening. January 3. We
all expect them to do that because they
would have no possible chance to make
a case out of it and thus warn the dear
people" about "the menace of militant
socialism" if they told the truth.
The word sewer" was not used in the
platform at all. The only two planks
that referred to sewers are as follows:
1--WE favor ~ The abolition of the
contract system on all city work, sub
stituting the day labor PLAN" etc, etc.
"lS) The making of all such city i'm
proyements as the majority vote of the
citizens may direct"
I wish to say to the Everett Tribune
and to all others who think that So
cialism won't work. that no socialist ex-
poets to even try to put it into opera
tion at the present time, in a local case,
except in a very limited way. More than
this would be an impossibility for yari-
Gus reasons. We were elected on a very
definite and well circulated platform
and as far as local conditions will per
nit, we are putting it into practice and
are going to continue doing so. So far,
it IS working and the administration is
giving complete satisfaction to all ex-
cept the small minority whose only
worry is that it IS working and they
see no chance to again gain control and
run things solely in their own interest.
7 also wish to say that there is alb
solutely no dissension amongst the So
cialists of Edmonds. All is harmonious
and hopeful in their ranks-in fact, I
believe it would be hard to find its equal
in this respect elsewhere.
If the Everett Tribune or anyone else
wants proof of any of these statements,
they may readily secure it in abundant
quantities by writing to Comrade Y. M.
Sill, corresponding secretary of the So
cialist party of Edmonds, or to any
honest minded citizen of Edmonds re
gardless of his politics.
HALE E. DEWEY,
Socialist Mayor of Edmonds, Wash.
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