The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-09-05
The extent TO which the corpora

| The extent to which the corpora
lions are willing to go to secure kel-
logg's reelection is shown by the 1act
that they Clipped into pot and rals-
ed thousands upon thousands OF dol
| lars to purchase the American and
Reveille upon the refusal of the puD-
fishers of those papers to consent 10
any plan or compromise to support
Judge Kellogg for reelection. me
People will recall that for years and
years the American and Reveille point
ed out that the Herald was the organ
of the special interests. The truth OF
this statement is shown by the fact
that after the special interests had
acquired the ownership of the Ameri-
can and Reveille a consolidation was
at once effected, the subscription price
of the papers raised, and the news
value CORRESPONDENCE decreased.
John A. Kellogg, who has the friend
ship of the corporations and their
controlled newspapers, finds himself
tieing for twentyfirst place among the
Judges of the State Of Washington,
while his colleague, Ed. e. Hardin, has
the highest average OF any judge i'll
Western Washington, and stands
fourth on the list of all those in the
State. The records show that Kellogg
is below the average OF superior
judges of the state, and that one-thlrd
of all the cases he has tried that have
been appealed have been reversed by
the supreme court. No small part or
Kelloggs record was made by his de-
cisions attempting to destroy the To-
cal option low of the State OF wash
ington.
Kellogg sought, as superior judge
to nullify the wish of the people as
written into law, by some two hun
dred of their representatives sitting as
the legislature of the State OF WASH
ington. OF all the superior judges in
the state, he was the only one who had
the effrontry to declare that the local
option law was unconstitutional, say
ing that the title and the body OF the
act did not agree in the matter of civ.
ing away intoxicating liquors. Look
at this local option law for minute;
discover it's provisions, and then see
how Kellogg has sought to nullify it.
In the first place, the local option
law declares that giving away is as
much crime as selling liquor, save in
ones own home to his personal friends.
Second, it provides that the solicit
alton Of the sale of intoxicating liquors
cannot be carried on in dry territory
In the city of Ferndale, a man by
the name of Jones was arrested for
giving away whiskey from a bottle on
the business streets He was arrested
and his trial was had before Judge
Kellogg. Kellogg held that the local
option law was unconstitutional In the
matter of giving away whiskey
The higher tribunal not only upheld
the law, but went further and declar-
ed that KellOgg's construction OF 1t
made farce of the law, and dry
unit and attenuation"
Further, they say under Kellogg
construction, it would be possible
for man to load a hOgshead of whis-
key on dray and take it into the mid
die of the street and give it away. And
still further on they said that Kellogg
had followed an extreme technical
construction, which the supreme court
of this state had never in a single in
stance recognized.
With this decision as an entering
wedge, the big wholesale liquor deal
ers of Seattle started advertising in
the orporation-controlled press, Offer
ing to send their whiskey into Bell
ingham in exchange for the money of
the people of this community. The
proprietors of the paper were arrested
for violating the local option law,
which said there should be no solicit
ing in a dry unit. John A. Kellogg
delivered the law another blow by de.
claring that newspaper advertising Is
not soliciting, although millions upon
millions of dollars are spent each year
by the big institutions of the coun-
try soliciting trade through the me-
dunn of advertisements.
In the name of common sense, what
was the Seattle wholesale liquor house
doing, paying it's money to the corpora
tion-controlled press for advertising,
of it was not for the purpose of solicit
ing the sale of intoxicating liquors III
the City of Bellingbam, which the law
said they should not do?
by their fruits We shall know
them" and although Kellogg at this
late day in the country precincts
where the dry element Is in a major
ity, has gone about declaring that he
voted for local option in Bellingham,
the fact remains that behind his can
didacy is allied such men as l.. N.
Griffin, who, during the time that Bell
ingham was wet, owned more saloon
frontage than any other man in it;
Simon Mcleod, the notorious saloon
boss of Bellingham, during the palmy
days of whiskey selling; the Belling-
ham daily press, in which the opera
tors of the Bellingham Bay Brewery
are stockholders
Big business is always allied with
elements like these in every commu-
nifty.
In other things Kellogg has not fail
ed those who are responsible for max
ing him superior judge of Whatcom
county. AS above stated, Albert E.
Mead, as governor, issued him his com.
mission. When Mead was defeated
for reelection he returned to Belling-
ham and took up his residence. In the
course of time came the unfortunate
failure of the Home Security Savings
Bank. The depositors of that insti-
tuition desired the appointment of n
man as receiver in whom they had
confidence, and a large majority of
them agreed upon Frank C. Schwartz,
as their choice for this position They
went into court and asked Kellogg to