The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-10-18

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pointed U. S. prosecuting attorney as
reward for giving him the Washington
delegates.
1t is not on record that the Taft fol-
lowers plead the baby act and claimed
that the regular republican county con-
vention would NOT have seated the
Taft delegates had they remained in
the convention, but it is not too late
to amend their petition now.
In reply to Mr.. GellatIy's claim that
just as good men are lined up behind
Taft as Roosevelt, we might suggest
Lorimer, Penrose, Stephenson, Barnes,
Guggenheim and the Mormon senator
are also lined up behind Taft. Is there
not some significance in this?
Read Mr.. Gellatly's letter to Mr..
Norris, it is intemperate and shows
enough heat to convince the average
man that it is not fair.
Office of Chelan Co. Abstract Co.,
Wenatchee, Wash, August II, IL
Representative Norris,
Washington, D. c.
Dear SIR
Press dispatches Of your late
speech in the House relative to the
recent presidential primaries in the
State of Washington and in Chelan
county in particular, show you to be
so ill-informed in the matter that I
cannot refrain from calling you down.
If you actually believe what you said,
fairness and decency demands that you
investigate the matter further, as I
am prepared to prove that your utter
ances were the basest of lies, and lack
the smallest scintilla Of truth.
In the name OF our boasted nation I
ask, is it possible that things have
come to pass where there is no hon
esty whatever. Such men as you who
boast of your political integrity, and
insist upon your monopoly of it, ought
for policy sake if you have no honesty,
to investigate before you talk so much,
and read so much rot into the public
record at Washington.
The attempt at political theft, the
political steam roller, the political
treachery in Chelan county were sole
ly the tactics and instruments of the
Roosevelt followers, and I can prove it
to any man who will investigate the
case. a I will pay your expenses to this
county and return, if l cannot con-
vince you (assuming you to be hon
est) that every word you uttered rela-
tive to this contest is wrong, and can
convince you that the Taft delegate
were duly and regularly elected, and
entitled to undisputed credentials from
this county.
If you want TO know my standing in
this community, would suggest that
you ask Congressman LaFollette of
this State, or Senator Poindexter who is
also one of your own tribe, or wire at
my expense to any of the banks OF
this city There ought to be a statute
making such men as you accountable
for, and responsible to the law for your
slanderous tongue, and believe this
should be true in your case especially
as understand you were at one time
Court Judge and should know that
there is always two sides to every case.
Just as good men, just as patriotic
men, and by-the-way, just as brilliant
men as yourself and Brother Roosevelt
are allied with President Taft. Your
gang, in your frenzy and conceit have
become so blinded to your own faults
and crimes that you see no good in
any but your own.
Thou shalt not steal except for
me" has become your rule OF proceed
ing, and your measurement OF others
by your own standards have become
so prevalent that it is no wonder that
you see nothing but liars, thieves, hy-
pocrites, demons, etc, in the lineup
against you. For the sake of the peo-
pie who inhabit the greatest nation on
earth; for the sake of those who made
it thus, and for the sake Of those yet
unborn I beseech Of you to consider
more carefully some matters you are
called to pass upon. Chelan county