Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-09-19
CONGRESSMAN
ATTACKS EDITOR
Representative J. W. Bryan
Hands a Few to Editor
Alden J. Blethen
REPLIES TO THE TIMES
Denounces Times Editor, and
Condemnatory Resolutions
Are Adopted

SEATTLE, Sept. 17.-Characteriz-
ing Alden j. Blethen as an evil and
sinister influence, the creator of civic
discords and a menace to the repu-
tations of upright and honest citi-
zens, Congressman j. w. Bryan ad-
dressed an audience of $50 persons
at Draimland pavilion Monday night.
The speech was the one which Con-
gressman Bryan announced in the
house OF representatives he would
deliver at the King county fair, and
which was designed to reply to an
attack made upon him by the Seat.
tie Times a little more than week
ago.
The audience indicated it's approx
al of Congressman Bryan's denuncia-
tion of the editor and frequently en-
couraged him with cheers and hand
clapping. When Congressman Bryan
spoke of the faxed photographs of
Rev. M. A. Matthews, which were
prepared upon the order of Col.
Blethen and exhibited to Mayor Cot
terill and to others, the audience
gave expression to it's feelings in a
. roar that shook the building.
Accuses elethen Of 6lasphemy.
"All l said in my congressional
speech was that they had manufac-
tured these awful pictures, which
are so low and filthy and corrupt
that no reputable speaker could pos
sibly describe them before an audi
ence of this kind. Yet with that
superb effrontery that has charact-
erized his operations in this city since
he became publisher of his paper he
blasphemously asserts that he has
never violated a single law of God
or man.
Read, if you will, his Wappy let
ter. Remember that the officials of
the city of Seattle here exposed an
awful corrupt situation involving the
lowest forms of vice and that Wap-
penstein was later convict I'd and sent
to the penitentiary because of his
part in these proceedings.
"Why should man be permitted
by the public in a community such
as the city of Seattle to own and
operate a newspaper on behalf of
such interests as this? Consider the
Minneapolis activities of Blethen.
Consider his association, with that of
his paper, with all forms of vice
in the city of Seattle, and then an
swer why he should not be condemn
ed, why any organization should not
be encouraged to protest against his
continued power.
"In politics his paper has always
favored the lowest measures that
could be proposed. He hates re,
form; he despises civic decency.'
The resolution presented and
adopted by acclamation at the
meeting is as follows
Whereas, The Seattle Daily and
Sunday Times as now conducted
with it's terroristic tactics and Grim
inal methods is menace to the lib
critics and the regulations and even
the lives of the residents of Seattle
and is an unrelenting creator of civic
discord and debauchery and
"Whereas, Its existence is contin
ued and made possible by the sup
port of it's enemies, who, curious to
know the latest victim of it's false
and vicious attacks, and whether OF
not the limit of audacity has been
reached by the owners and editors
of The Times. continue to unwilling
ly and apologetically buy and read
the same, now therefore, be it resolv
ed, by the citizens of Seattle. in mass
meeting assembled. that all progress
i've, fair dealing and liberty-lovine
citizens unite to withdraw their sup
port from The Times, and the ad
vertisers who make its existence pos
sible."