The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1913-10-31
more HOT SHOT.
FOR SENATOR JONES
R. A. Slater Comes Back in. the LOrimer
Controversy
Senator w. L. Jones,
North Yakima, Washington,
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II my interest were
alone to ascertain your true affiliations,
reply to your letter of the 14th inst
would be unnecessary, for your letter
defines your attitude so clearly, that
no one can now question the sincerity
of my former charge that you cham
pioned Lorimer in the Senate, and in
doing so, placed your stamp OF APP
proval upon his acts before the legis-
lature of the State of Illinois.
Aside from the political phase OF
your candidacy, however, you are a
United States Senator, representing
Tin theory at least) the great State OF
Washington, and one usually asso-
ciates such position with a reasonable
amount OF dignity and poise-virtues
which you must, have turned over to
some irresponsible clerk, when your
now famous Defense Of Lorimer"
was penned.
With the statements you have di-
rected to me personally haye no con-
Germ. The men and women in the
Progressive party will pass judgment
on my worth and services. The people
are not interested in what you think OF
me. AS candidate for the United
States Senate they are interested in
what you are, what you think and how
you think7
You say you never claimed to be a
member OF committee representing
Republicans and Progressives, yet you
knew the press OF the whole United
States has so represented, and you,i
until now, have been silent, willing to
benefit by the misrepresentation.
You admit voting against unseating
Lorimer, yet you deny, championing
the things he stood for and did.
You speak ghbly of working with
Cummins, Borah, LaFollette, Bristow,
Clapp and Kenyon, yet you voted
against all of these men on the Lori
mer case and with such men as Gug-
genheim, Penrose, Crane, Oliyer, Ste
phenson, Smoot and Standard Oip'
Bailey.
You intimate that "Lorimerism"
has no definite meaning, yet you inn
mediately proceed to comment on
corruption in politics, bartering in
political offices, bribery and political
bossism."
You say You can point to no work
of mine in defense of or support OF
what is known as "Lorimerism." You
forget your harangue before the SEN
ate in which you bitterly attacked
Theodore Roosevelt, portraying him as
EPontius PLATE and likening Lorimer to
Christ before an unjust judge-the
people, like the "rabble," ready to
linjure the innocent.
The people Of this State were OPP
posed to the seating of Lorimer.
Were they the "rabble" to whom you
referred2 Were they not then the
honest, fair, intelligent, brave, inde-
pendent and conscientious men and
women" Of whom you speak in your
letter.
Not championing "Lorimerisml"
Then mail your Pontius PLATE speech
to the men and women of this state.
You say you voted your convictions
in the Lorimer case, and that the Yak
4 ina delegation undoubtedly voted their
convictions at Aberdeen when they
helped to steal this state for Taft after
the people had voted overwhelmingly
in favor of Roosevelt. II the motive
back Of your conviction" to retain
the corrupt Lorimer was no purer than
the conviction" OF the Yakima dele
| CATION when participating in the theft
OF this State for Taft, we now know
what you mean by conviction" The
most virulent standpatter in this state
has not the effontery to defend the
1 Aberdeen theft since the voters re-
pudiated their action at the November
election by over 10000 majority.
The heather mothers throwing theii
babes into the Ganges; the early Col
onists burning witches at the stake;
] the dynamiter hurting death and de
struction. were sincere. They had
convictions" and lived up to them