The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1913-08-07
Spokane, August 4.
To the Editor of The Miner:

Spokane, August L.
To the Editor of The Miner:
| regret that Mr.. Day has seen ut
to introduce malicious personalities in
to fight in which he is but an acci-
dental and inconsequential factor, be-
cause | entertain the highest regard
for some who are close to him. I'm
less forced to do otherwise, shall
continue to confine my statements to
matters which concern Mr.. Days Of
fical acts as president and general
manager of the Federal Mining and
Smelling company. which is now be-
ing robbed of 100000 a year by the
smelling trust, apparently with the
support, and certainly with the know
tity. my failures nor my mistakes, the
latter of which l cheerfully acknow-
ledge in plenty, have aught to do with
this suit and | do not flatter myself
are much interested in my personality
They are, however, vitality concerned
in just and honest fight which, if
successful, will recover a vast sum
available for dividends from their
mines and l therefore feel that the
slurs cast upon me in a recent issue
of Mr.. Days personal organ should
not go unchallenged. In this connec-
ton it should be remembered that u
large per cent of the capital stock Of
the corporation conducting the Press
Times Is owned by the Federal COM
pany and that this questionable as
set of stockholders Is being used as
a personal club by Mr.. Day in an ef-
fort to thwart the fight for justice.
The matter will be thoroughly aired
at the next annual meeting of the
Federal company and Mr.. Day will
be accorded an opportunity of ex-
planning in what particular manner
stockholders are benefited by an an
nual loss of several thousand dollars
in a newspaper venture apparently
conducted as vehicle of personal
SplenetlC expression.
Day as a Trust Buster.
Since Mr.. Days organ has referred
to my journalistic activities in Spo-
kane l feel released from secrecy
concerning little incident that may
amuse readers of The Miner. Incl
dentally, I wish to state that l sold
my newspaper interests in 1906; that
the journal continued publication for
one or two years thereafter and that
no collection was ever taken up by
me, or for me by any one else. Some
voluntary, unsought subscriptions
were made during my successful
campaign against the election of
Charles Sweeny to the United States
Senate and Harry L. Day-then
voiciferous foe Of the trust, now its
paid servant; then personal enemy OF
Mr.. sweeny, now his co-director in
the Federal company-was one who
so contributed. Mr. Day might be in
terested in a facsimile reproduction ct
the page of cash book in which
the entry of his donation was made
1t is surely the irony Of inexorable
fate that Mr.. Day should now occupy
the same exalted position as nominal
head of the Federal company and
call-boy for the Guggenheims, then
occupied by Mr.. Sweeny. l did mol
meet Mr.. Day until months after his
subscription had been handed to m!
business partner and he then con-
graduated me on the great fight
we had made in defeating a prede.
cessor troubled with the same absurd
political aspirations as have more
recently obsessed others.
The Los Angeles Paper Venture.
$50 far as my journalistic venture
in Los Angeles is concerned, 1t is tru'
that the Los Angeles Mining Review
went through bankruptcy soon after
left It In 1911. It did not suspend
publication and has not to thi
day. did not. wreck 1t: II
fact, assumed the management II
1908, at a time when 1t was on thu
point of suspending, only at th'
urgent request of several mining men
who wished to do something tangible
for the mining industry Of the south
west. The sum of $4,000 or $1,000 wal
lost in the effort. the greater portion
of the amount having been subscrlo
ed by such men as Seeley w. Mudd
leading mining engineer of tn
United States, Bob" Montgomery. tn
Nevada mining man, and Lloyd I
Haynes then vice president Of the OF
and Metals Bank Of Los Angeles Al
these gentlemen are still numbered
among my warmest friends. Durinl
my management Of the paper mucl
was accomplished towards bringing
Los Angeles to the front as minin'
center, including the organization o
the Sierra ,Madre Club. the only one
its kind in the world, which now ma
membership of 700 or 500 oil opera
tors and mining men, including Harr
L. Day himself. whom ! proposed TO
membership after he had been visit
or at my invitation for several week
early In 1911. I occupied the position
of secretary or ce-president until
left Los Angeles, taking with me tn
only life membership ever presente