The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-09-04
THE NON-PARTISAN
JUDICIARY TICKET
Is It to the Best Interests of the People
of Washington to Reflect?

That our readers may know how to
vote in the primary election next Tues
day we are printing herewith some
facts in relation to the supreme court
action in the Seattle recall movement.
There is no doubt but that the supreme
court is opposed to the recall and all
other progressive laws that takes power
away from courts and judges. They
nullifed the initiative laws in the seven
sisters case. While we are opposed to
some OF these laws we believe their
adoption or rejection should be left to
the people. We do not believe in the
sacredness Of courts and judges any
more than we believe in the sacred
ness CT kings and emperators. Ed.
Echo.
We are all aware of the tremendous
efforts being put forth by the reaction
aries to defeat all of the progressive
legislation passed.
For the past ten days Govnor Teats
OF Tacoma and Edgar G. Mills of Sc
attic have been fighting in the court at
Olympia, without pay and without hope
of reward, trying to save to the people
their right under the constitution to
pass laws on subjects that the legis-
lature has refused to pass and that the
people are intensely interested in.
You know that a slush fund has been
collected and spent in fighting initia-
tive laws that organized labor and the
Grange and the people have been try
ing to get before the people at the
coming fall election for their approval
or rejection. A force of highly paid
men have been employed at Olympia
to defeat these measures before the
Sec'y of State, it remains to be seen
what their efforts will be before the
courts and what their success will be.
The force of men employed at Olympia
to check over the petitions and to
scour the state for evidence at times
reached as many as 180 men under pay
and paid by the same men who have
been defeating the peoples bills be-
fore the Legislature for years.
It is but recent that the present
supreme court of the state OF Washing
ton, loosing sight of the real essence
Of the law, decided that the people Of
King County, should not have the
opportunity Of voting on recall of its
county commissioners.
And what was the reason given for
this2
Because they claimed that all of the
expense in conducting the recall peti
tions had not been completely listed in
the expense account.
The supreme court has recently failed
to protect the constitutional rights
of the people. Equal representation
has been refused the people by the
supreme court in the Legislature. You
have but to turn 10 the files of Every
bodys and Golfers for 1911 to get the
history OF our supreme court. Get
these, read them again and act ac-
cordingly.
Mr.. Mills has filed for one of the
nominations on the non-partisan ticket
for Judge Of the supreme court at the
coming September primaries. He was
the nominee for the position Of Attor-
ney General for the state OF Washing
ton on the progressive ticket in 1912
and came nearer being elected than
any other man on the state ticket.
Mr.. Mills experience well qualities
him for the position. For six years he
was in both houses of the Wisconsin
legislature, serving all of the time on
the judiciary committee. Mr.. Mills
also served the national government at
Washington for eight years as U. S.
government attorney, having been ap-
pointed to that position by the Roose-
velt administration and during that
time handling many cases, some OF
which involved over $4,000,000.
His legislative record was officially
indorsed by labor and during all of his
life he has been in close touch with
the rights and interests Of the people;
he believes in maintaining the consti-