Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-11-06
W. r. MILLER ANSWERS
THE ATTACK MADE BY
II. W. BLANCHARD


ness In hitting me over the shoulders
OF Melbourne Dunn, and | hear you
say. Boys. had the gun all loaded,
and ] used Dunn's letter as the ex.
cnse TO shbot. iIa! Ha! Ha! What
do you think OF Dad?"
/. You charge that the effort 10
enforce the dry law at the state line
was an effort on my part to play a
political game. brand that as lie.
Your accusation IN one OF motive and
the public must Judge between yo~
and me.
2. You say Dunn's warrants were
worthless Well, who told you ?
Speak up. for you know no one will
ever accuse YOU OF knowing enough
law TO determine that fact. II you
would 80 TO some school boy you
wonid learn that no person can ques-
tlon the validity OF warrants In the
hands OF an officer regular on their
face. A warrant signed by magis-
trate acting by authority OF law Ia all
the Justification the officer needs 10
authorize an arrest and the use OF
any force necessary to effect II. II
you have advised any OF your clients
whom. from your boastings the pub
lie might infer are as countless as the
leaves In the forest. YOU were giving
them advice that might have cost
them their lives. Allow me further
to say that any charge that ! was
the cause OF the issuance OF Illegal
warrants Is simply a malicious false
hood and nothing less.
As TO .he tax certificates YOU know
that there never has yet been a con-
test over any foreclosure OF a tax
certificate foreclosed by me. Still
you say thirteen are dead. Who told
you. Was It Paul? As you and
Paul have had but four Jury cases
In the circuit and lost them all, what
reliance can You put on your opina
Ions? My advice Is to get some farm
er friend to look the matter up and
advise you. You assert that because
of my blunders the county has lost
almost s3,250 In delinquent taxes.
You shock me. II II Is possible that
the foreclosure is faulty. the tax is
still n lien upon the land and never
outlaws. and the county can pro
coed again, II the assessment was
properly made.
AS to your charges that ! said GER
tain things to wet men and dry men
that were inconsistent with the per
formance OF my duties, | think they
are typical of your campaign meth
DDS. Dunn's letter. which YOU at
tempted to answer. names the tim,
and place you are charged with max
ing a certain statement. Why are
you not manly enough TO name the
persons TO whom am alleged to have
made such statements. to give such
persons an opportunity TO affirm OF
deny. instead OF hiding behind the
bogey OF mythical wet men.
As to the grand jury investigation
about the alleged explosion at the
Ament dam. am proud OF II. The
dark finger OF suspicion was pointed
at the laboring men OF Grants Pass
who were called dynamiters. II they
were such. they should be apprehend.
ed; but II not, they were entitled to
an investigation and exoneration. and
II was ms much the duty OF the au.
thorlties to aid in the clearing OF
their good names of unjust imputa-
tions as II was to convict the guilty
although YOU may think otherwise
| am glad helped them. But you
seem to think committed a crime
because II cost the county $40, Per
haps you think that was too high
price to pay to vlndicate the char
acters OF 100 common laboring men
Finally YOU insinuate that am
trying TO protect some malefactors
who killed some stock on Murphy
creek. DO You really believe that
or has your thirst for office, growing
out OF your perennial candidacy from
the time you landed In Josephine
county, become so acute that you are
ready to assail the character of any
and all who stand In the way of your
vaulting ambition You ask what
have l done In the matterY had the
county court offer reward Of s10C
and placed all the information | hat
before the sherlff. You can by in
quiry md this to be true, You could
have done no more, am willing e
let the voters Judge between my eff
forts and your accusations,
Your efforts to make a campaign
committee OF an organization of good
women who are an earnest, SINGER,
body Of temperance workers may
and doubtless does. appeal to you a'
tho fnal word In political shrewdness
hni IL MY anccesa denands nnnn sncf