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SUPPLEMENT TO Vol. 5 (Advertisement.) Kellogg Helps Cor poration Dailies Voter, should be careful to remember that voting a straight party ticket does not include a vote for judges. The judge ticket is at th. bottom of the ballot. Make an X after the name of W. H. Pem berton for superior court judge as Follows: W. H. PEMBERTON... Straight Party Ticket Vote Does Not Count on Judges The corporations have bought the dally papers and are printing false hoods in order to deceive the people and thereby secure the election of John A. Kellogg, their candidate. Be fore voting on November sth, please read his record, so that you may know some of the facts that the daily papers do not want you to know. Why is Judge Kellogg Supported by the corporation dailies of Bellingham? Why do these newspapers give more •pace and print more false statements in the Interest of Kellogg than all their other candidates? They love him most. When the most malicious and false editorials were printed in the trust dailies before the September primary, Kellogg' was seen in the office of the editor until close to the midnight hour. Think of it! A superior court judge assisting a trust daily in the night time! Kellogg would not debate but once with Pemberton. He said to de bate more than once was beneath his dignity. Did he take his dignity with him to the office of the editor of the corporation dailies? Kellogg Tried to Keep Pemberton's Name Off the Ticket. John A. Kellogg and his corporation boaters endeavored to prevent the name of W. H. Pemberton being plac ed upon the ballot at the November election. They claimed that Kellogg should be considered elected, al though he had failed to receive one third of the vote cast for judge, and about one-sixth the voters of What com County. Attorney General Tanner announced thai be appealed the King County case to the supreme court because of the judicial ticket situation in Whatcom County. Kellogg and his friends ex pected to get the supreme court, through this source, to lay down a rule that would prevent opposition to him at the general election. They disregarded the views of the county attorney, and of Judge Joiner, who tried the case, and are not now satis fled with the decision of the supreme court, which shows clearly that the people have a right to select their judges, and that they are not to be chosen by a small minority, the cor poration method. The state constitution fixes the date for the general election. That date Is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month of Novem ber. Had Kellogg and his corpora tion daily friends and supporters had their way. they would have had the election of judges September 10, last, the day of the primary election. For It is a fact that that the cor poration press and Judge Hel ton all declared that Pemberton should be ruled off the ticket. In fact, Judge Kellogg himself declared at tho courthouse, in the presence of wk nesses. that Pemberton's name would never be permitted to go on the ticket In the November election. He made this declaration after the result of the primary election was known to al. But even In this the supreme court overruled Kellogg. Had Kellogg been Permitted to dic tate In this matter, he would have had his name and that of Judge Har din only on the ballot at the Novem ber election. As there are only two to elect, such an arrangement would have given the people no oppor tunity for a choice in November. With wo names on the ballot for judge, ana two to elect, it would have been a cinch for both. One vote or 100 otes would have elected both, and yet the Herald tells us there are 80,000 voters to Whatcom county. These figures are based on an actual registration to Emm of 9.000 In Bellingham and . heavy regis ration In the various Oth •r organised cities of the county The figures are approximately correct. Ket tonWUtude and that of his corn oration backers and boosters wou d ignore the great mass of the peopic ffiemand tK office for him because 3.300 persons voted for him in UM nrlmary Just one-sixth of the 20.00J voErYto the county. There was a reason That reason will be plain jw torTe votes are counted in Novem b*r Kellofla Lobbied for His Job. KeltoMlobbied for the law giving t h,?co°u g nty an additional ggjg U H^n W 'theres£\s -"Went work uf^Sfe« •Id. to which B >*P e t*?ph 1907, when Governor Mead: mMOW kKIoKII H^.: ck PLUM" „sre is another' S = A. Kellog, the Herald said: Wtjrt Itpnben tCrfttme "His principal backer and sponsor was C. W .Howard." Now, who is Howard? lie really needs no introduction to the people of Whatcom County, nor for that matter to the people of the state. By profes sion he was a lawyer, and he prac ticed some at his profession between sessions of the state legislature, but at every session of the legislature for the past fifteen years he lias appear ed as a lobbyist. His legal practice was mainly for the "big interests,' such as the Northern Pacific Railway Company, the Great Northern Railway Company, the Bellingham Hay Im provement Company and the Stone Ai- Webster interests in Bellingham. It is through Howard and his representa tion of the corporation interests that the connection between these same corporations and Judge Kellogg is most readily seen. Kellogg was told by W H. Pem berton at the time Kellogg appear ed before the House judiciary com mittee that the work had not ma terially increased and two judges were not necessary, which fact was shown by the certificate of an ab stract company. Kellogg Lobbies for Double Salary. When Kellogg had the least amount to do in 1911 he took the time you people were paying him for and lob bied for a law to give superior court judges $6,000 a year instead of $::,- --000. He says that if this law had passed he could not have received this salary during his present term. This may be true but when the fact is knows lie was the first person to file for the nomination and re-electlo even at the present salary of |3,000, it is hard to believe that he would not have been very quick to file this fall if the law had been passed making the salary $6,000. His motive for lob bying for the law to double salaries was certainly not unselfish, and yo-i were paying htm for his time while he was lobbying for this measure. Kellogg and Hanford. Kellogg was present at the State Bar meeting in Tacoma after Hanford resigned and did not vote against th;< resolution declaring that Hanford bad served this nation with honor and in tegrity for the last quarter of a con tury, and that the nation was losing a valued servant. Kellogg used the following words in a letter to Lawyer Saunders, of Seat tle: "You know how I voted on the mo tion to table the resolution, as well as upon its final passage." Kellogg knew when he wrote this letter to Mr. Saunders that he had not voted at all upon the final passage oL' the Hanford resolution. He had ex pected Saunders to say that Kellogg had voted "No," and then to publish the letter to the people of What com County. Saunders failed to come to his assistance, and Helloy;; deceived nobody. How Kellogg Made Good. Kellogg was appointed on the exe cutive committee of the State Bar As sociation of C. W. Howard, its i resi dent, and Kellogg made good by doing nothing toward disbarring Judge Root and Judge Gordon, who permit tad and secured the Great Northern Railway to write the opinion of the su preme court of this state, when it was claimed that $70,000 had been used to bribe the judges of this state. It was the duty of the executive committee to proceed with the disbar ment proceedings. Kellogg sa\s he did nothing in the matter. The cor porations did not want those "ten dis barred. From their Viewpoint Kellogg made good by doing nothing. Kellogg's Fishtrap Farce. Kellogg fined the fish trap trust $250. The fine was so light that the taxpayers lost a few hundred dollars, although they won the case. The fish trap company upon paying the fine and the small proportion of the costs of trial taxable against them would, under the testimony, clear over one thousand dollars on the transaction. The fish trap trust owns stock in tho daily newspapers. Do you see why they are all boosting for Kellogg? Kellogg appointed on the Boulevard commission the man he was asked to appoint —Judge Hardin having refused to be dictated to in the matter. Would you like to try your case wherein a corporation is interested be fore a man as judge who owed his position to corporation influences? Kellogg Rewards Friend Mead. Kellogg, taking advantage of the misfortune of the people in the failure of the Home Security Savings Hank, took opportunity to reward his per sonal political obligation, and over tbe protests of the depositors appointed Albert K. Mead receiver, for you will all remember, Mead had appointed LYNDEN, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY OCTOBER 24, t912 ! Kellogg judge. Why should Kellogg | not name Mead as receiver? What did it matter if the depositors did sug gest the name of another? What did it matter if they did protest against Mead"s appointment? Here was an opportunity to repay Mead for his appointment of Kellogg, and the desires of the depositors werj not considered. Will Kellogg remem ber the corporations if they re-elect him. an he remembered Mead, who npnpinted him? Mead is an attorney and is paid out of the funds belonging to the depos itors. He immediately employed two other attorneys, and they are being paid out of the depositors' funds. He went into partners-hip with another at -1 torney and paid him out of the funds of the depositors $150 a month for "services" as long as Kel logg presided over Department No. 2 Kellogg Responsible for Much. It has been two years since Helling ham voted dry. The result of the vote has been MATERIALLY AFFECTED by the holdings of Judge Kellogg, who seeks reelection November 6. Kellogg held the law UNCONSTITU • TIONAL. The supreme court RE VERSED him and declared they had i never followed the technical construc tion as laid down by Kellogg. The supreme court also stated that such a construction would make the law a FARCE and Bellingham an A DOM INATION.—State vs. Jones, 66 Wash., Pan 2:12. Kellogg held that solicitation of or ders through the newspapers was NOT 1 A VIOLATION of the law. The su preme court held that solicitation through even a circular letter was a VIOLATION of the law, and that NO JUDGE would be justified in holding to the contrary.—State vs. Holmes, 2> " Wash. Dec. 502. The attorney general held that the 3 B, B. Brewery COULD NOT SEL\ 1 within ISellingham. The brewery management was arrested for VIO LATINtI the law. Kellogg was giv .en the attorney general's opinion. He REVERSED the attorney general and held the brewery COULD SELL. The , county attorney appealed this case and it is still pending in the supreme court. ; The brewery CONTINUES TO SELL because of Kellogg' 8 ruling.—Opinions . of Attorney General, 1909-1910, Pages ' K',l-132. In fact, Kellogg's decisions navy been so frequently reversed that his ' record is 21st from the top of the list of superior court judges of the state. ' One-third of his cases in the supreme court have been reversed. 1 The people want a judge who wl.l ' decide questions put before him on their merits and according to law, and ' does nat permit his decisions to be in fluenced by his personal desires, or ! by political considerations. Because of Judge Kellogg's holdings Bellingham has not been able to give 1 the local option law a fair test. Judge Kellogg has done more to thwart the 1 will of the majority than any other one man. He cannot dodge this. The record is against him. And much of the drunkenness in Bellingham may be attributed to his rulings. , Corporation Wet Forces Are Backing Kellogg. The vote In the September primary shows the corporation wet forces back iof Kellogg. In Sumas, the only wet unit in tho county, he beat Pemberton , nearly two to one, and in all the known wet precincts he was given ■ a big vote. The corporation wets cvi . dently know their man, and the corpo ; ration backers of Judge Kellogg; are 1 among the leaders of the wet program. Judge Kellogg resides in South Beli , ingham. Tho First precinct of the ; Sixth ward is the business section of South Bellingham. In the recent Sep !ember primary election many known partisans of Judge Kellogg were hand ' ed a regular partisan ticket (Republi " can or Democrat), at the bottom of which was printed the Non-Partisan Judiciary ticket, and also one of the 1 separate Non-Partisan Judiciary tlck ■ ets.. This enabled them to cast two 1 votes for Judge Kellogg as his name • apepared on both of them. In this precinct "plunking" for Kellogg was 1 a feature of the voting; Kellogg ran • away ahead of Hardin, while there 1 were fewer votes cast for Pemberton than there were duplicate tickets. In ' short, the vote In this precinct stood Kellogg, 75; Hardin, 64; Pemberton, ' 23. The election records on file In the county auditor's office will verify the foregoing. Have the corporation dailies deplor ed such work? They know all about it. They know that work of a similar character was done in the Fourth pre cinct of the Third ward, where Kellogj; received 103, to 46 for Pemberton. Do they glory in this kind of work? These same dailies are supporting Judge Kel logg—and the brewery holds stock in the dallies. Is the connection appar ent? Or is it real? Or is it both? Just a word as to the law bearing on this kind of work; Section 4958, of the 1911 Cession laws rends as fol lows: "If any person shall vote, or attempt to vote more than once at any election, or shall knowingly hand in two or more tickets together, * * * * * such person shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall be incapable of voting at any election or holding any office for two years thereafter." Section 4900 of the same laws, reads as follows: "If any inspector or judge of any such election shall knowingly permit any elector to cast a second vote it any such election, • • * • such inspector or judge of election shall be [X] (Xunaaliiialtnn of Ilir fartflr plot anil u>br Cgnurn 9uu guilty of a felony and be incapable of holding any office in this state lor five years thereafter." Has Kellogg called a grand jury to investigate this? No. Why? Can it be because he benefited by It, and ex pects to benefit further in the gen eral election by having such persons serve on the election board? The only man opposing Judge Kel logg is \V. H. Pemberton. His record as a lawyer and citizen is well and fa vorably known to all. He stands for right things and right politics. If elect ed, he will administer the law as he finds it, and give every person or cor poration that comes before him a square deal. We respectfully solicit your co-ope ration in our effort to elect \V. H. Pemberton to the superior court judgeship. AN OPEN LETTER. To the men and women of Whatcom county who believe in the prin ciples of the PROGRESSIVE PARTY and who desire the election of THEODORE ROOSEVELT and HIRAM W. JOHNSON. The Progressive Party has for its sole object the betterment of the mas es of humanity and an equal opportunity for the men and women of this Nation. In order for us to present our cause, to the people, it is necessary that we be able to give full publicity to the principles of the Progressive Party to the voters of this county. The great corporate interests are not contributing to our cause, as they are contributing to the republican and democratic campaign funds. We are de pendent solely upon the financial help that may be extended to us by the indi vidual citizen. This fight is your fight. The committee of the Progressive Party will be glad to accept contributions from the friends of the cause, either in person or by letter. Any amount from $1.00 up will be gladly received. A strict account of re ceipts and expenditures in the Whatcom county campaign will be kept and published later. We have headquarters in the Mason building, on Holly Street, in the city of Bellingham, where we will be glad to see all friends of the Progressive move ment. Our cause is just and we are in this fight to win. Our speakers and our candidates are giving their time, energy and money to carry on contest for human rights. Will you help us? Whatcom County Central Committee of the Progressive Party GEO. H. BACON, Chairman THEODORE ROOSEVELT.-HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN SEVEN YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. Doliver —Hepburn railroad act. Extension of forest reserve. National irrigation act. Improvement of waterways and reservation of water power sites. Employers' liability act. Safety appliance act. Regulation of railroad employers hours of labor. Establishment of department of commerce and labor. Pure food and drug act. Federal meat inspection. Navy doubled in tonnage and greatly increased in efficiency. Battleship fleet sent around the world. State militia brought into coordi nation with army. Canal zone acquired and work of excavation pushed with increased energy. Development of civil self-govern ment in insular possessions. Second intervention in Cuba; Cuba restored to the Cubans. Finances of Santo Domingo straightened out. Alaska boundary dispute settled. Reorganization of the consular service. Settlement of the coal strike ln 1902. The government upheld in north ern securities decision. Conviction of postoffice grafters and public land thieves. Directed investigation of the sugar trust customs frauds, and the resultant prosecutions. Suits began against the Standard Oil and Tobacco companies and oth AN URGENT APPEAL The Lynden Fruit Growers' As sociation urges all owners of land in the valley to set out some acre Regulating the Trust!*. The anti-trust law should be kept on the statute book to be invoked against every big concern tending to monopoly or guilty of anti-social practices. At the same time a national industrial commission should be created which should have complete power to regu late and control all the great industrial concerns engaged in interstate busi ness, which practically means all of them In this country. This commis sion should exercise over these in dustrial concerns like powers to those exercised over the railways by the in terstate commerce commission and over the national banks by the comp trolier of the currency and additional powers if found necessary. The com mission should have free access to the books of each corporation and power to find out exactly how it treats Yours very truly, cr corporations for violating Sher man anti-trust act. Corporations forbidden to contri bute to campaign funds. Keeping the door to China open to American commerce. Bringing about the settlement of tho Husso-Japanese war by thetreat y of Portsmouth. Avoinding the pitfalls created by Pacific coast prejudice against Ja panese immigration. Negotiating 24 treaties of gener al arbitration. Reduction of interest-bearing deb by more than $90,000,000. Inauguration of movement for con servation of natural resources. Inauguration of the annual con ference of governors of states. Inauguration of movement for improvement of conditions of coun try life. SOME OF "MY POUCIES." Reform of the banking and cur- i rency system. Inheritance tax. • Income tax. J Passage of a new employers' lla bility act to meet objections raised by the supreme court. 1 Postal savings banks. Parcels post. 1 Revision of the Sherman antl- I trust act. ' Legislation to prevent over-capi I talization. stock watering, etc., of t common carriers. 1 Legislation compelling incorpora t tion under federal laws of corpora- 1 tions engaged in interstate com- j merce. ] age to berries. Berry growing in this section is a pronounced suc cess. No crop will pay as well as the berry crop. The new Lynden j canuery will be built and in running its employes, its rivals and the gen eral public. * * » Any corporation voluntarily coming under the commis sion should not be prosecuted under the anti-trust law as long as it obeys in good faith the orders of the com mission. The commission would be able to interpret in advance to any honest man asking the interpretation what he may do and what he may not do in carrying on a legitimate busi ness. —Theodore Roosevelt. We demand submission of a further constitutional amendment providing for the recall of the judiciary. We favor the abolishing of all ex cept three ot the present state boards and commissions, which shall have all the power now vested in all of the present boards. C. C SIEGEL, Secretary order to take care of all tho fruit and vegetables that will be grown in litis section. Men of push and enterprise are back of this under taking which will prove such an important factor in the develop ment of this country. The associa tion is financed wholly by local capital, and its laudable efforts aro deserving of the support of every citizen of the Nooksack Valley. Tho membership fee is $5 and stock in the association can be secured at $5 per share. No one person being allowed to own more than 20 shares. Robert lleaton, Mayor of Lynden, is President and C. It. Ax ling is the Secretary of the associa tion. o SCHOOL NOTES. The first high school debate of I the year will be held on Friday, No |vember The schools of tills section are under the supervision of Prof. Leo Jones, of the state uni versity, and a letter from him says that Lynden hns been given tho negative side of the question: Re solved, That this state should contin ue the policy of building state roads and permanent highways with In creasing appropriations therefor. The meeting will be at Bellingham, with South Bellingham on the af firmative side. The chances of the local school is even brighter this year than ever before, with Miss Edna MeKinnon, who is conceded to be one of tho best high school debaters ln the en tire state, and Agatha Erz who while lacking in experience, is equally re sourceful to handle the work for Lynden. Those who followed tho work last year will remember that Lynden was almost within reach of the state championship, und this year, with the right kind of support, should have it. Prof. Wright will greatly appre ciate magazine articles on the sub ject which may be sent to him at the school. No. 18