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(HUMPHREY BRANDED AS UNFITHumphrey is unfit?unfit to be senator of this state, unfit to be

again intrusted with public affairs.If he could be forgiven for every other act in his career of mis-

representing the state and serving the bosses?if all the rest of hismiserable record could be forgotten?even then this one fraudu-lent deception, which developedtoday, would STAMP HIM ASUNFIT.

Herewith are photographiccopies of documents proving this fraudulent de-ception. These so-called speeches by "Honora-ble 1 * Austin and "Honorable" Green, boosting

"Honorable'* Humphrey, are A FRAUD and ADECEPTION. They were never delivered in Con-gress. Therein they are fraudulent. They weresent out purporting to be speeches delivered bythese congressmen in the halls of congress. There-in they are a deception. They were printed, theenvelopes were addressed, and they were sentthru the mails at the people's expense, and thereinthey were graft upon the people.

These alleged speeches of these shyster con-gressmen were sneaked into the government print-ing office and were injected into the record,printed at government expense under the frank-ing privilege. AND EVERY DOLLAR THESEFAKE SPEECHES COST THE GOVERNMENTWAS A DOLLAR OF GRAFT.

This is the year Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen.Ten years ago it was not unusual (or congressmento practice such miserable deception as is hererevealed. Ten years ago Seattle didn't blink whenits congressman boldly voted for a mileage grabwhich would have paid him more than a bill

Two fake speeches, sloppy with praise ofHumphrey, which were printed at the

government's expense and distributed at the govern-ment's expense in a fraudulent attempt to deceive thevoters of this state.

The photographic reproduction above shows thepages of the two fake sj>eeches, also a government en-velope which carried one of these "speeches" to a Seattlei iti/.en.

These fakes purport to be speeches of "Honorable"congressmen delivered in the house of representatives inpraise of llumphrev AS A MATTER OF FACT,THEY WERE NEVER DELIVERED IN CONGRESS.Instead, they were sneaked into the records under thefranking privilege.

The franking privilege. which congressmen and sen-ators enjoy, all right if it is honestly vised It gives themthe right to send matter pertaining to government affair*thru the mails free that is. without carrying the stamps.I'nprincipled congressmen and senators have abused thisprivilege They ha\e heen known to send their privatematter thru the mails at government expense. That isplain graft on the people Congressmen also have theprivilege of ha\ing what they designate as governmentmatter printed free of charge in the government printingoffice.

Shyster congressmen have, of course, abused thisprivilege time after time Hut these two fake spechesrepresent about the rawest and crudest misuse and

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ahu-e of the franking privilege that has cvei been re-\caled in this -late.

Here a couple of Humphrey's friends in congress puttheir names over two sloppy articles praising Hum-phrey, then had them printed at the government's ex-pense. then put in government envelopes at governmentexpense, then distributed thru the mail free under thefranking privilege.

There are more than .VTQ.OOO voters in tins state. It\v<mld cost, to ?-end these tilings to the voters as regularletter*, nearly in postage alone. It is impossible to

determine how many thousands were sent into this state.However, the distribution was broadcast. On the daythat Humphrey reached Spokane, that town was floodedwith these speeches, coining thru the mails to citizens.

In the old days this deception often pot by, it wouldfool the voters, but repeated exposure of it by maga-zines ,m<l new spapers practically stopped its use. Thethinking citi/en who knows how the fake is worked andwho receives such a document as tine of these allegedspeeches, cannot help but resent the deception attemptedupon him.

In tin' year of I( 'U>. only congressmen of tlie Hum-phrey (ircenc \n>tin caliber, the lowest type of congress-tnen, resort to tlii- sort v of -liN -tor business.

thousand dollars as traveling expense for a trip he had never taken. But these ten years have beenyears of political progress and enlightenment. Yet, here we find Humphrey no further progressed,no further enlightened, than he was in Nineteen Hundred and Five, when he was placed in the' 'mileage roll of dishonor" by a national magazine because he voted for a mileage grab bill.

"Humphrey Attuned to Western Washington" spouts his local organ today. That's an insult.Western Washington is not attuned to fraud and deception.

Seattle, Nor Western Washington, Nor the State of WashingtonWants a Senator of Such Caliber. HUMPHREY IS UNFIT.