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S. Hamilton: 'Respectable citizen' takes on the 'Roughs' and corrupt 'sore-heads' of frontier politics who use his good name.

January 24, 2006

First page of S. Hamilton: 'Respectable citizen' takes on the 'Roughs' and corrupt 'sore-heads' of frontier politics who use his good name.

This is a very interesting column in the May 31, 1867 Walla Walla Stateman, page 2 column 1. The citizens are trying to clean up their frontier county of corruption and rid them of the 'roughs' that are extorting taxes for 'county government'. S. Hamilton (thought to be Supplina Hamilton) issues a statement refuting the 'sore-heads' attempt to leverage his good name as one who supports them. Could this slander have hurt S. Hamilton in the upcoming election for County Commissioner? Very likely. This is a 4mb PDF file. Besure to enlarge the file after opening.

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