The Auditor's Office Feud

Myron R. Ellis was elected auditor of Yakima county mainly by republicans but he was not chosen to run that office for partisan purposes, as he seems to believe. His first act on taking office was to reward those especially active in his behalf previous to election with clerkships, and permits, if not encourages, one of these clerks to abuse in public print the man whom he succeeds and whose many good qualities we all admire. Mr. Ellis carries his partisanship even to greater lengths and into the purchasing of supplies for the county. In the case of stationery and printing where a contract binds him from making the purchases of a political supporter he prefers to send his orders abroad rather than have the work done at home. Mr. Ellis should remember that he is not the arbiter of the affairs of this county and that when he says 'the commissioners be d—d' he should be given to understand that he is simply clerk of that board of which he speaks so contemptuously.