A Flag at Half-Mast and a Populist's 'Lost Liberties'

The Populist candidate for county auditor is the man who inspired and assisted in executing the crazy scheme of placing the American flag at half mast at Hoquiam last Fourth of July, and of then draping it with the epitaph, 'To our lost liberties.'

This worthy Populist who now pleads for the suffrage of peaceable and law-abiding American citizens at the coming election is a citizen of New Zealand—a subject of the queen—but a man without a country, as should be all men who possess the spirit exhibited by the petty crew that perpetrated the flag incident at Hoquiam. This man who has been designated by a convention of representative Populists as the best man in the party to occupy the most responsible office in the gift of the people of Chehalis county has not been in this country long enough to get free from the smell of the antipodes. He has never yet availed himself of the privileges of American citizenship, which he never considered valuable until the possibility of securing a lucrative office here entered his mind.