Description
This appears to be a reply to a reply. The first piece was "Is General Tilton a Secessionist?," (Seattle Weekly Gazette, May 4, 1865). The editor (Urban HIcks) charged by the Gazette with calling James Tilton "an apologist for the Southern Confederacy" replied in The Democrat that he had not been the editor of The Flag back then. This argues that that editor, Hicks, was too carefully parsing his words.
On p. 2, at the bottom of column 2 is a brief entry entitled, "A Great Stretcher." It says "the editor of the Secession machine at Olympia" [Hicks] ... in the conduct of his Tilton organ, stretched honor, decency and the truth, but there is one thing which he has not yet stretched, which he ought to have done long since... he has not stretched hemp!
On p. 2 is "Mired in His Own Filth," which attacks Hicks, who "supports the very man [Tilton] he denounced as a secessionist" in 1861.
On p. 2 is "Copperhead Logic," which attacks Hicks for lying.
Abstract
During the 1865 territorial race for delegate between Arthur Denny and James Tilton, the Seattle Gazette reiterates that Washington Democrat editor Urban Hicks was earlier the editor of The Union Flag, the newspaper that in 1861 accused James Tilton of being "an apologist for the Southern Confederacy."
Bibliographic Citation
Vol. 2, iss. 2, p. 1, col. D