The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., October 25, 1912, page 2

ALL MANIACS

     The "Centerville Times" is the name of a four column paper which has made its appearance at Centerville. Its announcement is that it is "the only independent paper in the county." It devotes almost all of its space to an article against county division, heading it the "County Division Mania."
     According to this, then, there are 1033 maniacs in the western part of Klickitat county, with a sprinkling of them in Centerville, where a number voted for Chas. R. Spencer for the legislature. All voters for county division are daffy, crazy, bereft of their right senses, suffering from brain storm and headed straight for the asylum because they don't want to pay tribute any longer to a Goldendale ring bent on retaining the rich resources of western Klickitat county for their benefit, no matter how much hardship it works on west and taxpayers. This is serious business. What a march of maniacs it will be when 1033 of them are taken over to Goldendale to be examined for their sanity, for it will never do to let so many abberated ones run at large, threatening the peace and quiet of the county, official salaries, hotel receipts and the business of private parties who profit from county seat travel.

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