The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., February 24, 1911, page 2

CHAPPELL CENSURED

     Senator Chappell was censured at a meeting of the Goldendale "standpatters" for introducing the bill for a division of the county. This is a shabby treatment of the gentleman. When Mr. Chappell sought the position of senator it was not as the candidate of any special precinct, but with the idea of representing the whole district. County division is not his movement -- he would have preferred that it had not come up for it places him in an embarrassing position. During the campaign he publicly pledged himself not to oppose division if a majority of the west end wanted to be cut off and when the matter came before the legislature it was his duty to introduce the bill, which was only the machinery of the affair. He has kept his campaign promise, of which Goldendale was aware, and played traitor to no one. Personally he does not believe that the time is right for division. Opposition from Goldendale was expected, which is natural, for the west end is its big asset; but to attempt to punish Chappell for the small part he has taken is not fair to him and it places themselves in the attitude of having assumed a mortgage over the people's representatives, but having placed a halter about his neck.

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