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SEATTLE Nov. 19, 1915

Governor Spry,
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dear Sir:

I write to commend your
action in the Hillstrom matter.

Clearly you had no other
course than what you have adopted,
and the President was extremely ill
advised to interfere in the matter
again at the last moment. Your reply
to him was entirely dignified
and proper.

A little less sentimentalism
and a litte more back bone in the
admininstration of our national and
international affairs is much to be desired.
In such cases as the Hillstrom
case the murdered man's family is generally
lost sight of entirely in a
flood of sentimentalism for the culprit.
You have administered a decided
tonic to such a condition.

Yours truly,
E Shorrock

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