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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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January 10, 1916

Mr. E. Sherrock

Northwest Trust & Safe Depost CO., Seattle, Washington.

My dear Sir:-

I trust you will accept this tardy acknowledgment of your cordial letter of November 19th. commendutory of my action in the Hillstrom case. I have been so busily occupied with other matters that my mail has been neglected

It is a source of gratification to me to hear from the good citizens of this country who are loyal to the institutions of goverment. The time is rapidly approaching in this country and steps must be takenby all good citizens to put an end to the growth of the anarchistic organzations which are growing up with no other object in view than the overthrow of our government. The campaign for the release of this murdere inspireed the sending to me of upwards of thirty thousand letters most of which were threatening in character and many of which were vila and vicious.

Again thanking you and with the conpliments of the season, I am

Cordially Yours,

Governor.

539 Locust Avenue [return] Philadelphia [return] Nov. 19th 1915 [return] [return]

Governor [Spry?] [return] Salt Lake City [return] Sir! [return] Admiration for [return] your stand toward [return] [Marherigton?] in the [return] Hillstrom case [impelr?] [return] the writer to proffer [return] congratulations on [return] your attitude as fearlessly expressed [return] The position taken by [return] you is absolutely correct [return] interference from [return] the source in question [return] unwarranted and [return] you deserve commendation [return] and this all [return] good, right-minded [illegible] [return] should, and doubtless [return] do, extend to you [return] Respectfully, [return] Edward A. Sohott

January 7, 1916 [return] Mr. Edward A. Sohott [return] 539 Locust Avenue [return] Philadelphia, Pa [return] [return]

My dear Sir:- [return] I trust you will accept this tardy acknowledgement [return] of your cordial letter of November 19th, conveying [return] an expression of your approval of my action in [return] handling the somewhat notorious Hillstrom case. It is [return] a source of gratification to me to know that the right-thinking [return] people of the country uphold us in our handling [return] of this case. After the experience in connection [return] with the vicious propaganda on behalf of Hillstrom, I [return] am very thoroughly convinced that the time has arrived [return] when those who are interested in the welfare of our institutions [return] of government must take a firm stand against [return] the organizations which are springing up through-out [return] the country with no other object than the overthrow of [return] our government. [return] Again thanking you and with kind personal regards, [return] I am [return][return]

Cordially yours, [return][return]

Governor.

Nov 19. 1915 Governor Spry, Salt Lake City, Utah. Sir:- I am one of those twentieth century cranks opposed to capital punishment. Regarding it as a relic of barbarism. - but I must say that the Presidents attitude and action in the case you have just had under consideration makes a parody out of law and justice. The present administration, representing a party so keen to assert the [might?] of the state, seems to have gone into the business of [?] the [?] and its affairs in the ethical