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The Elk Mountain Pilot
C. T. RAW ALT, Publsher
MRS. FERN’ H ARNOTT. Local Editor
“ Second Clau Matter at the Postoffice at
Ikaated Butte. Colorado
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Advertising rate cards famished on application
GOOD TICKET TO ELECT
For President—ROBERT M. LA FCLLT.TTE
For Vice Piesdent—BURTON K WHEELER
For U. S. Senator. Long Tern-.—ALVA B A [JAMS
For U. S. Senator Short Term—MORP.ISON S1IAFROTH
For Congressman. 4th District—EDWARD T TAYLOR
For Justice of Supreme Court—JAMES H. TELLER
For Governor—WILLIAM E. SW KET
For Lieutenant Governor—STERLING B LACY
For Secretary of State—DUDLEY B. HUMPHREY
For Auditor of State —JULIAN E. HALI.
For State Treasurer—HARRY CASADAY
For Attorney General—WAYNE C. WILLIAMS
For State Supt of Schools—MARY C C BRADFORD
For Regents of the University of Colorado —CLIFFORD
W. MILLS NINA WEISS
For Regent of University of Colorado to fill Vacancy—
CLIFFORD W. MILLS
For Judges of the District Court—THOMAS J BLACK.
STRAUD M. LOGAN
For District Attorney—ADAIR J. HOTCHKISS
For State Senator, 11th D strict—J. S. FERRIS
For Representative—CHARLES H. COWAN
For County Judge—SPRIGG SHACKLEFORD
For County Clerk and Recorder—M. J. SCHMITZ
For County Treasurer—M. B HERRICK
For Sheriff—PAT HANLON
For Assessor—COLUMBUS L. STONE
For Superintendent of Schools—MARGARET M. BAIN
For Coroner—N. J. HYATT
For Surveyor—J. H ROBINSON
For Co. Commissioner. 1st District—FRANK COMSTOCK
For Co. Commissioner, 2d District—L. B. STITZER
PASSENGERS on the train coming into Gunnison one
morning this week wane canvassed as to their choice for
President, The vote resulted six for Coolidge, six for
Davis and eighteen for La Follette. That is about the
right ratio.
OUR readers should make a note of the address to be
delivered next Thursday by Dr. J. S. Ferris. The Klan
issue cannot be dodged. It must be met fearlessly and It
ought to be met thoughtfully. If there is any virtue in
the organization it ought to be made public. If it mates
for racial and religious friction, it should not prosper un
der our form of government Dr. Ferris has the intelli
gence to discuss it fairly and you ought to go and hear
him
THE Montrose Press raga’es itself with the idea that
this editor is greatly put out by having to support Wm
E Sweet for Governor. Well, we have sampled sweeter
bon hons. but how about taking the Ku Klux Morley? Is
he just to your liking? How about Rice Means over
Charley Moynihan? Do you felicitate youreseif on that?
Guess you have troubles enough of your own to overlook
ours We are used to political disappointments. Also we
know how to take advantage of some of them. Sweet
suits us better than any Ku Klux Klansman He does not
hide his misdoings under a mask and night shirt. Also
he has some brains and that is worth something.
APPARENTLY Elsie Robbins Foote, of Glenwood
Springs, has been nominated for State Superintendent of
Schools by the Republicans. If this is true it gives the
people a chance to make a much needed change in State
Superintendents. For so many years that some of us can
not recall when it startad. the people have been com
pelled to choose between Mary C. C Bradford and Kath
arine Craig. The idea seemed to prevail that there were
only two women in the state capable of filling the posi
tion. The idea was erroneous of course, but nevertheless
no others could even get a nomination. It is a sign of
progress when one of them is ditched by an outsider and
perhaps the voters will sidetrack the other
THE Denver Ewpress contains an item to the effect
that the Methodist people have removed Rev. Hi-ght, the
wife murderer from his pastorate at Ina. III. While such
removal will meet with popular approval it might be well
to recall that the Bible cites the fact that one David,
very beloved of God, got enamored of the w'fe of a man
named Uriah: arid he felt so much interested that he de
vised the plan of sending Uriah and his command of 1.000
men into a cull de sac where all would certainly be killed,
so that he might come into the po.«*ses«ion of Mrs. Uriah
There is nothing to indicate that David suffered any in
convenience from this rather drastic action to remove the
husband of a lady he desired and we wonder if the Metho
dist brethren gave this fact due consideration before rath
er hastily taking steps to unfrock their pastor. Sins
having good looking women for the incentive have many
places in scripture and we do not now recall any special
punishments meted out to those who coveted the beauties
of that time. We hope none of our readers will mistake
the meaning of this item We are merely calling atten
tion to a remarkable inconsistency, for at this writing it
looks as if Rev. Hight and his dulcinea were going to have
a lot of trouble.
THOSE people who have done such wonderful work
at cleaning up this county should not lose track of the
fact that there is still important work to be done. You
have beaten the Sullivan contingent to a fare-you-well
in the primary, but the next hard work is to elect Corn
stock and Stitzer Immediately after the primary a coa
lition was formed which seeks to trade Harry Endnetr for
Ralph Little We have never said a word against Mr.
Little, He is a man of splendid character and is entitled
to get all the votes he can—legitimately—(votes obtained
by a demo-rep trade are not legitimate/). Harry Endner
is too good a citizen and too square a man to be traded
by his political associates. We have no hesitancy in
charging that such a trade is being attempted We have
no idea that it will succeed either, for those trades, con
ceived in sin and horn in iniquity, the foul offspring of
chicanery and attempted crimes are never successful. Af
ter the drubbing the Sullhan cohorts received in the pri
mary it was to be supposed that they would try to get
revenge, and revenge in this case means to defeat the peo
ple in thoroughly cleaning up the mess they have made
of County affairs. To do what should be done Comstock
and Stitzer shouTd be elected and given a chance to not
only revise the manner of doing county business, but
delve back into past crimes and try and secure correc
tion of wrongs dona, Recall, if you will, that the Grand
Jury specifically called attention to many diversions of
county money that should be recovered. In so far as that
can be done we may rely on ComKstock and Stitzer to do
Above all we may absolutely rely that nothing of the sort
will be permitted in tha future. To permit the defeated
gang to secure even a partial triumph by defeating one
of the men of your choice is a mistake.
WE SHOULD MAKE CONGRESS GIVE
TS PUBLIC-OWNED WATER POWER
ONE of the strange things of this life is our willing
ness to submit to wrongs at the hands of our own people,
but our refusal to submit to them at the bands of st*an
gers.
For a lifetime the people of the United States have
let the politicians of both old parties deny them their
birthright—cheap electric light and power made from
their matchless rivers.
If the United States had been a colony of a foreign
government and that government had forbidden public
development of our waters, we would have gone to walr
'<>ng ago—by unanimous consent!
A single week of the taxes laid on our cities and our
citizens in the form of exorbitant light and power charges
exceeds a whole year of the taxes complained of by the
men who issued the Declaration of Independence and
fought the Revohtrionary war.
If this country still beionged to Great Britain and
Great I'ntain -hould ha\e given Ontario permission to
1 develop her part of the Niagara and the St. Lawrence
rivers—and if Great Britain had then forbidden America
to develop her part of those rivers for the benefit of the
people, as our politicians have forbidden it —this country
would have blazed with war foam Lake Tahoe to Montauk
Point!
We would stand up and be shot at rather than let
England visit such dscrimination upon us, but we have
permitted little peanut politicians belonging to the Pow
er Trust to visit this upon us for mare than twenty years!
This matter of public development of water power
means more to all the people of this nation than all the
other issues now discussed!
Fob? the housewives of the United States, it means
housekeeping by electricity for something like S4O a year!
Far the farmers it means farming by electricity, as
the Canadian farmers do it.
For the manufacturer, it means manufacturing by
electricity, with power furnished at a fraction of what
the Power Trust now demands—and gets!
The Lord gave US these rivers—these matchless, tire
less, willing servants, but our little politicians—little
cooties on the donkey and the elephant—say we cannot
have the Lord’s gift, for they have promised it to the
Power Trust!
All over Europe the nations are now’ developing
their water power and doing it nationally for the benefit
of the people—and they are borrowing the money with
which to do it right here in the United States FROM
THE VERY BANKERS WHO CALL IT “SOCIALISM” TF
WE PROPOSE TO DO IT
How long—how long will the United States consent
to be the Filipino province of a money-lustful, river
grabbing, politician-purchasing Power Trust?
Let us have a new deal and be at least as progressive
as the moth-eaten kingdoms of the Old World; let us put
upon the scrap pile every Governor and every Senator and
ever Representative that has juggled and dodged and
evaded and equivocated and delayed and crucified th*-
welfare of all our people in this waterpower matter.
If there is just one honest public development advo
cate running for any elective office he is entitled to the
support of all the people, no matter what ticket he is
on.—Washington, D. C.. Herald
THE “NEAREST PAPER” PROVISION
UNDER the above tit’e the current number of the
Inter-Mountain Press exp’ains the cause of the amending
•f the Colorado publication laws in such a manner as to
practically cut off from the non-county eat publisher the
right to demand that legal publications be published in his
paper when the cause of the action was nearest to his pa !
p«r than to any other, and enters into a labored discussion !
of the difficulties which such a law laid upon attorneys |
interested in cases involving titles to properties of va
rious classes, mostly real estate.
The Advertiser has known far a long time the reason
r or the amending of the law so as to make it possible for
the county-seat paper and political party organ to hog the |
legal publication business l n fact the editor of this pa
par knew long before the change was made in the law j
that if certain persons and interests could accomplish it j
that amendment would be put into the publication law’s
At the time the proposed chance had its inception
George Haubrich, who is now one of the editors of the
Inter-Mountain Press, w’as one of the editors of the Weld :
County News and also “business manager” of the Weld ■
County Publishers Association and secretary of the Co'o- i
ado Editorial Association. At a meeting of the Weld i
County Publishers Association held several months befor '
v e meeting of the legislature, Ed Foster, editor of th"
Weld County News and row’ one of the editors of the In
ter-Mountain Press, made the statement that that lav
would have to be changed, for under its provision th* j
small weekly papers were getting most of the legal no |
tices to publish. Mr. Foster was also at that time, as he
is now. state commissioner of immigration and in a po
sition whe<e he could exercise considerable influence on
*he matter in question through his acquaintance with
publishers of other county seat papers
When the succeeding legislature had finished its ses
sions it was found that Mr Foster’s suggestion had been
acted upon and the country weekly, if it received anj fur
ther benefit from publishing legal notices would receive
it. by favor of the public trustee or sheriff and not by le
gal mandate.
Fdt any newspaper publisher with any degree of un- l
derstanding to see how it has happened that he no longer
has the publishing of legal notices pertaining to causes
nearer to his office of publicatim than to any other, no
more need be said. This will be enough to enlighten him
on the value to him of the services of the Colorado Edi
toral Association. And incidentally some Weld County
Ihxblishers may see the why of some things that have hap
pened to their own business.—Ault (Weld Co ), Advertiser '
UP to the hour of closing our editorial page we have
eceived 17 signed votes for President. Of this number
t.he very first was from one of the best democrats in the
-tate. It was for Davis Since then we have not received
a single Davis vote and not one for Coolidge. The fact
wo require signatures probably accounts for the shori
number. How’ever. we. felt as if we wanted the expression
of those who were not afraid to sign their names and
above all we wanted to be sure that tvo or more votes
were not sent in by the same party. The La Follette
vote is in the ratio of 16 to 1, a slogan that reminds us
of old times, and i" our opinion indicates about how the
real sentiment in t* s locality stands We have*no doubt
that La Follette wil carry this county Part of the vote
like our own is for him because it offers the best char.ce
of getting Bryan elected Pre ident With us it is any
thing to beat icy Cal.
THERE being no Republican state ticket this yea"
makes it easy sledding for the democrat*. Lu”kily they
>ave nominated a good ticket, Wt had better all vote
the Democratic State and County t cket.
(Continued from ptg« one.)
personally knew it to be false. But it was an easy way
i r.et \otes for his candidate. Naturally but a small per
en age of th° ; eop'e pe onaHy know candidates. The
ho est man is nc ined to believe vvhat he bears. When
therefo r e. such a chare eis made to arouse prejudice, it
is effective Eut is it honest? is it good Amcricanfsm?
If members f tre Klan doubt that pol ticians are
using its membership in thi< way. thev should count the
r ncos of pol tica’ office-hcl veins and party politicians in
•hrir mid c t. These men l ave b en in politics for years,
i ut have only just disco ere 1 that the Government is in
and that they a’< ne an save it
Th? De la ation of Ind r, i enderce declares “that all
men are cieat? d equal” a d that “Governments derive
th.'ir iust powons from the con ent of the governed.”
1 imo nde lare 1 his e've nment “was conceived in
; berty and dedicated to the pnposition that all men are
cete l equal” a d that th : a is “a geverrment of the neo-
I by th- p aple a-d f r the people,” not by a part of
* people for all <th rs.
The preamble to t’e C r naritution declares it ; s or
:ia;ned te **es ablish justic°” end “irs re domestic tran
quility.'*
!>• vou aod I b lieve in ;h:se d clarations, or are we
oirg to repudiate them?
C nt. ast the d clnLation> of the-e primal truths
.vh c*h are org nic in < ur Government v.ith a Government
adm n'stered by «e retly cl osen officia’s of a secret or
_>a zatir n \ hich by ts d cla atiors ai d acts bar m 11! ns
f c t zens from i‘s memb-i'h p—men and women who
ovv this r o mm nt an ' obey its laws as yo’ ard Ido
The Corst : tution pives the right to vote and to hold
1 T'c" to everv na’ velorn man and woman. It forbids
e! g uus >ua i' cat i ns to I old office. It guar free
d m nf • epg aus wor Jvp. freedom of speech arid a free
p ess.
* re not th**?*' rights utterly defeated if you and I oi
a y o:g ni at 'n of ' itizens deprive others of choosing
üb ,: c officials ami oc ude h m from office because of
their religious belief?
W i l W; for -u h rea*<on deny to men and women who
>en- eir sons tr » eath upon the battle-fields of France
bo » ijgh to cFrose pub’ic officials and to hold public of
( ? V II we de*y these < ighri to veterans who served
«r r c u tf ry ard fou ht its batt’es in tie late war? Those
h - burred her tcs arid witches at the stake thought
‘hemso!' e< to he Christians and patriots. But the men
Phil, BUI and Bob
An Informal snapshot of Senator Robert M. LuKolleite, Progressive can
didate for President, on the right, his son, Phil LaFolIette, on the left and
W. T. Rawlelgh, the well-known manufacturer of Freeport, 111., a life-long
friend of Senntor LaFolIette. The snap was taken on the porch of the La-
Follette farm, near Madison, at a recent visit home by the presidential
candidate. Phil, who was recently married, lives on the farm. He was also
recently elected district attorney of Dane county without opposition.
Mary Succeeds
on Main Street
By LAURA MILLER
©. 1»2». by I
THE UPSIDE DOWN FLYER
Cyle Horchem’a letter head pulls
your eye instantly over to the left
hand margin. There ln small blue let
ters Is this:
FEATURING
SUlA'hi
UAUIQ OpjsdQ
After you’ve puzzled that out, you
go on and discover on the right and
left margins other astonishing legends,
such as “Has Flown Approximately
800,000 Miles," or “Performing on
Trapeze *2,000 Feet in the Air,” and
gradually your eyes come to rest on
“If Done in the Air We Do It,” with
the conviction that Mrs. Horchem
must have been learning these things
since before airplanes were Invented.
Then you. discover—lf you’re as
lucky as I was—the picture of an un
deniably pretty girl, who Isn't the
least bit modest about the date of her
birth. She discovered America, via
Ransom, Kan., ln March, 1899. Sines
then she’s found time to get an edu
cation ln Portland and Seattle. For
business success she’s come back to
the same country. Horchem’s Aerial
■hows have headquarters ln Wichita.
But Mrs. Horchem explains that sha
has to be on the road pretty contin
ually—by which I take it she means
ln the sky I —so she gives her “home
folks’ aldress” at Unnsom, Just like
a girl who never goes even to the
county teat.
In a letter written In July she told
me that she had Just made a new
woman's altitude record of 16,399 feet
while flying nt St. Louis on July 5.
She’s been ln commercial aviation
feur years, parachute Jumping two
years. (Somehow that simple record
of a year or two years to learn one
new form of control over herself and
her machine gives one a thrill of
realization of the hugeness of euch
victory.)
As a regular Job, Mrs. Horchem spe
cializes on carrying passengers com
mercially. The last half year has
kept her at this work very steadily.
On her present notch stick of achieve
ment she has chosen to keep the rec
ord of miles flown. Counting from
January, 1923, she Is aiming to make
20,000 miles before winter shuts down
•n he- loh of nerlal taxi driver
day, I chanced to pass,
* b’'"\ • u'pis damming a river.
Aik! a man who had run out of gas, I
Was doing the Fame to his flivver. |
wno wrote religious and political liberty into our Con.
stitution thought otherwise.
You and I 'W.- a duty to this community, to oilmelvee
a 1 to our fanr, i s. to declare on the farm, in our offices,
store . banks and on the stre ts the right of every citizen
o have and enjoy arid exercise the privileges which the
Co sti'ution guarjant es By so doing, we can remove
r.cb r f the bit emess and resentment that is being
f ned into flam c ..
If we h”v ; itrl’e tual and moral cour; ge, we will do
. e will act anr’ 9-eak pub’icly as we think privately.
I we do this, men and women of this community can
« u ard ass:> ia e t g*>ti.er in Fusin'as. socially and po
l tcaTy with a mutual iaspect and confidence that is a
vitally necessary part of the life of this Nation
P. S.—r Since w riting this lettenj, Cal. Philip Van Cise
of Denver, attempted to rdd’ess a meeting at the Audi
t-'-rum on Judge Mori'v and the Courts.
Cok Van Cise is District Attorney of Denver.
He L rn able, fearless ar.d honest public official*.
He has enforced the law against bunco steerers,
crooks, grafters anti b otle gers.
He is a veteran officer of the Wrirfld War, with a
splendid record of overseas ervice.
Every man on fiis official staff is an overseas veteran.
H H a one bur An d per cent American.
He was not prrmittdd to deliver his address and was
re\ented from his documents and evidence.
The m t n vas t red i' to a mob by the supporters
fM* Means and Judge Morley. It was an un-American
nb attempt to suppress free (peech and the open pub
re d ?:cU3sion of a public question.
Tt w’a- t’ e lire fruit of a secret organization taking
art in public affairs.
* • ~ 1 11 ■
, EXPRESS YOUR OPINION
In my op nion
;s the man we should support and I shall vote for him.
Signed
A legal voter.
Vote will be announced next week following this
coupon.
INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
We read an article last week on
*h»s subject by a teacher at Western
State College, and we confess our dis
•""ointment Higher ideals were to
•>» expected coming from such a
source If we may Fium up the writ
’s view in a few words, it amounts
o *h»« When the ceases to func
-1; or functions imperfectly thru
° ’Aguiar channels in any commu
*ri»v, private individuals or orcaniza
’■onr may intervene and supersede
H-* r, i-ular channels of law enforce
ment—taking the matter into their
v.n hands. This, we think, follows
n-ressarHy from the principles laid
nvn by the writer And it certainly
a most dangerous position to
a; nme To our mind it would be
1-si-active of richt .over our good
- toenry. unde’mine the foundations
f the Constitution and justify mob
ule. Such teachings coming from a
mrfessor’s chair must have a had ef
fect on students. Lynch law so prev
'■’"tt in some parts, of the country
-nuld he inst'fied by such ii"”'Uments
The invidious distinction made by
the writer—those with American
deals in a community—is unwarrant
1. We would like to remind him
that aM true American ideals are
'■as»d on our Constitution of Liberty
When we appeal to the necessity in
me instances of introducing invis
-1 le or '■Hi per-government for the en
forcement of law, we are seriously
< rider mi nine the principles of our
Constitution The so-called superior
ly of Anglo-Saxon ideals, which some
would have in this country, didn’t np.
teal to our Revolutionary Fathers,
no do they appeal to nny true Amcr
‘ern No, Mr. Writer, don’t lie
■darmed our Constitution and law
will he ndenuntely protected by the
■ gtllar channels set up fo' law en
'• rremenl. We do not need any in l
ine or irresponsible bnnd of med
'Hors.
A CONSTITUTIONALIST.
CIVLL SERVICE EXAMINATION
Tbero will bo hold an ox ami nation
for Clerk in the ounni*>n postofllca
n Oct 18tb. at Gunnison. Colo., and
r u'l information regarding same may
obtained at the Postoffice. Also
•'ppHcnUon bnlnks Mon and woman
i**'' eligible for this examination.
Applications should ho filed early to
inanro attention.
I A subscription to this paper is
I vorth far more than it costs, $2.00
Coming to
Montrose
DR. DORAN
Specialist
in internal medicine for the past
twenty years
OOFS >OT USE THE KMFE
Will Give Free Consultation on
FRIDAY, OCT. 17.
nt
BELA I HERE HOTEL
From Noon to 8 p. ni.
ONE DAY ONLY
I’liey Come Many Allies to See Hint
Dr Doran is a regular graduate in
m.divine and surgery.
He does not operate for chronic ap
pendicit s, gall stones, ulcers of
stomach, goitre, tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit wonderful re
sults in diseases of the stomach, liver,
bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kid
neys, b adder, bed wetting, catarrh,
weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg
j leers and rectal ailments.
I3elow are the name-; of a few of
his many >atisfied patients.
Mr - .. Jack Lawson, Telluride, Cola,
all stones
L K. Gandy. R 2, Castle Rock,
10, catarrh of stomach.
Adolph Laumann. Pox 72, Parks,
X ' n.-rvnus debility.
Mis Andrew Colihan, Eox 12,
ute B. Caihan. Co’o.
H. G Dodds. 102 G So. 2d Ave., Min
onrolis, Minn., goitre
M-s Car.i. F eemeyer. Palisades,
Colo., yall bladder trouble.
II G. G- rdner. Rifle, Colo., ulcer of
h stomach
Mrs. Geo Sie- le 2415 Cedar St„
I ueblo, Colo., leg ulcer.
Remember above date, that consul
tation on this trip will be free and
that his treatment is different.
Married women must be accompa
nied by their husbanda
Ad Iress: 336 Boston B’ock; Minne
oolis. Minn.
DR. T. W. QHIM
DENTIST
i’li.Mic I7N-W GUNNISON, COLO
GEO. A. SHIPLEY
Lawyer
Itlackstoek Block Phone 27»-W
GUNNISON, COLORADO
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Jnut'ee of tli«- Pi are
Ml Bu-i: e-s. Including Collections
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tuneral Director and Embalaer
will Tf anywhere at any time whea
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