The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., May 10, 1922, Image 1

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EVERYBODY READS THE ENTERPRISE—EVEN IF THEY BORROW IT!
I Founded In ISW by Col. I
| W. F. Cody ("Buffalo I
9 Bill") and Col. Peake. I
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 40
R. C. TRUEBLOOD IS ELECTED MAYOR BY AN UNPRECEDENTED MAJORITY
SAMMY GIRLS LAUNCH GAMPAIGM FOR
BUFFALO BILL SIATUE BY MRS. HARRY
PAYNE WHITNEY, FAMOUS SCULPTOR
Take off your hats to the Sammy
<Girls of Cody!
The Sammy Giris are the first to
launch th© campaign for funds for the
Buffalo Bill Memoibti which is to be
a statue made by that famous Ameri
can woman sculptor, Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney of New York.
They have done this upon their
own initiative without any outside
prompting, and. too. the girls of our
own Home Town should be given all
credit for starting something which
may soon become a nation-wide move
ment.
It is very fitting that the fund for
the memorial to the country’s best
known American should be started
by the Sammy Girls of Cody since
the society itself was organized by
the Colonel's daughter, Inna Cody
•Garlow.
These girls will put the first money
in the treasury toward the great Buf
falo Bill statue which Mrs. Whitney
may be relied upon to make. Their
ball given at the Temple Theatre,
16, with music furnished by the Mel
’Ody Boys of Billings, will be the first
COBY PARSON JOLTS
SAINT ANO SINNER
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Minister Flays Local Churches
For Derelictions—Says Love
Not Law Must Bring Reform
By W. C. H.
Declaring that iho churcbee of Co
•djr were undrr tt.u curse of God be
au use th:* ¥>mght their oun selfish
ends instead of furthering the cause
of Jesus Christ, and that Christian
charity and not law must redeem hu
manity, Rev. A. M. Shepperd of the
First Presbyterian Church of Cody
stripped the sham and pretense from
those who posed as the religious lead-1
era of the community in a powerful
sermon delivered from his pulpit last
■Sunday morning.
Rev. Shepperd had advertised his
subject as “Why the Curse of God
Rests Upon the Churches of Cody” i
and a large congiegation listened at ■
tentiveiy as the minister hurled his j
verbal bombs into the camps of the ,
sleepers. Few escaped the broad
sides fired in their direction, yet those
were practically unanimous
ih tbeir agreement that the funda
mentals of the minister's attacks
were in the main just.
Lawt Inadequate
to Redeem Mankind
Law, as a substitute for the Chris
tian fundamentals, is ineffective to
redeem mankind, said Rev. Shepperd.
*“Law with all Its heavy penalties
makes no man good and is daily vio
lated.
“Knowledge of law through trans
gression or education gives power to
evade ite consequences.
“Law. inoperative for lack of exe
cution is worse than none because
the public conscience becomes athro
phiod.
“The gospel wins men by love;
guards the rights of others; protects
the weak; gives power over sin and
evil habits.
“With these thoughts in mini
which is best: a campaign to put
bootleggers in jail or to convert them?
A law against social evil or to create
In people clean hearts?
“The law says make a good citizen
■out of a man. The church says.
“Make a good Christian out of him
and his citizenship wll take care of
itself.”
Must Win Sinner’s
Regard to Save Him
“Why don't the Christian people,
instead of eternally quarrelling with
(Continued on Page 5)
Resign, Messrs. Hayden and Johnson--
The People of Cody Do Not Want You!
dfie Cody Enterprise
CODY, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING—GATEWAY TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
of a series of entertainment for this
purpose. •
Their object is something worth
while, and it is for every person who
finds it possible to do so to turn and
help them. They are paying $l6O for
the music alone so. all public-spirited
citizens must go down in their jeans
for the price of a ticket.
This statue will mean more to Cody
than is yet realized. It will bring
tourists who might otherwise use ano
ther of the Park entrances It will
’je a mecca for the thousands of hero
worshippers throughout the world to
whom the Colonel was the typical
American It will attract others
purely as a work of art.
The Buffalo Bill statue by Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney will, beyond
question, be one of the biggest things
that Cody may ever hope to have,
but, like everything else worth while,
it will have to be worked for and it
behooves everyone interested in the
town’s welfare to do their part In this
man’s sizen undertaking.
The Sammy Girls Club consists of
the following members:
CODY‘BAD MAN’
COMMITS SUICIDE
I ,
Ed Pritchett Shoots Himself in
Temple—Too Many
Women.
|
Ed Prichett, wlio formerly lived In
Cody, committed suicide in Billinas
on Tuesday night by shooting himself
in the temple.
Pritchett was continually in trou
ble during his residence here and was
looked upon as a bully who was apt
sometime to bump into the wrong
person.
The news that he died by his own
i hand comes as a surprse to the com
munity.
The Billings. Gaw“e gives the fol
lowing account of the suicide:
"In the same room In which Frank
(Capt.) Jones and a woman known as
1 Winnie LeCiaire were found shot to
■ death about two years ago. S. E. Prit
i dhett took bis own life by shooting
I himself In the right temple with an
. automatic pistol shortly after mid
night Tuesday morning.
“Pritchett was about 30 years old.
He was a railroader but had been un
employed alll winter. The eternal
triangle is believed by the authorities
to have had some bearing on the case.
Pritchett’s wtte. Jeanette, was in the
house when he fired the fatal shot.
There was another woman, it was un
derstood. and things came to the point
where Pritchett’s wife told him to
choose between them.
“According to the story obtained by
the Investigators, Pritchett told Jean
ette that he chose her, but announced
that he was going to leave them both.
This was In the early part of the eve
ning. and Pritchett left the house. As
ter a time his wife went to look for
him. but was unable to find him. She
returned to the house and found that
he was there. He was In an unusual
ly kindly and considerate mood, con
versed pleasantly and made his wife
a lemonade. But he told her that he
was going away, and hinted mysteri
ously that he wasn’t going to take any
thing with him. Then he went into a
bedroom, and was in there a consid
erable time before his wife heard the
■ report of a pistol. The shot was al
most Instantly effective.
W. I* Simpson received sad news
on Wednesday in the form of a tele
gram telling of the death of his mo
. ther In California. Mr. Simpson de
-1 parted on the Wednesday noon train
for California.
AND THE PARK COUNTY ENTERPRISE
Conservative Citizens, Tired Os Fanatical Reformers. Ask Re
turn To Normal By Casting Biggest Vote Ever Polled
In Cody At Tuesday's Municipal Election.
The municipal election on Tuesday 1
when Dr. R. C. Trueblood was elected
to the office of mayor by the biggest'
vote ever polled in Cody was an his
toric affair.
It was a battle between the normal,
conservative citizens of Cody and the
fanatical reformers and extremists
who have controlled the town for the
past year.
Tired of petty tyrany and persecu
tion, sick of character assasins, the
people of Cody were animated by
something of the spirit which filled
the French when they set their jaws
and said: “They shall not pass.”
So the thought in every heart and
mind of those who supported Dr. (
Trueblood on Tuesday last was.
“They shall not win!” It showed it
self in the dogged, grim determina
tion seen on every face and the
gleam of battle which shone in the (
eyes of those who have been disgust- ,
ed with the conditions which
have prevailed for a year in
this naturally law-abiding, friendly.
Western town.
The sick got out of their beds;
cripples, people who never had vot
ed before, went to the polls to ex
press themselves and their wishes
and they did so with an emphasis
which should be a lesson to those who
have made Cody a laughing-stock to
the outside world for twelve months
and more.
Every cheap, dishonest, shyster
trick that could be thought of was
used by the reformers to defeat De.
Trueblood who represents the real
business men and the sane, normal,
well-balanced citizens of the town.
The City Clerk. Ernest Shaw, hid
in the armory from about one o'clock
in the afternoon until sometime in
the night, on Monday, locked in and
guarded by Captai Clarence Williams
of Troop F, 'o that no order could be
made upon him as Town Clerk by W. i
L. Simpson. District Court Commis
sioner, to place upon the ballots the
names of W. T. Hogg and H. W.
Thurston for councilmen, whose cer
tificates had been filed in his office.
The margin of the official ballot
was cut off so that it was smaller
than the sample ballot for the quite
obvious purpose of leaving too little
space for the names of these council
men to be written in.
Paul Greever, the city attorney and i
one of the leaders of the reformers,
advised the judges of election to dis
franchise approximately 200 voters
who voted for Trueblood and wrote
the names of these councilmen in the
small margin that was left.
E. J. Goppert, the head of the
American Legion here and an aspir
ant for the office of County Attorney
this fall, intimidated voters, threat
ening to throw them in jail if they at
tempted to vote.
A woman, with three children de
pendent upon her was told she would
lose her job if she voted for True
blood. She voted for Trueblood.
Men who have taken up homesteads
and were therefore not eligible, werei
told they could get by if they voted ■
for Cox, etc., etc.
Yet in spite of these things and
t~. • 57 vot * at precinct No. 2 were
thrown out upon the advice of Greev
er and Goppert, Dr. Trueblood was
elected by a vote of nearly two to
one, the full vote being 357 to 184.
The judges who followed the ad
vice of this pair and thus disfran ,
chlsed 57 citizens of this town, were
Mrs. E. J. Goppert and Charles Mars-1
ton.
The judges in precinct No. 1 re-1
fused to disfranchise the voters who |
Grecvcr Instructs Fudges Contrary To Law
Section 2654 of the 1920 Compiled Statutes of Wyoming Pro
vides :
"When a ballot is sufficiently plain to gather therefrom
the voter’s intention as to one or more of the candidates, it
shall be the duty of the judges of election to count the same to
the extent to which the voter’s intention may be so gathered,
notwithstanding the failure of the voter to mark his ballot
strictly in accordance to the instructions.”
In defiance of the above, City Attorney Paul Greever, wilfully
or ignorantly, instructed the judges of election in both precincts
that it was their duty to throw out, as entirely invalid, all ballots
containing any votes except for Mayor, thereby attempting to dis
franchise almost 200 citizens of this town who voted for Dr. True
blood.
j had placed the names of Messrs.
. Hogg and Thurston upon the ballots.
These two judges of election were
Mrs. H. C. Sanborn and Major E. S.
j Hoopes. They refused in spite of the
I desperate efforts of Mrs. Minnie Wil
i Hams, who was also a judge, to have
! these votes thrown out.
I Mrs. Williams furnished a very
• good illustration of how rediculous a
CODY’S NEXT MAYOR
j woman in an official postion may make
herself. The Co-operative Party
which Dr. Trueblood headed, would
I j want no better vote-getter than Mrs.
Williams who brought them dozens
t i of votes by her methods. She chal-
I lenged the vote of a woman who has
( | been a resident 'for 26 years, voters
, as well known as Billy O’Neil, Bert
: Wilson, and young men and women •
1 who were born here.
, In this connection, the same may
be said of Marjory Ross and E. J.
Goppert. The Cooperative Party
strongly endorses Mrs. Williams,'
Miss Ross and E. J. Goppert as cam-
. paign managers and leaders, and
, would be sorry indeed to see them re
tire or their activities curtailed.
It is now for Messrs. Johnson and
i Hayden to resign and save expensive
• litigation. The people of Cody have
| said in no uncertain terms that they!
do not want these two persons upon
the council any longer. If they are
the public-spirited citizens they pre
tend to be they will do so and end
the controversy.
Almost two hundred voters have
said they have had plenty of Hayden
and Johnson and it would seem that
that should be enough.
If they wish, however, to place
themselves in the absurd and undig
nified position of fighting to hold a
job for whch they receive no pay and j
contrary to the wishes of an over
whelming majority of the people, let
them hop to it and the contest wii
1 be carried into court.
The votes polled in the two pre
j cincts were recorded as follows:
PRECINCT NO. 1.
For Mayo*:
Trueblood 228
Cox
' For Counclmen:
Hogg and Thurston 137
PRECINCT NO. 2.
For Mayor:
i Cox 88
i Trueblood (allowed) 72
i Trueblood (thrown out) 57
I For Councilmen:
Hogg and Thurston 57
WEDNESDAY. MAY ,10, 1922
John Tanner Champ
At Whisker-Growing
Some time since the editor cf the
Greybull Standard demanded to know :
what was the use of champions.
The dase of John Tanner of Bright-1
on. Michigan is an excellent answer
to the question. If Mr. Tanner, who j
is 84, had not aspired to do some one '
thing better than his neighbors he
won’ ■ never have gotten his name in
the papers all over the country as it
is at present.
Mr. Tanner’s talent ran to growing
whiskers. He cultivated it, *and his
whiskers, until he is now recognized
and heralded as the long whiskered
champion of the world, having long
since outclassed all local amateurs.
His beard measures exactly nine;
feet from chin to tip. Ordinarily, Mr.
Tanner controls it by thrusting the
end inside the band of his trousers.
More than fifty years ago when Mr.
Tanner’s beard was only tow or three
feet long, he decided to seek the cham
pionship. To this end he braided his
beard and tucked it inside hs vest.
The whiskers soon attained propor
tions making the braiding impractic-'
able.
Ten years ago Mr. Tanner’s beard
was six feet long. Five years ago two
feet more had been added and now it
measures nine. The owner hopes to
; attain a growth of 12 feet.
Gov. Robert D. Carey announced
i his candidacy this week for re-nom
! ination in the primaries. He will
I run upon his record and in a long
letter to the voters gves his reasons
I for believing that he should be re
' elected. His opponent, as already
announced, will be John W. Hay of
, Rock Springs.
As Seen From The WerWagon
Jjlroline
Presidential elections are tame af
fairs compared to the municipal elec
tion of last Tuesday.
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E. J. Goppert laments that one bun- 1
dred persons who promised to votej
j for Cox lied to him. Mr. Cox’s popu-1
lar and efficient campaign masnager:
is too conservative in his figures, i
there were about two hundred and
twenty-five.
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“Where do you live when in Cody?”j
Mrs. Minnie Williams demanded of
Pontoon Johnny when he lined up in
' precinct No. 1 to cast his ballot on
Tuesday.
“Here,” Johnny replied promptly.
The voting place was the town cal-
I aboose.
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The reformers are proclaiming that
Dr. Trueblood was elected by sheep
herders and bootleggers. This is the
first knowledge we have had that so
large a number of citizens —357 —w’ere
engaged in these occupations.
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Miss "Majority” Ross will soon be
known as Miss “Minority” Ross if her
political defeats continue.
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A voter who was employed 45 miles
up the North Fork, tied his team to a
bush beside the road and caught a ride
to town to vote for Dr. Trueblood.
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<Ve deem it an honor to be guyed
by the Boston Transcript, but, drat
’em! why don’t they mention our
name? The following—which bears
the car-marks of June Little—has
been going the rounds of the Eastern
papers: *
THE EFFICIENT REPORTER |
The Boston Transcript says it found
t this in a Wyoming newspaper, a sort
of echo, as it were, of the old frontier
days, when inquisitiveness, even on
j the part of a reporter wasn’t consid
ered polite:
"A. C. Newton returned from some
where last week. He had been there
‘ several weeks, wherever it was.”
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There was a salesman in town last
j week trying to sell Jim Corder radio
equipment to furnish music for hl*
picture shows.
"You just turn it on an] you can
hear concerts In Denver,” urged the
agent. '
The policy of this paper ie
to uphold the standards
and perpetuate the spirit
of the old West.
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ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY
RADIO SETS WITHIN
EVERYBODY'S REACH
3
Equipment Costs From $25 To
S2OO-Greatest Craze In His
tory Is Sweeping Country.
Local radio fans who are keeping
up with the news in the latest craze
which is sweeping the country, state
that a good radio receiving outfit may
be purchased for less than S2OO and
as low as $25.
IT one intends installing radio equip
ment it is best to write to some reli
able manufacturer of radio instru
ments or necessary information can
Ibe given by members of the Radio
Club in Cody which is composed ot
young men now conversant with these
matters.
New w’ords are coming into the
language with the use of this wonder
ful discovery for practical purposes,
and soon youngsters in knickerbock
ers will be talking casually of broad
casting, inductance, capacity, decre
■ ment. micro-farads, wave-lengths, as
well as volts, amperes and watts.
People have gone radio mad judging
from the way in which the manufac
turers of equipment are swamped
with orders and this within a few
weeks. The demand is as tra.*nend
ous as it is sudden. It seemed to
' break out all at once like an epidemic.
I It is said that a large department
- store In Milwaukee is handling radio
I sets as it would aluminum ware or
; any other commodity, displaying them
a in their window.
Besides the one at the new hotel
F across the river. W. R. Coe will have
f the best equipment obtainable instal
led shortly at one of his ranches.
“It cain’t be done,” Jim is said to
have replied tartly. Jim is from Mis
souri.
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Over in Montana they bite quicker
i than they do in Wyoming.
In Red Lodge recently, a poor but
I worthy widow, anxious to make an
honest living, was about to invest
her frugal savings in a nice, shiny iu-
I dio outfit which, according to the
| salesman, would print ten dollar
bank notes by merely turning th©
handle
The transaction was about to go
through when the authorities stepped
in and arrested the salesman.
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Among the “bums” and "drunken
sots,” “beer guzzlers” and “rum
hounds" opposed to prohibition are
Gov. J. B. A. Robertson of Oklahoma,
. Admiral Benson of the United States
Navy, and Senator James W. Wads
worth of New York.
Admiral Benson said last week In
an interview in Denver:
"The eighteenth amendment to the
federal constitution is the greatest
calamity that ever befell the country,
undermining respect for law, destroy
ing men and women, and making
criminals of people of every class and
age.”
Governor obertson expressed him
self in an Interview in Oklahoma City,
declaring that he was a prohibition
ist before the Volstead act but never
again, although he was still opposed
to the open saloon.
“Enforcement of the prohibition law
is a failure.
“Congress slipped up on the coun
l try’s blind side during the war and put
' this prohibition legislation over.
“Nearly every home In Oklahoma
has its own hootch,” the governor
said.
I "You can get corn whisky in every
j county In the stat .
“You can’t go on a picnic without
some fellow having a load of it oh
his hip.
“ Jails of the counties of the state
are filled with men thrown In for of
fense against the liquor laws.
“Jails which are not full ought to
be.
Most sheriffs and county attorneys
( are trying to enforce the law but peo
pie make It faster than peace officers
can break it.”