Delta chief., 1884-01-02
From ..rhe Lost Charlie Ross.-

llttle insight INTO whose personal history Dy
way of explanation may prove of interest to
some of your readers. From the best can
learn of this literary nursling he halls from
the good old State of California, where he
was once in the enjoyment of national rep
utation as editor of a journal which influence
ed to great extent the politics of the nation.
He came to Colorado a few years back for his
health, where he led the life of gypsy until
the Ute reservation was thrown open for set
tlement, when he came hither and settled in
the valley of the North Fork, where he may
may be found in the capacity of mediator for
"Uucle Enos," who, as he claims, was un-
Justly and reentlessly assailed in an article
which appeared in THE CHIEF II few weeks
ago over the signature of ''rhe Lost Charlie
Ross" 1t will be seen from the above that
two Rosses have met and differed, one an eX
editor and the other the veritable Lost
Charlie" unless we suffer ourselves TO be led
astray by the evidence of such nincompoops
as Ed. Malone and Jack Shepperd. would
have replied to the ey-editor's obnoxious mis-
sive this had | not been paral lyzed, as it
were, after n cureful reading and digestion of
its erroneous assertions, by one shock after
another of the most intense and eXcruciating
pains, which seemed to permeate the most in
tricate interstices of the abdominal regions
the sit iation, happy realization of the true
inwardness of my disease at once dawned up
on me, and flew to that "boon to man"
known the world over as Parker's Ginger
Tonic, the use of one bottle of which has
made me able to attempt what | hope will
suffice as reply to the statements made by
my Jeffersonian friend over the way. In
making his debut upon the literary stage in
Delta county the ex-editor spreads himself
out in Short" winded article which pur-
ports to be an answer to the Lost Charlie"
on the political situation, but in reality it
amounts to nothing more than a thorough
ventilation of ones venom, whose mental
calibre is so contracted that he is wholly in
capable of viewing things from other than a
mere prejudiced standpoint of view. My OBJ
ect OF giving my views on the inward work
ngs of the first political campaign of Delta
was not done with view OF antagonizing
anyone for their course of action therein, but
to simply give to the best of my Judgment the
facts as near as possible upon subject that
commends itself to every patriotic citizen of
Delta county.
In comparing my article and its purported
reply, it will be seen that the ex-editor and
are not at all at variance as to our opinions of
the manner in which the Democrats conducted
their campaign, but simply with regard to
the manner in which criticised the actions
of some of their political "bosses' over whose
backs passed the sinch and buckled il un-
derneath. knew some one would. seek to
refute some, if not all of my statements, and
it was to be hoped that in so doing that those
in whom so much latent literary talent had
been aroused, would contine themselves to the
issues at stake, and not divcrge from the sub
ject altogether, and subject themselves TO be
guilty of the folly of wasting their time and
stationary in painting and polishing up the
profile of ones political character, u thor
ough knowledge Of which is as pat in the
minds of the people Of Delta county as the
history of the battle of Bunker Hill.
While the writer hereof is personally ac-
quainted with "Uncle Enos," the subject of
my friends first epistle, thaving shared his
hospitality under his roof and know him
to be an efficient officer, an upright citizen in
every sense of the word, good provider,
model husband and kind father. | can't for
the life of me that his course of action
during the progress of the late political strug-
gle was in the least calculated to inculcatc or
instill into the minds of even his most ardent
admirers the belief that he is altogether such
an embodiment of purity and virtue as my
would-be literary communication over the way
would have us believe. In selecting delegates
to convention it is a time -honored custom to
select from each and every community one or
more of the most worthy citizens to act in
that capacity, ons who knows his duty and
dare do the right'under all circumstances. one
who is thoroughly capable of judging to
merits and demerits of candidate and last
but not least, one who when he has assisted
in the nomination of n man for an Office has
got the stamina and manliness about him to
assisting his constituents in the election of
such candidate. Was this the principle upon
which the Democrats over the way acted in
selecting delegates to the convention held on
on the 18th of October? If so, will simply
| say that any such effort on their part was
abortive, and will present in vcrfcation of
my assertion the actions of that emblematical
retinue on the occasion referred to above. If
! mistake not these very delegates with one
accord stood up in that convention and
pledged their support to the ticket that they
had helped to nominate, and am confident
that the pledge was not extorted from them
through any compulsory means, but was
freely given by all by way of carrying out
programme previously arranged. If | mis-
take not the name of one of those dignitaries
was "Uncle Enos," whose actions, while act.
ing in that capacity, went so far toward un-
fitting him in the minds of many for the office
which he sought, and to which he would have
been elected had he practiced in the outcome
what he preached in the outset. The time
was when not only the Democrats of this end
of the county but fair per cent of the Re-
publicans, were of one accord as 10 the cleo
ton of "Uncle ,Enos" as one of our commits.
sioners, from the fact that he has done much
toward the development Of the county's re-
sources, was an early settler and one of the
largest property owners in the county but
if we are to "judge a tree by the fruit 1t
brings forth" and take ones course of action
as pri,na facie evidence of his compatibility,
we would with every degree of truthfulness
say that had he lived in the days of Judas
Iscariot he would have cheated that Scriptur-
al celebrity out of all the renOwn he ever
achieved through the betrayal of the Saviour,
his handsome majorities on the North Fork