Bent County register., 1886-10-09
THE STATE TICKET.


will please everybody entitled to be
called a republican and who has an
attachment for southern Colorado
and its people. The south this year
captures the two principal offices,
and the whole ticket is excellent.
We can now carry Pueblo county
with an Increased majority; and it
is ticket that will help the cause in
every part of the state. Merit, not
money, is the handspring of repub.
lican action in Colorado.
William III. Meyers, the republican
candidate for governor of the cen
tennial state, was born in Hanover,
Germany, in lS41. He received an
excellent education in one of the
best schools of his native country.
When fifteen years old he came to
America and stopped in the city of
St. Louis. Remaining there but a
short time, he came to Colorado and
settled at the tox of San Luis, in
Costilla county, which has since
been his home. San Luis is the
comfy seat, and is sixteen miles
sputh Va ioit Oll lIlt west
ern slope of the Sangre de Christie
range. MIR. Meyer has devoted him
self to the cattle business, with va
rying success. Last winter he lost
heavily of his herds, and he is by no
means rich man. His partner, Mr..
Nathan, is a Hebrew. His wife is a
Mexican, and this seems the strong
est charge his political enemies have
been able to bring against him.
Mrs Meyer is and always has been
his wife, however, in every sense of
the word, so that his faithfulness as
a man and a husband will do him
credit rather than hurt him in rep
utation. Mr.. Meyer has been a
member of the territorial and state
legislatures, and his public career is
too well known to need rehearsal.
He Is quiet, careful man, and
makes no mistakes. He is not at all
brilliant, but will make just as good
a governor as if he were.
n. III. Meldrum, nominee for lieut.
enant governor, is the present secre-
tary of state He is a native of
Livingstone county, New York, and
made fine record as soldier in
the union army. He came to Colo
RADIO at the close of the war, and
then to Wyoming, where he served
the young town of Cheyenne rs its
first treasurer. Afterwards remov-
ing to Larimer county, Colorado, he
tried to conduct the cattle business,
but has not been allowed to do much
at that, as he is such excellent TIM
Der for the public service that the
people have had him working for
them most of the time, in the terri
torial and state legislatures. and in
state Offices. He is good for four
years more. Mr.. Medium will
greatly strengthen the ticket.
Peter Breene, of Leadville, the
amiable Irishman and successful
miner, has hammered his wav not
only into the hard mountains but in
to the harder hearts of the people.
Once there, he come to STAY. His
conduct as lieutenant governor has
caused some to remark that perhaps
he ought to have changed places
with Mr.. Eaton. He has been tried,
and can be trusted as the state treas
urer.
Judge G. G. Symes has served the
whole state as congressman, and
not Denver alone. That is the
crucial test of congressman, and
for that alone we like him, even if
he We're not the manly man, the tai
ented lawyer, the faithful and pains
taking servant of the people, the
fine public speaker, that he is. Col
orado will send him back to wage
another war for silver and protec-
tive tariff
James Rice is-well, this is a Pu-
eblo paper, and as printers INK costs
money we do not like to waste it.
The Chieftain, if it We're not for its
well known difidence and shy tim
idity, might say something about
first "bringing out" Mr.. Rice as
candidate, but perhaps its Just as
well not to. The captain will carry
Pueblo county by almost as big a
majority as Billy Meyer will re.
ceive in Costilla and Conejos, and
that is saying good deal.
The Colorado convention has done
nobly.-Pueblo ChIeftain.
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