La Junta tribune., 1899-03-29
sllMxls MURPHY moaAl,zes.
He Reviews Some Of the Interesting
Things That Have Developed
DurioR the Campaign.

down in our editorial chair and
cooked his feet up on our editorial
desk, "but de next world am a
goin to be bitter disappointment
to some folks cause they don't
have no city elections dere. Dey
will be as much disappointed as
Seeley will be il his ticket amt
elected and he fails to get de emol-
uments and prerequisites dat attach
demselves to de Office OF water
commissioner.
~ doant savy some OF desc peo-
pie. One day in de week dey is
advocatin brotherly love and de
advent OF de brotherhood OF man,
and on de odder six days dey is
workin' on de principle dat if you
doant do your fellow man he will
do you. Now any man what knows
anything knows dat de blokes on
hIt NltlLfHS llthCt Is dIAGhk
and respectable, to say nothing Of
dere well known integrity and bus
mess qualifications for de positions
Tor which dey is aspirin. Yet dis
man Seeley jumped on mede odder
day and told me was IN bad COM
pany and advoca,in' de cause OF de
whiskeyites, de gamblers, de plug
uglies and all de odder off scourins
OF humanity. Now such talk as
dat may be evidence OF Christian
spirit, but it won't help Mr.. See
! ley TO getto be water commissioner.
OATS sure!
ode odder day lady what is
known TO be stiff prohibitionist
comes to me and she says says
she, 'Blinker, want you to tell
me which is de temperance ticket.
Well, told her dat was de biggest
conundrum what ever bad sprung
on me, and I'd have to give it up.
told her dat | didn't tink dere
was much difference so far as de
question of prohibition was mixed
up in it. Elder one OF de candi-
dates when put in dere official po-
sition would have to attach derc
official signatures TO saloon IL
cense, and both OF dem was in ia
vor of maxim de saloons live up to
de law. De only question at stake
is Am | holier den thou.
"She said she thought dat was
de case, and she didn't feel inclin.
ed to have anything TO do wild
neider one o EN-. told her dat
dere was man up in Boulder
what resigned a candidacy on de
law and order ticket cause he
said he couldn't conscientiously
sign saloon license under any
circumstances | admire dat man
for when he is got a principle he
lives up TO il thro thick and thin,
and you can't ge, him to qualify on
de proposition. He don't tell one
man dat he favors saloons from
business standpoint and tell odder
people that he Is dead iorninst EN-
from every standpoint.
"De latest ting what's been
sprung on de public is dat de
TRiEvSE's gone plumb democratic
in supportin' de citizens ticket.
Old man Hess says dat dat ticket
is a democratic scheme for de
emoluments OF official municipele
patronage. Well, il dat's so
where does de odder ticket get off
at. Dere's one good republican
on dat ticket and de rest is popu-
lists. Dis attempt to work ma
tional politics into de city election
shows de desperate tactics de op-
position finds demselves forced to
resort to. II de people wasn't SO
disgustsd wild de free silver issue.
Of which de legislature is a shinin'
exemplify, dey would probably be
tryin' to spring dat racket before
de campaign is over.
"Dat reminds me of what good
republican told me one day lately.
He said annoder good republican
come to him one week ago last