Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-10-28

cry HluinB camp, tidNer5e uahBeious
trails and write up the mines and
scenery.
Johnny Pond, Bert Thomas, NJ. Nc
Farland, Pearl Gilmore and Will Gil
more are among the lower country
visitors unloading apples at Brach-
vogel's today.
1t just amounts to this: Republic
ans simply contribute $3.50
week to the Democratic organ that
has abused them and everybody else
in turn. Some one has to pay the
fiddler
| j. &. Turner was down from tn~
ranch this forenoon hobnobbing with
oI.ier candidates on the Populist tick
ct Mr. Turner used to be an old
| line Democrat, but he is not with the
crowd this time, and will not be for
the reason he knows a change would
be beneficial. There is no use deny
ing the fact that the Populists have a
good ticket in the field. and 1t would
not surprise us If it came in second
in the race the Democrats being dis
tanced.
Herman Schroeder, the next commits
| sioner. came in from Bayfield, last
evening and is conversing with the
Animas Valley people today. We are
sorry all our people will not be able
to meet and converse with Mr.. Schro-
der as few minutes would convince
them of his special fitness for the
place. As his name implies, he is
German, but his tongue is English,
and he fully understands the require
ments of the county in the way OF
keeping expenses down and improy
ing the financial condition.
The county is paying $5 for Crane
bond letter heads, when ii could have
secured as good stock as the banks
of Durango and the business men
use for much less money. 1t is no
concern of the commissioners if The
Herald is willing to print letter heads
at IA loss for the pubic good. And
then to have the organ accuse the
commissioners this morning of allow
ing illegal bills. 1t is no more than
anticipated. The time will come
when each one OF the present board
will regret they ever had anything to
do with the concern, the same as hun
dreds of others. as one and all have
found out to their sorrow
There is car famine in this sec
} tion The Rio Grande Southern
seems to be completely swamped.
The Porter Fuel Co. has pressing or
ders to fill, at the same time the
men at both Hesperus and Porter had
: to quit work yesterday and again to-
: day, owing to lack of cars. The
! output of the mines of the company
: is increasing and the demand for cars
is greater, but of late the road has
: been unable to supply cars to han
: die the product Lumber men along
: the line are making similar com
} plants Some days ago Mr. JeIf. y
wired that he hoped to be able to
supply the deficiency. but he has not
= done so up to date.
grave charge is made agains. me
l commissioners this morning by the
organ of the board-ln that they have
: allowed Illegal bills. The organ be-
r ing on the inside must know, and 1t
} only goes to prove what The Herald
2 has contended right along thai au, Ii
was the case The Herald has sta II
2 ed on several occasions that money
has been expended Illegally Last
January $50 was paid an obscure pub
lica ion for write-up and $l4i was IL
+ legally paid the organ for publishing
= official list of nominations, a bill that
no newspaper In the state of Colorado
outside of Durango ever had the au-
t dacity to present, and La Plata the
only county in the state that would
: recognize such an unjust bill.
The article in another column
wherein Frank Hartman tells why he
t left the Democratic party and is now
l a Republican is worth perusal. Mr..
Hartman has evidently grasped the
situation. He states facts that can
not be disputed. No doubt the. same
convictions are possessed by many
Democrats who. however. lack the
, nerve to make an open declaration
: simply go to the polls and vote as
the new light is breaking in on them.
, No one can question the logic ad-
vanced by Mr. Hartman, and this must
be admitted by Democrats who work
ed with him years ago
The Herald has criticised the board
of commissioners for making the
county pay certain sum towards the
support of the Democratic daily of
this city, but the board received the
unkindest cut of all this morning
when it was tacitly admitted by its
organ that 1t had paid Sheriff Me
CARNEY money Illegally. Now, who
are the responsible parties? Does
not the paper in question know that
the commissioners are? They are
the ones along with their county at
torney. to go over every item, and Il