The Greeley tribune., 1904-04-28
A Political Promise Kept.
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would endeavor TO conduct the affairs
of the office in manner commend
able to himself and TO the people
who gave him the place.
70 the taxpayers OF Weld county
Nj. Adams submits his report OF his
acts and doings by way Of comparison
with what his predecessors have
done. Now listen:
Beginning with the year 1894 and
) ending with the year 1901 the total
receipts of the office under the four
county clerks for those eight years
was $50, 506 90. The whole surplus
TUNED over in that time by the
clerks to the county treasurer was
81. 776 g5
Mr. Adams says he told George
Robie tcat if he was elected he
would make himself equal to four Of
said ordinary men that had usually
mad the ofiice and George has twice
insisted that it must be done. The
promise has been made good and
one better
The salaries paid TO the county
| clerks anove which was net to them
was s22, 500. During the years 1902
and 1908 under the administration Of
Mr.. Adams his office receipts were
$40 7l9. go and he has turned over the
sum of 50. l76 50 to the county treas
urer, which went to the credit o. the
general fund OF the taxpayers Of this
county and has saved them from
being taxed just that amount. So it
sums up in a nutshell that the four
county clerks preceding Adams took
in $50, SOC 90 and received their salar-
les, S22, 500. 90. and turned over to
the county treasurer their surplus,
81, 776. 95. In Adams two years he
took in sic, 1l9. 60: his salary was
81, 72O, and for it in two years he has
earned and turned over to the county
treasurer So, l76. 80, against his pre-
decessors who were paid s22, 500 for
earning the taxpayers 4,776.95 in
eight years.
Why is it that Adams has earned
the taxpayers s4O0O4 more IN two
years than his four predecessors have
earned in eight years?
Answer is that Adams submits
the proposition that he Is IA self
and not a machine man and that he
has taken his Office out OF the in.
fernal machine and de6es IT.. he
has placed the Office upon business
basis and will know no man in his
business, and business result has
followed, Zone man is usually the
machine. What has the machine
done? Well, it has decreed that the
county clerks of'ce is a one term
of1ce, and that the machine must
offer 1t for sale every two years.
The machine DEGREES that certain
ones must have the Offices and 1t says
to the taxpayers that the Offices must
be distribut ted, and the taxpayer says,
"Yes, that's so;' and the taxpayer
and machine man 20 hand in hand
regardless Of qualifications, character
or habits. Only when the rxrty has
lost control viii = demand be made
for good and qualified candidates,
which candidates after q period Of
excellent service have built up and
made the party strong and have
created tyrant to boss again.
The boss has decEeed that Adams
must not have the nomination for an
other term and II he Is a candidate at
all.his case must be taken upon appeal
from the machine to the people, but
whether be Is re-nominated or not he
will stand to bring the county Offices
from under the pressure Of one-man
machine.
1t is not to build up another ma
chine that Adams is working for.
He SAYS he can see the one mao who
Is the machine at present working to
place himself in the state senate
the state senator as rule passes upon
alt applications for the federal ap.
pointments. he approves and hands
out the candidates that must be
nominated, and he makes the CON.
bine work in such way that what
he says goes.
The recent primaries in Greeley
gave expression to the sentiment, by
the anti-machine ticket electing del.
egates who will line up as follows,
viz:
Against the machioe, 35.
'or the machine, II.
nti-machine Ia one and one.
time. by practically the
d one man. organized anG
rs result. The time to xii
is now, before it becomes tot
'werful by combination OF can
,es brought about through feal
le machine and by its promises