La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1904-12-28
WEDNESDAY. DEC. %. 1904.


bership. and several other hard
names Of late. but the editor Of the
Manzanola Sun goes the limit when
he calls US a supposedly Republi-
can editor" That's tough. espec-
tally when we remember that q
number Of subscribers stopped the
paper" last fall just because we
advocated Republican principles =
little too strongly to suit them.
We have been a Republican al
ways. probably because we were
born that way. and have never
been showed" any good reason for
being anything else. We never had
TO be hired TO be a Republican or to
boost Republican candidates. never
asked for q political favor or a piece
of political pie" which is a great
deal more than some Of the alleged
simon pure Republican editors Of
this county can truthfully say. We
are not q Republican for revenue
only. as some Of the alleged Repub-
lican editors we know Of seem to be,
but we are in the newspaper busi-
ness for revenue only. and we don't
care who knows it. We are after
all the business we can get state.
county. municipal and personal.
without regard to race. color. poll
tics or previous condition of servi-
tude. and we try our best to give
value received.
The ManzanOla editor doubts our
Republicanism because we published
a prophecy Of the Democratic
county chairman to the effect that
''the Democratic county ticket
will be elected by majorities ranging
from $50 to 1000. and Mr.. Pearce
predicts Mr.. Stems majority at the
latter figure" The rural editor
then goes on to say that this latter
quotation coming As it did from .
supposedly Republican editor and
being placed in a position alongside
Of puff for the Republican candi-
date for the legislature is plainly
significant. Plainly significant of
what? The most significant thing
about it is the fact that Ben Pearce
is a mighty poor political prophet.
We published the prophecy As an
item Of news. just as we did n
prophecy of the Republican county
chairman. There was nothing more
significant in the item than there
would be in chronicling the fact that
John Smith went to Manzanola to
visit the freaks in the dime
museum"
Perhaps "the Republican candi-
date" has visited the Manzanola
editor and confided his suspicious
about our Republicanism. He came
to see US in La Junta during the
campaign and about the first OBJ
servation he made was that he
doubted whether even some Of the
leading Republican candidates on
the ticket were going to vote for
him. The Manzanola candidate was
suspicious Of La Junta people before
the election. and now that it is all
over he is suspicious about the
election in La Junta being on
the square. Had the Manzanola
candidate made the least effort in
his own behalf he would have been
elected by a good majority. He was
a comparative stranger II, the
county. yet he made no effort to get
acquainted until . week before
election. II is entirely his own fault
that he was not elected. Consider
ing the fact that his opponent b m
old resident Of Otero county and
. well-known and capable man. the
race the Manxanola candidate made
was one Of the most surpsihing
things Of the campaign.
As to the "frauds" in La Junta We
do not believe there were any nprs
frauds hee0 - Glsetioa ~ I'm
there were IN tie lase Sanday SeAool
election IN tie PFssbyterian church.
We visited evssyoae II tAe 6ve pre-
cincts in La Juata haH . duosn times
while tie esuntiag q ~ w. -
in peuRruD snd II ~ - nytAing
that evsn Deoked sUpieigO. nese
were psuAahly . ~ ssE1n1enl e.
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