The daily sentinel., 1905-07-25
"KNOCKER"
Leadville Herald-Demo-
crat Has 1t In For
Grand Junction

The Herald-DcmOcrat of LeadviIle
lends itself in its issue of this morn
ing To the most despicable and unpro-
iessionnl attempt to backcap this
city as Il registration point seen vet
in any newspaper in this or any 9TH
er state.
The jealousy of the HcraId-Dem-
ocrat, however, is well known. and
little store is placed by the foul at
tempt to besmirch the character and
the honesty of the merchants of this
city.
The article in question has the
following headlines: "GRAND
JUNCTION PLANS BIG GRAFT.
THOSE WHO OUTFIT At THE
WESTERN SLOPE METROPOLIS
ARE LIKELY TO PAY FOR THEIR
FIDDLER The body of the arti-
Gle then goes on to state that The
merchants of this city have raised
the prices ON all commodities that
the land-seeker will be likely to need,
If he enters the territory to take up
land.
The particularly devilish part of
the article lies in the statement of
II travelling man, whose tongue seems
to be longer than his Judgment He
stated that he was representing n
Denver house and that his house had
just obtained an order from Grand
junction merchants for seven car
loads of mattresses. On this line of
goods alone the travelling man stated
that the Grand Junction merchants
had raised the price a dollar ON each
mattress, and said that the same mat
tress that could he sold in IeadyiIIe
for So would he sold in this city for
$3.50.
This travelling man should he dis
covered, whoever he may be, and the
order to his house cancelled Instant
er. No such combination has been
formed in this city, and there is no
concerted action to raise the prices
on anything that is sold.
IL would seem that the outside pub
lie must take the average business
man in this city for Consummntc
fool. that he would enter into a COM
pact to rob the travellers into the Uin-
tab reservation. What Grand juno
ton is endeaVoring to become is the
outiitting point PERMANENTLY for
all of the Uintah country. Very fool
ish, indeed, would the merchants of
this city he if they would start such
n movement, because it would re-
bound upon them and ruin the mag
nificent prospect that they have be-
fore them right now.
Those who keep themselves post
ed about the Uintah opening know
that there is giant combination of
some kind determined in its efforts
to restrain those who would profit by
the governments opening of this vast
tract of fine lands
LeadVillc merchants certainly will
not indorse the article in the Herald
Democrat. IL is the privilege of the
paper named above TO endeaVor to
secure for its merchants the trade
that seems to he coming toward this
city; but this effort should be made
in square and honorable manner
and not after the manner adopted by
the Herald-Democrat, which is the
method of the highwayman, the sand
bagger or the professional holdup.
The versatility of the reporter who
furnished that copy to his paper,
which would cast insinuations against
the integrity OF every merchant in
this city, is not to be commended, to
say the least, and if the Herald-Dem-
ocrat desired TO act in IA manner be-
fitting its long career, honorable and
above board in the newspaper field,
all il had to do was to have called
up this city by telephone to the
Chamber of Commerce and had the
foul charges OF conspiracy upon the
part of the merchants of this city de-
MED.
This city has no fight with Lead
Vile The interests of the two towns
are not inimicnl to each other, and
there can seem to he no reason where
of reputable newspaper, upon the
simple statement of II trigger-iawed
disgrace to his profession, should
have been accepted against the certi-
fled statement of the representative
commercial body of this city.
Here and now The Sentinel takes
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