The Glenwood post., 1905-03-18
GRIzzLYS TRY
TO NOMINATE
Annual Farce Comedy puiied Off
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Support Was Bnm
ADJOURNED IN WILD CONFUSION


The circus season opened early in
GlemwuUd this year. the first real per
forming hippolrome making its ap.
pc france at ,ne ruurt huuse ThnrsHuN
evening The Grizzly people turned
ont in convention they said for the
purpose Of nominating "a municipal
ticket There We're II few, just "a very
few, of the ten citizens who 50 kindly
offered some weeks ago to present the
town with a right to Grizzly creek
an electric light plant and water sys
TEN free of charge.
Whoever named that convection
Grizzly must have had the gift ..of
prophe y together with the eternal
fitness of things for it certainly was
fierce. There We're present ON
this auspiciOus occasion three classes
spectators, advocators and agitators
and when the advocators had advocat-
ed and the agitatOrs had agitated for
two hours, the spectators were up
against proposition. They couldn t
decide whether they had attended a
town convention or merely a rehearsal
of THE Kendrick Komic Opera Kom-
pany' with apologies to George ed
niger for his Kut Rates init
The play was seIio- comic we would
judge (although we are not up on op-
eratics and our dramati" critic was
on vacation) with Tom Kendrick and
Bat Lynch as star performers, who
took themselves seriously and every.
body else who took them comically.
The meeting was called to order by
George kendrick aud they made short
work of nominating and electing
chairman. Mr. Kendrick nominated
b 7. Napier and c. C. McKissack
moved that the nominations be closed
Mr.. Napier then awoke to the fact
that he had been deliberately shelved
and he didn hesitate to say so but he
took the situation gracefully as there
was nothing else to do. The chair
man asked the brethren up to the
amen corner and made short speech
known and that he believed Just as
he had always believed on the subject
of municipal ownership of public util-
tiles, but that it was his desire to
make this campaign one of the pro
gress and peace variety and omit all
the bitter personal feelings that have
formerly characterized municipal
elections in Glenwood Springs
A motion being made and carried
that the chairman appoint commit,
tee to draft "A platform, Kendrick,
Edinger and Barnes were assigned to
the task and ordered to report forth.
with. The convention then had a
short recess until the temperance of
Mr. kendrick who read the platform
and before anyone could move its
adoption or make any kind of move,
Mr. kendrick was seized with his an
nual oratorical spasm and the audi
ence realized they were in for a choice
bit of ancient history 1t was clear
that Kendrick wanted to again float
the ship of town on the narrow
confines of Grizzly creek without eth
er ballast or rigging and the conserva-
tives knowing the frail craft would
wreck before being well launched,
gritted their teeth in silence. After
calling the Glenwood Light and Wa
ter company outsiders, leeches,
bloodsuckers, cormorants'' etc, the
wrathy speaker accused Mr.. Napier
of going back on water, or the water
question or something of that sort
and thundered There only one is
sue, and evidently he was not going
to be sidetracked. After haranging
at length on subjects of no interest in
heaven above or the earth beneath
the agitator removed his overcoat and
jumped on the present city council
with both feet and even insinuated
the accused We're not gentlemen, but
the climax was reached with these
words They were bought; they We're
bought No doubt about it. Let
them sue me for criminal libel if they
choose. From Rags to Riches
was amateurish compared with this
tragedy performance.
The chairman, as soon as he got "A
chance, reiterated his desire for peace
and thought it would be good idea
for change to inject little common
sense and politics into the campaign
and voiced the sentiments of the rea-
sonably inclined that we had had a
disturbed peace long enough and the
people were tired of this state of