The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1906-09-08
REPUBLICAN
RESULT DOUBTFUL
CANDIDATES GUESSING
Sheivalty Contest is the Warmest
With That of Clerk About as
Fierce - Interesting Struggle
For Treasurer Nomination.

In a number of years there has not
been such contest for control of
the delegates to the Republican con
vention, as there has been the past
week and especially today.
The factions supporting each can
didate have been making hard fight
and it is anybody's fight yet The
big five" temporarily are down and
out and they are laying low and will
bide their time to get in their work at
the convention.
Some people believe that the fight
for the clerkship in between Jack
Gallupe and George Caldwell. while
some shake their heads and say that
Rube Starr will show much more
strength than he is given credit for
on the day of the convention. Not
much is heard of Leslie's candidacy
and w. c. McCurdy is playing a very
quiet game of politics. He has quite
some following in the country. which
may pull considerable of the town
strength before Monday.
The big fight is on the sherin's Of
flee. 1t is practically a Cotrell-Hardy
fight, although some think that Bert
Stroud and DR.. Craig will have look
in. But neither Craig nor Stroud are
very popular in their own baliwicks
and 1t is hard to get the delegates
from other sections to enthuse. when
there is little loyalty at home.
The fight for delegates at the pri-
maries this afternoon has been a
hard one for sheriff especially. Cot
rell men claip that he is in the lead.
but the Hardy men do not concede
this for one moment
Referring back to the clerkship
nomination, Caldwell has the back
ing of Clerk John Mann and "A whole
lot of Republicans think that he
should have kept out of the fight. as
he has had all that was coming to
him, without attempting to dictate
the nominee for the office to succeed
himself. Some contend that if Cald-
wei. is named that it will keep the
old gang in the clerks Office that has
been there so long. The Republicans
say that they want change and this
may initiate against Caldwell's can
didacy.
The fight for the treasurership
nomination is merry one. j. A.
McCulloch is an out and out candi-
date for the position Those who
are backing him say that he will have
more than a look-in His only OPP
ponent George J. d. Williams thinks
that the persimmon is already his.
but then there are undercurrents that
Mr.. Williams has not fathomed. They
are using the third term proposition
against his candidacy pretty heavily.
The Fruita delegation is somewhat
mixed on the treasurership. 1t isl
there that Mr.. Williams claims his
home, but some of the Fruita people
are apt to repudiate this claim.
What strength Mr.. McCulloch has
secured in the very short time that
he has been out, it is comparatively
hard to compute to base any judg-
ment upon.
The Republicans are not making
promises, but are thinking well, es-
pecially upon what the big FIVE" has
always attempted to do to control
the convention. There may and there
may not be some big surprises. it sole
ly depends. how some very sugary
promises to the aspiring ones, will
hold water.
There is still one more contingency
to the nomination for sheriff, which
must not be overlooked. Convey isl
out and he is working some strings
which he hopes may cause lightning
to strike him. He is with the Mann
Steele-Caldwell outfit for the clerk
ship and that bunch would like toI
land Caldwell for the cerkship and
Convey for the sheriff's office. But
then there comes j. F. Brink. a stall
wart who has ever supported his
party and to whom the party owes
something. He is working hard and
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