North Park union., 1906-11-02
Morse Than Post Ruokshot.

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The UNIONS open fight, for hon
esty and square fight on the prop
osition of North Park becoming a
separate county; something that
nine tenths of the North Parkers
signed petition for, not only two
years ago. but four years ago. also.
and which, Notwithstanding this.
was turned down at the last two
Ssessions of the Colorado Legisla-
ture. through the influence Of one
tenth of our own citizens, led by
VIM. Mari. and backed by the Big
!. Horn Land and Cattle Co., made up
fof Denver capitalists. viz: Paige,
Boettcher & Campion; also backed
by Fort Collins people. who did not
want to lose a fat tax proposition.
which is practically all net to them
because North Park doef not de-
rive any benefit worth mentioning,
raised d howl that will not soon be
forgotten, And because the Union
editor gave X. J. MacCallum an
opportunity to deny his entering .
SECRET DEAL to prevent a bill
coming up in Colorado $ next Legis-
lature. over his signature in this
weeks UNloN, tells what the storm
was about.
Sunday forenoon. the writer was
called in the North Park Bank by
K. J. MacCallum, vice president of
the Bank. who is running on the Re-
publican ticket for County Com
missioner: Ken was mad through
and through, and. no doubt said a
few things, that had he been cooler
headed, he would OF left unsaid:
Here is the gist of what he did say:
What right have you to jump on me
like that. have always been a
friend to you. The writer said to
him. what about the SECRET
DEAL? Ken replied; No man
can accuse, much less prove. that |
ever catered secret deal, and had
it not been for that dirty one horse
paper of yours, no one would have
ever thought of it. Pressing him
further, he continued: never en-
tered any SECRET DEAL, but |
think Mari and Drake did. On
Monday. the editor once more gave
Ken chance to deny the story.
hoping that after he had chance to
analyze my statement. sleep bver it
and become cooler. he would re-
consider. but instead, he reiterated
c statsmen. Of the day before: If
the people of North Park think that
w.v * ne ! world s9e fhsn in hall
before would give them the salts
faction of an answer, over my sig
nature. as you ask in your paper.
| think have few friends left in
the Park who will vote for me, re-
gard!ess of what you say: men who
have known me for twenty years
would not or could not say of me,
what you said in that dirty little
sheet of yours. do not know, but
it appears to me that you have al
lowed others to use you as tool in
an effort to defeat the Republican
ticket by using my name as a CLUB
to whip the party over my head.
You pretend to be man. Is that
your way ofreturning Good for evil?
You are turning down your very
best friends: friends who have been
kind enough to stay with you through
thick and thin: friends who gave you
grub and clothes when you had moth
ing: friends who even gave you a
bed when you were afraid to sleep
in your own; friends who were kind
enough to walk with you on the
street when you were afraid to walk
there alone; and yet you turn them
down like that. You speak about
people that are not fit to associate
with the inhabitants of hell and
about begging for money, (reter-
ring, of course, to my statement