The Delta independent., 1906-03-23
THEY ARE DISGUSTED.
Delta County People are Beginning
to Weary Of "YeIlow Journal
Spasms about Conditions
in County

pretty safe guess that it is on getting
out a newsy newspaper. 1t so happens
that we are pretty well versant with
our abilities in that particular line. As
to 'where we will land" on supporting
this fellow and that we have this to
say.
AS far as supporting Mr.. Gets we
have no doubt in our own mind but
what the people of Delta County are
about as we'll satisfied with him and
with the general conduction of the Of
fee as with anyone who has served for
the past few years. Because few
disgruntled ones take occasion to at
tempt to turn the feelings of the peo-
ple. no criterion is established that anv
grating" has been existing in the
county. Mr.. Gets may have been in
discreet in some ways. We all are and
see our mistakes afterward. Because
the county purchased an Oliver tvpe-
writer from the local agent. and that
agent was Mr.. Gets. and because thev
Maid to him the regular price they would
have paid to any other agent, $107.5o
(wide carriage.) there are some papers
in the county that think they are
"springing" something by making
slurring remarks about it and intimat-
ing rake off," The county is out
nothing. A local man makes commits
Esisss--Fst~this,isSssls-DsetsesAass sAass
paid this money to a Denver firm and
managed to get the whole of the one
hundred and seven dollars out of the
county. No. you say? Why, sure the
Laborer and the Booster both played
sore head about it and thought it was
all wrong. Now a lot of newspapers
publish rubbish about graft" and "ter-
rible conditions and bunch more of
woe. A paper at Hotchkiss likens Del
ia County conditions to that OF Conejos
Nice talk, isn't it. Good thing to send
such TRADE out to the eastern people.
Suppose Delta County has been the
means of throwing some business deals
to f. NJ. Gets. Suppose it has. And
then just stop and think whether Mr..
Gets has ever neglected his duty. Has
he ever refused to drop his work and do
something for the county. Has he not.
to the best of his ability, worked hard
to put this county onto cash basis?
And hasn't he succeeded? You can bet
your bottom dollar he has.
Well then, why, in the judgment of
the voters of Delta County (not the pa
pers) should he not receive at least due
thanks for this? Is it right, is it the
act of true citizenship, to put man
into an office that every man knows is
hard to fill, and because that man so
placed has done what he thinks and
knows to be just and right, to vilify
him and throw mud and throw stones,
figuratively.
Have there been any big bridge con-
tract dealings that have not been hand
led with business like sagacity? Have
there been any big road contracts that
have appeared shadowy? Has any for
eign corporation or company been able
to work the county for an unwarranted
expense? No, there has been nothing
like this. But all because E. NJ. Gets,
county commissioner, has turned some
of the county business to his firm, be-
cause he has done just what you and
and every single blessed man of US
would do if we were in like position,
then, for this, he must be attacked and
jeered upon and called a ''grafter" and
implied thief. It's sickening. It's
babyish. It's weak. It's like the bab-
bling of youngsters and the tricks of
unscrupulous would-be public favor cur
rishness. Cut it out. Forget 1t. Wait
till something happens that amounts
to something. Don't embroil whole