The daily sentinel., 1906-11-03
CALM STATEMENT
OF THE FACTS

This article is not addressed ia
those Republicans and Democrats who
never vote anything but the straight
ticket. no matter who the nominee
may he, but rather to the great mass
of independent voters, who today.
more than ever, hold the balance of
power In county, state and national
elections.
The last few years have witnessed
the most wonderful changes in poll
tics which we have ever witnessed.
Folk of Missouri. johnson of Minnea-
polls, Jerome of New York, Weaver
of Philadelphia. and many others.
Republicans and Democrats alike
have lifted city and county govern
ments out of the slime of corruption.
have glorified politics, and have driv-
en- grafters and bribers to cover or
have placed them behind the bars.
and made them feel the force of pub
lie opinion. The result has been that
public business has been better con-
Quoted, the public conscience has been
awakened, and the great political
parties have been made to realize
as never before that NO MAN AT
WHOM THE FINGER OF SUSPIC-
ION HAS BEEN POINTED HAS ANY
RIGHT TO ASPIRE TO ANY PO-
LITICAL OFFICE.
In the face of so great and so uni
versal an awakening IL is n matter of
intense regret that the Republican
party of Mesa County has in some in
explicable way, had forced upon it a
nominee for county clerk and record
er, who, on several occasions. has
been tried in public life. and has on
many occasions been found wanting.
To those who have been residents of
Mesa county for the past ) or 6 years
the mere mention of Reuben Starr
will recall the arrest. trial, convic-
tion and sentence of the man on the
charge of bribery; also the fact that
the case was appealed and reversed
for reasons which no one but law
yer can understand, and that it was
sent back to the District court for re-
trial. but for some reason or other it
never came up again.
AND THE CHURCHMEN WILL
TELL YOU HOW THIS SAME MAN.
WHEN A MEMBER OF THE CITY
COUNCIL OF GRAND JUNCTION,
KEPT THE SALOONS CLOSED FOR
THREE WEEKS BECAUSE HE HAD
| THE CONTROLLING VOTE, AND
HOW AT THE END OF THAT TIME
AFTER HE HAD BLED THE LIQ-
UOR MEN. HE FINALLY BROKE
THE DEAD LOCK AND THE LIQ-
UOR MEN OBTAINED THEIR Ii
CENSES. ASK THESE MEN AND
THEY WILL NOT BE SLOW IN
TELLING YOU.
NOW LISTEN YOU INDEPEND-
ENA VOTER. This article is writ
ten with malice toward none. but
/ oh ngft 70 nj 10 ~ n
Democratic nor a Republican fight.
1t is not a personal warfare. nor is
| It a mudslinging contest. But 1t is
fight for purity and cleanliness in
politics, and for that decency the
love of which has made Theodore
Roosevelt the most beloved man in
America. What we have told you
above stands on the records of the
clerk of the district court in Grand
Junction, in letters so large that he
who runs may read" And If 1t is true
and It is true. then no man with such
record has a right to ask you to ele-
vate him to a position of honor and
trust. after having been found un-
faithful in the smaller things. AND
IF THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH DE
CENT MEN AND WOMEN IN MESA
COUNTY to express that same opin-
ion on election day and to register
their disapproval, against those lead
ers in the party who prostituted the
confidence in them by the rank and
file of the party and nominated man
of no executive ability. we want the
state and the nation to know it.
And you can show this approval
by voting for A. n. Buclklin for this
important office, not because he is a
Democrat, for this Is not n matter
of party but because he is able. be
cause in his sixteen years of bust
ness in Mesa County his character has
been above reproach, his record flaw
less and lastly because this is a fight
for decency and clean men in office.
WILLIAM WEISER,
Chairman