The Greeley tribune., 1906-08-02

and editorial manager has Slipped MS
democratic moorings and taken TO
the high political seas as an 'inde-
pendent voter" At its best the
Tribune has been weak sister in
the democratic camp the past five
years, and even then its support had
to be paid for in coin. Wolfe has
no use for the people. He is willing
to sell his columns to any monopoly
or trust that thinks them of sufficient
Importance to purchase. The hum
BILE citizen at his best can only do
nate 80 year for subscription, but
the sugar company is good for many
dollars in job printing; the Colorado
Telephone company has frank to
hand to its hired men. But as a rule
your socalled independent voter
is but another name for mercenary.
pig-headed fellow, or one who has
an ak to grind. In all probability
the Tribune will be arrayed against
any candidate on either ticket who
fails to pay the price, and its pre-
tense of being for the people in a
political campaign is the rankest
effort of grating sheet.
The idea of Wolfe or Hansen ad-
vocating political Independence
causes the Greeleyites to grin.
Windsor Poudre Valley.
1t takes all sorts of people to
make world. Some of each kind
are in the newspaper business.
The above editorial from recent
issue of the Windsor Poudre Valley
is given space, not because it con-
tains anything new or startling, but
as showing what a newspaper man
may expect who attempts to give the
public square deal, and assert bit
of independence in matters politi-
cal. So long as the paper fights on
partisan lines, it is easy for the one
hit to retort and lay 1t to PARTISAN
ship. What else could you expect
from democratic paper?'' or,
What else could you hope from
him? He's republican. These
make nice easy answers to any attack
on grafters who run politics. But
the minute you slip your partisan
moorings and assert a bit of politi-
cal independence. admitting good
where it exists and fighting evil
wherever it appears, you have the
grafters of both parties at your
throat. They can no longer meet
your charges with the cry of parti-
sanship, and are up against it, un-
less they can lay your attitude to
mercenary motives.
Let it be said right here that the
Tribune is democratic. The writer
of this department owns to one
grandparent from Virginia, one from
Kentucky, one from North Carolina
and another from Egypt in Illinois,
while his own boyhood was spent so
close to Mason and Dixon's line that
he could jump across it. His demo
cracy comes pretty straight; and so
long as he presides over the destinies
of the Greeley Tribune it is rather
apt to have a decided democratic
leaning; one that will leave no in
terested person in doubt as to what
party it belongs to. But it is not
necessary to be d--n fool to be a
democrat, though some people are
both. What the Tribune is fighting
just now is graft. 1t is rampant in
both parties, and everybody with a
lick of sense knows it. When any
newspaper or any politician fights
against an honest effort to uncover
graft and to educate the Independent
voter and inform the people along
independent lines you can just bet
he is bit OF a CRATER himself and
Is afraid for his own little snap.
Please note what the Poudre VAL
ley man says about the independent
voter. whom he designates as ''but
another name for mercenary, pig
headed fellow, or one who has an ak
to grind"
This young man is supposed to re-
present the democratic party in
Weld county, or at least that is what
he Is hired to do. 1t is not to his
discredit that he is so hired, as l
shall show at another time, but II
this Is his line of argument l must
question the, good Judgment of his
clients. Where would the demo-
cratic party of Weld county be If it
were not for this same ''pig headed,
mercenary" independent voter
With several hundred votes to the
good, the republican party in this
county has everything its own way
Just as long as II hehayes itself and