The Greeley tribune., 1907-12-26
Camp Explains himself

Camp Explains himself
Editor Tribune
Having heard a good many com
mehts-not all favorable to me, either
regarding letter OF mine recentS,,
published In tn Weld County Rsnmb
lican. l feel constrained to write arain
on the same subject. NY reason snr
writing this time to the Tribune ia a
fear-caused by comment on NV let.
ter-has entered my mind that may
be so" some might think l intended
to insinuate that the Greeley Tribune
was occupying position of enmlty to
the farmer. My mention of the
Tribune's article was. only to more
| strongly indicate the conditions and
tendencies.
In quoting from the article in cues.
| tion, | was careful to say such was
done from memory. The words used
were my own and gave the Tribune's s
meaning as understood by me.
| feel no soreness" to any of the
Greeley papers. They have ever
treated me fairly In fact | am ar
peace with everybody in Greeley
they are the salt of the earth"-.ex.
cept one party who | thoroughly dis.
like-but that party does not give a
'continentar' how l feel.
! guess | differ with each and every
Greeleyite on some subject. For in
stance, | am the only populist left
here One man-Mr. Browne. the
auctioneer- says he Is one. That is
he told me so privately don't think
he thought ! would repeat it, and
wouldn't If Id thought in time. There
was another, Ogilvy by name, but
he went to Denver to fill populistic
vacancy there. Perhaps he thought
there wasn't room in Greeley for
two.
| differed with very good friend
only yesterday on the hitching post
question. He wished there was not
one in Greeley, and especially none on
Main street. venture to say. remove
them from Main street and put them
on Ninth. that the trade would de
crease on the former and increase on
the latter. In this case the trade
would not follow the flag, but the
posts. | wish also to state that my
letter was not written to stir ami
mostly or to personally criticize. 1t
was to bring before the village of
Greeley in the plainest and most fore
ible manner my limited powers would
permit. an existing condition, and to
warn its people of possible injuries
which might accrue. unless change
or action and demeanor took place.
II is well to observe that | was
right in saying that there was consid-
cradle rural feeling about this condi-
uon. AS far as | know no farmer
has criticized my stand, while many
have manifested appreciation.
understand now there is move
on foot which | am sure will meet
with general favor; which is to estab-
lish market place, where hay and
other products may be located, close
to the business portion of the town.
That is as it should be, and just what
Mr. Farmer Is looking for. But until
that Is accomplished, rather think
no further action will be taken to
prohibit the loads of hay to wait on the
streets for buyers near the vicinity to
which they are accustomed.
The only reason that particular To-
cation has been utilized by the hay
nauiers is that the former nearly vac
ant city hall block had been used and
In consequence both buyers and sell
lers came there to effect meeting.
| am sure. II it was desired those
teamsters would cheerfully occupy
some less public street In the same
locality. For instance. that part of
Ninth avenue north of Seventh street
that is our good friend Tuckerman's $
stamping ground but I'm sure he
would not obiect-fo long habit has
accustomed him to the sensation of
nay seed among his locks. He Is a
farmer yet. in fact.
One argument frequently used by
those who object to hay and hitching
posts is that Denver does not have
them. That is even so: probably
neither does New York. Lordon or
Paris. But 'twere as reasonable to
compare Greeley with Denver as to
compare crossroads store with
Greeley. ] wish to refterate that Gree
ley Is yet village-and farming
village at that and whose sole support
is agriculture direct, and for some
time to come 1t must conform to this
condition and the feeling must be one
OF good will and friendship between
the villager and the farm dweller
Sometime Greeley may be great big
city like Denver. yea even like Chi
cago. and the hitching posts will be all
gone. and the city will have spread
SO far that there won't be any farm.
ing land-except under the Campbell
system-and those farmers will have
starved-and all the erstwhile farm
ers VIII live in town and have auto
mobf1ess-but II that does come 1t
won't make blamed bit of difference
A. l.. Camp Jr.