The daily sentinel., 1907-03-27

viii be illegal for Mr. Wentworth,
the candidate for mayor. to occupy
the position Of mayor and street com
missioner at the same time The vot-
er8 need not fear In the least on that
score. The Wood bill provides that
any two offices OF the city may he
united if deemed eXpedient. The ar
rangement whereby the mayor will
give his whole time and attention
to the city government, has met such
a hearty approval from the people
that the Republican leaders are do
ing everything possible to offset the
proposition. Don't let yourself be
misled by any statement that Mr..
Wentworth cannot devote his whole
I time and attention TO the duties of
the city.
Mr.. Ella really didn't want the
nomination for mayor on the Repub
llcan ticket. Mr.. Price says he is n
noa-partisan, which we hardly think
Mr.. Ella will deny, therefore. the old
appeal to stand pat for "one of us"
Will hardly be good in the .peresent
= election. 1t is a sort of reflection up
on the Republican party that. 1t had
| to go outside OF its ranks to secure
available timber for the mayoralty.
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! j. IL. wentworth, modest, unas-
suming, yet man of particularly
larfge ideas and business ability, has
always enjoyed the largest amount
of respect from every citizen of Grand
| Junction with whom he has been
brought in contnet When connect
ed with the railways entering this
city, he was beloved by all his sub
ordinates. because of his large ca
pacity which at no time became ir-
| rtable, when working in conjunc-
! tton with them. Grand Junction may
feel herself most fortunate indeed in
having had Mr.. Wentworth consent
to accept the nomination of the Dem
oeratic party.s
! The more the people examine the
4 personnel of the Democratic ticket,
the more they feel that the entire
i ticket should be elected. 1t is real
ly most representative ticket
throughout.
\ Some people believe that the Office
OF treasurer OF the city is a sinecure.
In this they are mistaken. There
Is considerable work attached to the
Office and we believe that no more
capable man could be selected to fiji
that position than Frank H. Haskell
) Mr. Haskell Is a property owner in
the city aside from his home and he
is concerned in having the office well
administered, as any other good citi-
zen should be.
= 1.
/ The announcement is made that
the greatest OF the government pros
I eutors. of Illegal entries to lands of
7 the government, has arrived in Dem
yer and viii make that the headquar-
fnW FaT s.T fs..a
= thorough Investigations of land
frauds, in the west, has stirred up n
? great amount OF interest. 1t is to
3 he hoped that he will not overlook
the manner in which some preferred
: taVorites of the government were
permitted TO enter the lands of the
; ! uintah reservation and select one
hundred claims of the best elaterite
. lands. which should properly have
: been opened to entry so that the poor
= man might have had his chance. We
/ believe that thorough investigation
lof those entries Will open one of the
q greatest scandals in the government
land bureau. In the interest of the
whole country it should be investl-
: gated
one of the men who has a large
amount of work to do, in connection
4 with the maintaining the very amic-
able relations that have existed with
the railroads by the Brotherhood of
! Locomotive Engiueers of the Rio
1 Grande system, has been Mr.. Matt
Flynn, the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party for alderman in the
second ward. Mr.. Flynn, in his po-
sition of travelling engineer has beeen
brought into close relations with
men of large calibre and has had to
take positions in behalf of men,
which tended to enlarge his capacity
as thinker and student of condi-