The daily sentinel., 1908-11-13
SMITH, NOT STARR, LEADS
LOCAL REPUBLICAN TICKET
Attack on The Sentinel Proves Inef-
fective-The accurate" Returns
of the Yellow

of the Yellow.
The paper that will tell any kind
of lie that it thinks will cast dis
credit upon its contemporary or
somebody else that il desires to
| Dlackmail, this morning branded as
a falsehood The Sentinel's statement
last night to the effect that the can
! vass of the county election returns
was made behind closed doors, and
then tried to give the impression that
The Sentinel had cast reflection upon
the characters of the county clerk
and the two justices in charge of the
count.
The Sentinel's statement yesterday
was true. There is nothing to with
draw or retract. Yesterday after
noon about o'clock the city editor
of The Sentinel went into the clerks
office and asked a deputy clerk if the
| official count was still under way.
| The deputy replied that il was. The
deputy was asked If the newspaper
men could get in and she replied Il
don't know whether they will let you
in or not, they are in the district
judges room" The newspaperman
| went to the door of the room. found
| it locked, ratified the knob but IN
vain. He then looked through .he
ed him away and his movement could
have been understood in no other way
than that admission was not To be
granted. The newspaperman re-
turned to the county clerks office
The deputy asked him If he got in,
he replied no, that the door was
ocked. The deputy remarked, well.
didn't know whether they would let
you in or not
~
The Sentinel during the day that
they found the door to the room
where the count was being made
locked.
OF course the Yellow was highly
pleased that The Sentinel man lid not
gain admission SO that he might have
gotten at least part of the official
results. as the Yellow knew that ev-
cry effort would be made to sec That
it received the reports for its col
umns even though the count had not
been completed last night.
Yes, Very "Accurate' Indeed.
A laughable statement in the Yel-
low this morning was this. THE
News table Zone published the morn
ing after election) will be found to
correspond almost absolutely with the
final figures" Then follows a lot OF
rot about the accuracy of the first re-
DOrtS OF t0e news, ETC., etc. NOl
A SINGLE FIGURE AS TO THE MA
ED FOR IN MESA COUNTY AT THE
ELECTION. GIVEN BY THE VEL
Low THE FIRST DAY OR ANY
OTHER DAY AFTER THE ELEC-
TION PROVES TO BE CORRECT.
IN MANY CASES THE "ACCUR-
RATE" SHEET WAS OVER ONE
HUNDRED VOTES DISTANT FROM
THE RIGHT FIGURES. THEY DID
NOT HAVE A SINGLE MAJORITY
FIGURED OUT RIGHT. Yet they
have nerve to court comparison of
their early returns with the official
figures.
Smith Leads the Ticket.
Then the Yellow raises a howl
about the majority of County Clerk
Starr and quotes this from The Sem
tinel of the day after election. THE
reports show that Starr's majority
was less than 400 yet the Yellow de-
clines to give the true facts" The
Yellow had placed Starr's majority
statement the Yellow quotes with
truthfulness. The official figures as
published by the republican county
officials organ today show that Rube
Starts majority is just 500.
Another very accurate" statement
made by the Yellow this morning
was to the effect that Starr has the
largest republican plurality when in
fact N. n. Smith. assessor. has the
largest republican plurality. His
plurality being 441 or . votes larger
than STAIRS. Yes. the Yellow is just
as reliable today as ever.
The Official Figures.
The official count places the most
important pluralities in this county
as follows;
Taft, tR) for president. .... .225
Burger. (R), Cong. .-at-large .S46
Haggott, (R) congressman. sos
Goddard, (R) Justice Sup. Court 1S9
| Helm. (R) justice Sup. Court .S51
| Maxwell, (R) Justice Sup. Court $40
King. (R) justice of Sup. Court 37S
Mcdonald. (R) governor. ...... .196
Craig. (R) Supt. of Schools. 312
Fry. (R) district attorney. ...132
Weiser. Cd representative. . $50
Starr, (R) county clerk. ...... .399
Schrader. Cd sheriff ....... .755
Shores, CD treasurer ...... .SG3
Smith. (R) assessor ...441
Sargent. (R) Supt. of Schools. .291
Fisk, (R) surveyor ...357
Day. (R) coroner 3S0