Semi-weekly herald., 1908-10-22

The Durango Democrat which claims
to be the mouthpiece and organ of the
nominees of the Democratic party of
LIE Plata county in its issue of Sunday
morning, October 1S, 1908, contained
an article which for barefaced living.
contemplate Misrepresentation and
villainous expression outdid all of the
former efforts of that sheet to assas.
sinate the character of good men, In
the tone of the whining hypocrite 1t
is, 1t proceeded to charge Mr.. j. W.
Morgan. Ranublinan non,i.-->--- Co.. 49,
iff with being a deliberate party to
the theft of nine head of cattle on or
about the last of August, 1907. If this
were true, the morning Democrat has
been guilty of wrong against the
people for 1t knew these things a year
a6p and remained silent. If there is
;sny truth in the assertion, the district
attorney suppressed the crime deliber-
ately. If these things are true the
sheriff of La Plata county is parti-
Seps ..criminis in the condoning of a
felony
If these things are not true then
an outrageous and shameful wrong
has been committed by the Democrat,
aided and abetted by the office of the
district attorney and George w. Lane,
the Democratic candidate for that Of
fee and by John Clarke the Democrat
ic candidate for sheriff. We assert
without any fear of contradiction that
this wrong has been perpetrated by
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mocracy and aided and abetted by the
roster of candidates of that party for
public office in allowing Dave Day to
pose as their spokesman, to advise the
voters of this county in and about
their duties in the coming election.
Txs, Democrat talks with a hypo-
critical whine about this boy, Charles
Sumner Nichols, being lead into
crime" and says that his mother,
Mrs. Nichols, will entreat the people
of this county to vote and work
against the man who she alleges
brought about the downfall of her boy
/ and to work and vote for a man whose
whole course of conduct has been alb
solutely honest, impartial and fear
less, and who has never in the slight.
est contributed to the ruin of a fellow
man; this, Of course refers in the
first instance to Mr.. John w. Morgan
the Republican nominee for sheriff
and in the second instance 20 John
Clarke, the Democratic nominee, who
is its good man. This Charles Sumner
Nichols was an old offender against
the law and known cattle thief be
fore he came to be known in the trans
action mentioned by the Democrat
and In the affidavit of Nichols which
appeared in the Democrat. JohI
Clarke, the Democratic sheriff of thi
county made himself a party to thi
matter in the summer of 1907, accord
ing to the sworn affidavit of the moth
er of Nichols which appears In this is
sue. He made himself party to tn
transaction on the 27th day of August
1907, when for reasons best known t
himself he induced the making. alon
with Ge district attorney. of the a
Adavit OF Nichols which the Democra
publishes. n
George W. Lane was a party t
wrong and crime because he was del
Vuty district attorney. and because h
knew that this affidavit charging Grim
~ against Wood & Morgan was in tn
possession of the district attorney
office, and yet he used the facts
blackmail and collect money off {
Wood & Morgan by reason of the fa'
that they had unknowingly and u
Willingly bought cattle of cattle thi'
and in no manner knew that the ca
tie were stolen. cattle which the
paid for twice. the first time unkno'
ingly and unwittingly buying the
from atheif, and the second time b
eauss hs could not escape the leg