The Glenwood post., 1909-11-13


| Post:
Dear Sir:-On behalf of the general
public and all of your newspaper ex
changes in this and adjoining states,
also personally. ! wish to acknowledge
receipt of your open letter 10 me pub
lished in your paper under date of the
9th instant. Its effect as outside ad
| vcrtising matter needs no comment.
You devote your whole editorial page
in your own defense, complaining at
me over my remarks recently made TO
the Board of Trade committee. and
misrepresent me in every paragraph |
might answer you at length, but it is
not necessary | have no apologies 20
make either for myself or the present
town council in any action so far taken
upon any public matter. | will there
fore reply briefly.
You charge that threatened the
Board of Trade that assistance would
not be given it by the town, unless you
were made to turn your paper accord
ing to my notions.
answer that it is not true, as such
matters are acted upon by the board
ana not by me.
You charge that I made promises and
then violated them.
That is absolutely false
You declared that I violated my of,i
cial oath; and | will answer that if
violated my official oath in any way, so
did every mayor who ever presided over
the destinies of GIenwood Springs.
| ! shall name few of them. viz: Nh.
Schwarz, Mr.. Parkison. Mr.. Dougan,
Mr.. Napier, Mr.. Louis Schwarz, Mr
| Parks, and others previous to these gen
tlcmen all violated their official oath ?
Everything you blame and revile M
for existed in their administrations in
equal and much greater degrees than
now, and number of other things tol-
Grated then that do not exist now, and
yet, did you ever charge either of tho
above mentioned mayors with viola
tion of his official oath.
All the officers of town take the
same form of oath as mayor
Did you not, as town clerk of Glen
wood Springs. take that oath? 1nas-
much AS you demand so much of me.
why did you then, as "A sworn publ,
officer, invoke the law which was the
same as now and through the power of
your office and your newspaper force
| your administration to do that which
| Won curse me for DOING Why were
you silent!
In conclusion, I beg to remind yod
that | am now on my second term as
mayor of Glenwood. The policy of last
year must have suited the people or
and my associates would not have been
elected by increased majorities this
year. The people knew that they were
voting for and the policy is the same
this year as last year.
The highest law to me is. and always
will be the will of the majority as ex-
pressed at the polls by the community
or district which elects me TO ofics:
and if the present policy of admins
tration is wrong you must blame the
people and not me. for we are irving
hard to give them what they voted for.
and have every reason to believe we
IRE succeeding.
Yours truly,
r.. +. DRACH.
The above is Mayor Drach s open
/ letter to the editor of the Post in an
'wer to our communication addressed
to him last week.
lnasmuch as this is an answer which
| does not answer, we shall devote but
| little space to it here
The mayor did not see fit to accep5
| our offer of space in the Post for the
publication of his letter, but we copy
y in full from the Avalanche, believing
that the easiest and surest method OF