The daily sentinel., 1909-03-13

Inc lamp OF religion and the lion
oil politics would not lie down to-
gether In a peaceful manner.
The lion. in the person of E. M.
siocomb. is roaring loudly all over
the city.
He don't like the ticket Just one
little bit. He says that the head
OF it don't represent that for which
the ticket was created=a fight
against the saloons.
You may quote me as saying that
~ not vote for James H. Lee.
shall vote for Mayor j. r. Went
worth for mayor. because he is the
best mayor Grand Junction ever
had"
Then Mr.. Slocomb launched out in
bitter denunciation of the ticket be-
cause it was not representative in
its head for that for which he was
working.
Said he:
James II. Lee never spent cent
or an hour in furthering the cause
NJ prohibition. l worked all day yes
terday to have the committee select
a man who had been identified with
the prohibition movement. You know
that Mr.. Lee has not spent a cent nor
devoted an hour to the forwarding OF
the movement for prohibition"
This was repeated several times by
Hr. Slocomb
That Mr.. Slocomb was sore-very
sore-over the selection of the head
of the anti-saloon ticket was unmis-
taxable. He made no bones about
it, Mr.. Slocomb never does. when
he thinks a thing. Any man can
find out very quickly where he stands
upon almost any matter.
There was no enthusiasm what
ever at the announcement of a por-
tion of the ticket in the Yellow this
RnnrpinO 1t aT
that it was weak ticket. For eight
or ten nights the ministers. the mem
bers of the Good Citizenship League
and several of the back numbers in
politics have gathered together (not
many of hem-perhaps ten or twelve
as an average) and we We're told
that ticket was to be produced that
would simply paralyze all opposition
Talk about perspiring over the
making up of ticket.--it has been
done by the other side. They could
only find men to run on their ticket
after the very hardest kind of work.
They solicited men by the dozen to
permit their names to go on the tick
et but were met by refusal after
refusal. The telephone was worked
for all it was worth in calling up
man after man.
And then the. platform. Was not
that let down for James w. BucH-
lin and f. M. Socomb? 1t simply
let them fall (figuratively) from an
eighth-story window. All the wiles
and smiles that Mr. Bucklin could
produce would not make them an
chor a plank of their platform with
any sort of charter plan.
1t was slap right between the
eyes of Mr.. Bucklin that he hardly
deserved, after having had the char
ter organ make such statements that
no one could consistently vote for
prohibition without voting for the
charter.
Abandoned is the correct word to
use to signify the manner in which
the Chamber of Commerce and now
the Good Citizenship League have
thrown overheard Mr.. Bucklin and
Mr.. Slocomb on the charter proposi-
tion.
There is fire all along the line.
Mr. House and Mr.. Rankin. the two
gentlemen who are the whole thing
in the Y. M. C. A., seem to be the
only active people for the new ticket
And. speaking of Mr.. House, 1T
does seem strange that he, who is the
head OF an organization that invites
support from everybody, should be
such rank antagonist for the one
ticket.
How does Mr.. House reason that he
has any more right to spend the time
and the money of the people In work
ing for one ticket more than another
so long as neither platform has de-
clared in favor of the saloons? IL is
his right, of course, to support ev-