The Glenwood post., 1909-07-31
Saturday. July 81. 1909.
WHO ARE THE K1CKERs?

wood, Dut the majority OF the people VI
the town are in favor of the policy of
the past administration and with the
present. They want liberal policy
Mayor Drach.
Now, who are the KICKERS? Are
they the people who demand that the
laws be obeyed and that deecncy reign
in Glenwood? In answer, Mr.. Drach
saws "No.' Yet, reasonable conclu-
sions are that he did mean the men and
women of Glenwood who, during the
past, have demanded that the laws be
obeyed and that gambling be eliminat-
ed. The same people are today demand
ing that the laws be obeyed, but our
city government as well as our county
sheriff are either afraid TO act or they
wish to ignore the laws and orders of
the district court. WHICH IS IT.
We believe the officials are not only
afraid to take any action, but they are
willing that gambling shall continue in
spite of the fact that Judge Shumate
has said it must stop.
"There are kickers in the town.
says our mayor. Yes, there are kickers
and as long as gang of officials con
time to ignore the laws of the state and
the demands of decency, there will be
kickers and with every utterance such
as the above by our mayor, their num-
Der will increase "Western liberali-
ty'' may have been all right in the
times of thirty years ago. but decency
is coming to the front in every other
community and will not be smothered
by lawbreakers in Glenwood, even if
our mayor does continue to ignore the
demands of the district court.
"There are kickers," again says the
honorable mayor Yes, the mothers
whose hearts are aching because their
sons are drinking at Glenwood bars;
the mothers whose daughters must be
the object of the disgusting gaze OF
gamblers and tin horns on our streets;
the fathers who have manhood and are
forced to see that they have not the
supporting arm of the city authorities
in their fight against the vice that is
destroying their sons. These are the
"kiekerso referred to by Mayor
Drach.
The mayor could have meant no one
else. for the lawbreakers are satisfied
and laugh a.. the feebleness of the law
in this county and especially in Glen
wood Springs where court orders are
ignored by our mayor and where one
lone man can stand off four officers
and refuse them admission to room
where a stealing system of gambling is
said to exist. He could not have meant
that lawbreakers are the kickers, for
the lawbreakers have everything their
own way in Glenwood and there is no
indication whatever that the city au-
thorities will take one step to stop the
evil that they have been told existed.
Judge Shumate has said "GAM
BLING MUST STOP IN GARFIELD
that effect to Mayor Drach. Is Judge
Shumate one of the KICKERSY He
has demanded that the laws be obeyed.
Others have made the same demands.
Are they all KICKERS, Mr.. Mayor?
Do you mean that law loving, decency
demanding people are KICkERSf Tou
say "No.' Then you must mean the
lawbreakers are kickers. And common
sense teaches that you do not mean the
lawbreakers, but that you mean the
iudge of our district court and the
good men and women of Glenwood who
have called upon the county and city
officers to see that the laws are obeyed.
You have said that you do not care
for the "Roast by the POST Are you
being roasted3H If you are, yoI
and all the other people who sanction,
by inactivity, the breaking of laws,
should be roasted and toasted to n
dark brown. We are not roasting you,
Mr.. Drach, but we are demanding that
you, MAYOR DRACH, do your duty
as mayor of Glenwood Springs and see
that the appointive officers under you
enforce the laws as officials in other
cities enforce them. You are the may
or of Glenwood Springs and as such it
is your sworn duty TO enforce the laws
You took the oath of Office and sworc
before the ever living God that you
would do your duty as Mayor of Glen
wood Springs, and that you would sup
port the constitution and laws OF the
state Of { c-lor,d, Are you doing u