La Junta tribune., 1909-04-17
Mccasktlrs Answer to His Political
Enemies.

10 the PeOple oil OterO county.
In giving an account OF a recent
meeting of the Democratic County
Central Committee. called for the
purpose of indorsing candidate for
county commissioner to fill the un-
expired term of the late Matt DAM
her, the Otero County Democrat had
this to say: Democrats call Rep
resentative McCaskill to account for
his vote on the primary bill. w. H.
McCaskill, representative from Otero
county in the lower house, and who
voted for the senate amendments.
was not mentioned in its resolutions,
but he was unqualifiedly condemned
along with all others who have stood
in the way of redemption of the
party's pledges.
have this to say: The whole
scheme to discredit me with the peo-
pie of Otero county was Matched in
Denver, and found willing tools in
the two socialists. Judge A. B. Val
lis. chairman of the Democratic
County Central Committee, and E.
w. Mcdaniel, county Judge, and was
done for the purpose Of turning the
control of the democratic organiza-
tion over to that great troubie-breed-
er, ex-democrat, ex-populist, ex-repub-
lican, ex-socialist, and present Ismael-
lite in politics, T. NJ. Patterson.
In order to do SO, misrepresentation
and downright lieing was resorted to
by the Rocky Mountain News. AS
shall prove. Under date of April Sth,
the following appeared in the News:
"McCaskill, W. H., Otero, wrong on
all tests. McCaskill and Luxen mis-
represent constituencies which are
overwhelmingly in favor of the plat
form pledges. They represent the
machine" These are few of the
measures the News says was
wrong upon: killed the county divi-
sion bill without assistance from "Our
Own Senator" put genuine mutual
guarantee bank bill through the
house in forty minutes after 1t was
read; voted for a good headlight bill;
voted for the initiative and referen-
dem; voted for the straight Austrai-
dan ballot bill; introduced and passed
"a bill putting the Apishapa and fur'
gatoire rivers in Otero county into
water district No. II, a bill that they
have been trying for eight years 10
pass; voted for the county mgh
school bill and aided and assisted IN
shaping the bill so that 1t was satis-
factory to all parties; voted against
the Cary-Ward local option Dill
bill that IL it had become ia"'
would have made It possible to put
saloon in every incorporated town IN
Otero county, and bill in which A.
B. Wallis. the chairman Of the demo
cratic county central committee, was
SO interested In having passed, tha'
he came to Denver and worked for the
bill, and in my rooms at the Adams
Hotel, in the presence of my wife ano
others, urged me to support the OIL
refused, and voted against IT, anu
as it was . pet measure OF the fal-
terson crowd, this was one otner 'a-
son Why l am being lied about In the
NeWB.
l voted for every platform measure
and have the House Journal to sho"
for It, and defy A. B. Walhs oi
that other conspirator. E. w. McDan-
lei. to prove otherwise. ! vo,eu ~ :,
the amended primary bill wnen -
came back from the senate for tne
same reason that Tulley Scott, 'he
leader OF the Patterson forces In 'ne
senate and the author Of the BILL a'a'
I1nAmely. that 1t was the last poss'D
eeAance Of passing . primary Dill Q.
any Kind, and considered 1t De.'e
thsn -. - IN. and I 20 explained