The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1910-11-12
FRED CARROLL
CAUSED OURAy
COUNTY UPSET

There is great host of old-time
friends in Grand junction and Mesa
county of Fred Carroll. of Ouray.
brother of Mrs. John II. Fry. of this
city, and for years a resident of the
county, who will be interested to
know that il was Mr.. Carroll who
performed that remarkable feat of
making Ouray county, one of the ban
ner democratic counties of Colorado,
republican. a feat that republican
chairmen have been trying to accom-
plish, and in vain. for the past IS
years.
For national, state and county
tickets for two decades nearly. the
mountain county has regularly piled
up big majorities for the democrats.
Early this fall when the two con-
ventions were held the democrats
put out their ticket confident of the
usual victory and the republicans put
up their ticket to remain regular
and keep up the organization" But
they elected Fred Carroll county
chairman and the stalwart young re-
publican made up his mind to show
the democrats a thing or two"
NpBAt idhEhtus tlu time pOllllCldnS
declared Fred was green at the BUSH
ness and naturally bubbling over with
enthusiasm. Nearly everybody scout
ed his declaration that he would give
the democrats the race of their life.
But Fred got busy. first he perfected
splendid campaign organization, he
worked day and night getting his
plans laid and then the next thing he
knew the Ouray Herald, the republic
can organ, bolted nearly every candi-
date on the party's ticket and. of
course, the Plaindealer, Walter Walk
er's paper. was supporting the
straight democratic ticket. But Fred
wasn't discouraged. He straightway
over his signature, explained the Her
AIDS sudden change of heart. and
baptized the Ridgway Sun as the of
fetal organ of the party in Ouray
county
Then Fred went to work at a task
for fifteen years regarded as impossi-
ble,-that of reuniting the several
republican factions. Fred was pop
ular with every faction and before the
end of the campaign he had viii
Story. Carl Sigfrid. Tom Bradshaw
and Judge Emerson, the leaders of
the various factions, singing. I'VE
Are Band of Happy Brothers" and
shoulder to shoulder they worked for
the common cause"
Well to make a long story short,
Fred Carroll went to bed Wednesday
morning realizing that his dreams
had come true. he had turned back
the democratic tide"-a so-called
hopelessly democratic county and in
year when democracy swept the
country from coast to coast and the
lakes to the gulf, he had won all but
three of the county offices, he had
cut every state and congressional
plurality and more than half in two
and for the first time in twelve or
fourteen years there will be more re-
publicans than democrats in the court
house in Ouray
IT was admittedly a great cam
paign that the former Mesa county
man made. 1t was the surprise of
western slope campaigning.
And Carroll made a clean. fair,
square fight. He had superb organ
ization on the other side to buck but
he certainly did put one over" on
the democrats of the Gem City and
the golden county of the San Juan.
Mr.. Carroll is one of the most
prominent mining men in Ouray, be-
ing manager of the Atlas, in which
Benton Canon and other local people
are Interested