Amador ledger., 1910-10-28
CONTEMPTTBLE
POLITICS
Republican Candidate for
Sheriff ASSaiIed from
Ambush.
(From Amador Record, Oct. 20)
Amador City Cal, Oct. 18, 1910


Amador City Cal, Oct. IS, 1910.
Editor Amador Record. i notice
that the Amador Ledger is indulging
in its usual TRADE of abuse of U. s.
Gregory. This, it will be remembered,
has been the policy of that paper just
prior to every election. 1t seems to
me that where an official so conducts
his Office that no word of fault is
found with his work for four years, 1T
is bad taste to attack HIM just prior
to each election, and especially to find
fault with HIM for something over
which he has no control. If the board
of supervisors see fit to give Mr.
Ratio, the picture show man or any
one else free license, which it seems
they did, and which they have the
authority to do under the license or
dinance as the Ledger admits, why
should Gregory be blamed for not col
lecting, even if the supervisors did
wrong in giving free license. They,
and not the collector. should be CEN
sured.
However, this and other silly COM
plants such as recommending an eX
ception for poor aged, paralytic is
not what the people care to hear at
this time If the sheriff did recon-
mend free license for period of six
months to Captain Glenn, every person
who knows the circumstances sur
rounding the case, will, to say the
least, give the sheriff credit for hav-
ing streak of kindness and human
sympathy in his make up. Neither do
the taxpayers and voters care how
much salary, etc., any official draws,
so long as he gets what the law allows
him for his services and no more but
what they do want is for an officer to
do his work faithfully and well. They
know that whoever is elected sheriff
will pull down the same amount until
such time as the law is changed and
the pay made less. Therefore it
seems to me that the only question to
be considered is who can give the
people the best service for the money,
U. S. Gregory or John S. Davis. This
is the only sensible way to look at it.
If Mr. Gregory has made the people a
good sheriff, and taxpayers think he
will do his duty in the future as well
as in the past, then III their own in
terest, regardless of personal prefer
ence or political bias, they should re-
elect him to the Office he now holds.
AS for his opponent, Mr. DAVIS, all
that can be said is that he is untried
and inexperienced. The only oppor-
tunity that any one has to get line
on his fitness for the work has been
here in Amador City during. the last
year or so, while he has acted in the
capacity of deputy sheriff, and to say
| the least, he has not impressed the
citizens here as being suitable for the
position for sheriff During the whole
| time he made but one arrest, although
much trouble and many violations of
the law occurred in our town. | say
this in all fairness to Mr. Davis, and
honestly believe that if he should sue
ceed in defeating Mr. Gregory that not
only the people will have cause to re-
gret the change, but Mr. Davis himself
will find that he is not suited for the
work, and will be sorry that he ever
aspired to the position.
What | have written is in all fair
ness, and without prejudice to either
side, and hope that the electors of
Amador county will weigh the ques-
tion we'll in selecting the man to fill
this important office, and vote in ac-
cordance with their honest convictions
and. for the best interest and welfare
of all the people of Amador county.
FAIRPLAY.
The writer of the above screed, and
he doesn't live far from Jackson,
should have signed his name unfair
Play" as far more in keeping with
the spirit of the communication. The
trick of sending articles dated from
another town and having the same
published in order to show the senti-
ment on political issue regarding
rival candidates is too transparent to
deceive anyone. 1t seems like the
dernier resort of the despairing demo
cratic clique to stem the popular cur
rent of opinion which ia setting so
strongly against them. 1t stands on a
par with the move tostraddle both sides
of the political fence by making per-
sonal appeals to voters for the nom-
nation on two opposing tickets.
1t will be noticed that the above
article was written by one who claims
to be we'll posted on the subjects
treated. He knows the "circumstan-
ces surrounding the case, as he puts
it. We believe he does, and no one
better than he.
The defender tries to wriggle out of
the dilemma about the free license
granted to Ratio, by putting the
blame upon the supervisors. We are
not defending the supervisors for their
part of the transaction. But how
about the fact that the sheriff failed
to collect from Ratio, or even make
demand for license, of nearly a year,
during which that individual was