Gunnison news-champion., 1910-07-29
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Hs~eSer. there ~a- much good
accomplished BY thls usld-sm-
sser nseetlng, a rev tasossiis,n IA
trodsced bs Pres,eeai " A GIllas-
pey, who is making a record as a
hustler aud man al the head ~ the
state organization who ae,s things
done
~ proposed 10 have drawn up w
definite form and introduced in the
next legislature we're passed ppon.
These Will he further discussed al
the annual business meetlRe of the
Colorsdo ockgro~ers dsnae the
stock show an lsssver this winter
The fake ''Colorado Lave Stock
Association" which Pinchot is
financing. aud which is engineered
ia Colorado by Jake kIllian oi Del
Ia, Joe Painter, A. h. DeRlcqales.
Cod Mckenzie and others If the blg
stock kmen, came VA ipr a rakIne over
THIS bunch of bag fellows has cap
tared Teddy for a speech at beaver
tins week, pretending 10 be greatly
ia favor Of his forest reserve aud
''eopservstion" measures That the
Doubtv ColJnel does not understand
that he is being worked is plain
from q letter which he wrote 30 Den
ver men recently aud IN which he
states that he made the Lave Stock
Association promlse TO speak TO
them a year ago The fake Colorado
Live Stock Association has only been
IN existence six months,
But here are the resolutions. sign
ed by twenty eight local stock asso
cations:
Whereas, The public announcement
has been widely made through the
press of the country that ex-President
Theodore Roosevelt is to be in Denver
ON August 2yth as the guest of the
state Stockgrower association. and,
Whereas, II appears that an organi-
zatlon formed barely six months ago
and composed of a small number Of
stockmen, with citizen of Utah as
president, has assumed te represent the
organized stockmen of this state, both
as To extending the invitation to the
honorable citizen and in arranging To
entertain him while in the state and.
Whereas, The Colorado Stockgrow
ers association has. for over ten years,
been the recognized and only state or
ganization of the stockmen of Colorado,
bsing composed of twenty mine local
stockgrowers associations in all parts
of the state and having no individual
membership and is still the recognized
state organization by more than nine
tenths Of the stockmen Of the state;
and,
Whereas, 1t is unanimously known
| that instead of Colonel Roosevelt com
ing to Colorado as the guest Of the so
called organization presuming to repre-
sent the stockmen, he is simply com
plying with an arrangement made
months ago and comes as the guest of
his old associates in arms, the Spanish
war veterans, and IT rs presumptuous.
to say the least, for any one else to
claim that honor
Therefore, Be 1t Resolved, That
while the members of this association,
as individuals, possess the highest
admiration and regard for that great
representative citizen and statesman,
and shall most gladly take any and ev-
cry opportunity to help show the atten-
tion due him while in our state, yet, we
regret that as an organization we can
not have the special privilege of enter
tanning him while here, because that
honor belongs to his old associates, the
Spanish war veterans, and we emphat-
ically protest against the unjust as
/ of hat V.rfxfilana he,
part of any other organization; and es-
pecially do we protest against it being
done in the name of the stockmen OF
Colorado.
Among the speakers at the meet
ing vas Tony Mcneil, county clerk
Of Montrose, who created q sensa-
ton by predicting a sheep and cat.
tie war on the Cimarron He charg-
ed federal stock inspection with re-
sponslbillty for the invasion OF west
ern Colorado and Utah by sheepmen.
He said that the Utah people had
run in 2O.UUO head Of sheep in this
~ay. the federal stock inspectors had
declared them disea-e-infected and
hah oidtiti thchi iatdhtiucd bh
disputed territory which had been
considered hitherto as cattle range
land. With this foothold the sheep
men had run in sir differont bands
of sheep, which are quarantined
there now.
Mcneil declared that although
Congressman Taylor had secured
action from the bureau Of animsl
hu.bandry and the objectionable in
spector had been removed. the mis-
chief had been done. and that nov
they had three or four armed men
With each hand and lives would be
lost before the sheep could be run
out again.