The daily sentinel., 1910-06-14
POLITICAL POT
BEGINS To
BOIL
Local Leaders Repair
ing Fences.

1t is little bit warm to write
much political dope, but still the pot
is already beginning to boil and quite
few candidates are laying out their
lines of battle.
To the man up a tree the republi-
can alignment is quite considerably
broken just at present. But this
seems to have no deterring effect
upon candidates. The G. o. p. al
ways has sufficient number of
patriots who are willing to offer
themselves upon the public altar to
eat the pickings.
The very latest off the wire is that
the present commissioner from the
Palisade district, John ID. Secor, is
grooming himself as a candidate for
county treasurer. John D., has had
a taste of public life and seems to
like IL and would not at all be ayerse
to taking the nomination for that
important office in the gift of the
people.
But Mr.. Secor is not to have plain
sailing. Newt Smith. the present
assessor. thinks that he has served
the people so well, that he has a
drawing card for the nomination for
treasurer. He will put himself up
against John D., for the nomination
and there may be others, William A
Marsh being not a little talked about
for that position.
Next in Importance is the nomina-
ton for county clerk and recorder
The alleged leaders have picked
Eugene Smith for this nice soft snap.
He is to be used to capture the church
vote, same to be delivered in squads
of ten or twenty. That is. the alleged
leaders of the party say that they
must play up to this vote and they
propose to do 1t. How it is to be
done is to have a sort of mixture OF
the sheep and goats, so as to fool EN-
coming and going.
But Mr. Smith cannot have this
nomination for the asking. He will
be opposed by MIR. Mort Steel, who
has so successfully filled the position
of deputy clerk for SO long. He will
be an active candidate for the posi-
ton and will make the other man
think that he is running.
John Heron, who has been work
ing the realty business in conjunction
with Senator DeLong thinks that he
has the physical makeup of sheriff.
He is getting in training right now
for the call that he thinks that the
people VIII make upon MIN.
Then too for this position another
stands ready to hear the ground
swell. The person is none other than
Mr.. Gus Olsen, one of the best known
men in Mesa county and who would
make very good officer of the law.
OF course all these possibilities are
on the republican side of the fence.
What the democrats propose to do,
ii is hard to tell. There may be a
whole lot of democratic patriots will
ing to do and die for their country at
so much per month.
Before the election rolls around
and the decision is made who shall
represent the party in the fight for
the offices, it is to be hoped that the
new party of Senator Patterson's viii
take in a lot of floaters from both
camps, republicans and democrats, so
that there will be an out and out
democratic and republican alignment.
The republican Moses is to be
Edwin Price, now postmaster. He is
guarding the frontier and anyone
who gets past will haves to show his
credentials to him. Furthermore, ev-
cry mothers son of them, must have
the DeLong stripe down his pants to
be given the pass word and the big
yell.