The daily sentinel., 1912-10-31
TO THE PEOPLE OF MESA
COUNTY

The Democratic Party has Woodrow Wilson
at the head of its national ticket and Elias NJ Am
at the head of its state ticket. Every candi-
date on the Democratic County Ticket is not only
approachable on the subject of his presidential and
gubernatoria preference, but is openly and active
ly procaimlng that he supports the national and
state candidates of the party under whose auspices
he is presented to the people of this county
In contrast with the candor and frankness of the
Democratic nominees upon this subject is the re-
fusal of the candidates the opposition ticket to
take any notice of the commonly admitted fact that
a presidential and gubernatoral campaign is in
progress.
In year when the political contest in nation
and state has developed bitterness and distinct
ness of division that it has not known since 1906
and in year when compromise between the lead
ing political parties has seemed less possible than
at any previous time in recent American history,
there is presented to the people of Mesa county 4
ticket which represents fusion between two par.
ties that most widely separated in nation and
state.
candidates on this ticket VIII ch enables them to
forget differences that have made the national
heads OF the two parties personal enemies, could
be expected only in the greatest of patriots or in
the most eager of office-seekers. We leave the
people of Mesa county to determine to which Of
these classes the candidates the Roosevelt Taft
Johnson-Sherman, Costigan-Parks ticket belong.
While it is true, we have stated, that county
offices cannot directly affect national and state
policies, yet there two Democratic principles
set forth in the Baltimore platform that are capa-
bic of application in county affairs, and they
first economy in the administrator, Q the public
business, and, second, absolute equality before the
law. To these two principles our county candidates
are pledged.
We promise that every county office will be eco
nomcally administered if candidates are elect
ed; and, evidence of good faith, we point
l.
sheriff and by the present Democratic treasurer
and his predecessor in office, under whose admin
istrations these offices have become of rev.
enue, instead of objects of expense to the county.
Particularly do we promise that there will be
wiser and more economical use of the powers OF
the board of county commissioners-power that
have been so flagrantly misused under Republican
rule, in such matters as the and construction
of public roads and in the establishment of sine
in the county service, that the people of the
county are openly in revolt.
To the county commissioners is entrusted the
important power of disbursing the funds of the
county; and the quality of county government,
whether good or bad, is largely determined by the
work of the gentlemen who compose the board of
commissioners We present two candidates for
commissioners who come respectively from the
eastern and western sections of the county and who
will, therefore, when placed on the board by the
side of the holdover commissioner, who comes
proper balancing of territorial interests and insure
administration in the interest of the county as
a whole. Neither of these two candidates can
WELD any considerable power in behalf of busi-
nesslike administration of county affairs unless he
has the support of his associate the Democratic
ticket and vote for one is almost nullity unless
accompanied by vote for the other
The great Democratic rule that all who live
under the authority of government shall be abb
soutely equal before its laws and that nobody
shall enjoy special privileges may be directly ap-
piled in county affairs as well as in national and
state affairs; and promise, behalf of that
party which has secured to the people of Colorado
the largest direct share in the management of their
affairs that they have ever enjoyed, such an
administration of the various departments of the
county government as, in the directness of its
sponsiblity to the people and in its freedom from
the influence of special privlegeseeking interests,
will conform to the Democratic national and state
administrations that are certain to be called into
existence by the election of November 5.