, 1912-02-15
Politics The Reason
French Creek Project. a Football
Tor Disappointed Political Am.
bitions-Dissruntled Polite.
ians Distort Facts and Hinder
Development in the North
Platte Valley

In his letter of February 9Th, to
the Editor of the Herald, Mr. Win
ter says the reason" for involving
his name in my article which re-
Gently appeared in the Saratoga
Sun "can only be surmised."
That reason is plainly stated, not
"surmised" in my article. My
refusal to pledge myself to E. s.
Drury and turn in for Mr.. Winter,
Editor Drury's man for Judge, is
the real basis of this Winter rury
luminosity. My first 'dastardly
act compared with which the
French Creek play is but a side
issue. Therefore, in order to get
at the real gist of all the Berald
hubbub, it was necessary to make
mention of Mr.. Winters name
That interview in his office did
take place, and at which the senat-
orship was held up to me by him,
for what reason l know not unless
for the purpose of having me COM
nit myself to his candidacy for
judge. Nothing of a confidential
nature took place at that interview
If there was how did Editor
Drury know within an hour there
after that | was a candidate for the
state senate, for only Winter and
myself were present at that con-
ference? Winter says be has no
Thought or time to waste" on me.
l give him credit for having learn
ed his lesson a little earlier in the
game than his political manager,
Editor Drury. Queer, isn't it that
| was good enough for Editor
Drury to pat me on the back and
tell me the paper would be glad
to endorse me, that l could do MI.
Winter a big favor by reporting to
him the judgeship situation in
Sweetwater and Uinta Counties.
Oh, yes, l was a good boy then;
"well born, etc. fit to associate
with them, for they wanted some
thing, and 1 persume l looked
pretty easy for l had not yet fallen
a prey to political harlots," who,
Editor Drury says, gave me the
senatorship as a reward for betray-
ing the community for lone of the
rottenest political gangs that w
disgraced a state" Oh, ye gods
and little fishes! it is to laugh.
1 wonder how @. E. Winter would
look to Editor Drury had he been
nominated on that same ticket for
Judge. | wonder?
Oh, the dreariress of Druryism,
Most pitiful to behold;
For the other fellow, the dough-
nut has
The little editor the hole.
In my article l stated that Mr..
Winter told me- shat he had just
come from Cheyenne, and that it,
the senatorship) had been prom
ised to him"-he tacks onto my
statement the following; "by the
chairman or any member of the
Republican State Committee" and
by misquoting my statement seeks
to clear himself by branding the
statement which he misquotes as
false. If l ever had any hallucin-
atoms that l had any qualifca-
tions for the presidency" of the
Platte Valley Ananias Club they
were certainly all knocked into a
cooked hat previous to the cleo
ton of 1910. Honor to whom
honor is due. l doff my hat to
the Silver Tongued Orator of En-
campment, @. E. Winter.
The taylor intelligence" was
sure mother wise when it sidestep-
ped the Winter-D rury band wagon,
Mr. Winters conception of a
state senatorship, 1 imagine, is
taken by the people Of Carbon
County about as seriously as they
took his candidacy for judge