Semi-weekly herald., 1912-08-05
CONVENTION sQUIBLETs.


Barney Haughey; the steam roller
ed WAS on the outside. Sad, but
true.
Frank Rivers and W. G. Otton APP
pear to have a permanent job-pre.
siding over conventions.
D. l.. Egger, the pugilistic editor
Of the Bayfield, Blade, was circulat-
ing among the delegates. Didn't look
half as aggressive as his last article
in the Blade indicates.
There were quite "a number of new
faces in the assembly, but the old
time convention delegate was in at
tendance as usual and held the bal
ance of power where it required ma
jority vote.
w. S. Mowry of Cortez is backed
by an enthusiastic delegation for
district attorney. Mr.. Hubbard Of Pa
gosa Springs has the same kind of
backing from his county. Both gem
tlemcn circulated among the local
Democracy during the day.
The Archuleta county delegation is
instructed to support the candidacy of
w. N. Searcy. This will give Mr..
Searey Archuleta and San Juan. La
Plata and Dolores Will be for J. A.
pulliam with Montezuma possibly di-
yided. iax
Silverton had an interested delega-
tim al tho "a nftarpnnn cneuinn G,,,h
uncouth politicians as Jack Slattery
and State Senator Joyce wanted to
know how the peerless Democrats Of
La Plata county do things-and they
found out. 1t proved quite interest
ing to the timber line politicians.
As the day of the convention ap-
preached all opposition to Oren F'rary
melted away, leaving him the field
This indicates that Oren is popular
with his party when he can step from
the treasufer's office into the clerks
shoes-at least SO far as nomination
goes.
Many rural rubes were wondering
what ice they cut. The Herald can
say: More than they have for good
many years. They had the privilege
of. voting as they pleased and for
whom they pleased without making
any combinations. All they had to
muster was 10 per cent of the dele
gates to have any one they wanted
place on the primary ticket.
w. N. Searcy was hobnobbing
among the delegates and visitors. Mr..
Searey is down with an instructed del
egation for his name to go on the
primary ticket for judge of the judi
cial district at this evenings conven-
ton. His opposition is from La Plata
county, James A. Pulliam. Both men
will be placed on the primary ballot
and it will be up to the Democratic
voters to decide which one is to go
on the November ballot.
My, the number who wanted pie.
Some wanted good old apple pie, some
pined for genuine pumpkin-the kind
mother used TO make; several insisted
on new kind known as cherry-re-
corder; others wanted plain shrieval-
ty-apple with all the juice In possible; /;
Judge McCloud was content with iu-
dcial plum pie; Matt Harrington,
Turner and Vandaniker wanted blue
berry with a liberal supply of treas
ury cream; legislative a new
variety, was quite popular with three
or four. They were in sort of "a
hurry to get the pie down because
they intimated Miss General Assem-
bly, was waiting for them in Denver.
On one side of the room was an in
dividual with an entire pie all to him
self. He called it assessed cream"
No one present felt equal to the oc-
casion of even asking for bite. The
women were there with cranberry su-
perintendency pie. They said they
preferred cranberry because it had a
pronounced e-tart-something to
it; some wanted it with Prewitt dress
ing, others with Salabar salad while
Hinton favoring had many favorites
No matter what the kind of pie, there
were those present willing to have a
slice if they could not cabbage the
whole thing. Thus 1t is through life
our tastes differ and il is well