The Delta independent., 1912-07-26
WHO SIGNED THOSE
RESOLUTIONS? YES?
ALL SEEMS TO BE A MYSTERY.
No Person Can be Found in Delta
Who VIII Admit That He Ever
Saw, Much Less Signed,
Such an Article.

An article appeared in Tuesdays s
Grand Junction News. purporting to
be signed by K. F. Hubbard, Clarence
E. Smith, NJ. d. Vincent, Judge M.
z. Welch, Geo. c Wilson, NJ Pat
terson, C. j. Lippert, B. P. Smith, l..
NJ. Conklin & Son, F. G. Meyers &
Son. w. II. Garvin & Son and NJ. r.
Perkins, declaring that the Progress
sive Republicans would have moth
ing whatever to do with any "as-
sembly" for placing a ticket in the
county; that no candidate would ac-
cept nomination from an assembly;
that they" proposed to nominate
their ticket by petition; that they
could control any county meeting,
etc.
1t will be noted that there is con-
siderable margin given in the
names, the son" part in two in
stances being posthumus. 1t is most
likely, also, that the majority of
these names were appended without
either the knowledge or consent of
the persons bearing them.
1t does not seem probable that
the chairman and secreary of the
Republican county committee would,
after having attended a meeting of
their committee and issued an off
cial call for an assembly as provided
by law. sign such an article.
George c. Wilson, chairman of
the board of county commissioners,
states positively that he signed no
such article. and by his own consent
allowed himself to be elected a del
egate to the assembly to be held in
Hotchkiss today. Several others
say they never signed or heard of
such an article until it appeared
in the News.
The article. ss it appeared, is
dom'1eerinr, and. but for the fact
that it was doubtless garbled to suit
the crude sensationalism of the pa
per in which it was published-a pa
publishing Socialist arguments un-
der the head of paid advertise
ments and Democratic aid articles
would call for severe comment.
At the meeting of the county cen
trail committee held in this city last
week, we understand there was
desire expressed and acted upon,
with the sole view of a campaign
fnr -irsn IN hn thfs foil.
and that the committee members
some Taft and others Roosevelt ad-
mirers. discussed the situation and
asked and granted concessions. Be
this as 1t may. they followed the
course provided by law and called
an assembly at which to nominate
county officers. That assembly will
doubtless be well attended and its
object carried out. whatever may
take place thereafter.
All in all. the Independent does
not believe that anything is gained
by publishing such articles as that
in the Grand junction News. If
there is n gain II is more likely to
be in creating sympathy and good
friends for the people attacked, than
to result to their detriment.
Trouble makers in local political
campaigns, have come to be en-
ployed as strong cogs in the party
machine. and modern plan is to
encourage dissention in the oppo-
site party's ranks in order to divide
its vote and thus increase the
other party's chances. The article in
the News reads like this may have
been its full intent and purpose.
b. p. Smith, vice-president of the
Delta Nat'nl Bank, whose name was
freely used in the news article, says
that the heading of that article was
without authority and made up. per-
haps, to strengthen Bickel's Mesa
county fight.