Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-10-25
We HAVE HAD
The Big Wind
Preceded by Some Smaller
Disturbances
MAN OF H0UN DAWG
FAME AND 'H0NESTJ0HN'
And Now We May Hope for an Era
of Peace and Prosperity the
G. o. p. slogan


The first big wind of several
moons struck this generally peace
full city on Wednesday morning
and stirred things up somewhat,
but from all reports no damage
was committed. that could not
easily be repaired.
Several smaller breezes, notably
that created by "Honestjohn" and
his retinue, preceded and as it
were heralded the coming of the
eminent disturbance best known
to fame as "the man who'd have
you quit kicking his houn' dawg
aroun", but contrary to expecta-
tions, there was no necessity for
anyone to hunt cyclone cellar
while the latter was in town
though it sure blew some.
Grand opera house on Wednes-
day forenoon was filled almost as
full as it had been the night be-
fore to the moving picture show
of Watermelon day, by throng
of people who were mainly curious
to see Champ Clark, the Missouri
Democrat who fought Bryan until
he Twas shown" that he could not
lead the party in this campaign.
The Democratic leader of the
House was chuck full of anecdotes
which he worked off chiefly against
the Republican and Progressive
opponents of his party, but he was
nevertheless the only Democratic
speaker to give it out flat that if
his party came into power they
would remove the duty from re-
fined sugar. He attempted to
justify this by the statement that
the removal of this duty would
kill the sugar trust, which is
directly contrary to the facts:
To remove the duty on refined sugar
would not kill the sugar trust but would
enable it to kill the beet sugar business
of Colorado and force the beet farmers
into some other line of planting, The beet
sugar factories would close and approx
mately SO 900 people who now derive
livelihood from the labor in factories and
bee. fields would be forced into competi-
ton with other labor. S9.zZ5,000 paid
farmers for sugar beets in 1912 would
come on more. Bats and rats would in
habit the factories and a great industry
vet in its infancy would be killed, The
trust would emerge from the wreck
stronger than ever and be in complete
control of the sugar markets of the
country. ard one can readily see what
this trust would Go to the people in
the matter of prices when they had COM
pletely stiflsd the sugar beet farmers and
sugar beet factories.
At the moving picture show in the
Grand the evening before the coming of
Champ Clark a number not down on the
program was the appearance of John F.
Shafroth, the Democratic aspirant for
United States senator who was billed to
speak in Moose hall that evening, but
fearing that he would draw such another
crowd-just So people-as greeted him in
La Junta the night before, forced him
self upon the management Of the show
and with illimitable gall shot off his bazoo
to the big crowd gathered to see the
picture of our great festival in the
effort to drum up crowd-in which he
was markedly unsuccessful,
What cared those whom he addressed
for his fulsome praise of the bountiful
Arkansas Valley? And what trust could
they put in any statement from one who
has broken every pledge made to the
people of Colorado?
Governor Shafroth is making play for
support with the deliberate misstatement
that his administration has not increased
the salaries and the incidental expenses
of the state government since he has been
in office. According to figures compiled
by Public Accountant Leddy at the re-
quest Of Governor Shafroth. the present
biennial period will cost S59o,225.5o in
increased salaries and expenses, new
boards and bureaus as shown in the first
class appropriations alone. His increase
in this one classification over Governor
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