The Marble booster. [volume] (Marble, Gunnison County, Colo.) 1911-19??, 1913-03-01
VERY SECRET
Was the Caucus that Nom
mated an Opposition
Political Ticket.

quietly met in Adrian's hall last Mon
day night and agreed upon ticket
for the city election, which they will
put in the field and call it Democratic.
What occasion there was, or is, for
this opposition ticket, none of those
at the private meeting will explain,
further than to declare that the Dem
ocrats must be represented in the
election. When they are reminded tn at
the ticket put up by the non-partisan
Peoples party is composed of both
Democrats and Republicans and tn at
it's platform is law and order enforce
ment, they are silent.
With c. c. McWilliams, recently of
Crested Butte and former manager of
the Marble Trading company, as
chairman of the meeting, ticket was
selected as follows:
For Mayor-W. L. Girdner.
For the Board of Trustees Charles
Sistig, E. D. Barton and Ben Jorgen-
son.
Mr.. Girdner is cashier OF the Mar
Bile City State bank and is a resident
of Carbondale, or was at the last
election here. The Boosters informed.
He has been in business here only a
little more than year. Mr.. Sistig is
barber and Mr.. Barton is the black
smith here.
Tom Boughton, ex-justice Of the
peace, was, of course, in large evil
dence at the private caucus. Doubt
less it was Toms idea to make the
meeting secret, inasmuch as many
good Democrats of Marble were not
invited to attend, and. in fact, did not
learn Of the proceedings until the fol-
lowing day. Doubtless, too, it was
Tom who engineered the whole thing,
with the aid of his friend, Girdner,
for there was no crying wall from the
rank and file of Marble Democracy
for an opposition ticket In the spring
election. Just to demonstrate his un-
dying affection for the Colorado Yule
Marble company, however, Tom had
to get up some disturbance to annoy
the company, which is known to be in
favor of the Peoples party ticket.
The ticket of the Peoples party is
pledged to dry town and to the en-
forcement Of the law against boot
logging. Naturally, II there is any
reason to oppose this ticket, il must
be assumed that the basis OF opposi-
tion lies in The principles rather than
the men, for The Booster does not be-
lieve Tom Boughton or Fate Girdner
really can have any objection to
"Bill" McManus, John Parrish or
Paul Tischhauser as men, As said,
then, the objection must be to what
these men stand for, and, to say the
least, this objection is not creditable.
Now, Mr.. Girdner, just few plain
words with you:
Your interests in Marble are close-
ly associated with those OF the Colo
rado-Yule Marble company, are they
not? And the Colorado Yule com
pany is the main dependence Of your
bank here, is it not? And you would
shut up shop and move back to Car
bondale II the Colorado-Yule COM
pany closed its doors, would you not?
Hasn't the company always treated
you fairly? When the company an
nounces In fair and honest manner
that IL cannot but be bitterly opposed
to saloons IN Marble, and states it's
reasons for this position, is it the part
Of wisdom for 3 man TO oppose the
company, when this mans interests
are SO closely allied with those OF the
chief industry Of the town? Who are
your real friends In Marble, Mr.. Grid
ner, the friends who make it possible
for you. to exist in business here?
Now, then, snswer all these ques-
tions in your mind and then tell US
why you come here from Carbondale,
scarcely legal resident Of this town,
and seek political preferment on q
ticket opposed to one selected BY your
real friends BY the men who deal
with you In business way every day.
Without the least malice toward you,