The state herald., 1914-08-21
More Enterprise Slush.

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When the Enterprise editor gets into
tight place in campaign and don't
know just how to crawl out. be calls In
his legal adviser and campaign manager
and gives him Instructions to get busy
and abuse the opposition paper. The
legal adviser" has done % much wsrk
in this line that his writings arc easily
recognized and do not need his sigma
ture to reveal the writer.
The Enterprise made the mistake Of
attacking the results Of the progress
sive and republican county assemblies
as pie counter ticket and the Herald
took occasion to say that the Enter.
prise itself had somewhat Of record
IN the pie counter business and, a. q
matter of course, the illegal adviser"
comes back with more than a column
of campaign slush hurled at u.
We do not expect anything better
from sheet whose writers imagine
that in order to be severe they must
wallow in the slush of the campaign
gutter and consequently none of these
senseiess outbursts worry Us in the
least.
In referring to the seeming relish Of
the Enterprise for pie counter diet,
the Herald said, as the Enterprise
charges. 'It has received more of the
tax payers money in two years time
than any other newspaper ever receiv-
ed in four years time."
The Enterprise throws up its hands
in pretended horror at such a state.
ment and charges US with falsifying
the records and would have its readers
understand that we had charged the
Enterprise with having received twice
as much Taxpayers money from the
Phillips county treasury as any other
paper.
We made no statement that could be
reasonably so construed.
During the two years referred to, the
Enterprise in addition to what It re.
ceived from Phillips county. also re.
aeiyed from the State Of Colorado In
one lump sum about 81. zoo for the pub
kcation Of initiated and referred meas.
ures and constitutional amendments
and this 81 800 was just ~ truly tax
payeds money" a. any Of the money
the Enterprise has drawn from the
county treasury and the writers Of the
Enterprise article are well aware Of
that fact but they deliberately proceed.
cd to give to the language Of the Her
aid statement an Interpretation that It
would not reasonably bear in the hope
of making capital out Of the same with
parties who do not read the Herald.
Now. II the gentlemen are 70 keen
to show the figures, let them proceed
to do 80. Tax payers money 10 tax.
payers money no matter whsthsr Il Is
received from tho county treasury
or the state treasury and
the Herald statement stands good till
they show by figures that Il 10 not cor.
rect.
Again these Enterprise writers claim
to be very jealous Of maintaining party
principles even In the selection Of .
county ticket and yet. In time past,
they have shown no scruples whatever
against attempting to ride two or three
parties into Office and the only excuse
they attempt to offer for % doing 10
their feeble claim that the fusions that
they rode into Office were not coasum-
mated In exactly the way smploysd by
the republicans end progrsssives. The
gentlemen should now inform their rssd
srs by what political lsgsrdsmsin they
succeeded In reconciling the conAicting
party platforms on which they success
fully stood for election. Did their pe.
culisr methods Of fusion have any tend
cncy Whatever toward rsconeilIng the
|eonaicting plstformsi OF course not.
and these gentlemen know that they
ar, simply talking campaign nonsense
that would be laughed at by the school
boys Of our town.
Throw your slush. gentlemen, We do
,ot expect anything better and the
MORE time and space you devote to the
Herald editor the less you will have for
the real questions Of the campaign.
Gag Rule.