The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-11-02
ADVER RTlSEMENT
DIST. SITUATION
Some Good Reasons Why Rob-
ert N. Work Should Not
Be Elected

o0me NOoo NeAsouS why NOD
ert M. Work Should Not
Be Elected
Four years ago. in the campaign for
District Attorney, the voters decided
by an overwhelming vote, that they
preferred Irving Van Brandt, of Fort
Morgan for that position. During the
three years and ten months that have
elapsed since Mr.. Van Brandt assumed
lis office he has made most excellent
record and yet last week the man who
was SO overwhelmingly defeated two
years ago, comes out with the state
ment that the administration of Mr..
VanBrandt has been failure that he
has increased expenses enormously;
various advertisements are also made.
These charges are evidently made be-
cause Mr.. Work again realizes that
the voters of this district know a good
man in office when they see him and
intend to re-elect Mr.. Van Brandt, be
Work hoping that he can by this
method detract from Mr.. Van Brandt's
popularity and thereby secure his swn
election.
Four years ago the Morgan County
Herald, the Sterling Enterprise and
other papers contained specific charges
affecting Mr.. Works conduct as Dep
uty District Attorney, gave the reason
why he was discharged by the District
Attorney and showed his utter unfit
ness for the position. 1nasmuch as
there are several thousand new voters
in the district this year, we believe
that it may be advisable that these
new voters also learn of the reasons
why Mr.. Work was not elected four
years ago, although four years before
the Reput lican candidate received ap-
proximately 1900 majority in the dis
trict Snd that Mr.. Van Brandt was
elected by 2lOo votes. thereby show
ing loss to Mr.. Work of $500.
The facts, as published at that time
and never denied, are that Mr.. Work,
while acting as Deputy District Attor-
ney. went from his home in Fort Nor
gan to Omaha as the emissary of l.. H.
McGill, father of DIR. McGill, who was
then fugitive from justice at Wray.
That at Omaha he went to see Vesta
McCabe, formerly vesta Simonton, and
her husband, Lloyd w. McCabe, and
that he succeeded in compromising the
Wray case which Vesta Simonton, now
Vesta simonton McCabe. had filed
against DR.. McGill, paying her $3.50. 90
in that compromise, He then returned
and without consulting the District
Attorney, dismissed the case against
DIR. McGill. Mr.. Work admitted all of
these facts to District Attorney Stew
enson when called on the carpet by
him and, as result, was dismissed as
Deputy District Attorney. This man.
McGill, whom Mr.. Work was endeav-
oring to protect. a year or so later,
was shot and seriously wounded by
husband in Wray for having ruined his
home. The sympathy of the public in
Yuma county was so completely with
the outraged husband that no one
would file charge against him for
shooting DR.. Mc,ill and leading citi-
zens of Wray ordered DR.. McGill to
leave the city and never to return.
Now, it seems to us that when these
facts are called to the attention of the
people of this district that they will not
only give Mr.. Van Brandt re election,
but will make his election so nearly
unanimous that Air. Work will never
again attempt 10 dominate politics in
this district but will retire to the OBJ
livion which his acts, as public offic-
ial, seem to consign him. Certainly
the people of this district, which is one
of the most law abiding and law re-
specting of any state IN the union, do
not want a man in the office of Dis
trict Attorney whois already convicted
by his own admissions of having COM
promised one of the most dastardly
crimes in the criminal calendar.
The office of District Attorney is
perhaps the most important of any
that you will vote for so far as it ef-
fects your immediate surroundings,
for the District Attorney is the man
. on whom you depend for law enforce
ment; and in this respect, although he
lhaa reduced expenses Mr. Van Brandt