Semi-weekly herald., 1916-11-08
LETTER
FROM @. S.
CALBREAT H
Durango Herald;


Just one week from today and the
"Cat-hop" will have lost its whiskers
that is to say twill lose It's whiskers''
and the next day the "told-you-sos"
will make you wish your foresight
was better'n your hindsight, least
wise make one side or the other feel
that way.
How's election going? A Hughes
ite will tell you that, the Hughes
majority win be a regular eockdol-
ager, while a Wilsonite viii say yon
are another, Wilson will have a ma
jority to burn.
Whose a prevaricatcr? The voters
will answer next Tuesday. wonder
sometimes just how an election tfm-
spires, or expires in old La Plata
county, without some flagellator, talk
ing the political hide off, the old
Snollygoster, who for so long time
seemed to be target for muddaub-
bers big and little.
You know any right acquired by
usueaption, is hard to relinquish
whether it be to cat mush with q
knife or beans with n spade
Say, you know when / was there
politics seemed to vary with my po-
litical change, for when l sweated
as . Democrat, the Republicans
gathered the fruit, and when / ton
ed with the Republicans the Demo
Gratis go away with the sausage.
It's remarkable but as true as sin,
that when l got out here four years
ago, with my Republican predictions
still curling my hair, the Democrats
didn't do a thing but elect the gov
einor and other highflyers.
Now this good year of 1916, finds
44e suii mere talking Republicanism,
aAd inns good old Republican state
10 so swoboiy'' on its political pegs,
vat .ne Democrats are claiming that
,4.son VIII carry it, and the Re
p4pncans are scared that he will,
and 1ear that il / don't vote for
"hson, he'll swipe the cheese.
read with much interest the
names OF the candidates, for the div
eis ana sundry "soltsnap5" back in
L.. rata, and as | know them all,
wouid venture a choice, but fear me
tnat those 1 selected would take a
trp up salt river just because | did
not want them to.
you've read OF the man without
a country and guess IN try to rival
hini, and be a man without a party
lor the good OF all parties.
Sometimes the old Latins used to
say ..soe ct tuum," and that sounds
so inucn like what / want Ito tell my
cnoice OF candidates back there to
10 TO their opponents, | use it here,
because 1t affords me an opportuni-
ty to say 81 never SAID it. il oc-
casion demands.
mhiie t.niang about the election,
want TO ADVISE some of the voters
who Tor election after election, voted
against me whether l was running
or not, not to forget to keep it up
for old times sake.
Friendships" are so often "shipsp
that go out to see what there is in
it, and never return, that man
should hold in his heart, with anchor
sure and steadfast, friendships that
are staunch and true from keel to
topmast, and many such friendships
bult up IN that far away section,
are far more than pleasant reminis-
cenees, and bind me with tender
chords to Durango, the beautiful.
It's no wonder that when asleep
my INSIDE self" either actually goes
there for a visit, and look again
upon familiar things, and hear fa-
miiar voices.
And who can wonder that some
times in the waking hours, long to
be back there, docking upon familiar
scenes and listening to familiar
voices though as of yore some of
the voices were sometimes harsh and
unfriendly?
Who will wonder, if sometimes the
yearnings to go back and be back
there will compel return? Strang-
er things have happened and you
never can tell.
We've had most wonderful fall,
clear and dry until within the last
week and we are now having some
welcome rain.
Tacoma is just beginning to feel a
touch of the prosperity, that has
been rampant in eastern cities for
sometime, SO they say.
A great deal Of building is being
done and much mere projected.
Hunting and fishing has been the
order of the day for some weeks.