, 1922-05-10

Conservative Citizens. Tired Of FanaticaI Reformers, Ask Re-
turn To Normal BY Casting Biggest Vote Ever PoIed
In Cody At Tuesdays Municipal Election.

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The municipal election on Tuesday
when DR.. R. C. Trueblood was elected
to the office OF mayor by the biggest
vote ever polled in Cody was an his
toric affair.
1t was a battle between the normal,
conservative citizens of Cody and the
fanatical reformers and extremists
who have controlled the town for the
past year.
Tired of petty tyrany and persecu-
ton, sick of character assasins. the
people of Cody were animated by
something of the spirit which filed
the French when they e their jaws
and said: "They shall not pass"
So the thought in every heart and
mind of those who supported DR..
Trueblood on Tuesday last was,
They shall not win." 1t showed it.
self in the logged, grim determine
ton seen on every face and the
CLEAN of battle which shone in the
eyes of those who have been disgust
ed with the conditions which
have prevailed for a year in
this naturally law-abiding. friendly,
Western town.
The sick got out of their beds;
cripples. people who never had vot-
ed before. went to the polls to ex-
press themselves and their wishes
and they did so with an emphasis
which should be a lesson to those who
have made Cody a laughing-stock to
the outside world for twelve months
and more.
Every cheap. dishonest. shyster
trick that could be thought of was
used by the reformers to defeat De.
Trueblood who represents the real
business men and the sane. normal,
well-balanced citizens of the town.
The City Clerk. Ernest Shaw. hid
in the rmory from about n o'clock
in the afternoon until sometime in
the night, on Monday. locked in and
guarded by Capital Clarence Williams
of Troop +. 20 that no order could be
made upon him as Town Clerk by w.
l.. Simpson, District Court Commits
sioner, to place upon the ballots the
names of w. T. Hogg n H. w.
Thurstop for councilmen, whose GER
tifcates had beer filed in his office.
The margin of the official ballot
was cut off SO that it was smaller
than the sample ballot for the quite
obvious purpose of leaving too little
space for the names of these council
men to be written in.
Paul Greever, the city attorney and
one of the leaders of the reformers,
advised the judges OF election to dis
franchise approximately 200 voters
who voted for Trueblood and wrote
the names of these councilmen in the
small margin that was left.
K. ]. Goppert, the head of the
American Legion here and an aspir-
ant for the office of County Attorney
this fall, inundated voters. threat
ening to throw them in jail If they at
tempted to vote.
A woman, with three children de-
pendent upon her was told she would
lose her job II she voted for True
blood. She voted for T~rueblood.
Men who have taken up homesteads
and were therefore not eligible, were
told they could get by if they voted
for Cox. ETC.. etc.
Yet in spite of these things and
t. 81 vot . at precinct No. 2 were
thrown out upon the advice of Greev-
er and Goppert, DR.. Trueblood was
elected by a vote of nearly w to
one. the full vote being 357 to 1874.
The judges who followed the ad-
vice of this pair and thus disfran-
chised 81 citizens of this town, were
Mrs. E. J. Goppert and Charles Mars
ton.
The Judges in precinct No. 1 re-.
fused to disfranchise the voters who