The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-07-27

and his followers out of the party years
ago do wish they had adopted gentler tactics?
WE cannot help asking friends read the La
Toilette speech started serial in this 1t will
about three weeks Save the papers and read it.
1t is of the speeches that will become historic
HENRIETTA tried to cop ballots in precinct one
he had been trimmed by the Hetherngton combine
He wanted to them and find out which ones OF
his friends had double-crossed him. M J. schmtz gently
but firmly said Henrietta will not love him any more
AND now the Moffat Tunnel faces injunction suit
initiated by aggreved taxpayer Meantime salaries of
high priced boards assistant boards stenographers and
clerks and assistant stenogs and clerks After
things settled there will be little left to dig the
tunnel with then will the yodel for state help
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AT the time of going to press there is nothing en-
couraging the railroad strike situation Neither is
there any indication of in the coal situa-
ton Unless something materially change
dons another week is going to distressing con-
dons in the great cities and in manufacturing districts
THE railroad strike is teaching the managers one
which they might profit by Incidentally it shows
important elements of waste which might be
eliminated Now, when mechanics off duty travelling
engineers and remen tranmaster assistant supernten-
all supposed to be advisers and
in time of and called executive forces
being used keep machinery in repair. If they are
available they would to be accessible when the
roads operate economically in times of depres-
son Trains keep moving and everything fairly
smooth with the assistance of regarded necessary
in other service Apparently the management be
vised the benefit of the service and the cheapenng
operation. r ,
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OUR cartoon this week quite brilliantly endorses
what have said for least three years about Herbert
Hoover. During his activities under the Wilson admin
stration he wrote himself servle tool of big business
He helped the proeers to clean the people, he
graft and and crook who
spred to rob both the and the people, and
yet through the propaganda of subsidized press he
almost the choice of both parties Gas shown
through their leaders, for the Presidency Evidently
wanted to be chosen by both parties at he stu
ously refused declare himself member of either He
has been boosted and eulogzed by every kept paper
the land and praised by host of others who
enced by what they read and did not understand He
pushed Harding the ablest representative of prvi
ege in this broad land and he is doing his very damned
est to his loyalty to them Baer put
it very cleverly
THE Democratic primaries in this county were a per-
feet landslide for progressive ideas Evidently the in
sstent propaganda of the Empire and it's
waking people up than indicated by their
spoken words Perhaps the seed watered to great
extent by the huge piled the people,
tcuarly in the last years Suffice say that the
bipartisan machine is just about wrecked that
Joe McDermott can't fix it. As stalwart DEM
ocrat said: "Ihe Republican wing of the Democratic
party is broken Those Democrats that for shoup
last dtched in every but one and that
don't count The promise that the county would be de-
livered to Mr.. Weser resented mixed delega-
tion agreed by VIM E. Sweets friends will go to the
State Assembly At time have the Sweet supporters
tried to hog things. Mr.. Weser thought we'll of in
this courty and he has friends who desire him over any
other They will be present in the Assembly and cast
their votes they please without or dicta-
ton So will the Sweet other words the county
is democratic again. Republicans not dictate its
policies unless the people elect them the offices on
publican tickets The Empire The Miner The Elk Noun
tain Pilot all congratulate the of each and every
precinct Apparently the Progressive democrats have
carried them ALL