, 1922-10-12
ROSS SPOKE SATURDAY
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n Wyoming, as fireman, engineer and
later as an official OF a Sheridan fin
ancial institution, all Of which he
admitted qualified him for the office
OF State Treasurer. The speakers
talk was well received and contained
little OF interest until he came to
the subject of state funds, when he
advanced some rather revolutionary
and impossible ideas. to the general
effect that he favored taking this
money and loaning it direct on real
estate mortgages, something that
would require a constitutional
amendment and al entire change of
existing laws, ever If it were feasible
and safe, which any banker. business
MAI or well-informed voter will
deny.
Mr.. Ross was greeted with a rip
pie Of applause when he was intro
duced.. He stated at the outset that
he proposed to address himself to the
independent" voter and not to n
of the "hide-bound Republicans or
Democrcj.s, as in his opinion there is
little or no difference between these
classes. it's the Independent fellows
that win elections. Then the gentle
man who represents the dirt farmers,
two OF whom he buried alive at the
primaries, the Non-Partisans the
Progressive = political : %actioners, and
all the miscellaneous bunch of lists
and isms which have fo~regathered
under the Democratic umbrella this
year, proceeded to make a regular
stereotyped calamity speech. The
wonderful prosperity which OBJ
tanned during the orgy OF Democratic
extravaganza and mal-administration,
when there were "jobs for all and
lots Of money was touched upon al
most tearfully. He also hit the Tea
Pot Dome and mentioned the $40
acre homestead law. which he claimed
was the work of Woodrow Wilson.
aided and abetted by Jawn B..
But the browning sensation of the
evening was the exposure Of how
come Harding was elected by a mere
100000 votes and the connection
between this experimenting event and
the Tea Pot Dome contract. Mr..
Ross said that H. F. Sinclair went
out and raised a gigantic slush fund
of S5OO,O00, or was 1t $500. 100000?
It doesn't matter for the purpose of
this story for one is as absurd as the
other. With this fund the ELECTORS
hcIo uSUduCllCu LIN Lhcll ulItO
poisoned" and that's how it all hap
the reward for this marvellous bit OF
political strategy. It also establishes
the low price record for vote-getting,
provided of course the speakers facts
and Tigers are correct.
Mr.. Ross then paid a few left
handed compliments to his opponent.
PANIED the Union Pacific railroad
and disclaimed any connection with
this mammoth corporation. He
said the people of Wyoming didn't
want an oil man, nor a coal man, nor
a U. p. man, nor a banker, for their
governor. He also paid his respects
to the poverty-strickcn editors of
the state and quoted an unnamed
Democratic editor to the effect that
1t was hard shedding for him and
his kind. but that things were pretty
soft for the Republican editors, who
were each subsidized for $1,000 dur
ing the present campaign. This
news will be received with loud cries
of Yam! Yam!" by many a Republi-
editor, whose mail must have
been delayed.
Simmered down, Mr.. Ross prin-
cipal objection to his opponent Mr..
Hay, as expressed in this speech and
in many others in different parts
OF the state is that the Republican
is a wealthy man, as If it
was positively ~disgraceful to prosper
in this land of wonderful oppor-
tunities. On the other hand n OF
the arguments most frequently heard
behalf of John B. Kendrick, whom
Mr.. Ross lauds to the skies. Is the
tact that the senator has money,
lands. cattle. and all kinds of wealth.
It ia hard to follow the devious men,
tai processes Of the average Demo-
cratic spellbinder. which perhaps ex-
plains why so few in Rawlins tried.
BLOOD AND SAND"