The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-04-10
BIZ C. T. RAWALI

tails caught Both
suddenly found that the poor taxpayers were being
robbed by trying prohibit further robbery by their
friends Just how retrying which the Supreme
back be retired is strange OF place
they disclose However they make it very clear
the intention Of the duly elected and
siding district attorney attempt retry them So far
local officials concerned the dead
This itself proves how necessary it that the Gov
and the Attorney General should take hand The
may be assumed to have been the intent with the
Sullivan booegging These have been stalled of
just year. but when the State takes some
chips in the 1t is possible that MI Sullivan, ike
the other indicted bootleggers will be brought to trial
Almost the glad reached the people this
Office in receipt Of an sorts Of telephone calls to get
confirmation of the The Republican is quite in
error when it that the people Indifferent
to having these tried again They sent back
for retrial papable committed in try
ing them in the place In did the Su
prerne Court hint dismissal 1t has always been
the plain duty prosecuting attorney to for
and prosecute the with vigor for ne OF
men, that in the first trial he had the evidence
convict The confidence expressed by the commission
s and their friends nothing would be done further
was the establishing in the public mind that the
District Attorney ready to dismiss the cases and IS
the sole why probably Senator Hether
ington brought the matter Gov Sweets attention 1t
is the exception proves the rule and this leads up to
believe quite possible that for far as We know
only once in his career Henrietta has told the truth in
scring to Senator Hetheringtons activity, the inter
esting Of the these We hope his well
known activity prohibonist has lead him to also
call attention the belated bootlegging indictments
against principal defendant 1t has been suggested
to US that Hon C. H Cowan, stand very close
to the Governor Denver and that possibly he as
in securing gbernatoral interest in our troubles
If he is entitled to his share of the credit
IN an extended first page editorial G. NJ Green, the
new the Grand Junction Daily News, republican
discusses advisabity of nominating republican to
oppoe Ed TAYLOR for Congress With a frankness rarely
found in opinions he tells distinct truth in that
republican hope to beat Taylor Expressing his
willingness to support any prospective candidates
he clearly his belief that it is futile effort to
attempt Tayors defeat In this view Mr.. Green is ab-
soluey right Taylor cannot be beaten The reason is
he good Congressman There is no reason why
he should If he deserves defeat will
find it in reversed public And that reversal
be observable long before the primaries You might
Just good enough alone and make Eds election
this district unanimous 1t will save some republican
wad of money and give you time to fight US on
something you have a chance to win
WE are advised by j. A. Steele that telephone
message from Hon E NJ Nourse, brings the glad news
Mr. Lacy the most responsible in the crusade
to remove school from this place Grand Junction,
announced in Colorado Springs that while they had as
the people of the Western Slope would favor
such change they convinced that it was un-
popular and they would abandon all efforts to that end
He further Mr. Lacy declared that their papers
would at once withdraw their in that matter
will be very good to people, for while we
believed their campaign would be successful, we
If the pleasant relations between the two
places should be broken off Therefore it is now
doubly the duty of Gunnson people to clean up their
school extravaganza and graft be eliminated
from now on Let the school that for the re-
mainder of the biennial term change shall be made
from an accumulating deficit marked effort to live
within II show the next legislature
honest improvement the last part of the term
may friendly recommendations from the Auditor
and Budget Commissioner Those must have, to
pect recognition the coming Legislature We think
DR. Russell understands this and will promote it.
REGENTS of the University of Colorado contract
furnishings and equipment for the hos
pital and medical school here They in process of
spending thousands dollars but strangely
they advertising for bids Since they have
looked this very important formality the Denver Post
opportunity advertise to the merchants of
Denver all Colorado that the University of Colo
rado market for furnishings and equipment for
The above copied from the Denver Post ought to be
considered by the people who generously voted huge
bond issue in the past help that
of vast amounts supplies and equipment without any
ming into thousands contemplated? That is the natural
The lid ought be off those transactions and let the
people just how they being obbed Our readers
will recall effort made to steal large
on the purchase Of site for the hospital That bare1
faced robbery defeated recall the correct
w. by an expose the Post Apparently the State Uni
yersity needs honest two in its management
ouite as badly State College about which
much publicity has been had
WILL H. HAYS is worried the Scandals of
He has heen N roft