The Elk Mountain pilot., 1924-09-04
gCoNsIDER YOUR DUTY TUESDAY

CONSIDER YOUR DUTY TUESDAY
TUESDAY, September 9th, the DUTY of every voter
is to to the polls No matter what your politics,
belong there long enough register your opinion
who should be candidates for the various State
ty offices to be filed
The founders of the government assumed that the
American elector would lose interest in these mat
ers and would safeguard his most intimate interests
with his attention to the franchise Can you afford
feat the will and confidence of the founders of the Re
public?
There issues of great Importance before this
fall Even in State politics there transcendent
For the first time since Colorado admitted the
Union, we have chance-a bare chance-to Gov
ernor from this of the state The Republican party
has given that chance. For the first time in
lection, have chance-again it is a bare chance
to get u S Senator from the Western Slope. The
pubicans gave that chance. And now comes bunch
of grafters who have made Gunnison Democracy oous
and offers to trade County Commissimer-tvo County
Commissioners for the empty honor of their
Governor IF he after you have desert
ed and tried to defeat him.
So much for you republicans. We viii see just how
good traders you are when the votes counted.
Now fellow Democrats. You know just what has
taken place. You know that from the day Geo Miller
left the Board Commissioners and Geo Sullivan took
his place the conduct of the Board has nauseous
lou know that it reeks with groses extravaganza
that splendid grand jury indicted Sullivan several
counts Tor so-caed malfeasance in Office The charges
should have been felony Those charges still hang over
him undecided He boasts in his letters to voters that
he personally selected B. H. Jorgensen and Hugh Smith
Knowles Against these the writer has no grievance
Ordinarily we would be supporting them cheerfuy and
confidently. But Sullivan candidates thew become alb
soutely impossible. To them is to endorse Geo
Sullivan and Ted Knowles We might go the whole
hog and renominaate the indicted men, To elect their
selections is to endorse what they have DONE
We can imagine fate Gunnison County
than TO endorse uphold and support
ton as the one of the last four years. is done and
the court house sold for the could be no
worse surprised than they be if they were nti
matey acquainted with the brought forth to the
attention of the grand jury
we throw no rocks at either Mr.. Jorpensen or Mr.
Smth A time will doubtless when we shall srn-
port BOTH but it will be when they purged of Sui
ivan endorsement and when their election does not a
soiutely mean approval of Sullivan and his nnumerable
wrong doings.
1t makes little difference who of the MANY men nom
mated Tor other Offices nominated good men,
some in our Judgment competent than Others hut
that is up to the voters There nothing to be feared in
the nomination of any of them
Inc whole matter this year with the guardians
OF the treasury the County Commissioners The neonIe
simply dare not leave this the corruptng hold
OF the man whose hand visible in every ouestionable
transaction the Board has dealt with
Taxes have quadrupled since his advent and debts
nave accumulated that it will take to iouidate
we need clean, cooheaded charge of county af
fairs and Progressive Democrats offered YOU Frank
Comstock and L. B. Sitter whose are as clean
as can be- whose records every place trust has evil
denced sterling honesty and unblemished fathfuness
ABOVE ALL we feel confident that Dr. Geo Sullivan will
nave no power to hypnotze buldoze either of them
WHY NOT VOTE FOR COMSTOCK AND STITZER?
Can you better it way? But whether agree with
not GET OUT AND VOTE Then the verdict will at
least represent the choice of the people.