, 1924-10-22
SEN. NELSON BRANDS DEMOCRATIC
ARTICLE AS FALSE AND MISLEADING
A Downright Deception and Deliberate Attempt
of Opponents to Place him in False Light
Before Park County Voters
Powell, Wyoming. October 81. 1924
Editor Herald,
Cody, Wyoming.

WyOHinB
Dear Sir
Under the heading Has Warren Corrupted Nelson. or has
Nelson Reformed Warren" the stockgrower and Farmer, Park
county Democratic campaign organ, carries a reprint o articles
quoted from the Hartvile (Wyo) Uplit and the Los Angeles
Tribune with the unequivocal assertion that these articles appeared
in the Powell Tribune under the editorship of S. A. Nelson"
For the purpose of lending color to Its statement Of alleged fact
this improvised mouthpiece of local Democracy reproduces verbatim
the masthead of the old Powell Tribune in which S A. Nelson is
very clearly and deliberately conveyed that each and both of the
articles quoted appeared in the Tribune under authority and direction
of none other than S. A. Nelson, whose objectionable onense nov
is of curse that he appears as a candidate for office on the Repub-
Hcan ticket.
The Fartvfle Uplift article appears to have been copied from
the September Is, 1911, issue of the Powell Tribune. If this be
of the Tribune, depending entirely on who assembled the material
for that particular issue. I may have been o the job myself. or
the paper may very possibly have been gotten up by A. S Morse,
or any of the various e employed from time Ito time for
that purpose. In N event I freely assume responsibility myself
for the UpHft article o + editorial. While the Tribune under my man
agement a always Republican in politics I nevertheles vry fire.
quenty accorded a hearing tic the other side-to those Of opposite
political views from myself. This was in accord with my conception
of duty to the community in view of the fact that tn Tribune ws
the only newspaper 1t that time published in Powell. AS editor of
the Tribune and S a newspaper always 1 tried to be fair and
liberal to the entire community without however any surrender of
editorial Independence o. my W part.
So much for the article quoted from the Hartville Uplft in
September, 1911.
which, according to the stockgrower and Farmer, was copied in tn
Powell Tribune o n October 25, 1912, a n altogether different story
must be told. Neither on the date in question nor for many months
previous had been connected in n capacity with o TO my oesree
interested in. the Powell Tribune. During the summer of 1912
I organized the First National Bank of Powell and had previously
disposed of the Tribune to j. r. Baird, who was in full charge at
the time in question. 1t must, therefore, be very apparent that
whoever wrote the article in question for the. last issue of the Stock
grower and Farmer 10 euitv of a downright deception and a de-
supposed that even my opponent would countenance UGH hagrant
trickery IT malicious distortion of facts and the truth. Certainly
no good Democrat who is also a a among men would stand for
this sort of thing. i a therefore somewhat curious to Just
what decent and self-respectng members of the opposition party will
say t. this altogether choice exhibition of the shyster and mounte-
bank in recent Park county political history.
s. A. NELSON.