Political Quotes

“in the 1800s, Colorado found itself at the center of a nation--gold rushes and silver rushes, cattle barons and sheep barons, range wars pitting the rancher against the sod farmer. It is a State that, as it does today, had a little bit of something for everyone--a whole lot of space, breathtaking vistas, and pioneer dreams abound. The 1860s ushered in the land rush across the country, extending to Colorado a few years later by the 1880s. People from the east looking for that relief valve of western expansion were drawn to the high plains of Colorado with its fertile valleys, peaks and plateaus, places where the rain followed the plow, and the landsmen knew no limit to the sale of aridity. It was in the 1880s that one Raimond von Harrom Schramm, a wealthy baron, was moving his belongings from east to west when the train he was riding on derailed in a small eastern Colorado town. Detecting Divine providence at work--or most likely scared to get back on the train--he decided to stay put, declaring the site of the derailment was where God intended him to be. He went on to build the first multistory brick buildings in that town before the town's fathers decided against naming him the mayor. That the town council would subject such a man of possession to the humility of an election was too much for Baron Schramm, promptly causing him to move his brick buildings to a more aptly named town--you guessed it-- Schramm, just down the road.…”