Speaker 1: A fiery horse with speed, a light, a cloud of
dust in a hockey high old Silver, A lone ranger.
Speaker 2: At cost and computor oft.
Speaker 3: With his great horse Silver and his faithful Indian companion, Tonto,
the masked rider of the Plaines fought crime and criminals
throughout the Western United States. No man did more to
bring law and order to the frontier, and Hio Silver
came to be the battle cry of justice. Now return
with us to those thrilling days when the West was
young and adventurely. At the end of every trail, the
lone ranger rides again.
Speaker 4: We're heaving the Bobo Fort.
Speaker 3: Buffalo Point, the county seat of Buffalo County, was the
center of a stirring election campaign. Pete Sampson, ex rancher,
was determined to win the office of sheriff from its
present occupant, Charlie Wilson.
Speaker 5: As our first opens.
Speaker 3: We see Pete in the cafe with a small group
of his backers. Among them is the elderly and frank
spoken Gideon Wells, the local doctor.
Speaker 6: We hear him say eat if you don't bet out
Charlie Wilson, show his boss, hey, we ain't letting him
run this town anymore, things are gonna be even worse
than they were before.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm trying my best.
Speaker 6: Gideon, you are the there's Ace that took your spread
away from him.
Speaker 5: But I don't know if you're staying much chance. Pete. Heah,
I tell you, Petere's like this.
Speaker 7: Me and Gideon here and the rest of us are
all for you. But As has got a whole bunk
house full of gunmen. He's got folks in his county'sublame scared.
They'll vote just about the way he tells them to.
Speaker 5: That's why I'm fighting him. If you was only sheriff,
that's just it.
Speaker 6: If Peter sheriff, there's enough on ast and Charlie Booth
there center to jail for a long time.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 6: But as long as Charlie is the law in Buffalo
County and takes his orders from Ace, there ain't nothing
can be done.
Speaker 9: He's just took over where he good been spread.
Speaker 6: Too, uh huh, like he took over yours and half
a dozen others. First, he runs off most the cattle,
and he shows up in his hired gun hands and
offers to buy for almost nothing.
Speaker 5: And when anyone tells Charlie, their cows is being stole.
Speaker 7: He gets together a posse, rides around a little, then
comes back and says, the criticis took across.
Speaker 5: The border, and there ain't nothing he can do.
Speaker 6: About it, knowing all the time that his ace is
doing the wrestler.
Speaker 5: That's gotta be changed, Gideon.
Speaker 6: I ain't nothing but a saw bones, but buy the
Tournament's enough to make me start packing a shooting iron
for a little target practice on them scunners. It ain't
to be put up with.
Speaker 10: Maybe this time folks will have the nerve to vote
the way they want it.
Speaker 5: They're like, as tells.
Speaker 6: Him to well with you anyway, ain't we Coller. Then
let's have a drink on it, Hey, Barkie, I'm setting
up the drinks for the house, and we're all gonna
drink to Pete here for our next sheriff.
Speaker 5: You fellas are drinking a Pete iron.
Speaker 6: It haste him and sows half his rotten gun.
Speaker 11: I'm suggesting a different toast. I'm ask to drink to
Charlie here. Bet sheeff has county ever.
Speaker 6: Had he ain't drinking the no cookies, even if he
does wear a bat you call me a crook. I
said it, plain, didn't I.
Speaker 10: Charlie, your badge don't give you no right to put
your gun on a fellow that don't carry on.
Speaker 6: I'll teach that old floor ahead and the shoe shirt
that'd be about your size.
Speaker 5: Charlie, How look.
Speaker 11: Here, HESI maybe these fellows will drink to you like
I asked him to. In that case there wouldn't be.
Speaker 5: No harm done.
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Oh what do you say? Fellas?
Speaker 9: You own your crooked bus, can't bluff us all the time.
Speaker 5: I ain't bluffing nobody, Pete.
Speaker 11: I'm just asking him, real polite, sure, figuring they'd be
scared to go again.
Speaker 5: You drink up boys, Charlie Wilson.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'd rather know.
Speaker 11: Maybe you need a little convincing, huh give him a
campaign argument, fellas?
Speaker 12: Yeah, man, some mans. The next time I both tos
you to do something, you frock here and there's.
Speaker 4: Another Are you you just missed my boot?
Speaker 5: I ain't know where to talk it to, old Pete.
Speaker 11: I need my fault if you can't put up as
good a campaign talk.
Speaker 6: You've been running this country with guns ever since you
come here. Height sure, and I've.
Speaker 11: Done right well, all right, fellas you change your minds
any about drinking.
Speaker 5: The Charlie, Sure I'll treat them. I'd be right glad to.
Speaker 12: Gill for drawing the row.
Speaker 6: Come on, Peach, there ain't no use trying to stand
up to a crooked sheriff that takes his orders from
a still bigger crook. We'll get our horses and ride
out to your place.
Speaker 12: Might as well.
Speaker 11: I reckon talk Maybeaby, you're savvy what's good for you?
Keep right on right and then never come back.
Speaker 5: You ain't running me out of Towny's stick around in
if you have a mind. Eh.
Speaker 11: But when election day comes next week, the only vote
you'll be getting will be your role. Step up the bar, Fellas,
another drink to Charlie here, and don't forget them the
names to stay healthy, I'd better vote right.
Speaker 3: When Pete Sampson and the old doctor left the cafe,
they mounted and rode toward Pete's small place just outside town.
Speaker 5: We hear them as they discussed the situation on the way.
Speaker 13: Doc.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I maybe our Pete. Sometimes a fellaw's got to
do what he knows to be right, even if he
ain't gonna profit life.
Speaker 9: What happens just now has happened a dozen times before.
Speaker 6: Uh huh.
Speaker 9: The honest folks are for me a nation. His gunsling
has come.
Speaker 12: Around the backwater.
Speaker 6: It's hard to blame him.
Speaker 12: Their course, it is.
Speaker 9: They know this hair ain't gonna do nothing for him.
Speaker 6: Well, if you don't win out, Pete, I'm packing up
and leaving town here. I don't want her, but I
won't have my choice. Where you've been thinking of going
over to Harmony? Most likely Harmony. Well, there's plenty of
business for saw bones over there. They got a sanitarium,
and all folks come from quite a distance to be
doctored there.
Speaker 9: I'd sure hate to see you go.
Speaker 6: And if you do lose out, Pete, you'd better height
hit it out of here too. No tell him what
Ace will do to you for running against Charlie.
Speaker 10: You do plenty right now for one for the way
to look just a poor election. But maybe he look
at the paint horse over.
Speaker 6: There leaping lizards. Ain't he traveling though?
Speaker 5: Ain't that fellow waving at.
Speaker 6: His My god, it seems like he is.
Speaker 5: You rein up and see what he wants.
Speaker 6: Oh boy, well, I'll looks like an engine.
Speaker 12: You what you want?
Speaker 5: Redskin?
Speaker 6: He's riding like he's got something on his mind. All right,
Oh okay, you you color named Pete.
Speaker 5: I'm Pete Sampson if that's what.
Speaker 6: You mean, Matt, right, what you want with Pete? Redskin?
Speaker 8: You him? Friend?
Speaker 5: Friend, I ain't got no better.
Speaker 9: The doctor may have been friends for quite a spell.
Speaker 8: Then me talk. Yes, you want beat sheriff?
Speaker 6: You mean in the election? Red Skin?
Speaker 8: Not right?
Speaker 5: So that's what I aim to do.
Speaker 9: But right now things don't look so good.
Speaker 8: You know he ha'ts funner god brother.
Speaker 9: Sure Race has got a brother, ain't around these parts.
Speaker 6: I never heard a said any kin.
Speaker 5: Well, it ain't generally known. He don't use the name
of Dolan, and he's got quite a reputation for being
an outlaw.
Speaker 9: I've heard as thinks a heat for the kid.
Speaker 10: He'd like to have him stay in his outfit, but
he can't get the kid to quit rambling.
Speaker 6: Well, if Ace's got a brother, don't surprise me now
to hear he's a crook too.
Speaker 5: But what's that got to do with us? Engine?
Speaker 8: White Friend? Got plan?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 8: You come to Tonto me show you, White Friend?
Speaker 6: You want us to go with here and meet this
friend of yours.
Speaker 14: Uh, not right, But what's the id him? Tell you
how you beat sheriff?
Speaker 10: Well, if this friend of yours savvy is how I
can win the election, it's more and I can do
just what's your game?
Speaker 8: M It's not game, Tonto, not trick you.
Speaker 6: What do you think, Doc, it's up to you, Pete,
I'd say we couldn't be no worse off doing what
the Redskin asks.
Speaker 5: That's my notion. You come lead the way, Redskin. If
your POD's got a scheme to beat.
Speaker 9: Them crooks, I haim to hear it not good.
Speaker 10: And if this is just some slick scheme that Aces
put you up to, why then we'll show them that
we ain't to be scared.
Speaker 14: You follow Tonto, Get them up up.
Speaker 3: Tonto, the faithful Indian companion of the Lone Ranger, led
Pete and Gideon Wells to the hidden camp he shared
with the Mask Man. There, with growing enthusiasm, they listened
to the Lone Rings plan. Our next scene opens two
days later in the cafe Ace Gullen, Sheriff Charlie Wilson,
and several of their friends are seat at the large table.
Speaker 13: Ace is speaking, boys, Charlie, Hugh's got the election just
about as good as one we got. The folks in
this county so blame buffaloed ain't even breathing.
Speaker 5: Listen, we tell him they kids. Just one thing is eh.
Speaker 12: We're all right as long as nothing happens to you.
The folks in the county hate us like poison, but
you they're scared of. Without you, we'd be skinned alive.
Speaker 5: What do you figure is gonna happen to me?
Speaker 12: I ain't saying anything, well, but if it.
Speaker 15: Did, Charlie's right as it's your brains and the wages
you're paying for our guns that's keeping us on top.
But if somebody should pluck you, they'd hang us so
fast we wouldn't know what.
Speaker 5: Happened to it. S what's cording to you fellas?
Speaker 6: Nothing?
Speaker 8: Boss?
Speaker 6: We're just saying you ought to play it safe.
Speaker 11: What do you figure I'm hiring so many guns fair
to make sure nothing like you say happens.
Speaker 5: If you're on your toes, it won't. We'll watch out
for you. I forget this kind of talk. We want
to think about it.
Speaker 15: Now.
Speaker 12: Here's the sobs coming this way.
Speaker 5: What's that oh for looking for more trouble.
Speaker 12: Not if he's Savva's what's good for him?
Speaker 6: I like to have a word with you.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well speak up.
Speaker 6: You better step over in the corner with me, as
I don't figure you'd want these fellas to hear. And
why shouldn't we hear it? Why that's up to ease.
But I reckon, he just as soon you didn't. It'll
only take a second.
Speaker 11: Well make it fast, Come on, doc, you fellas stay
here all right. If it's something I think you ought
to know, I'll tell you myself. But we'll keep an
eye on the well doak wouldn't blaze.
Speaker 6: This isn't just to mate more this way as you
can still hear us.
Speaker 11: Oh I had I don't forget the ads so far
off they can't really if you're trying any tricks.
Speaker 5: This will do well.
Speaker 6: It's uh, it's about your what's that I didn't mean
to go a guinea the other days? I reckon, I
sort of spoke out a turn. So now i'd like
to be the first one to warn you. Warn me
your brother's over to harmony.
Speaker 5: Ain't that the town where the sanatarium is?
Speaker 6: That's the one. Well, what if he is he got
shot up bad. So we went there to be doctored.
And he don't know there's a US Marshal on his
way there to Jaalen.
Speaker 5: Is that straight?
Speaker 6: I wouldn't have no reason to send you there for nothing,
would I?
Speaker 5: I soon? Will they arrest the kid?
Speaker 6: If you hurry, you can beat the marshal. He just
set out, Madeline.
Speaker 5: I can't hear my brother.
Speaker 6: I figured maybe you wouldn't want the others to know
about this. You see, if the Marshall should get there
for you, the kid might talk enough to send the
Marshal over this way. Mmmm, And you wouldn't want you
a bunch to think there might be trouble.
Speaker 5: I don't have to tell them nothing. You're going right now.
I'll take a couple of boys with me in case
you're up to some stunt.
Speaker 6: I ain't ace.
Speaker 11: I reckon you'd have better sense than that, because you'd
sure or pay for it when I get back.
Speaker 6: I know, Steve, come along with me.
Speaker 11: I got a little trip to make Charlie, you and
Rick run things. I get back here. I'll tell you later.
Speaker 16: I'm along you fellas you do like I tell you,
you'll have to ride like I'll get out Ace, just
what I do, and you won't forget It was me
that warn you, will you.
Speaker 11: I don't forget my friends anymore, and I forget my enemies.
Speaker 6: You fellas, I'm wishing you all luck you have got coming.
Speaker 5: He get up there.
Speaker 10: The curtain falls on the first act of our Throwing
Lone Ranger drama.
Speaker 9: Before the next exciting scenes, please for minister.
Speaker 5: Pause for just a few moments.
Speaker 17: Hmm.
Speaker 5: Now to continue our story.
Speaker 3: After Gideon Wells had told Ace Dolan that his younger
brother was in danger of being arrested, and the crooked
rancher had left town with two members of his gang,
the elderly doctor re entered the cafe.
Speaker 5: Hey, Doc, but he stressed out of here in such
a hurry, for.
Speaker 6: I don't recognized better say, he most likely wouldn't want
me to, Doc. You calling me come over here, all right, Sheriff,
take a chair.
Speaker 1: Doc.
Speaker 6: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: We need to ask you some questions.
Speaker 8: Yeah, where did you say to these just now?
Speaker 6: I'm right sorry, but the doctor ain't supposed to tell
his patient's secrets.
Speaker 5: What's that you say, Patian rug?
Speaker 6: And I'll be running along to my office. I've got
some work to do.
Speaker 12: Right where you are. But you're going to explain that remark.
Speaker 6: But if Ace was to find out, you knew he
ain't likely to live.
Speaker 10: Jumping ghost, I said too much already you ain't said
half enough.
Speaker 5: But really I planning to live long.
Speaker 6: But what do you if you are talk?
Speaker 13: If he ain't just go on dodging the questions we're asking,
you be suffering from lead poisoned prato.
Speaker 12: And we ain't bluff and doc.
Speaker 6: But if he should live to come back from the
sanitarium over to Harmony, he'd kill me.
Speaker 5: For talking the sanitarium.
Speaker 12: He went to Harmony.
Speaker 6: It was just because I told him what the doctors
over there wrote me.
Speaker 5: What are they right?
Speaker 6: I I can't tell you.
Speaker 3: Take a look at that gun and make up your
mind A spell it?
Speaker 6: I uh, I'll talk.
Speaker 12: That's better.
Speaker 6: You see, Ace has been worried about some spells he's
been having.
Speaker 12: Get on with it.
Speaker 6: He's come to me secret like because he didn't want
you Fellas to save as. There might be something wrong
with him. Yeah, I looked him over, but I didn't
want to say for sure what the matter was till
I wrote to the doctors at the sanitarium, asking about them.
Speaker 5: And what did they say?
Speaker 6: They they said it was even worse than I figured
it was. He might drop over dead almost any time. No,
I wouldn't have no reason to lie to you, would I.
Speaker 13: For what's aliena it's it's his hard Yeah, he's got
thermatopolis of the letter cardiac offering cool, he's got all that.
Speaker 6: Well, he's got that, for sure. But there's a couple
of other things that might be wrong with him too.
Speaker 13: Sure he got dark aine lion, Yes, savvy what that means?
Speaker 12: You're blamed the right I do.
Speaker 6: Now, don't forget. I didn't want to tell you about this.
Speaker 5: If he says really gone to harmony.
Speaker 12: If he has, somebody will be riding in the past
him on the way. It's a two day ride over there.
Speaker 13: We'll wait to find out.
Speaker 5: And if it so, we'd better start figure and what
to do.
Speaker 17: And I'm telling you we'd better figure fast.
Speaker 3: Gideon Welles's story was told and retold until it had
reached the years of every voter in the county. Each
time it was repeated, Ace Dolan's condition grew worse.
Speaker 12: Hey, part, what's the excitement have you heard about?
Speaker 7: Ast dolen Ah tell Us seen him riding over to
the sanitarium in harmony.
Speaker 5: There's something mighty wrong with him.
Speaker 11: They tell you he'd likely to live, You don't say so,
and if you don't, you won't be able to do
nothing to us.
Speaker 5: If we vote for Pee for Share, well I'll be talking.
I gotta tell the.
Speaker 6: Folks at home about it.
Speaker 4: Hey, fucky hell, I just learned from Pat that he's
just dying. Dianas the doctor's got the harmy. Don't get
me a chair. The short of that ain't no town
at all. I'm voting Charlie Wilson out office, and Pete
Sampson is my collar.
Speaker 18: A high myself. He's just died where just hating the
town he captain and tip throwing in the sanitarium vote veris.
Speaker 15: Like no, sir, that means as much will be busted up.
Speaker 12: And the election is just tomorrow.
Speaker 9: We can hook the books out and we'll hote him.
Speaker 12: Out for cor Ace.
Speaker 3: Dolan's men became panic stricken as the rumor of his
death reached Buffalo point. In his office, Sheriff Charlie Wilson
openly worried, tried the reason out the course he should follow.
Speaker 12: I don't know what's going to happen with East lasted?
What did I have to tie myself up with him?
Speaker 2: For?
Speaker 12: I wish I had have heard? Now what you want?
They got word esus dead.
Speaker 5: Everybody's talking about it.
Speaker 12: Don't you figure I got here?
Speaker 5: You heard the same.
Speaker 12: I most likely heard it for you.
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 12: I don't know.
Speaker 5: You gotta do something else?
Speaker 17: I see now, he says, there if one more fuller
tells me that our blow.
Speaker 12: He's full head off and I'm telling nothing. Of course
he's dead. But what we gotta think about is the election.
We can't want it now, there ain't a chance.
Speaker 15: But if you fellows stick with me, then why should
we was he's paid us our salaries. With him gone,
we're drifting, and we're drifting right smart.
Speaker 12: You can't do this to me.
Speaker 11: You might have went out again, Charlie, but it ain't
worth betting our necks on us.
Speaker 12: Yea yell a coyote.
Speaker 15: We're just using our head instead of losing him. But wait,
we ain't waiting the elections come on. That just saved
us a twenty four hours, and twenty four hours ain't
none too many.
Speaker 17: Blash them, blash them all the dirty skunks.
Speaker 5: They're all right now.
Speaker 3: Leaving me to base the music, leaving the sheriff to
worry over his own affairs. As Dolan's henchmen hurried to
the ranch house, packed their few belongings, mounted their horses,
and started for the open country. They rode all through
the night and stopped in the morning, only long enough
to replace their tired horses. Then they started out again.
They had ridden only a short way when.
Speaker 6: He for up ahead.
Speaker 12: Huh he had haste. It looks like him showing up
where I'll be?
Speaker 9: Whoa, it's his coose.
Speaker 12: Gosh, don't say that.
Speaker 17: Holler Hillard, Oh ho?
Speaker 5: Are you weather soon here?
Speaker 12: Boss? We heard you was dead?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 12: Sure?
Speaker 6: We did?
Speaker 12: It's all over town and that was it.
Speaker 5: Huh. That's where they got me out of town. It
was just a pull some try this. I went to
Harmony to help my brother. He wasn't there at all.
It was just a trick.
Speaker 12: It must have been, boss.
Speaker 6: What are you gonna do?
Speaker 5: Two of twenty show him fellas it ain't stolen. Need
to be fool weird.
Speaker 3: Excitement ran high during the casting of the balance. The
greater part of the voting was done in the county seat,
and everyone knew that whichever Kennedy carried Buffalo Point would
also carry the county. When the election was over, everyone
crowded into the cafe to hear the final returns.
Speaker 4: I've met people, most likely our ten votes were telling the.
Speaker 5: Whole county in Gunslinger sat out last night and a
blame god.
Speaker 12: He had to have them vote counted for now.
Speaker 7: I bet the sheriff hated to have to stay in
town till it was over.
Speaker 5: And it's Charlie, it's got it.
Speaker 12: Went out to be outside as coming down he eat
with him. Charlie, ain't looking so happy here they are?
What's the vote? Who's sheriff?
Speaker 2: Hey, Pete?
Speaker 5: If you come on, tell us what the count was.
Speaker 12: All the votes are in and counted.
Speaker 5: Are you still sheriff?
Speaker 9: Charlie?
Speaker 12: I got one.
Speaker 17: Hundred and fifty votes and Pete got four hundred and
sixty three?
Speaker 5: What what fella?
Speaker 17: So I'm turning over my badge to Pete.
Speaker 10: And the first thing I'm doing is new sheriff, is
to put you in jail.
Speaker 12: Charlie. You can't do that. You've got it coming.
Speaker 9: You stuck up for that bunch of killers and thieves.
You're bullied everyone in town to try to get justice.
You ain't, so you're lucky. You're just getting jailed instead
of hunt.
Speaker 12: Jailing's too good for you.
Speaker 8: Come in here.
Speaker 12: Where's the place he told us? But he's doing out there.
Speaker 5: You went to the everybody local.
Speaker 9: He so locals that I interested you two ways arresting me.
Speaker 12: I'm the law here now. The election's overlease, I got
beat out.
Speaker 5: You're gurt paid out. Whatton Blazer's been happening here.
Speaker 12: They just told you. Everybody think you could taste in
your chick, we'll have it. Who said that? It was
the doctors the night you left you?
Speaker 5: Why left Bray?
Speaker 9: You ain't in no position to do anything to him now?
Speaker 12: But is there worn't something wrong with you? Why did
you leave here?
Speaker 5: Because that blasted.
Speaker 11: Old coot told me my brother was gonna be jailed
in harmony.
Speaker 6: It won't my idea, It is the mass fellow. Yeah,
he figured if we could trick ase in the leading
town like he did, we could spread that story about
him ailing back. Why Charlie, Then, when folks got to
believe in you was dead, he's they wasn't scared no
more to vote again Charlie.
Speaker 12: It ain't fair, I tell you. Why should just be
and East get chailled? Why don't the others get a wait?
Speaker 10: They didn't the mask fellow and his injured pardon me,
he picked them up last night when they was running off.
Speaker 5: You want the sheriff him.
Speaker 19: No, but we figured if I lost out, we let
him go, and if I didn't, we'd have them where.
Speaker 12: We could jail them.
Speaker 5: You're not gonna jail me.
Speaker 12: Got the god last.
Speaker 18: A mass fellow shot.
Speaker 6: That's the mass man we was talking about. Ry go.
Speaker 12: We want to thank him.
Speaker 9: Hold On, fellas at Hombred downaheap for us.
Speaker 10: But you ain't got no more chance of thanking him
than you have about thinking it.
Speaker 19: And why not because he's the Lone Ranger.
Speaker 12: We're one.
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