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Think Barney will like them, Steve?

He'll like them alright.

Steve!

Wasn't there a while ago.

Kinda clutters up the view.

Loopy.

Tell Barney I'll see him after the rally.

Tell me, why did you pull that down?

Be a good fella and put it back up again.

You're a registered voter?

Can't say as I am.

Then this banner and this election doesn't concern you.

Why don't you just move on?

D'you figure Easter's hired a gun to run his campaign?

If he did, it's the greatest mistake since buttermilk.

SECRET BALLOT

- Josh Randall! - Good morning.

- Josh! - What a wonderful surprise!

It's been years!

What brings you to Crater City?

- I tell ya, Carole here... - You got a speech to make.

I'll make sure Josh doesn't get away!

D'you mind?

Not at all.

Good luck, darling.

You go on!

I don't want him to know I sent for you.

He'd be furious, he thinks he can beat them alone.

Can he?

This election's filthy, worse than anything I described in that letter.

Sounds pretty good from here.

Ned's worked hard for those cheers.

Too hard!

He deserves to win this election more than anyone alive.

I want him to win.

Who's gonna stop him?

Our honorable mayor Barney Pax has got this town under his thumb.

He won't let a schoolteacher like Ned put him out of office.

If the people want Ned Easter in office, they'll vote for him.

If they vote at all.

Barney makes things happen his way.

He'll create convenient little accidents.

The kind that scare people away.

Won't the people do something?

What can they do? Barney's made his brother Sheriff

just to keep their murderous tricks fresh and sweet and legal.

That's why I sent for you. Maybe you can help.

Maybe.

Ned's the first man who's ever had the courage to challenge Barney.

He's gonna need more than that.

Where in heaven's name did you get this?

It's my living, remember.

Nobody has ever seen this before.

Steve Pax is wanted in the state of Colorado.

His brother won't let this poster be circulated round town.

This could win the election for Ned!

Might just do that.

I'm alright.

Look out!

I don't want that, Steve, you hear?

Wasn't my idea, Mr Pax. Steve said we should break up the rally.

- You almost took my arm off. - I should have!

Scaring these nice people!

Put this coyote in jail.

- What? - That's where he belongs.

Go on!

Ned, I sure apologize. This'll never happen again.

Those fools might have hurt someone.

Now listen to me, all of you!

Anybody hurt, anything broken, charge all the damages to me.

D'you hear?

Whatever it costs, charge it all to Barney Pax.

Come over to Dolly's and I'll buy the drinks.

That hypocrite!

Buying votes, that's all he's doing.

They come mighty cheap in this town.

Takes a special kind of man to do a thing like that.

What?

A heart like ice and a little luck, you know?

Barney Pax has them both.

One slip and he could have killed his own brother.

For some votes, he'd have done it.

The time has come for you to demand and get clean government.

It's time to sweep corruption out of city hall,

to challenge this vicious and arrogant administration

that has cheated and exploited you...

Hiya, fellas!

Hi, come on over here.

Meet three beautiful new dancers from Denver City.

Come and get better acquainted!

Excuse me, you didn't bring the girls just to heckle up Easter's campaign.

I didn't say that at all.

If you're from Denver you must know Steve Patrick.

He shot up half of Colorado before skipping across the state line.

They're not interested.

At least I think that's his name.

Yes, Steve Patrick. Says so right here.

If you don't get out of my way...

- Where did you get this? - I collect 'em. Got trunks full.

This is Mr Easter's party.

Don't you go away now, hear?

Mr Easter, read that real loud so the whole town can hear.

"Wanted for murder. $1000 reward

"for the capture, dead or alive,

"of Steve Pax alias Steve Patrick."

Ned!

Darling, it's marvelous! You ought to hear the people talking!

You showed them how to call Barney's bluff. They're not afraid of him!

It was Josh's doing.

Thanks to you, I may soon be hanging new drapes in the Mayor's office.

Or a wreath on Josh's grave.

I want you to leave town.

Ned, we've been through this, you're almost in city hall.

Because you exposed the Mayor's brother as a killer.

You Steve Pax is our sheriff.

He can shoot you in the back and call it legal.

I don't get into any trouble I can't get out of.

Speaking of trouble, I remember Corporal Ned Easter during the war.

He got me out of trouble a couple of times.

- Is that why you came? - No, that's not...

Come in!

Barney Pax wants to see you, Randall.

What does he want?

Business, I guess.

Coming?

- I'm going with you. - Ned!

It's alright, Ned.

No, I won't have you... Do me a favor

and just relax.

- Honey, I can't let him... - Listen to me.

Barney won't let anything happen to Josh, everyone would know.

He knows they won't stand for that now.

I hope you're right.

Not open today, huh?

Decorating for the election. Only two days away, you know.

He's back there.

After you.

After you.

Where is he?

You wait here. I'll get him.

Doesn't look good for you.

Pretty bad, shooting a lawman in the back

in front of witnesses.

I'm sorry. You can't change the facts, Ned.

Four witnesses saw Randall shoot my brother in the back.

He wouldn't even shoot you in the back!

- So I'm charging him with murder. - Murder?

Your brother's wanted in Colorado

dead or alive!

She's right, Barney.

Your murder charge

won't stand up in court.

Court in this town's got imagination.

This poster might appeal to your court.

There's a printer downtown owes me a few favors.

He swears he faked that poster for Randall to smear Steve and me.

Won't do any good.

All we need is a letter from Colorado.

You know, mail travel's mighty slow.

Randall could be tried and swinging from a tree before it got here.

I wish it had been you.

You, instead of Steve.

So, since you're not interested in helping your friend...

How can I help him?

- Pull out of the campaign. - Are you talking about...?

Just take your name off that ballot.

Do it and I'll change that murder charge to self defense.

What a dedicated statesman, Mr Mayor!

You'd bribe, blackmail, even shoot your brother in the back

just to get elected.

You got your ways, I got mine.

Suppose...

that Ned refuses to withdraw from this campaign.

Randall dances at the end of a rope.

Think it over.

Barney, wait...

I wanna see Josh first.

Why?

For all I know, you may have killed him like you did your brother.

Come on.

Ned, please!

You were right, Ned.

I shoulda left town.

I'd like to talk to him alone.

Let's go, boy, let's get outta here.

We haven't got time...

You're gonna be mayor in two days, you hear me?

We can't be sure of that!

Barney Pax is sure! That's why he wants you out of the running.

Put your weight against that door for as long as you can.

Don't be a fool.

I was never meant to hang.

Where is he?

Where'd he go?

Where'd he go, Easter?

Sorry, I just didn't notice.

Find him.

It's no use, Easter.

I'm gonna put a price on his head and a target on his back,

post his face on every tree in the territory.

He won't be able to travel ten feet

without some bounty hunter shooting him.

He'll live like a gopher and die like a coyote!

Alright, Barney.

You can have the whole ballot. The election's yours.

I want it in writing.

A nice, flowery quitting notice to post up in all the voting places.

You pick it up in an hour.

Ned, it's wrong to throw it all away like this!

Listen to me.

You're letting Barney Pax chase you out of your career, your whole life!

What about Randall's life?

He'll get along. He'll always get along.

Honey,

I can't turn a good friend into a fugitive for the rest of his life!

I just can't do that!

Your good friend...

Did your good friend ever tell you why he came here?

What brought him to Crater City. Did he tell you?

No... I guess he has a right to his own personal life.

Does he have a right to yours?

What are you saying?

Your good friend

came here for me.

Honey, you're imagining things.

It's the truth!

He's been writing to me for months.

I've burnt the letters to keep from being embarrassed.

While you've been out making speeches at rallies,

he's been here with me, trying to to talk me into go away with him.

I don't believe it!

Ned, don't you see what he's like?

He's vicious, he's trying to ruin our lives, your career!

He ought to be smashed!

Come in.

I'm collecting quitting notices.

- It's ready. - No!

Sorry, girl. A deal is a deal.

Anything you need in a civic way, you know where to find me.

I'll have these printed up tonight.

At my expense.

You're a fool, Ned.

I guess I am.

Was that the truth about Josh?

What difference does it make?

Where are you going?

To find Randall.

You don't even know where he is.

The town's not that big. I'll find him.

- I wanna see Barney. - He's busy.

Not that busy.

I want Ned's resignation, Barney.

It's at the printer's.

You haven't had time.

Alright. That Derringer only holds one shot.

Think you can you make it count?

You'll know in a minute. Do I get that resignation?

That notice is keeping a noose from Randall's neck.

I'm not interested in Randall's neck.

D'you want him to hang?

That's his worry, not mine.

What d'you think, Dolly?

Give it to her and get her out.

One move, Pax, and I kill you.

Here's the resignation.

Josh, I...

I almost killed you.

Yep...

You almost killed me.

Josh!

I've done everything wrong.

Everything.

I even lied to Ned about you.

Speak a little clearer.

I told him you came here because of me.

That you wanted me to...

What the devil did you tell him that for?

I couldn't bear to see him quit.

Being mayor was Ned's dream.

My dream.

I turned it into a nightmare.

If he finds out...

Carole told me why you came.

Was she telling the truth or not?

Yeah, she told you the truth.

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