Eating Democrats

Alfred Packer ate five prospectors whom he was guiding

over a high Colorado plateau in 1874.

The judge who sentenced Packer to hang indignantly pointed out

that "There was only six Democrats in all of Hinsdale County

and you ate five of them."

The Department of Agriculture startled the official community

by dedicating its cafeteria to Alfred Packer. Then the General

Services Administration removed the plaque and accused them

of "bad taste."