El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12
Political News
Told In Brief
Written for the HERALD.

Colorado republicans have abundant
reason Tor the faitn that Is In them.
and are not slow to preach The Las
Animas county convention adopted not
resolutions of denunciation Of the gov
ernor for pardoninR . murderer who
had been q leader OF a gang and bad
committed horrible GRIM. anu accuse
the governor of either having been
ignorant or of having pardoned the
murderer to secure q certain political
advantage from the mans relatives
Then the Convention goes on: "Our
democratic county government 10 now
and al ways Las been, incom oetent. and
the present board of democratic county
com % ss ,Ooers have not sufficient busi-
ness quail fcstions to properly care 10
the business interests OF the county
By reason of such continued disreg .rd
of all business rules In managing
county affsirs, our taxes are high. our
property values low and the material
interests of our property owners are
made 60 suffer.
ssFor these, and other reasons, there
is no portion of Colorado that has more
cause to dread return of democratic
control 10 the nation or q continuance
OF democratic success in the state and
local government than the voters and
property owners of this county. Gu
local wool and coal interests will not
soon forget when democratic free trade
destroyed the market for these pro-
ducts and brought poverty to both
those who followed the herds upon the
pl In and those who worked in the
mines.
county are ready and anxious to meH-
sure strength with the apostles of die
content upon any and all issues with
which we are confronted in the open
ing ca npaign. We have nothing to
cover up, nothing to evade and moth
ing TO concede. We call upon the vo;-
ers of this aud every other county in
the state to face about and cease
marching with those who bury hope
and look ooly i. to the grave. Come
with Us and j in that other columu
where the doleful music of despair ls
never heard Come with us, where
the marching feet are nzhte by the
furnace fires OF Industry, keeping time
to the beating OF the anvil and throb-
bing of the engines. Come with u
and press forward In the broadening
path of our cOuutry's growing great
ness to glorious victory"
The republicans of San Juan county,
Colorado, me Ike q very practical argu-
ment for their endorsement of the ad-
ministrstion of Mckinley. Their
resolutions reaO 06 sOllOWS.
"Wheress, Under democratic a .
minissrasiOn and tariff laws mining be-
came Improbable, mines we're cloe ed
down, large sums of money invested
in machinery and equipment almost
entirely lost, thousands of workin e
men deprived of employment and
capital forced elsewhere for invest
ment, or compelled to lie idle:
and.
whereas. Under republican adj
min istrstiOn and ta-ff lave 81 600 per
day has been added to the value of the
mineral product of this county, the
mining industry made more prof ia BILE
than ever before, more men employ ed.
employ ment easy to obtain and wages
good and the county made generally
and thoroughly prosperous and,
"Whereas, Like results have fol-
lowed repu blicsn administration and
law throughout our state and nation;
now, therefore, be IL
Resolved, That 1t is the duty of
every cit zen of our state, regardless
of former political affiliations, to vote
and work for the continuance of repub-
ncan supremacy, that such general
prosperity shall continue.
Resolved, That we recognize In our
junior senator, E. 0. Wolcott, q states
man, who for ability and fidelity to
ado, lie the peer of any man on the
floor Of the United States senate
According to Senator Butler, one of
the main N nuth pieces and the nation
al chairman of the Sioux Falls coz
vention of demopopuli-ts, the imme-
date danger that the United States ia
Ia is that our enormous standing army
Is Q menace and coercion to the voters
of the country. The voters will
''cower' is the senator's word. Texans
Blood tells" But we rarely recog-
nize the fact except in times of stress