La Junta tribune., 1900-09-29
Mr.. Chairman and Delegates: Ladies'
ard Gentlemen:

ard Gentlemen:
This great convention. with its surg
ing mass OF earnest Republicans al
ready casts the shadow before 1t Of an
approaching victory. Applause)
We are met again. a united party,
animated by that instinct Of loyalty
which characterizes every citizen who
values the perpetuity Of the Republic.
No man here is called upon to sacrifice
the convictions which once divided US,
events throughout the world in the last
few years have modified them. The
Democracy has abandoned the Issue
and has declared that the great Ques-
tion before the American people Ii our
betrayal of our responsibilities grow
ing out of the war with Spain. the
abandonment OF our obligations to our
new possessions, and when political
party asks this great nation to make
itself by-word and reproach among
the civilized countries Of the world, to
dishonor our soldiers and our sailors,
and to degrade our fiag, the good men
and women OF Colorado will stand to-
gether for the honor Of our country.
(Applause)
Rcunitsd Party.
1t is a good omen to-day, my friends,
that thirty-eight years ago, on the 18th
Of September, on such day as this,
In the dark hours of the war, was
fought and won with bloody sacrifice
the great battle OF Antietam. ZAP
plause.) Four years ago used to hope,
when some OF our friends left us, that
they would return. They called them
selves Silver Republicans. l am glad
to-day they went, for the first word
was abandoned. and made a by-word
by Democracy; it left nothing but Re
publicans, and that Is the tie that binds
us all. applause and cheers.)
II we had not come together on any
other issue, fellow citizens, the NAL
administration of the state OF Colorado
would have brought US together this
fall. (Applause.)
Two years ago we elected Demo-
cratic governor. He found the state In
good financial condition; for whatever
criticisms may be made as to his pre-
decessor lie mt least had the merit OF
public virtue.
He found the state in good condition.
He has left 1t disgrace to solvent
commonwealth. He found our war
rants, which ever since territorial days
have commanded premium, but they
are out to-day, without an appropria-
ton TO meet them, ut 80 cents on the
dollar.
He fopnd our great public institu-
tons In good condition. They had been
built up from nothing until they are a
credit to our state and to our nation
and to the world. He has left them SO
bankrupt that the banks Of Colorado
have been called upon to advance mon
cy enough to keep them going. under a
threat that the fusion legislature would
be recalled II they did not. (Applause.)
He was elected upon solemn pledge
by the Democratic party that he would
secure home rule for Denver and rid
this great community. an integral part
of the state, and its pride, from the .op.
preston and robbery OF the police board.
That was the platform on which he
stood then. These were the principles
which he announced while he was a
candidate before the people. As soon
as he was elecled he began to hedge,
and he wound up by ssking that COM
mission be appointed to investigate the
subject.
He has gone on signing bill after bill,
when he was informed that this state
could no longer from Its revenues pay
them, until he signed bills aggregating
more tudu POOO,VOO moic tnoh ooA AS'T
enues.
He left the incumbency Of the Office
which he has disgraced with debt on
the state Of $2OO00O and an incompe-
tent commission appointed to ascertain
how this already overburdened people
can be taxed annually 100000 more
to pay the expenses Of our state zap
plause). and those OF you who come
from farming regions, hope, will
bear In mind, that the platform Of one
of the parties which Joined In the ag-
gregation which WAS nominated last
week and on whose platform every
candidate must lean. unanimously re-
solved as a part of their platform that
the additional burdens. should be borne
by the owners of land.
Climax Of Corrqptloa.
That, fellow citizens, IL the public
administration of our government SO
far ~ Its credit is concerned and its
administration found n fitting climax
here in the last ten days. Under the
provision that those who registered
might vote, the struggle for supremacy
in the fusion. party In this county be-
gan. Corporations-legitfm corpora
tons doing business under the fran
chise Of the people-have been black
mailed to pay the expenses Of these
primaries. Gamblers and thieves and
disreputable people and law-breakers
have been assessed to pay the expenses
OF the primaries contest here.
And those OF you who do mot come
from this county VIII be interested In
this story Of bad government. There
were for week preceding the election,
brought up to the court house to be
registered, in hacks, by policemen IN
uniform, those unfortunates who seek
only seclusion in oblivion enough to be
kept from the light Of day, and they
were brought up and registered and In
structed to vote the Thomas ticket nm
der threat that II they did mot they
would be driven out Of business.
They registered people In the most
outrageous manner. From the Clifton