Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-10-26
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pieces Of the Rocky Ford Republican
.Women's Cinh ut the opera honse Sat
nrday was well managed by the ladies
and well attended, by ihe-pablic. ,..s--
\ The meeting opened with solo by
Miss Frances Knapp. Mrs. Curtis at the
piano.
Mrs. Curtis a.terward took the, presid:.
ing officers chair and introduced Mrs.
Peavey.
l. She said she often heard wornewsny:
have no interest IN politics. They. aEs
all corrupt. all unelean. She could not
understand that petition. Tor there was
NO woman who hsd moi = husband. y sou
OF brother or lover whose interests were
involved in the good and esil-of govern.
msnt, aud no woman ought TO be indif-
forsnt. II was said that women had not
pusiiisd politics. Well, women had not
f,Sen in public life very long and IL Was
too,much to ask that tho cosrupt condi:
tpns Of long standipg should by clesnsed
in SO short fine. Already somethinc
had been done. The women Of Denver
were active Mt this campaign and abe
vss glad to find 30 maiiy OF the women
Of Rocky Ford interested In the pariiica.
ton 81 politica. Shs- ehndemnetf thu
present state administration and cited
the prixs fight Law NJ one Of the conspic.
uous dissraces Of the state. A fusion
administration was one that could shift
tho responsibility from ono OF tho futon
parties To- the. other.
Mrs. Thompson said her rvasoh for
asking the support 81 tho Republican
ticket WINS TINT Republicans Ind always
shown narkel aptitude for govern.
ment. II they would road the history Of
the country for tho past twenty-five
Years they isanld SEQ TINT under tho Re
publican party ihef. had always been
prosperity and capnbility. We heard u
good deal nbou, til. labpring class Who
Wns the laboripg class? Why everybody
who lnborcd with either muscle or with
brain. mud the brain worker was always
ihs harder worked. We heard good
deal about -.fh. People" She would
like 10 hav. that term defined. We were
told that the voice Of the people WAS the
voice OF God. II 50 shc Thought that be.
fore tile voice Of God reached us the
wires very often got crossed. The
people" in tho east said Tint Mr.. Bryan
could so nothing for silver. so according
TO tho Democrats own say.ao there was
nothing To hope frointbem for silver. As
To trusts, everybody was against them.
There was no issue between tho parties
on that score. And she didn't fear tho
cry OF miliIarism because there was real.
~ only cighty-si hnndrcdths OF n
soldier to every thousand citizens. and
she thought ali. conid her self take care
uf cigh,y.Eix hundrcl,bs of soldier.
Bn, IL shc couldn't there wcr. 90
other men aud women to help her out.
III. duty OF the boar was to uphold
American honor and patriotism.
W. u. Goblin introduced the man on
the program. Mr.. Van Cis..
He said We have no rulers in this conn.
try but the people. aud every four Year,
these rulers simply changed their ser.
WANTS. These campaigns nrc only good
naturcI debates and We ought 10 come
ont Of them without malice or Ill will and
with moro respect than ever for tho high
name Of American. III. beloved what.
ever the result of the election we should
NIL ncluicsc in the decision good nntur.l.
ly. He condemned fusion ON the ground
that when there were two or TIRES par
ties IN possession OF the offices there wns
nobody TO bc held responsible. The way
TO prevent tb. scratchin OF tickets WINS
to require each party TO put mp good
clean men whom nobody would want to
scrNtcn Nut tlcn NOts tue purity ticket
aud hold tho party responsible. The
Republican party deserves to win this
fall IN sinic aud nation because ON it's
ticket there were only clean men OF
known capability. TIL. other party was
n pnrty Of confusion. Mr.. Bryan did no,
endorse NIL OF the Popnlist platform. and
the Popnlist party WINS hardly heard Of
now. The silver Republican pnrty was
almost obliterated md the dissatisfied
elements only Of that party were in the
Democratic party. And tho Democratic
party itself was all confusion and incon.
sistency. They were originally in favor
of real Democracy but they had con.
stantly changed front on all their party
tenets and were now divided on the sill.
yer question. Tho paramount issue of
this campaign is simply the administra.
ton Of VIM. Mckinley and it is an issue
Of which we nre not ashamed Capplausc.)
Tho Republican party stands for good
government and prosperity.
When Mr.. Van else concluded il was
too late for Judge Elwell to speak and
the audience was dismissed.