The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-05
THE REPUBLICAN
ADVISORY BOARD

proposed ADVISORY cOafu OF the IepuD-
sican party, and some explanation by
Chairman Ford of the state committee,
together with an invitation to Repub-
licans all over the state to take the
matter up in their respective locali-
ties and secure large and represent
ative membership. This appeal has
met with a most gratifying response.
The preliminary organization has fixed
secured, without which the work pro-
posed could not be undertaken. AL
ready this minimum has been consid-
erably exceeded, and there seems to
bers will soon reach thousand at
least.
Some criticism has been made of the
new organization on the ground that
criticism must be ill-informed, as the
purpose of the organization, which is
primarily to raise funds to help the
work of the state central committee,
cient organization of the party. Part
of the plan is to have a permanent
state headquarters in Denver, to which
all Republicans may go for information
or help, from which the permanent sec
retary of the organization may keep
in touch all the time with local COM
mittees, and in which meetings may be
held whenever necessary or advisable.
1t was high time the Republican party
of Colorado should have such perma-
nent organization, provided with its
own funds, without calling on any in
dividual for subscriptions, and keeping
up organization work in season and
out of season. Most of the eastern
states have such organizations, and
such permanent headquarters, and
their existence, and the work they do,
has been great factor in Republican
success in that part of the country.
The result has proved that there are
plenty of Republicans in Colorado who
are glad to pay $40 a year for such
an object, and to ally themselves thus
actively with the regular organization
of the party.
The formal initiation of the advis-
ory board-its first election, at which
the executive committee is to be
chosen-will be on Lincoln's birthday,
February 18th, when n banquet is to
be given by and for the members.
Meantime, proper rooms for headquar-
ters have been secured, and by tho
date of the banquet will be furnished
and occupied.
This Is not an organization for show
or parade; not an organization for the
furtherance of any ones individual
ambition; not a factional organization
in any possible sense; 1t is on organ
ization to help the reguar work of
the party, to place it on broad, popu-
lar basis; it means business, not show;
1t means that when the party enters
the next state campaign it will be bet
ter organized and better prepared for
the contest than 1t ever has been in
the history of the state.
The Colorado Legislature has been
in session now for about three weeks.
They have chosen United States SEN
ator from the 4th of March next. They
have, in one house of the other, intro
duced something less than a thousand
bills. They have appointed n commit
tee to travel about the state and take
testimony in regard to the coal strike.
per diem allowances. From the char
acter of the bills introduced it is clear
that instead of reducing taxation and
endeavoring to make the income of the
state cover its expenditure, this Legis-
lature is going to be at least as bad
as Its predecessor. Instead of provid-
ing funds to run the state institutions
1t is now proposed to repudiate the
debts which were incurred in order to
tide those institutions over during the
past two years of folly and extrava-
gance. Instead of providing means to
meet excessive appropriations, or even
ordinary appropriations, it is clear that
this Legislature proposes to go on ap-
propriating, regardless of the amount
of funds available. Governor Orman,
If he chooses, can veto some of this ex-
travagance; but he cannot furnish the
Legislature with brains to get out of
the financial hole into which its pre-
decessor has put the state, or to
strengthen the credit of Colorado,
which has been sadly shaken by the
freak politics of the past four years.
The Work of Congress.
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