Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-07-24
STRONG HOPE FOR VICTORY.

F. l.. Brooks of Colorado Springs,
who may be the Republican candidate
or congressman-at-arg from this
state next fall. was in the city yester-
day. says the Denver Republican. Nj
Brooks will go to the convention with
The united support of the Ell Paso
county delegation El Paso is the ban
ier Republican county in the state.
and as the delegation will ask nothing
else on the state ticket, Mr., Brooks
lomination is practically conceded.
Mr. Brooks law practice has re-
Gently taken him pretty well over the
state. and he is very enthusiastic over
the prospects for a Republican victory
this fall. The spread eagle style of
political argument is not going to take
in Colorado this fall said Mr..
Brooks. The people have been think
ing in the last year and they have
questions to as5-questions that it
will be hard for the Fusionists and
Democrats to answer. | found the
ceiling of resentment toward the state
administration very marked. The
people feel that the state has been
discredited at home and abroad by
such things as the Bucklin bill. passed
by a Fusion Legislature and signed by
4 Fusion governor. They are placing
he responsibility for this act where i;
belongs. too They realize that if the
Bucklin bill had not been passed by
the legislature and signed by Governor
Orman that thousands, perhaps mil
lions of dollars would have been seek
ing investment here that is now with
held or sent into fields where there is
'ot the danger of an outbreak of Pop
lism or Socialism
Roosevelt would carry Colorado
EASILY" said Mr. Brooks. THE peo-
pc feel that he is a strong, honest
clean man. and that he is at heart in
sympathy with the tendency to re-
strict the growth of the west in order
hat the east may be more prosper
Gus. They feel that he will do every
thing in his power to aid in the estab-
lishment of government irrigation
works that will be of actual benefit to
Lang numbers of people, some OF
whom are now in the state. and many
that will come. The efforts of some
Fusionists to deride and belittle Roose-
yeit have only endeared him the more
to the people of the state.
The state has great many things
to ask of the federal government
found very few towns that were not
interested in one project or another
the building of a reservoir, the open
ing of a reservation the betterment of
the postal service or similar things
which require the cooperation of the
sovernment-and the people at these
towns realize that so long as Colora-
10 is outside the pale these things will
be hard to get. Wyoming's delegation
in congress can naturally get many
more things than that from this state.
1t is not human nature for man
in office to want to go out of his way
to do favors for n man who deems it
his political duty to criticise the Office
holder at every turn, to try to make
out that he is dishonest and incompe-
tent. and so long as Colorado is in OPP
position. the state will have to take
the opposition's share. The people of
Colorado have seen their representa-
tiyes at Washington swallow their
own convictions simply to make
point against and annoy the very peo
pie from whom we have so much to
ask, and they are getting tired of it,
We will have hard campaign of
course. There is political inertia to
be overcome. But once let the move
ment be started and it will gain iner-
tia until it sweeps the state"