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Fusion appears to have been a pretty good
thing for a whole herd of politicians in Colorado.
If politician Populist and his platform
compelled him to pledge himself to anything for
the future he turned to of the other
parties where the platform not binding.
This was a fashionable play of all of them.
Thomas M. Patterson turned Democratic to get
into the United States senate and now the light
has been turned upon the statement that John c.
Bell turned Democrat in order avoid a third
term plank in the platform upon which he was
first nominated by the Popu!ists. 1t is said that
he pledged himself faithfully to his party that he
should be satisfied with two terms in congress and
would not seek the third. But when the time had
arrived for the third he simply stepped over into
another party and left all his pledges behind him.
This has been easy task under past political con-
ditions and the political weather have not
hesitated to take advantage of it.
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Our friend Sabn is getting good reputation as
spebinder and political talker His invitation to
Central City to participate in the rally Saturday
evening last quite honor to the young Re-
publican. Mr. Sabin made an excellent address to
the people there and did not hesitate TO call things
by their proper names designate them by their
proper colors.
w. A. Haggott spent Sunday at home and is
firmly impressed with the idea that majority of
the people seem to have-that the Republican
ticket will be safely landed in Colorado this fall
and that the state will again pass into the Repub1
column where it will remain, at least until the
Republicans become careless of the responsibility
and begin grating the fusionsts have. Mr..
Haggott is making a royal campaign and at the
state headquarters it is said that Haggott and
Holmberg accomplishing than the others
the ticket.
There is Disgusting the fact that great deal
of i'll feeling has been engendered in the ranks of
the Democracy result of the rundown of Mr..
O'Conne11 for personal and spiteful reasons and
not for political reasons. Silver Plume is standing
Loyalty for Mr.. OConnell. The vote in that camp
will show that the people are not in favor of the
kind of Democracy that is engineered by Republi-
Mr.. Kneisel is good man but he will be
obliged to suffer a result of the action of those
who nominated him and there are scores of Demo-
Gratis who do not hesitate to say that he made
mistake in stepping in to crowd out like
Mr.. O'Connell. The clipping the front page of
this issue from the Silver Plume Standard shows
how the representative Democratic organ in the
upper end of the county is inclined to feel on the
proposition.
Every voter who did not register last year
should see to it that he is registered he cannot
vote The Republican committee has no funds for
doing the work and the success of the registration
must depend largely upon the success of the loyal
Republican workers in getting the people out. In
this connection it might not be of place to
publish the text of a communication received by
the Campaigner from the state committee this
week: 81 beg to urge that you cooperate with
your county organization, and to it that there
full registration and that the full vote is gotten
out on election day. From all the information that
we ar receiving from throughout the state, it is
absolutely certain that this state is Republi-
can 1t is only matter of registering and polling
the vote. We are handicapped by being short of
funds to carry this work and we realize that it
falls harder upon the various counties which have
no county ticket this year. II therefore behooves
you and every good Republican to make some
sacrifice in the way of time and voluntary effort.
We are sure to win if the vote is gotten out and
sincerely hope and believe that you of your county
will make good showing election dav. We
hope to receive good account from you"
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There is good deal of truth in the statement
that the Democratic congressional candidates
making Republican speeches this fall. 1t is
fact that they afraid of the party which
they belong. At least it would appear so when
they stand before audience and pledge them
selves to avoid going into of their party
for any purpose. Bell, Shaffroth, Adams and all
the rest doing this very thing. Democracy
must indeed be in pretty hard straits when it fears
to face itself. The voters realize this and will
proceed to elect people who not afraid to come
right out openly and state where they and