The Lamar register., 1903-01-14
sEpvsLIoAM STATE COMMITTEE
Meets At Denver and 0enounce ths
Betrayal Of the Party bv . feW
Designing Politicians.

pies OF the republican party, AZ Weii
- its time. honored traditions and
usage, demand that all party ques-
tions be settled by the members Of
the party without coalition or COM
binstion of any character with the
democracy.
"That the republican party recog
nizes but one method OF determin-
ing the proper action and that is
through the expressed wish of its
majority. In the history of the re-
publican party in this state, no gen
eral assembly has ever before met in
which the republican members Of
both the senate and the house of
representatives have not entered,
prior to the meeting Of the legisls
ture, into full and fair conference
or caucus, to the decision Of which
each member was pledged to abide,
and in no instance have the republi
can members failed to carry out such
caucus agreement In no other way
and by no other method can the re
publican party preserve its standing
and command the respect Of the
members Of the party.
"In violation Of every rule, princi,
pie and tradition Of the party, II re
publican members Of the house OF
representatives of the Fourteenth
general assembly, although urged
and requested to do so by their fel
low republican members, absolutely
refused to join in any caucus to de-
clare their choice for speaker, and to
determine other questions necessary
TO the organization ofthe body. In
stead Of asserting to such caucus,
the said IL republican members, by
some combination, or agreement OF
arrangement, or understanding, re-
csived, in open assembly, the votes
Of the 81 democratic members Of the
assembly, and, by this method, in
violation of rule aud precedent,
named the speaker of the house and
its appointees.
1--WE deplore and denounce this
action and declare it to be un repub.
ican and destructive Of party vel,
fare. After many years of demo
cratic and fusion misrule, the voters
OF Colorado have just reaffirmed
their allegiance to the principles Of
the republican party. This fusion
with democracy is destructive of the
integrity of the republican principles
and deserves and receives, in the
mind of every good republican, only
the severest condemnation; and the
republican state central committee
OF Colorado desires in the most SOL
emn and public manner to dissssoci.
ate itself with this movement, and to
declare in most emphatic terms our
condemnation of it and of the people
who participated in it, or approved
Of it.
1--WE are face to face as republi.
cans with the imminent ruin of our
party through the refusal of one half
the republican members of the house
TO 60 into party caucus and their
evident inclination to consort with
democrats. We call upon all the re
publican members of the house to
bury their personal differences and
to at once unite in a party caucus
and organize the house upon repub-
lican lines"
The largest attendance ever pres
snt at . meeting of q state central
committee in Colorado was that pres.
snt at the republican meeting in
Denver last Saturday. Out of ia
members of the committee SO were
represented and they were practical.
ly unanimous in their denunciation
of those alleged republicans who
have joined hands with the demo.
orsts in organising the house when
the republicans had clear and sub
stantial majority.
All attempts to delay or retard the