Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-10-24
WHAT ABOUT COLORADO


so opportune and correct in all aus
bearings that we take pleasure in re
producing 1t. We sincerely trust every
person who picks up this paper will
read the article carefully and then act
accordingly:
Some local Democrat prophets. who
recently wended their way to the
shrine of Alton, the Silent, at Esopus,
have been regaling the New York pa
pers with the fanciful dream thai
Colorado would cast its electoral vote
for the Democratic ticket this fall
The developments of the national
campaign during the past month indi.
cate that the Democrats hope TO elect
president by the votes of the follow
ing states: The solid South. with ISL
votes; Maryland. West Virginia. Del
aware. New Jersey. Connecticut and
New York with rs votes. making
total of 227 votes or only l2 votes
short of enough to elect.
Nevada and Montana are almost
certain to go to the Democrats. max
ingg six more votes and. on account
of local conditions, Utah is more than
likely TO go to the Democrats. leay-
ing three votes short of enough to
elect a president
Thus it will he seen that Colorado
with votes may cut most import
ant figure in settling the presidential
succession for the next four years
Quietly and with millions of dollars
of contributions from the great trusts
of the country the national lea iers oi
the Democratic party are waging Wig
orous warfare all along the line OF
battle with plans laid to apture Indi-
ana and Wisconsin II possible.
The assurance of the Democrats II
even thinking they can carry a sing,
important western state may seer
ridiculous. but il there is anv doul
about how Colorado " II go in Noyen
her then surely the Democrat part
has good basis for believing that T.
can elect a president
And how will Colorado go?
An astlte and deter. ed effort is
being made to overshadow and be
cloud the national issue in this state
by appeals to class prejudice and
class passion and to make the deter
mining factor not the presidential
succession, but the gubernatorial
succession.
No possible calamity could befal
Colorado so great as that of the elec.
tion of Democratic president
For the first time since there was
a settled far West that section has Il
representative of its interests. a sym
pathizer in its cause, a man who I'M
derstands its conditions and who is
innately loyal to its progress. in the
presidential chair.
BY one stroke of his powerful and
loyal pen he made IT possible to peo-
pie millions of acres of our arid lands.
BY strong. constructive and ag-
gressive craftsmanship he has open-
ed up oriental commerce to the ex-
tent that promises unlimited oppor.
tunties to our energetic and progress.
sive people in developing and dispos-
ing of our inexhaustible resources.
The tide of Colorado swealth and
prosperity must henceforth come from
the shores of the Pacific and not from
the Atlantic.
Our desiny is wrapped up with our
sister states to the West infinitely
more than it is with the older states
to the east.
The millions of people in the Orient
furnish a market for all we can pro
duce in mine, and mill, and soil rich
er by far than any market offered to
our brethren in eastern states.
Republican policies and Roose
veltian craftsmanship will open those
markets to their fullest capacities.
And what about Colorado when the
future of these questions hangs in the
balance?
Wille Colorado turn from the able,
devoted, strenuous and progressive
Roosevelt-the adopted child of the
West-to the vapid, insipid spineless
and tottering Parker, who never wit
messed sunset west of Buffalo and
who undoubtedly believes that the
commerce of the world will always
seek the Atlantic coast?
But Colorados Republican govern
or broke up criminal combination
that was seeking to rule the state by
dynamite. by white-capping and by
terrorism.
Therefore Colorado must throw
away everything of its brilliant fl-
ture-must turn the hands back on
the dial of progress-must sidestep
from the possession OF the destined
great communities of the world and
must adopt the policies of Alton the
Silent, which. if carried into effect
as he has expressed them. would ex-
terminate the American race in four
years from sheer stagnation and in
anition.
But Governor Peabody has been
guilty of militarism and the militia
deported some miners. and these are
serious offenses.
The forcible deportation of any
person from any community is a Sc
rious offense, whether such deporting
is done by union miners las has hap
pened probably fifty times in Colorado
during the past five years. by mobs
of any kind, or by the state militia.
The sentiment of the pepols of the