The Delta independent., 1904-10-28
would be in the Democratic corral on

would be in the Democratic corral on
the morning after election.
But the Republican party had su-
preme confidence in the good sense, the
intelligence and the patriotism of the
people Of Colorado, and upon that con-
fidence it bases it's hope of success in
the coming election.
The Republican newspapers and the
Republican speakers are addressing
their appeals not to partican prejudice,
nor to class animosities, nor to resent
ment founded on fiction.
Voters are asked to consider the
plain facts, not as they are distorted,
misrepresented and invented by the
Democrats for the purpose of deceiving
and deluding the voters of this state,
but as they are in sober reality, and to
act thereon honestly for what they be-
lieve to be the best interests of the
state and OF themselves.
And first of all. there is not the
shadow of legitimate or reasonable
excuse why any Colorado voters should
support the cause of the Parkerized
Democracy.
The Democrat candidate for the pres
idency represents everything that the
| Colorado voters do not want: the aom-
nance of New York; the timid and
vacillating policy that puts the nationa.
purse above the national conscience and
honor; the narrow sectionalism that
would contract the limits of the coun-
try's interests between Brooklyn and
| Buffalo, and measure everything nat
ional by the golden rule of Wall street.
| What Roosevelt is. that Republican,
ism is.
What Republicanism is, that Ameri-
canism is.
Roosevelt is no narrowly sectional
candidate bound fast in the entan2le-
ments of class interest.
Roosevelt is as national as is the
Republican party, and today he stands
as western president, thoroughly
acquainted with western desires, thor
oughly in touch and in sympathy with
western progress and with a record of
proud accomplishment in those things
that the west most needs.
The name of Roosevelt is identified
with western progress.
TO ps Roosevelt means National Aid
| to Irrigation.
Roosevelt means the possibility OF
the Panama canal.
Roosevelt means the only practical
hope for the restriction of the great
railway combinations upon which the
life and prosperity of our state abso-
lutely depends.
Roosevelt means the Open Door in
China.
Roosevelt means policy of dignified
common sense and national honor in the
Philippines.
Roosevelt means the opening of mar
kets for Colorado products of the mine,
the factory and the farm, in that great
circle of Pacific coasts that offers the
only opportunity for our trade expan-
sion.
No one in Colorado is afraid of the
scarecrow of Militarism, of the night
mare of Imperialism, and these are re-
garded merely for what they are
Democrat tricks.
Even the Colorado Democrats admit
that Colorado is for Roosevelt, and the
Democrat leaders had this clearly in
mind when they invented the Colorado
issue to stampede Colorado voters to-
ward the Democrat corral.
And the Colorado issue is this:
"The sRepublican governor is guilty
of Militarism.
Governor Peabody called out the
troops to suppress local rioting. So did
every other Colorado governor for the
past twelve years: Waite, Mcintyre,
Adams, Thomas and Orman.
Governor Peabody deported some
miners.
Governor Adams deported Ute 1ndi-
ans, who were hunting in Colorado in
accordance with their treaty rights
though in violation of the Colorado
game laws.
Governor Adams sent the militia to