Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-10-31
C0UDY'S fine
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Hon. Frank G. Goudy was greeted
by a magnificent sudience at the court
house last night. One hundred extra
seate being provided. yet there was not
eloquent and forcible speaker.
Mr.. Goudy was preceded from the
Strater hotel to- the court house by
the band. and followed by a large
torchlight procession and great pa
rade of citizens. the biggest during the
present campaign
Mr. Goudy was introduced by DIR.
McBwen. The. speaker OF the evening
said 1t was difficult matter In one
short evening to discuss ali the politi-
cal issues of this campaign, so he
dove at once into the state issues.
without loss Of time. and devoted al
most his entire time to matters in
the state.
In this campign, he said. there was
an issue that was above politics.
There had been 50 much misrepresent-
ed and such efforts to mislead the
people-more 80 than in any previous
campaign. II there was ever year
in which politics was business. 1t is
this year" he said
The great question to be settled In
this campaign was the question OF Ia
Dor the right of man to work for
whom he chose without interference
from anyone else He stated that
where labor organizations were con
ducted along peaceful lines and with
in the bounds of the law, they had
enjoyed the support of the people.
In this state the question had aris-
en- as to whether or not man com
mits a crime when he says to another.
You shall not work" This question
has led on to conditions affecting not
only the laboring men. but every
class OF those engaged in business
and those who toll.
He quoted as one of the fundamen-
tal principles of free people and
which are embodied in the ideas Of Re
publicanism:
Every citizen has the right to work
without fear"
Labor cannot be half slave and
half free"
"Organized labor shall not be per
mitted to say who shall work and
who shall not"
THE right to labor is the right to
live"
at is sain' continued Mr.. Goudy
that the issue in this campaign is
the Western Federation. beneve that
a large per cent. of that organization
are good. Industrious. peaceable and
abiding men; but they have intrusted
the management OF their organization
to men like Meyer and Haywood, who
have done more to bring distress and
disgrace upon Colorado in the last
twelve months than any other ten
men in the state. These same men
operated In British Columbia in the
railway strike.
The Denver News and Times came
in for little mention. He said those
two papers had done more to keep up
disturbance in Colorado than all
other papers in the state combined.
He thought T. NJ. Patterson's parents
named his correctly when they gave
him the initials, Trouble Maker
Patterson. The CANADIAN government
had appointed commission to inves
tigate the great railway strike in
which Meyer and Haywood were the
ruling spirits, and this commission re
ported that the strike was the great.
est conspiracy against society and or
ganized labor that had ever been
originated in that country.
The socialistic principles adopted al
the last national meeting OF the West.
ern Federation of Miners were read
to show that their ultimate aim was
to get control of the government, when
"all possessions would become the
collective property Of all mankind"
At this some one in the audience
cheered. whereupon Mr.. Goudy re-
marked: "That must be one OF our So
cialist friends. You seem a little
lonely"
Attention was called to the mining
districts being flooded several months
since with the little cards bearing the
gist of the socialist principles, in the
sCheShSCs L<aUoi ClChtCo all
wealth and all wealth belongs to its
creator"
And right here he told what A. H.
Floaten, the great agitator OF Tellu-
ride was deported for Floaten, who
ran a store at Telluride. after business
hours, would mount box on the
street and begin a harangue In sub
as follows: ITO the creator of proper
ty that property belongs; these
mines belongs to the miners; go and
take them" Perhaps some who heard
him had only arrived In town that night
yet they were advised the mines be-
longed to them and to go and take
them. And that is why Floaten was
ieported. He was teaching danger
GUS doctrine-dangerous to society.
dangerous to property and fatal to
government. He was persistent in
stirring up trouble. There could be
no peace In Telluride so long as he
was allowed to stay.
And the men who preach such doc
irines as that are the main support
in this campaign of the Democratic
party. The real Democrat this year
will vote for the Republican candi-
late for governor"