Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-05
WHY COLORADO VOTERS SHOULD
VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET

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lots because OF an unseasoning an
unwavering partiality toward on
party and similar prejudice agains
another party. and partisan newsps
pers were expected to Support IN
ticket" without regard % the person
ality of the candidates, or the meth
| ods by which their nominations hal
been secured.
| But that kind of partisanshlp 4
| coming more and more toto popula
| disfavor 1t is recognized more an,
| more clearly that the only reasonable
| excuse for party organization IS goo,
government, and the nuu,her of inde
pendent voters, who call the part,
managers sharply to account. is stead
lily increasing.
Something more is required as a 20
litical argument than the TACT that
candidate has been endorsed by
particular party, and there are a grea
many voters who vote for dirferen
parties In different years AMI why
seldom vote any party ticket straigh,
In the present campaign there ar,
two questions that come prominent
before the minds of every vote
The first is, how can | vote 81
1t will be for the best interes,
myself and my neighbors In us
ness way?
1t is a fact universally recogr,
by all fair-minded people that
conduct of public government Is
important element in business prt
perity. And it is also a fact. wht
is indisputable, that the past cw
years have been period of great
prosperity both in state and national
affairs,
A vote for the Republican ticket,
therefore, is vote for the contlnun
ton of peace and prosperity In state
and national affairs. II Is vote for
Roosevelt and the Roosevelt policy.
and it is vote against the return
of the conditions of trouble and agi.
tation and strife that have been as.
cratic rule in this state.
But there is another side to the
question. 1t is true that there are a
great many evils in the present con
ditions that require remedy, and there
are a great many things that ought
to be secured by means of progres.
sive legislation.
And here again is a reason for vot-
ing the Republican ticket.
Not that every candidate on that
ticket represents the reform policies
that are desired by the people Not
tnat every voter should disregard his
own Judgment of what is best for the
state and vote the ticket as a whole
merely because Ii bears the word Re
publican.
But in the main The Republican
ticket is the ticket of progress. be-
cause the Republican party is the
party of progress, and the permanent.
reasonable. satisfactory reforms will
come through the Republican party b
The Democratic party promises well
and accomplishes nothing, as has
been clearly shown by its record In
this state in the past But the Repub-
lican party, though II may lag for a
time in one state behind the accom-
plishments of that party in other
states, will surely come up to the peo.
pies desires in the end. and accom-
plish the same reforms In Colorado
that have been accomplished else
where.
So far as national issues are con
cerned, vote for the Republican
ticket is a vote of confidence in the
Roosevelt policy, and a vote granting
additional power to pursue the Roose-
welt plans; while a vote for the Dem
ocratic party is vote to tie the
presidents hands and to condemn
him for the second half of his term
to inactivity.
So far as the state is concerned, a
vote for the Republican ticket is q
vote for peace and prosperity, while q
vote for the Democratic ticket is q
vote to put the state government into
the hands of a party that is hopeless
ly disrupted into fighting factions,
and that will be powerless to accom-
plisb anything for the people-except
to bring back the old times of strife
and trouble.
So far as the county ticket is con
cerned vote for the Republican
ticket is vote against gang gov
ernment and gang politics. and vote
for the Peoples Rule In party affairs
and in county affairs. 1t Is a vote
for honest government and clean pol
itics.
The Chieftain has no quarrel with
the Independent voter who holds his
duty TO the taste and to his own civic
Intelligence as higher than the claim
of the party name. II the conscience
aud the intelligence of such a voter
'ead him 10 differ with the Judgment
IF the party conventions in regard tt
ndigldual candidates. the present
election law Of the state makes II
comparatively easy for him 10 express
his sentiments at the polls.
But nothing is to be gained for the
cause of political independence. hon
est government. or clean politics, oi
for the reforms now earnestly de
manded by the public sentiment. by
voting tie Democratic ticket; and the
| only safe way toward these things, II
Pueblo county and in all other com
ties where the Republican candidate,
are known 10 he true and honorable
friends OF reform measures and o.
popular selfgovernment, is to vote
the Republican ticket-Pueblo Chief
tain.