The Delta independent., 1906-09-28

the United States. believe that COM
binations in restraint of trade ought to
be made impossible. believe the busi-
ness of the house and senate ought not
to be interrupted by crowd of Lobbyists.
The free expression of opinion by the
people on proposed legislation ought to
be made thru letters and thru the press.
The right of petition must not be
abridged. Much study needs to be
given to the question of insurance laws
and laws relating to public Offices handl-
ing public funds and to the whole ques-
ton of the sound administration of all
financial institutions. We must have
insurance which insures and we must
have savings institutions which save.
The rights of the people need to be
considered in the best possible legisla-
ton on the subjects of pure food and
local option.
Il am bitterly opposed to the pro-
gram of the agitator who seeks to
array class against class. but, on the
contrary, am thoroly committed to the
doctrine that organized labor and or
ganized capital are both essential to
our industrial growth and that both
must operate within the law and with
constant regard tor the rights of others.
Il shall hope that we may find some
way in which our men in prison can be
given chance to work. Work is sal
vation for any normal man and thous-
and times more is it salvation for the
abnormal man. Surely this is possible
without in the slightest particular
-srsnching upon the rights of labor. All
men who know the joy Of work am
sure will sympathize with our endeavor
to help the defective men in prison to
find their way back to life thru the joy
Of work.
Il shall hope that We may be able to
do everything necessary to increase the
efficiency and practical usefulness of all
the educational and reformatory insti-
tutions which are sustained by the taxa
ton of all the people and to put them
into relations OF most cordial sympathy
with all the educational and reformatory
institutions which are sustained by pri-
vate enterprise.
THE work of education and reform
should never be competitive. but should
always be cooperative. The amount
of work which needs to be done to re-
cover the vicious and the defective, and
to provide for the comfort of the depen-
dent. and to educate the ignorant. is
appalling. Only those men and women
are fit to eagage in this work who are
in lively sympathy with all other men
and women who toll to make the right
world.
II shall do my utmost to make an
administration that shall be emphatically
an administration of the square deal.
No better words can describe my view
of what our government is designed to
be than the words of President Roose-
welt in his last message to congress:
This government is not and never
shall be governed by plutocracy. This
government is not and never shall be
governed by a mob. 1t shall continue
to be in the future whal it has been in
the past. a government based on the
theory that each man. rich or poor. is
to be treated simply and solely on his
worth as a man, that all his personal
and property rights are to be safe
guarded. and that he is neither to
wrong others nor to suffer wrong from
Others"
"Smile and push is good motto for
clean politics. as it is for business and
education and religion.
81 therefore accept the nomination
Of the Republican party for governor
of Colorado with the expectation Of
being elected and with the assurance to
you and to all the people that shall do
my utmost to make my administration
of this great office thoroly Rooseveltian
in quality.
"Yours for victory and clean politics
and square deal.
HENRY A. BUCHTEL.