The daily sentinel., 1906-12-15


senator for six years from March next
THE people are well qualified to aid
in this selection and their wishes
should control. and no king caucus
should be permitted to arbitrarily
set aside the peoples wishes. 1t
ought to be universally conceded that
a senator should be elected who most
nearly measures up to the sound pol
icies and aims of our fearless presi-
dent, Theodore Roosevelt. Sucn %
man should be known to the people
of Colorado as utterly opposed to
trust domination. Such a man should
be known as an earnest advocate of
regulating the railways, and of com
pelling them to furnish sufficient cars
and motive power to market the live
stock, farm products and all freight
in order that shipments may reach
their destinations in reasonable time.
Such a man should be known as fav-I
oring the active and prompt prose-
cution, criminally, of all managers Of
railways and trusts, receiving or de
manding rebates of freight or spec
ial privileges not enjoyed by the aver
age shipper.
Such man should be selected be
cause he will vote and labor to curb
and supervise and regulate all trusts
to the end that the rights Of the peo-
pie may be protected. and that his
earnest efforts may be eXerted to pre-
vent by law the watering of stocks
and bonds. and all fictitious capital
i8ation of trusts and combines of
whatsoever kind or character. in or
der that the public may be protected
from designing promoters and the
greedy, grasping monopolist
He should favor lower freight
and passenger rates, and be willing to
legislate more power to the Interstate
Commerce commission; he should
favor the speedy building of the Pam
anna canal, and more waterways
throughout the nation, that all com
modities may be marketed more reas-
onably than they now are; he should
be man who believes in compelling
arbitration between all labor and cap
ital when either is vitally Interested,
for shorter hours of labor and for
laws affording greater protection to
all American labor; he should favor
the immediate revision OF the tariff
on practical lines, the election of SEN
ators by the vote of the people and
favor an elastic currency; he should
labor to secure laws in opposition to /
any and all campaign contributions |
by corporations; and he should |
stand pat for "A square deal for
rich and poor alike.
such a man should use every eff |
fort he may possess to open broader I
markets for all products by the reci- /
procity which reciprocates. and If |
such markets are denied us by un-
just and unreasonable foreign laws |
that then retaliation should be the |
policy adopted
Such a senator should favor the en-
couragement of a federal department:
of mining. Such n man should bel
willing to publically pledge himself |
to earnestly uphold Roosevelt in his |
mighty and unceasing efforts to pro-
tect the common people from graft. |
from the outrageous attempts of trusts |
monopolies and combines to throttle |
competition and to control all the ne
cessities of the people.
To aid in doing all these things. |
Colorado's senator should agree to |
resign all his private business and en-
ployment of every kind. and pledge |
himself to devote all his time to the |
benefit of the people"
In closing the speaker paid trib- |
ute to the gathering before him and |
to the banquet declaring 1t would be |
credit TO any city in America.
He then made an appeal for strong J
men, good citizens. and active people |
concluding with the following poem |
Give us men to match our mountains. |
Give us men to match our plains,
Men with empires in their purpose,
And new eras in their brains
Be strong
We are not here to play, to dream to
drift,
We have hard work to do, and loads
to lift,