Cañon City record., 1906-06-21
Fishing Tackle
The kinds that catch fish
At WhippIe's

played, total lack of capacity or even
desire to remedy the situation, it is
high time for it to step out and give
place to one that at least will be ami
mated with good intentions.
From what we have said about cor
porations IL must not be understood
that we entertain hostility to corpora
tions. as such, when acting within
their proper sphere. or to the persons
controlling them.
Colorado is new state and its vast
resources have scarcely been touched.
Sound policy demands that we should
be liberal in our dealings with all
great interests, corporate or other
wise: as liberal as the safety OF the
people will permit. We should be lib
eral with corporate franchises, liberal
in the regulations We set about them,
and above all We should see that cor
porations receive the due and equal
protection of the law. But we protest
that a corporation is too uncertain and
dangerous an element to have a chief
place in a political structure. 1t has
no politics. no opinions, no principles
except its own interests. Today. II
lican: tomorrow, It's interests having
changed, II is Democratic: and when
II is not sure where its interests lie,
1t assists the one party with the right
hand and the other with the left. The
Republican party cannot build upon
such foundations and hope TO succeed.
II II would win II must go back to the
doctrine of Lincoln. and be in very
truth a party OF the people, by the
people and for the people. The devo-
tion that has marked its adherance to
it's magnificent principles In the past
cannot be relied upon for allegiance
to so called party tickets. when every
yestige OF the principles for which the
party stands has been abandoned.
There never was time when citizen
ship means more than IT does now, and
the individual Republican must be
awake, both to the party's opportuni-
ties and its dangers.
II the Republican party would win
in 1906 there must be a radical change
For success these things are neces-
sary:
/. A Republican state organization
which will not be the tool of the in
terehtS. OF tne machine Oh CnQue--
an organization which will represent
the entire party and stand impartial
as TO all sections and followings; an
organization that will devote its en-
ergies, not to perpetuating its own ex-
istence. or the furtherance of any can
didacy. but to the welfare and sue
cess OF the party only.
=. The absolute end To the domina-
tlon of corporations In party councils,
and the abandonment of the policy of
attempting to win victories with cor
ruption funds furnished by corpora
tions
3. Open, free and fair primaries.
I. Free and fair conventions.
where the only recommendation to
success will be personal merit. honor
able party service and a square deal
for every one.
5. Decent methods in politics and
honest elections
In conclusion. fellow Republicans.
We assure you that no ordinary oc-
casion and nothing but a deep sense
of the danger with which the party is
confronted would have impelled us to
issue this address. The danger is
Overwhelming and near. and we ear
nestiy ask thoughtful consideration
OF the matters herein suggested. The
Republican party is worth saving: but