The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1906-07-21
CHAIRMAN FARLEY
MAKES STATEMENT
A Concise Account of Conditions
About State Central Committee
----SCOreS Stevenson
To the Republicans of Colorado;

The democratic press is daily cir
culating the grossest falsehoods in ref :
erence to your state comm ittee and its
chairman. Among these misstate-
ments are some contained in recent
appeal or address prepared by Mr.. A.
NJ Stevenson. IT is not necessary for
any republican in this sta tie to become
exercised over these attacks.
While the charges made in this ad-
dress are wholly untrue. the princi-
| pies set forth are those which have al
ways been in practice by the present
state organization and which it ad-
hered to at a time when Mr. Steven
son by his own actions showed total
disregard for them. Two years ago
at the primaries in his own precinct
Mr.. Stevenson, having reason to be-
lieve that the republicans of the pre-
cinct bad decided against his delega-
tion, refused to permit the votes to be
counted and prevented them from be-
ing counted by walking off with the
ballot box under his arm. Therefore,
the sincerity of his recent conversion
to the principles of fair and open
primaries is open to doubt.
The state organization and the party
being earnestly in sympathy with the
principles referred to, it is unneces-
sary for any republican to join the
democrats in order to have them car
ried out
The right of any republican to APP
peal to the members of the party to
carry out any particular doctrine or
to support any particular candidate
that he may desire cannot be denied
but believe it absolutely wrong for
Mr.. Stevenson to join with democratic
newspapers in an attack upon the
party itself. The present republican
organization is composed of 1ls COM
mitteemen, each of whom reflects the
sentiment of the republicans in his
county and each of whom, so far as
known, is upright and honorable and
DESTROYS of party success.
As chairman | have endeavored to
carry out the wishes of the members
nj the party as transmitted to me
through their duly accredited repre-
sentatives, the members of the repub-
lican State committee. | have been
chairman of this party organization
Fn "a hn, Al,
time have never received aid or en-.
couragement from Mr.. Stevenson or
his associates in fighting democratic
misrule or in putting a stop to demo
cratic election frauds. On the CON
trary, factional differences seem to
have kept Mr.. Stevenson away from
state headquarters, except during
short interval, when these headquar-
were moved by Mr.. Stevenson into
Il disreputable resort, where no decent
republican, man or woman. would
dare go.
Since these headquarters have been
moved into respectable quarters, and
since Mr.. Stevenson well known bull
doing tactics in primaries and con
ventions are no longer permitted to
the organization, and has sought
through the columns of the democratic
press, in every possible way to disrupt
the party, and to prevent the election
nj Ito and Iataa l. all
fiom these headquarters three state
campaigns have been fought and won.
There is no reason why any repub-
lican should refuse to visit state head.
quarters. The cooperation of all re.
publicans has been, and still is hearti.
ly welcomed The state organization
endeavors to be fair to all local county
organizations, and does not interfere
in their affairs save when it seems to
be absolutely necessary in order to
carry out the principles of the party
as represented by the actions and ut
terances of Lincoln, Mckinley and
Roosevelt.
The state organization does not and
Will not interfere in the selection of
candidates for the various state Offices
1t will be its endeavor to see that in
every county in this state free and
open primaries and fair conventions
are held, through which delegates will
be elected to the next state convention
who shall represent the desires and
opinions Of the republicans of their
various counties.
AT the next state convention com.
posed of these delegates every republi-
can who aspires to Office will. 30 far
a. the state organization can bring It
about. have an equal chance to press
his claim for pIeferment. In this