The Greeley tribune., 1907-01-10

Iowa. and the present state of Ne
braSka, and a part of Wisconsin,
and corner of Illinois, three-fourths
of the way on foot and the rest Of
the way bv wagon forty years ago
last summer in order to reach this
wonderful land of sunshine and pros
perity. And how pleased l am this
morning that have lived here al
most ever since, and have literally
grown up and grown old with the
country. have helped to make it,
still live to enjoy it, and am likely
| to die in it when my time comes to
cross that mystic range lying just
beyond the other great, white real
one that has looked down on me
every morning when 1 have opened
my door for thirty-six consecutive
years.
How thankful 1 was, too, when we
sat down to our turkey at the ap-
pointed time in November. that we
had such strong personality for
good in our present chief executive
of the nation who has been making
the grandest fight for the rights Of
the people Of late that has ever been
waged by any one hero in the service
of his country since the immortal
Lincoln died for this one.
And how overjoyed was that the
grand old republican party Of Colo
RADIO, after one Of the bitterest and
nastiesl political campaigns that had
ever been fought out through mud
singing agencies. had finally, and
solely through the popularity of this
noble chief executive, and the open
determined warfare he had been
making and was still pursuing
against predatory wealth and mo-
nopolistic graft, been able to sweep
the field clear of all opposition and
had now come to its own at last,
with such an overwhelming major
ity, in both branches Of our general
assembly and its state ticket elected
from top to bottom, that 1t would
now be enabled to carry out all its
promised, and, supposedly, contem-
plated reforms without let or hind
rance from any party or combined
parties any longer worth considering.
1t is true that many years since,
and even before had kicked myself
completely and permanently out of
its ranks, l had said in this same
Greeley Tribune of its leaders in
Colorado that they have been liars
from habit in the past, and are liars
by inference for the future. =" But
alas how could foresee its rank
and file in SO short time vicariously
regenerated, reformed and redeemed
by great leader in the white house
at Washington? And now. let this
erring mortal confess his sin and ex-
press his pride in the fact that a
new republican party, now arisen
like Phoenix from the ashes of its
recent publication by fire, is gal
lantly coming to the assistance of its
noble leader in his warfare against
the huge trusts of the land, and will
next week without the slightest op-
position within its own ranks, and
none worth considering from any
other source, elect to the United
States senate the head and front of
the one great and dangerous trust
now operating within our borders.
And how proud l am that the object
of its choice is SO especially empha-
dual. One who indisputably has but
two recommendations for the high
office to which he aspires, towit:
His money and his position in the
trust to which he belongs, and who
but for these two adyentitious aids
would certainly have never been con-
sidered for a moment, nor could by
any possibility have been elected to
that office nor any other from COVER
nor down to justice of the peace
Oh Lord, what an intelligent dis
cerning people we are. how appercia.
tive of genuine merit and worth,
how lofty our conception of integrity
and honor, how acute our PERCEPTION
of the real statesman in whatever
guise he may assume to conceal his
identity, and how unerring our
choice of the best man to serve US!
And how hopeful, too, / am for
the future of my country. Here, for
instance, is our American house Of
lords. Originally designed, as we
know. to be at best only balance
wheel In regulating the impetuousity
OF the people through their directly
elected representatives of the other