The Greeley tribune., 1908-02-20
WILL YOU BE WITH uS?


about the play, The Man of tie
Hour" presented at the Greeley
opera house one evening last week.
Generally it is admitted that IL vas
powerful play, and true to life
somewhere else. There is no doubt
about this. The bill Of the play
explained that the scene was laid
in any large city today
How some members of the audi
ence-pr probably only few, perbaps
even but one or t"o-hugged item
selves to think the bill did not state
lin any rural community, Instead
of large city The plav was true
to life, every bit of it. There we're
few of the main scenes there that
have not been enacted with slight
variation. time and again in the
large cities How many people there
were who hugged themselves to think
that they did not live in big city
where the political game was played
along such lines. How wicked the
politicians of those large cities must
be. If we only had few OF them
right here, we would soon show them
the way to private life.
Now wouldn't it just shock you
to know absolutely that you have
about as little voice in the election
Of men to office right here in rural
Weld county as the people of the big
cities have in naming tl.eir officials?
How many OF you have ever actually
presented the name of good man
in convention in Weld county and
had that man become the choice of
your particular party. Not one, We
venture to assert Several of you
have made nominating speeches that
you have worked over carefully from
the time your vanity Was ttcksd
with the honor of appearing before
such an august and deliberative
body, to the day Of the convention
itself, but you should have known
right along, If you have given the
matter any thought at all, that you
were only the mouth piece of the
bosses that live right here in Weld
county. ana in reality you had no
voice in the naming of the candidate
at all. He was simply put up for
you, and you, foolish mortal, did
your most eloquent best in your
speech. That was just the sop for
you that was to make you work
like Trojan during the campaign.
And how you have worked and won
what? With every victory the ma.
chine Of your party has grown
stronger, but has there ever been
one reform instituted In Office: one
solitary change made that would
save the county-save you-a solitary
dollar in taxes? We think not
Already the program has been
made up for you, especially YOU re.
publicans, and 40 far as you are con.
cerned the election of at leas, some
OF the candidates next fall has al.
ready been decided. There NAV be
no graft in this, as it is Understood
IN The Man OF the Hour hut
certainly the little coterie or ring
OF politicians that occasionally gather
at an evening meeting planning and
scheming to nullify your franchise
are not doing charity work for von
at such meetings your vote is oorod
upon as only chattel, that is heinv
battered for other chattels n, e, ,
lar nature. The man who 10 I'D.
mitted to have the greatest ,r,o,r.
Oh property OF this kind is Permitted
10 carry away the fattest Office That
condition has never been moro c,o.r,,
oehned in Weld county than r,oht
today.
So far as your vote is co,oo
IL Is oartered with as freely r,ght
mere as 1t Is in the big and v,csed
o'eS' where The Man of the Hour,
was elected mayor.
You noticed also how tho ,n,,
n . dad =