The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-04-25
REPUBLICANS
OF DENVER
NOMINATE FULL TICKET ON
STRICT LAW ENFORCEMENT
PLATFORM.
YOUNG MAN FOR MAYOR
SENATOR PATTERSoN'S PAPER
JOINS WITH REPUBLICAN
IN LAUDlNG NOMINEE.

Denver.-The Republican conven-
tion Tuesday nominated the following
ticket
For mayor, Horace Phelps.
For auditor, A. X. Vickery.
For treasurer, l.. c. Greenlee.
For city clerk, George n. Ordway.
Supervisors.-First district, Robert
L. Meyers; third district. William Nj.
Robertson; fifth district, w. A Dolli-
son; seventh district, w. F. Webb.
Aldermen-First Ward, Eugene
Madden; Second Ward, Alderman A.
L. Barker; Third Ward, II. J. Benkel-
man; Fourth Ward, William l.. Palm
Fifth Ward, charles II. Kruger; Sixth
Ward, William H. Klett; Seventh
Ward. Burt Martin; Eighth Ward.
James F. Markey; Ninth Ward, Alder
man D. E. Wilson, Tenth Ward, r. A.
Young; Eleventh Ward, Omar Gar
wood; Twelfth Ward, F. w. Lomax;
Thirteenth Ward, Frank Dodge, Four
teenth Ward, Robert A. Anderson:
Fifteenth Ward. S. S. Kendall; Six
teenth Ward. Simon Radetsky.
Commenting on the action of the
convention the Republican says:
"Horace Phelps has been chosen to
lead the Republican ticket in the city
Of Denver in this campaign. In the Re
publican city and county convention
OF yesterday he was nominated for
mayor by acclamation and with an un
usual amount of enthusiasm. He was
nominated on an aggressive platform
calling for moral Denver as well as
greater Denver. The issue was most
distinctly drawn between the two NOM
inees who are to be in the field. The
Republican party approves the state To-
cal option law. calls for its rigid en-
forcement, and demands the abolition
of gambling, all-night saloons and evils
of this character Mr.. Phelps is not
only sworn to carry out such a plat
form, but he is and has been. from re-
ligious conviction and environment, in
sympathy with the movement and op-
posed to all such vices, and is firmly
convinced that the municipality can
succeed best by the strict enforcement
OF laws and ordinances.
"Rallying around the Phelps stand
ard will be the Anti-Saloon league. the
Christian Citizenship union, the Law
Enforcement league and a number OF
other organizations of this nature that
hase- hitherto spent their energies in
chasing will-o'-the wisps and calling for
the millennium from a basement. They
will have great party organization to
guide them. The churches are ex-
pected to play militant part in this
campaign"
The News, Democratic and Anti
Speer) ex-senator Patterson paper,
says:
Horace Phelps. the young assistant
attorney general, was hailed as The
Man of the Hour" in the Republican
city convention yesterday, and nom.
mated for mayor by acclamation.
He accepted the honor in speech
which aroused unbounded enthusiasm.
When he was first introduced the dele
gates we're a triie cold. Most of them
had battled in the primaries, believing
Stidger, Nisbet or Bailey would be the
nominee, and they were not prepared
to accept Phelps as their standard
bearer until he had given some evil
dence of genius for leadership.
His speech won the day. 1t was
c-eancut, eloquent appeal to the best
that was in his auditors. Before he
had been speaking three minutes the
delegates and the great crowd in the
galleries were applauding frequently
and vigorously and when be excoriated
the atrocities of the police department
he received an ovation.
1T was then that some enthusiastic
delegate dubbed him THE Man of the
Hour" and it is probable he will carry
the sobriquet through the campaign.
The other candidates on the ticket
are In the main regarded as strong
men. There are some weak points. bur
taken as a whole, politicians are con.
vinced that the convention did good
work.
"A clean as well as beautiful Den
ver,' was the keynote of all the
speeches, and the platform declares
emphatically for the strict enforcement
of the law"