The newspaper., 1908-07-03

who have not been in the habit of
attending such gatherings. - Ava
lanche. Glenwood.
Even the three Colorado congress
men deserted Roosevelt with some OF
his net measures dead on his hands.
III Roosevelt was right, then his Colo
RADIO worshippers will be compelled TO
admit that their congressman were
wrong.-Gazette. Wray.
lis amusing to read some of the
editorials in our Democratic exchanges
since the Denver election. Before the
election the boys were mum. absolutely
mum-woud not even oner a predic-
tion as to the probable result. but now
they flop their wings, utter their sweet
est ck.adoodle-doo for Bob and hop
down OF the fence and spike poor old
Tom numerically with their little
spurs-Review. Fort Collins.
The Bailey county committee Of Dsa-
yer has completely ignored the instluc-
tions of the Democratic state central
committee as to the time OF holding
primaries and county conventions ana
has also disregarded It's advice regard
ing the support OF the regular organl-
zation In the city campaign. Denver
Democratic bodies evidently th.ns
they are a law unto themselves. The
sooner all OF them are spanked by the
state Democracy the better II wiil hc
for the party.-Sparks. Lamar.
After all the hullabaloo In DcAyei
Speer was elected by something over
2 1000. Most of his ticket was defeat
ed As many thousand Evans Re
publlcans voted for him. II is Eener-
ally supposed that he IL under con
tract TO turn the city over TO that
party for Mcdonald and the Supreme
Court judges this fall and defeat the
Democratic state ticket as he did In
1904 and 1906. when will the Dem.
ocracy Of Colorado get done with both
these irreconcilable Denver factions
and select lesders from the true blue
Democracy when they do they will
win and never until then.-NcNh-
Champion. Gunnlson.
The Fort MorAan Hehaid says the
Democrats OF the state should get at<
the state meeting 10 be held In this citys
on June 18th. and set the Denver bunch
out ON the sidewalk. Hosmer must
have been up with some OF the Dclan-
ey gang the night before he wrote that
As the state convention recognized the
Bailey committee and as the state CON.
mittec also did. wherein lies the dis
pute7 II must be that some country
delegates have the Throwing out feel
ing on 80 bad that they can't shake a.
But Glenwood Springs is no place for
such things. and here Is where Democ
racy will unite for the success Of the
great commoner. You must 70 to Den.
YER when you have your fighting
mood on. George. Glen
wood Springs.
There was considerable rejoicing ~
the Journal tRepD once and among
certain class OF Republicans Ia
Breckenridge over the reelection Of
Mayor Speer In Denver. And they had
the company Of some Democrats In
their happiness. Last week the Jour
nal made II plain that II was for Speer
A cannon couldn't drive some pcopl,
away from the place where there o.
a smell Of graft. Then. Il has been ap-
parent all through the campaign that
there was no semblance OF politics Boa
the matter-iust n question Of graft
and antigraft between two Repuhl.
can tickets In Denver. Speer IL %
Republication revenue only. while
Phelps is a straight Republican all the
time. Both were for PeabciV ana
helped unseat Adams. and both welS
for Buchtel SO. you see. the DemV
Gratis Of Denver didn't have any ticket
TO vote for. and all they could do was
TO mingle with the common herd and
divide themselves with the Republi.
cans on the question OF decencv
Bryan Democrats and Roosevelt Re
publicans were for Phelps. whereas
the Speer Republicans and anti Bryan
Democrats were In the other lineup
And Phelps won n tremendous victory
although not elected. He cut down
the tremendous majority of Speer -four
years ago to n little measley $500. with
the whole city machinery and 100000
OF corruption fund against him. This
is excellent. "considerin." We often
think Of the real Significance OF the
word "considerin'." when used in con
nection with Colorado politics Why,
only few years ago II was not IN
common In Leadville to see a political
boss riding on the street on election
morning yelling a price he would pay
Tor votes to elect such and such candi-
dates. From such political barbarism
Colorado has made wide strides. q
Few more swipes like the Denver cleo.
ton VIII put us among the civilized.