Gilpin observer., 1908-10-29
LET US NOW REASON TOGETHER
FOR THE BEST INTERESTS
OF ALL.
IT IS NOW UP TO YOU
AS Judges and Juries of the Highest
Court What Will Your Verdict be
Next Tuesday?-Make the Pun
ishment Fit the Crime.

one of the greatest campaigns in
the history OF the American people Is
now drawing to a close; and before
we are all called upon to go into the
voting booth and cast ballot which,
for aught we know, may be the decid-
ing vote relative to the political des-
tiny of the greatest nation on earth
for the next four years, or the policies
and fortunes of the great common
wealth of Colorado. or may be the In
terest and welfare of our county, or,
at least, some prominent local official,
we should, as judges and lawyers and
juries. do, sum up the case. commune
with ourselves ard try to reason
out what is right and just. and what
will bring the greatest benefit to the
greatest number of people.
While this paper has been consist
emily Democratic during this cam
paign 1t. has left the lies and abuses
TO the other side, and although We
have arraigned the Republican party
of the nation and of the state, and the
officials thereof, in severe and un-
measured terms, yet 1t should be re-
membered that we have in every in
stance presented the facts and figures
from public records and from the his
tory of the state well known to every
body posted at all in political matters.
We have endeavored to be fair and
Just. and have no other desire at this
time in summing up the case, now be-
fore the great jury Of the people. the
court OF last resort, than to have
plain, honest, heart-to-heart talk with
our readers relative to the issues pre-
sented, and the conditions confronting
Colorado, and we ask every man and
every woman to give these matters
that we have presented honest and
heartfelt consideration. no matter
whether they be Democratic or Re
publican, or what their condition in
life may be.
The campaign of Democracy and of
this newspaper has been made for
and in behalf of the common people.
that is to say. the masses; the rank
and file; everybody, in fact, other than
the wealthy class. The principles of
Democracy are such that the greatest
good shall accrue to the greatest num-
ber; and no grander. broader. more
liberal principle can be enunciated
than these, for within their scope come
all of the middle class and all of the
poorer class.
That President Roosevelt is Il good
and honest man, none of us can hon
estly deny; but that he has been un-
able to bring about the reform meas.
ures and the remedial legislation ask
ed for and demanded by the condi-
ton OF the people. is a wellknown
fact. President Roosevelt is one out
OF many thousands OF his party lead
ers. and they have not allowed him to
do those things which he otherwise
would have done. They have baked
AhSoouASo All thc iShci vi tuc DeODle
which he had in view; and so well
have they continued to thwart every
effort in that direction. whether ad-
vanced by President Roosevelt, or Mr..
Taft. or anybody else, that It seems
to us to be consistent to say that II
President Roosevelt. with all the
power Of his personality and all the
energetic force with which he is pos.
sessed to most remarkable degree,
has been utterly unable to bring about
one single reform measure, or change
Republican policies one iota for the
benefit of the masses Of the people
(and II he has been able to bring
about one single reform of such ma.
ture. we nsk you what II isl. I'm
heavens name. how can we expect
Mr.. Taft. or any other Republican
whose personality. whose physical en-.
ergy. whose determination and ability