The daily sentinel., 1909-02-15

ing resulted in the assembling of the
greatest crowd of men ever seen to-
gether in one builuing in the history
of Grand junction. Every seat was
| occupied from orchestra pit to dome.
One hundred and ninety seats. placed
on the stage, were quickly filled.
Scores of men stood in the rear of the
! building. 1t was a mighty gathering
, of men, both young and old. The
audience was equally as large as that
| of the afternoon when both men and
women thronged the building. No
greater audiences than those of yes
terday ever titled the Park opera
| house.
Whistle The Old Songs.
An interesting and novel feature
of the mems meeting was the whis-
| tling of the verses and choruses of
some of the old songs by hundreds of
men of the audience. Mr. Wake and
General Secretary House, of the Y.
NJ. C. A. lead the music and at the
suggestion of Mr.. House those who
desired to do so whistled instead of
sung the songs and with the singing
and whistling mingled the effect was
inspiring and intensely enjoyable
After rendering several of the old
songs two verses of My Old Ken
tucky Home" were whistled, with no
A brief prayer was offered by Rev.
Davis, of the Baptist church.
Judge Lindsey was then introduced
by K. H. Magill and for nearly two
hours he spoke in an earnest, force
full and at times very eloquent man
ner ON the need of better protection
| for children. the need of honesty in
| politics and government, the tendency
| to put the dollar above the human
| life" and numerous other phases and
| timely problems. He gave many per-
sonal experiences and other pointed
| illustrations. Judge Lindsey is a
most interesting speaker and he held
the close attention of the great
throng. Time and again he was en-
Enthusiastically applauded. 1t was af
ter 10 o'clock when the meeting ad-
| journed
| Among the statements made last
night by Judge Lindsey the following
| were the most starting and sensa
| tional;
Some Startling Statements.
81 am not afraid to name these
men who are responsible for these
conditions in the city of Denver and
| the state of Colorado. l will tell you
who they are. They are William q.
Evans, David ii. Moffatt, f. B. Field
and Il few others.
"These men have formed partner
4 ship with vice in order to pile up
their millions. These are the men
who are really responsible for the
winerooms, brothels and saloons of
Denver. As long as they have been
able to get Legislation, both munich
pal and state, to assist i'll making
| them grow in wealth, they have not
/ cared what the men who helped them
get this legislation may do or permit
| to be done.
| These men may give money now
aud then to churches and the uni
versity but man may be kind and
not Just and hollow kindness counts
for little. These men are responsible
for corruption in politics. They rule
| the two old parties and their leaders
as they rule their office boys. The
| sooner the men of Colorado know
| this and realize il, the better il will
| be.
.The fight is not between the dem
ocratic and republican parties but be-
tween those who stand for the peo-
pie and their rights and those who
stand for special privileges.
'There are three men in Denver
who are more powerful than all the
politicians. They represent certain
great interests. They want certain
laws and if they get these laws they
let the law makers and party bosses
do as they please. There is II fight
ON in the legislature now for II direct
primary and the initiative and refer
endum. Ii is not intended by the
powers that he that you have them.
You will not get them unless there is
decided change, although they have
been promised you. These powerful
men in Denver are but part of II sys-
ten. Do you know that men in Wall
street own the great part of the
S1OO,000.0O worth of franchises
that have been stolen within a few
years from the people of Denver.
The trouble is. money is being put
above manhood and nothing is so
cheap with the big business CRATER
land the typical party boss as is flesh
and blood.
at was because l said these things
and say these things, that they hate
me. Ii was because of this and be-
cause that l would not allow the use
of my court to engineer the gigantic
steal of franchises that these men
declared that l should never be re-
elected. One of them went to the
republican party leaders and said, If
you put this man ON the ticket l will
not give one cent of the $4,000 cam
paign contribution promised i was
not put ON that ticket. Similar warn
ing was given TO the democrats. l
was not put on that ticket. Then
some of the good people said, lets
make the fight alone and we did and
with the assistance of many good
men, the good women of Denver and
these boys who are called criminals
but who are simply victims of an un-
Just system and who have never had
n chance, we won.'
Many Other Services Held.
Yesterday morning in five churches