The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-07-13
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other and especially the leaders:
1t will probably cost the state
100000 to pay the expenses of
Governor Johns "extry'' session.
And that is called simply to show
the people what great boss he is
under the guise of carrying out
party pledges. The party pledges
had better not be carried out if
we are to have that devlish thing
called primary election passed
for the people to wrestle with. OF
all the nonsensical political hot-air
the limit. 1t might do for crooked
politicians who desire to secure ad-
vantages that they may more cas-
lily concentrate political power. for
under a. primary election no one bui
a CRATER or a rich man can afford
to make twocampaigns in one cleo
tion.-Pueblo Opinion.
Harry Lubers. speaker of the
house of the 18th general assembly.
is to be deposed. and another man
elected in his place. This is part
of the program of the platform dem
ocrats.
1t Is plain to see, then. that the
platform democrats are not animat-
ed so much by a desire to secure
the redemption of the pledges OF
the party as they are to work out
q revenge upon Lubers.
Emissaries and many letters have
reached the members of the 18th as
sembly, asking them to assist In
turning down Lubers for speaker.
The particular crime charged
against Lubers is that he stood
with the majority of democrats in
the house against Hicks, Mr.. Pat
terson's man Friday. to secure the
will of that majority against the
plans of Ikey Stevens. Tully Scott
and T. NJ. Patterson.
For having performed his duty
as he saw it. Mr.. Lubers is to be
made the scapegoat. .ifpossible. at
the coming extra session.
Mr.. Lubers was at all times fav-
orable to the redemption of the
pledges of his party. He was not
at all times ready to do the bidding
OF Mr.. Patterson and coterie.
II anyone in particular is to be
blamed for the non-fulfillment of
their pledges of the party, 1t is
Mr.. Patterson and his lieutena,nts.
If we were q member of the legis-
lature, we should have more rea-
son to support Mr.. Lubers for
speaker of the extra than ever be-
fore. He was the speaker OF the
regular session and is entitled to
preside over the deliberations of
the extra session. If it is the plan
of the platform democracy to un-
seat him and elect someone pre-
scented by Mr.. Patterson and Tully
Scott and Hicks. we would stand
firmly for the reelection of Mr..
Lubers.-Grand Junction Sentinel.
Mayor Robert w. Speer. who
was the acknowledged head of the
working machinery of the Democrat
ic party two years ago. delivered a
short but notable address at the
exercises Monday at the Auditor
ium under the auspices of the Den
yer Patriotic League. The mayor
declared against the professional
reformer and panaceaist who
would fill the books with half-bak-
ed enactments and against the
muckraker and the 'holier-than-
thou" reformer who is always cry
ing out against the evils that exist
in his own brain. Denver's mayor
was severe on the radical foolish
of prosperity" Two years ago May.
or Speer stood then as now for the
CONSTITUTION train" as against
the wrecking crew. of the Pat
tersonites. We wonder what Gov
ernor Shafroth. who sat on the
platform and heard the address.
was thinking of at this time. May
or Speer. more than any other
man, made possible the success of
the Democratic state ticket and
the election of United States Sen
ator C. J. Hughes. two years ago
and he did 1t by assuring the peo-
pie of Colorado that should the
Democratic ticket be successful
CONSTRUCTION trains" as against
"wrecking crews" would be called
into requisition.-Denve Democrat.
1t is said that Citizens Party
to colaborate with the state organ
ization has been formed in this
county and that a county ticket will
be put in the field. Two of the
nominees have been decided upon
according to the report. Better
bide q wee, you anxious ones. Tom
my Troubles is the father of the
new party. yet that will not deter
him from disowning the criter If
it is to his interests to do SO. Think
how disconcerting it would be to
have the Illicit offspring left on
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