The Lamar register., 1910-07-06
DATE SET FOR CONVENTION BY
THE DEMOCRATS
Unless "Uxtry" Session Makes
Good, Party VIII Have To Go ,
Hungry This Var

Denver. Colo, July 2-The exc
cutive committee of the Democratic
state committee met in this city
yesterday and set the date of the
state convention for Sept. Z. Denver
had been agreed on as the meeting
place by the full committee when
it met some weeks back. This day
is the earliest under the law at
which the convention could be call
ed. AS the "uxtry" will be con-
vened on or about Aug. it will
have four weeks to pass the "di-
rect legislation" programme and
step over to the state gathering
there to receive the plaudits of the
convention for "redeeming party
pledges.
The state convention will have
1,1O1 delegates. OF this number
Denver will send 2S4. or more than
one-fourth of the whole. This Is
due to the aid given the Democratic
party in this city in the last state
election by that organization known
as Bryan Republicans" or course,
1t was the Democratic platform with
its "seven sacred paramounts" thai
was responsible for the Bryan Re
publicans." They Just dotted on the
platform and could repeat 1t the
day before election backward by
heart" SO fond were they of tina,
document.
It's a beastly shame that the
regular session failed to pass these
platform pledges" but the trouble
was due to the fact that not sim
gle Bryan Republican" was elect
ed to that body, else every pledge
would have been put on the books
or there would have been a riot at
the state house.
For no other reason in the
world would 1t have been possible
to form Bryan Republican" COM
mittees SO that the legislature
would be overwhelmingly Democrat
ic other than the Democratic plat
form served as a rallying ground.
That sacred instrument caused Re-
publicans to forsake their party
and corporations to become exceed
ingly generous with their contribu-
tions. without that inspiring doc
ument, framed by the cunning hand
Of Thomas. there would have been
no Golden Special" to traverse
Colorado with Messrs. Hughes and
Shafroth and permit them to preach
the gospel OF the Democratic plat
form at every wayside station and
water tank.
Those who assert that 1t was
not the platform but the man be-
hind the platform that was res
ponsible for a legislature three
fourths Democratic. are caluminat-
ors and ought to be listed in the
Annaias club.
The candidacy of Mr.. Hughes
for the United States senate was
merely an incident. a side ISSUE
having nothing whatever to do with
the great upheaval for the Demo
cratic platform. If 1t had not been
known in advance that Corporation
Attorneys Hughes and shafroth
stood with both feet on the DEM
ocratic platform they would have
been brushed aside. particularly by
,he "Bryan Republicans that
fought, bIed and died in vain for
the Democratic party and the seven
pledges that served in that year
as Democracy's Magma Charter.
The "reform" corporations that
contributed SO freely to the Demo-
cratic campaign of that year. have
been sadly disappointed with the
work of the Seventeenth General
assembly in its complete failure to
pass the sacreds. Unless the "ux-
try makes good the Democratic
party will have to go hungry this
year.
At the brief meeting of the DEM
ocratic executive yesterday, where
C. s. Thomas. the undying author
of the "seven sacreds." ruled the
roost, it was taken for granted
that the Democratic senators in one
room and Democratic house mem
bers in another room would caucus
and unite upon a platform so that
the legislature would not have to
take a recess to attend the state
convention.