The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-07-25
PR0CRESSVES
OPEN WH|RLW|ND
CAMPAIGN HERE

ognition OF Progressive Republican
ideas was started last night when Mr.
Phil Stewart. Mr.. Ben Griffith and Mr..
d Vincent, candidates for governor,
attorney general and United States
senator. respectively. addressed a
crowd of about two hundred Interest,"
ed people in the opera house.
The meeting had not been very ex-
tensiyely advertised through lack OF
time but the crowd that turned out to
greet the speakers seemed to indicate
to them, so they said. that their auto
mobile campaign TO every city, town
and hamlet in the state would be a
successful one.
The gentlemen were introduced 10
the audience by Mr.. ]. Homer Dick
son. Mr.. Stewart occupied the plat
form first. He spent a great deal OF
the time in tracing the power of the
machine and what IL had accomplish
ed. Inside the party. but outside the
machine" is the slogan of the pro-
gressive element OF the Republican
party and II is along this line that
they are making their strongest fight.
Attorney General Griffith. in his
PREDATORY remarks. said that he al
ways had tender regard for Fremont
county because IT, was really his home
county. He was raised in the coal
camps and lived number of years at
Chandler. Mr. Griffith said he thought
IL somewhat auspicious that he. with
his colleagues in the campaign. should
start the present political battle IN
his home county.
The speaker explained the reasons
why they were seeking 10, carry the
Roosevelt progressive standards 70
victory this fall. He unmitigatedly
scored Archie Stevenson and others
whom he called "re-aclonaries-"
Mr.. Vincent elucidated the methods
by which the .progressives expect 70
get on the ballots this fall. He said
that they did not expect to be nomi-
mated at the primaries. They we're
going to get there by petition. 1t
would take only three hundred names
to place the progressive candidates on
the ticket by petition and that was
partly the reason for the present cam
paign. He had the petitions on the
platform with him and made strong
plea for signatures. Mr.. Vincent
made the statement that they wanted
more than three hundred names to
each petition. They wanted as many
as possible to make as big n showing
as possible.
From here the speakers go to Pu-
ebio and down the Arkansas valley.
Mr.. Stewart said in part:
You good people of the Arkansas
Valley have undoubtedly read the
castigati9ns of Mr. Devine. who is edi-
tor of a Pueblo paper. directed at ms
and the cause I represent. He says
am mayerick-and then he repeats
that am maverick and makes daily
insistence that the word maverick Ia
the only one applicable to me In n po-
lltical sense. This word is familiar
II every Coloradoan. Here Is its de'i-
nltion: AN animal bearing the
brand OF no owner-an animal owned
by no one. An animal hard TO control
and roams the western ranges"
Il was delighted. Ladies and
gentiemen-that's mel am maver-
ick and / am proud Of that name. Of
course, politically Mr.. Devine had d"
knowledge of the name to use whe: e
he found an animal having no brand,
owned by no one and difficult of con-
troll. He knew how to classify me and
was paying me the very highest com