The Glenwood post., 1912-10-26
GIenwood People Receive Parks With
Grand Ovation Which Cannot
Be Misunderstood
DAWSON MAKES fine ADDRESS

said that notwithstanding the fact that
Mr. Parks is bachelor he saw no evi-
dences of race suicide in Glenwood He
complimented Mrs. Wilson on the
splendid record she has made in the
state superintendent office.
Mr.. Kinsley then referred to the fact
that one of his opponents lived in Glen
wood Springs and paid h gh compli-
ment to Edward 7. Taylor whom he
said for twenty years he had known as
a gentleman of very high ideals. He
thought the reason for this, however,
was in the fact that Mr.. Taylor had
started on his political career as a r.
publican for when he first met Ed
Taylor about twenty years ago it was
in a republican state convention where
he was an enthusiastic supporter of re-
publican principles.
Clyde C. Dawson would never draw
n prize in a beauty contest, but as a
OlhluT ne IS lHt ltdl SpplS
and no mistake. He said that -four
yeas ago be sat in the national republ'
can convention and cast his vote for
the nomination of William Howard Taft
whom Theodore Roosevelt then declared
was of all men in this country the one
best fitted to occupy the president 6
nho;, NI,. Nm coiJ ha1
then that Mr. Roosevelt told the truth
and he still believes that that state
ment is just as true now as it was
then because he believed that Mr.. Taft
is just as grand and great and gool
a man as Teddy said he was in those
days. ~
Mr.. Dawson then referred to the
splendid compliment paid to Mr.. Taft
by Woodrow Wilson less than three
weeks ago. The speaker admitted that
Taft was not great advertiser; ne
said he was not what some would call
successful politician, but he was a
greater ana grander and bigger and
broad and noble statesman.
Mr.. Dawson then quoted from Wood
row Wilson $ book describing the tef
ribe conditions following the election
of Grover Cleveland He showed that
these conditions were due to the free
trade principles of the democratic
party having full sway and in discus
cing the tariff question he showed the
folly and the danger of making the
United States senate democratic and
thus running the mining and beet sugar
industries, the latter amounting to $1o
for every man, woman and child in the
state.
tion to the present democratic state
administration and showed up Shat
roth false claims to economy. He
charged that the seventeenth general
assembly failed to carry out a single
paramount pledge of their party plat
form, showed how Honest John
NaltSu Ioi ~ Hiohlho' N"iiVu 'hc itS'7
lature together in special session and
used it for political purposes in an
attempt to boost himself into the
United States senate. He reminded
his hearers that the legislature has
been in session 2s4 days during shaf-
roth's administration of four years at
cost of thousand dollars a day, anil
what have we to show for it.
Yes, Shafroth's political legislature
passed some political laws. For in
stance they passed the primary law at
cost of over 100000 to the state aud
you can hardly find democrat in the
whole state to say good word for it.
Mr.. Dawson said he believed in giving
the initiative and referendum laws a
fair trial, but he would surround them
with such safeguards as would make 1t
impossible for designing politicians
with few hundred dollars to initiate
measure by hiring glib talking men
or good looking girls to go out and get