The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-10-24
Charles w. Waterman Strong
Man for u. S. Senator

-tA- f"1tI. man. tAcut7ti ottth AHfit-1
to turn his attention and abilities 70
the field Of politics, where his grasp
of public questions and interests. hls
DISTINGUISHED ability as an orator. ald
his unquestioned reputation for absa-
Lutte prob,ety and dlsInteresied devn-
ton to the public welfare must has
won for him the recognition and sueS
cess that. have attended hN career as
lawyer. has constantly eschewea
this neie: always 20 alluring to a man
OF brilliant ability and distinguishes
attainment. and has heretofore refused
to be drawn aside from his profession
or to permit his attention to be 81
verted from its despotie requirements.
It may be truthfully said OF Mr..
Waterman that he had much to 10
with drafting the Republican State
platform for the year 1919. and stands
|squareIy upon every plank OF that
platform. and favors every ststerelt
contained in IL
That he believes in and favors the
proposition that the waters OF the ilv-
Ing streams of the state. all OF them.
belong TO the people OF the state. am
that their rights are paramount. b2h
10 appropriated and unappropriaicd
waters. TO the rights OF the citizens Of
any other state or territory. and eysp
the government itself
That he stands uneauiyocaliy IN
favor OF the protection Of every Indus
try OF the state. and for the protec-
tion Of her resources and her raw ma
teriais. and believes that every citi-
zen OF the state should do his utmost
to aid In tse development OF the states
great resources. and that II elected he
will at all times contend to the otter
most OF his ability for the protection
OF the states industries and the de-
veiopment c. her resources. He rsshrs
II understood. especially. that he
stands for the protection OF the leaa.
zinc and other metal industries OF IN
state. which amounts 10 something like
fifteen million dollars per year. and
which viii be completely destroyed 4
the Democratic metal sehedIl pazs,
by the last Democratic house OF req
ressntatives becomes Law. That he
likewise stands for the protection Of
the wool industry OF the state. whie'.
Is OF tremendous importance TO her
people. and which. II the bill passed
by the house OF representatives be-
comes law. must necessarily pass.
out OF existence because IL cannot
compete: with foreign production. He
also stands for the protection OF the
sugar industry OF the state. which, an
nuAily pays directly 10 the farmeE1 of
the state from ak to ten million dol
lars per year. varying with the amount
of production; which pays to ne pro
ducors OF coal at least half a million
dollars per year; which pays the fac-
tory labor a million and n half dollars
per year: which pays the labor In q
beet fields moro than a million and n
half dollars per year; which pays for
supplies used In It's factories more
than a million and n quarter dolia
per year. which has a fxed invest
ment in the state Of more than twenty
millions OF dollars; and which employs
during the SEASON more than forty
Ave hundred men. An Industry whica
purchases all OF it's supplies. exceif
beet seed and bags for the sugar. in
side the state OF Colorado. An indus
try which cannot live n single minute
after sugar shall be admitted free and
the control OF the sugar market plnced
IN the hands of the SUGAR renners To-
Gated upon the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts.
BY the mention Of these s1p9cihcm
d,piries It Il not to be tihderstood
that he stands for tho protection os