The daily sentinel., 1913-12-18
ABOUT HOME FOLKS
and
ABOUT HOME DOINGS
(By \. G. NEWToN.)

(By A. G. NEWToN.)
The Denver element in all parties
manifest very ardent desire to take
the lead and control every political
activity: one of the most tenahle
democratic machines in this state is
the refusal to take the common ev-
eryday voter into consideration when
forming platforms and naming tick
cts; the passage of the direct prim-
airy law was intended to counteract
TINS boss rule and to allow the vot-
ers to name the men whom they wish
ed to elect to the state. legislative,
Judicial and county offices.
The Progressive party element in
Denver refused to abide by the prim-
aries last year and II looks very
much as If the same sort OF policy
Will be adopted hereafter. Two ele-
ments in the machinery in Denver
have recently held confabs and 1t aas
been given out that certain men VIII
be the candidates next fall and that
there VIII be no quarter given any
ether element. Therefore it looks
very much like old times when a. NJ.
Stevenson and his following named
every republican candidate and plac-
ed them upon u platform to suit the
occasion. II Colorado is to be govern
ed by honest men the politicians,
whether republican, democrat or pro-
gressive must allow the voters to have
a say in the affairs of the govern
ment aside from paying the taxes.
Ii is not SO much whether l. n. Ste
vens, Il. p. Costigan or any other
man is elected as 1t is that the vot-
ers shall say whether they wish them
nominated.
1t is very evident that there is to lie
great mix-up next year and there
Is certainly enough men and women
in this state who are willing to have
the state run on economical and hon
est lines who are ready to vote for
men rather than for what they want
for their personal advantage. We
have had pretty nearly enough of the
personal machines of any man,
whether 1t be Rhody Kenehan, John
Shafroth, Tom Patterson. Labor Com
missioner Brake, A. NJ. Stevenson, |.
n. Stevens or e. p. Costigan. They
are no more entitled to say what the
voters want than any other individ-
ual voter even If they are all good
men and sincerely devoted to the af-
fairs of the state.
! This week in Washington members
I Of the republican national committee
are making efforts to unite the party
by granting concessions which were
demanded by the voters prior to the
last national convention and which
II granted them would have prevent
ed a split and no doubt would have
elected the nominee of the republic
can convention. The bosses then
were like the bosses in Colorado
anxious to perpetrate their machine
and they have lost their Jobs never
again to find them, because the av-
erage voter who followed the party
leaders no matter where 1t led them
has discovered how to use the
scratching machine.
Our old time friend and citizen Mr..
William VanBuren leaves early in
January for visit with his three
sons in San Diego. California. and
there is no one who deserves such an
outing as this any more than Mr..
VanBuren. With him Will go the
best wishes of his scores of friends
all over the valley who have met him
so many times in the past few years
az the chief at the supply depart
ment of the Grand Junction Fruit
Growers association. The VanBuren
boys are in the auto business in the
coast city and have machines of all
sorts including a motor boat; their
father will no doubt have the time of
his life during this winter and all
provided by his boys who last winter
gave their mother similar Christ
mas present
was told the other day that there
will be sent out of the lower valley
this winter a number of car loads of
fat hogs; this is the first time in the
history of the valley so far as can
learn that this has been possible.
Some have told me that there is no
market for hogs in Denver. If such |
is the fact then there should be an
organized movement to provide some /
way in which the hog products can
be taken to market and sold at a !
living price; there is going to be
many more raised than ever before
and the refuse from our orchards |
will be taken care of in this way.
1t looks as If we shall have a new |
banking code within a week or ten I
days. those who have studied 1t say
tnat IL VIII De VAST Improvement
over the present system, but good
citizen remarked few days ago that
it will in turn give way to system
by which the United States will do
the banking; at the present time we
have the postal savings banks which
provide a safe way for the small |
sums; these small sums are placed !
in the banks which must deposit |
bonds of the United States as guar
anty for the small savings; this is
a plain case of favoritism. Why
should the small sums be protected
and the large sums be left to the alb
solute control of the bankers?
The movement to standardize the
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