The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08
The Progressive Rally

AH AhO8a10Uav3 nA0ssJ
About 100. probably twO-thirds of
whom were Democrats apd Republi-
cans, gathered in the District Court |
Room on Saturday night to hear the
First Gun of the campaign fired by the
Progressive party. Mr.. e. c. Hamil-
ton. the County Chairman and Candi-
dates TT Harrison. Lily Labarce. ;eo.
E. McCone and ". NJ. Hileman togeth
er with Mr.. Easement of Littleton.
Benz. Griffith and E. p. COstigan Oc-
cupied the platform. The speakers
were introduced In turn by MIR. Ham,
ilton. Mr.. Easements part of the pro-
gram consisted in telling the audience
the plans and purposes of the Progress
sive party and in putting his audience
in receptive mood for the other spea-
kers. Mr.. Griffith who Is candidate for
U. S. Senator, did not make q partic-
ularly strong or impressive speech.
not nearly as good as We have heard
Ben make when he was on the Repub-
Hcan platform. Mr.. Costigan both in
looks and speech convinces his audi
ence of his carnestness and belief in
the doctrines which he breaches, but
1t did not seem to us that he made the
impression that he did In the cam
paign two years ago.
Both the Democratic and Republican
parties came in for their share of con-
demnation but it seemed to US that the
Democrats got little the worst of the
deal. We learned some things that we
did not know before, and that was
that Geo. Carlson was the choice Of
the Big Interests and that accounted
for his nomination over Sam Nicholson
While we presume that MIR. Costigan
was honest in his beliefs we must take
exception to his statements in this case
as careful survey Of the votes at the
Primary over the stats shows that Il
was not the counties where the Big In
terests are supposed to hold major
ity of votes that gave Mr.. Carlson his
majority over the other candidates for
this Office, but then We were not very
much surprised at the statement for
1t would make no difference who had
been nominated they would have had
the same thing said of them but we
are thankful at least in not having a
candidate whose name is already on
the bonds of the worst element that
have ever been in our state. We arc
mighty thankful to the speakers that
there were few in the Reublican par
ty who were not assailed by our Pro-
gressive friends. for instance f!lil
Stuart, the State Chairman, who two
years ago was a Progressive was not
assailed. Neither was anything said a
gainst Robert Work the candidate for
United States Senator nor Allison
Stocker candidate for State Treasurer
who also was Progressive in the last
campaign.
MIR. Ramer candidate for Secretary
of State did not come in for any cri-
ticism from cur visitors ard while
Mrs. Riddle the Progressive candidate
for this Office on the Progressive tic
ket is pledged to make this oftic. re-
fuge for girls we do not think that tho
Office of Secretary of State should he
used for such an Office and that pro-
badly in spite of Mrs. Riddles laud-
able intentions the voters of tie state
will want the office filled by Mr.. RAJ
mer. Neither Of the speakers seemed
to be at all confident of the clec.ion
but insisted that the 'sn:paisn was be-
ing made not with an idea so much of
being elected as to show the voters the
ideals of the Progressive party and we
must acknowledge thai the i1eal., are
commendable. BUT-othc: parties
and other candidates have had ideals
but the election of few men to Office
rdoes MT mean that thair ideals will
4 converted into laws or that when
'cted they will come any nearer car
ng ous their public utterarces be
e election than many of the past.
e "huid not call TIE Progressive
II enthusiastic one although the
.i'il ;pplauded al some of the
Jrc rTtinent thin said by the spea-
fners. Gid we are rather of the opinion
L'a1 dfttr the meeting was over Ii.
Rogressives were Just little strong
cr in heir belief tI,e.. ,ilc ;,cE,ocrats
We're s',iI inclinei to vote .or "Per-
b'eN' I'd that the Republicans will 70
Gu.J - line for I;w and Orier aud ,
JIs:,t" Mhich al. :: Mr. Costigan
ins'-'.l that the worG Justice has
bee,i :d.ed by tn ~ :cssive rurt-
s'ill wn insist that The Republican Far
- i'as l'ood for ''the greatest of these !
Justice" since the days of Abraham