Semi-weekly herald., 1914-06-15

If our supreme court are Democrats
the majority is made up of Demo-
rats, and l have known these men
Or most Of them for number Of
years. Some of you have known them
from their boyhood days, some lived
in their communities and worked
with them in building up and de-
veloping the towns and counties from
which they come, and l want TO say
here and now, standing as a Repub-
lican, speaking of the Democratic su-
preme COURT want to say this DEM
ocratic supreme court of ours is COM
posed of honorable upright men Gap
piause), and want to say that these
district judges, Democrats or Repub-
licans, in this state, are honorable
upright lawyers and judges, men and
citizens. (Applause.)
The governor of this state is a
Democrat. Many of us Democrats
and Republicans differ with him as
to the manner in which he has han
died this strike. We think he did not
strike at the right time and did not
strike hard enough-did not exert the
power through the national guard
not the militiamen, these people from
The outside of this state who are agi-
lating are using that term to detract,
oull down what they call the mill
-iamen-the true and correct legal
name is national guard-national
guards, men who when this country
$ plunged into war, the president can
call upon to join the army of the
nation and of the republic. These are
the men that the governor had to
depend upon. They are the police
men of the state, and is there a man
here or in this state who will stand
up and say that "if somebody had not
iired upon the militiamen that the
militiamen would have fred upon any
body" But coming back to the gov.
'rnor, l started to say that all of
IS are not in accord with his pro,
gram or plan of handling this unfor.
innate situation, but he is our gov.
,rnor, he is the governor of Colorado,
md whether he is Republican, or
Progressive, or Democrat, he is my
governor and will loyalty stand by
him while he is upright. applause
want to say, and | appeal to the
press of Colorado, to the Rocky
Mountain News, to the Denver Post,
20 everyone CT you, it is your bound
IN duty to stand by the governor in.
stead of criticizing him. (Applause.)
The same thing in a larger way is
rue of the president of the country,
md he is a Democrat. He is a Dem.
'crat of Democrats, Democrat all
through, and some of us, perhaps
some of his own party, are not in
iccord, in full sympathy if you please,
With his policies in handling the diff
icult and complicated situation in
Mexico, but he is the president of
his republic and il is our duty to
itand by him, right or wrong. ZAP
>lause)
1t is our duty, if he calls for men
md arms, if he calls for money with
which to obtain munitions of war to
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americans in Mexico, to compel Mex.
co, by whatever it may be actuated,
o recognize the civilization of this
;reat, free, splendid republic, in try
ng to establish law and order on
his continent and uphold civilization,
md all that goes with civilization on
his American continent.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, what
ever may be the outcome of this or
ganization let us go to our various
places of abode, let us go back to our
,ounties, and if you have not already
'reated a league, create one, call
t what you please so long as it has
IS its purpose and object the enforce
nent of law and the bringing of or
Ter and peace to every community,
so that you or |, any man or any
woman, can walk along the streets
in any hamlet or any town or city,
or on any road, highway, or by-way,
'r alone, or any place, without fear
If being assassinated, beaten up or
killed, or having property burned or
destroyed. Let us organize all through
he counties and all through the
tate, and the time will come when
this blight, this infamy cast on the
fair name of Colorado, will be wiped
out and the rest of the country will
recognize that Colorado simply came
up against what the people of Massa-
,husetts did in their strike last year
or the year before, what the people
Of New Jersey came up against, what
the people of West Virginia came up
against, and what the governor of the
state of Ohio is now up against-for-
ty-five thousand coal miners out or
going out on strike. If they arm them
selves and overthrow the governor of