Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-07
A POLITICAL War
IN STATE OF
COLORADO
THREE PARTIES HAVE SEVERAL
CANDIDATES FOR NOMl-
NATION

Denver, Colo, Sept. fractional
strife aad the labor vote, an unknown |
quantity, are expected to produce some |
startling surprises in the primary cleo
tion in Colorado tomorrow. In the |
Republican party there are three can
didates for governor and in the demo
cratic ranks, two. The progressives
are united on e. p Costigan, leader
Of the Rooseveltian wing. Former Uni
ted states Senator Thomas M. Patter-
san and Barnette Napier are contest
! ing for the democratic nomination,
while in the republican field Samuel
P. Nicholson, Frank c. Goudy and
George A. Carlson are the contestants.
The republicans will choose between
Isaac N. Stevens of Denver, and DR..
Hubert Work, of Pueblo, for the Uni
ted States senatorial nomination, while
benjamin Griffith, progressive, and
Charles S. Thomas, democratic, incum-
bent, are unopposed.
The democrats have indorsed three
cf the present congressmen-Keating,
Taylor and Seldomridge and they will
be unopposed for nomination, but tie
fourth member of the present deleea-
titn. George ]. Kindel, has declared
himsedf a republican. although elect
ind Ia
pende-tly. The other two parties have
from two to six candidates for each
oongres sional nomination.
The governorship is the real office
ever which the battle will be waged,
because to the successor of Governor
IE M. Ammons the entire nation looks
for solution of the industrial prob
lens which grip the state.
Law and order" is the slogan of
each of the three recognized parties,
democratic, republican and progress
sive, but the real issues are these:
Shall the state of Colorado go dry?
Shall the coal mine operators or the
, miners be forced to yield in the labor
strife that has paralyzed Colorado for
year, brought on civil warfare and
collected scores of human lives as
, ltoll?
S The labor vote is the most important
g Consideration in +ha nrinnaru 4"'T----
5 row and in the general election in
:. November. At the meeting of the
4 State Federation of Labor two weeks
= ago that body turned down virtually
I all applications for Endorsement pre-
I gented by candidates, and out of a
+ list of approximately 80 candidates
2 for the chief offices, declared in favor
5 of only one Atterson w. Rucker. dem
? ocrat, who served in the Sixty-frst
' and Sixty-second congresses, now a
. candidate for congress in the First dis
} trict
AS to prohibition, there seems little
t Likelihood of the "drys" wiping liquor
) out of Colorado. There are many
: lsections, principally in the southern
+ part of the state, where liquor is bar
r lred. but the rest of the state is wide
: Iopen.
5 There are several good local rea
: sons why the prohibtionists are going
5 to have hard time. One is that Colo
, RADIO is made up of many peoples,
| with many temperaments, and to a
. majority drinking is no more a vice
, than tangoing. Another. and perhaps
. the most important reason, is the
r feet that Colorado is a tourist state
= and there is a well grounded belief
that when a tourist gets to touring
e he should be allowed to drink as much
e as he wants.
+ Knowing these things, however, the
|. prohibitionists are making a valiant
t fight to have men favorable to their
e Icause nominated at the primaries to
e morrow. For the general campaign,
e both the prohibitionists and the saloon
interests will bring in orators of ma
tonal prominence and to the billboard
campaign now being waged will be
+ added facts, figures and eloquence.
S Until the makeup of the tickets is
:. known it will be a difficult matter to
/ make forecast of the probable result
at the general election in November.
Republican success is rendered doubt
ful by the fact that all three of that
!. party's aspirants for the governorship
: are antagonized by the labor element.