The Delta independent., 1914-10-09
ton has so miserably failed.

ton has SO miserably failed. We
come to the voters of all parties with
a big constructive program which will
be put into effect and enforced by our
candidates who are constructive, gov
ernment-loving, anarchy-hating men
and women. Our party stands Tor the
principles of the national republican
party. We urge the enactment of
protective tariff laws that will ade-
quately protect the mining. agricul-
tural, commercial and industrial in
terests of the state. Our candidates
are pledged to do all in their power
to secure more liberal appropriations
from the national government to aid
in building more and better roads in
Colorado. Our candidates for the
United States senate and house of
representatives are pledged to do all
in their power to secure an amend
ment to the Federal constitution pro-
viding for national woman sufferage.
We favor the enactment of a pension
law for the firemen of the cities and
towns in the state of Colorado and
for a Workman,s Compensation Act
that will compel the payment of a
reasonable sum to the widows and
orphans from the industry where the
loss occurred and thus to the COM
munity. The republican party stands
committed to the maintainance, ex-
tension and enforcement of Civil
Service laws. We favor an efficient
supervision and just and reasonable
regulation of the railroads and ex-
press, telephone and telegraph COM
panies of the state.
From now on, Colorado must live
in the future and not in the past.
This is time for the builder and
not the destructionist. Colorado must
begin to cash in on her possibilities
To do so good roads are necessary
The farmer must be brought closer
to his market, the miner closer to his
mill. There is a growing national
feeling of seeing America first. Be
cause of the war abroad, this move
ment has been given added impetus
Citizens who formerly sought recrea-
tion abroad and who have planned
trips to foreign shores are now Wis
iting the beauty spots of our own
country. If Colorado will prepare
herself to accommodate this influx of
visitors, large part of the millions,
now spent at the show places of Eu-
rope, will be spent in Colorado, the
show state of America. Why should
not this be true? Here, dozens of
mountains that proudly and majes-
tically raise their peaks to heaven,
are the equal in magnificence of the
Jungfrau and the Matterhorn. Our
skies are the bluest in the world.
Our sunsets are as rich and sublime
as those of the Bay of Naples. Our
air is pure, our sunshine is bright.
Mountain streams. tumbiing and rush
ing down to meet the placid rivers
of the plains, TEEN with jumping fish
and direct the footsteps of every
sportsman towards Colorado. Here
are canyons SO deep that the sun has
never penetrated to their bottoms
The magic OF sun and the air and the
pines Of our hills give health to the
invalid. Our plains are fertile. The
earth's crust is a veritable treasure
house. Build a network of the fin
est roads in the world into every
corner of the state Show our un-
equalled resources to the travelling
public and the visitor will become
resident, build home and invest
money here.
Thousands of acres of state lands
that should be supporting families.
raising crops and affording pasturage
for cattle, are unclaimed. untitled and
uninhabited. These lands should be
farmed by farmers and not held by
spectators. We want men and
women to settle on the lands who are
not content to remain tenants or rent
ers. but who will make an honest ef-
fort to own the land they settle on.
Who come here with the fixed de-
termination to remain here; who will
build homes, barns, silos; who will
use every practical means of devel-
oping their farms and ranches to the
maximum productive efficiency. The
Farm Loan Act, now on our statutes,
has been fully tested in Iowa. 1t has
proven sound and practical there and
should be enforced here.
] believe that every drop OF water
originating in Colorado should be
kept here and applied to Colorado