The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-10-12
GOV. CARLSON STANDS FAIR
AND SQUARE ON IMPORTANT
ISSUES OF TWO YEARS AGO

ei wherever he may be found and
string him up by the neck? or course
lis only applies to real deserters,
never to mock deserters.
Watch Brewery interests.
Watch where the secret influence
of the brewery interests is placed in
the coming campaign and you will be
able to decide whether this deser-
ton is reality or only another de-
ception. Do they expect the dry
forces to elevate them to immediate
leadership? Don't you think that
they ought to be seasoned for while.
that they ought to spend some time
as privates first; that they ought to
shoot OFF at least one cap pistol on
the dry side before they ask to have
sewed on the stripes and shoulder
straps of generals? Today Democracy
claims to be dry as a Colorado sand
lizard. Why? We drove them to il.
Two years ago il was politically ex-
pedient to be wet Today it is
politically expedient to be dry To-
day they are dry
Whatever social, moral and eco
nomic good has come to the state
of Colorado thrue the abolishment of
the saloon has not come thru their
I'D. but in spite of their active oppo-
sition.
Fought in the Open.
Two years ago we did not try to
get any votes by false pretense. We
were out in the open. Everyone knew
where we stood. Today We are not
seeking to be unfair or to deceive the
voter We are still out in the open
standing just where we stood two
years ago. smashing as hard as we
n the things that we are against.
In the white heat of the contest two
years ago We came to the dry side
and the timely and vigorous aid OF
he great Republican party did much
In turning the narrow tide of victory.
We have passed a law in accord
with the prohibitory amendment.
which has stood the test of the state
courts. We have prevented the ac-
tive and energetic opposition from
writing into 1t such provisions as
would open il to constitutional at
tacks in the federal courts.
Every Saloon Closed.
Under this law every saloon was
closed in Colorado in a single day
We have fought on every attempt
to limit its Jurisdiction OF impair its
efficiency as we are today fighting
that ridiculous DESCRIPTION. the beer
amendment
This law has not been entirely
free of violations any more than the
laws against murder and robbery.
and of course has not entirely purg-
ed our state of crime. II has reduced
in little over eight months period
the number of inmates in the state
peEitentiary from $50 to 71s. II has
reduced the number of commitments
to our county jails from 3.427 for
the first six months period of 1915
to 2.s07 for the first six months of
1916. a decrease OF $50. II has re-
duced the number OF arrests in the
city of Pueblo from 3.495 for the first
eight months of 1915 10 1.SS5 for the
first eight months OF 1916.
VIII Back Vigorous Officers.
1T shall be our position to con-
tinue to install vigor and vitality into
the few police officers sherlffs and
district attorneys who may be weak
and fainthearted and to stand square
ly back of the great majority Of po-
lice officers. sheriffs and district at
.orneys who themselves are vital and
vigorous.
"A law OF this kind is always sub
iect TO n tremendous strain for the
h-st few years. We have had an
opportunity such as is given to no
one else to observe IL in daily opera
tion for the past nine months and
IL is our purpose 10 offer such nee
esSary amendments, as practical test
has dictated. to remedy the few de
fects of the law and TO bulwark il
still furtner against the bootlegger
and the lawbreaker. We thought
enough OF this law TO hazard person
al and party defeat in order that il
might come into existence. II re-
elected we pledge the people OF Colo
RADIO to so entrench it that in two
years more it win become as perma
nently fixed and established as the
laws against rape. robbery and muir
der"