Denver labor bulletin., 1916-10-28
The Optimistic
Philosopher

"HIS has been a banner week for
parades, oratory and political
circus in Denver. The campaign
committees of both the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties have ex-
erted every effort to enthuse the popu-
lace. First came Teddy and the Hughes
heroines on Tuesday, with great out
pouring of the people Tuesday night at
| the Auditorium to hear Teddy make one
of his skin EN- alive" political speeches.
Preceding the Auditorium meeting there
was a parade intended to show the
strength of Hughes followers in Denver.
Seven bands made an immense amount
of noise, but the actual number OF voters
in the parade must have been a disap-
pointment to the Republican county
committee, which put up the money for
the affair. Omitting the bands and the
kids who marched, there were by actual
count OPS men and women in the pa
rade, including those who rode in auto
mobiles. However, the crowd at the Au-
ditorium was a wonder, because after
the doors were closed with full house,
estimated at 1880, there were perhaps
that many more on the outside unable
to gain admission. In Denver Teddy
draws Just as well as Barnum & Bailey
or Ringling Brothers circus. Friday
night the Democrats were scheduled for
their big stunt of the campaign with
labor parade in honor of Secretary OF
Labor Wilson, who was to address
meeting at tie Auditorium. The num-
Der of voters in the Wilson labor parade
is expected to be ten times more.
CANCEL Archie" Stevenson was fea-
ture of the Hughes parade Tuesday
- ,al ha l..
ers' platform in the Auditorium right
under the nose of Theodore Roosevelt.
When Teddy alighted from an automo-
bile in front of the speakers stand,
"Angel Archie was the first to grasp
his hand. Teddy smiled, but it looked
to those about him to be forced and
there was not degree of warmth in
his handshake. Perhaps Roosevelt re-
called that four years ago at the Chi
cago Republican convention Angel
Archie" was chief engineer on the Taft
steamroller and manipulated the ma.
chine so well that a sufficient number
of Roosevelt delegates were unseated to
give Taft the nomination, which result
ed in a ruction that made it easy for
Wilson to gain the White House. The
hand shaking and smiling over, angel
Archie" reposed his corpulent body in
chair and within fifteen minutes was
fast asleep and did not arouse from this
sombulent state until Teddy had CON
cluded his hour and a half of self-praise.
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Letters received from Detroit this
week would indicate that The Denver
Labor Bulletin is quite an issue in the
Michigan wet and dry campaign. The
fact that The Bulletin is such a success
in dry state has been made the theme
of several speeches by union labor advo-
Gates of driving the saloons out of
Michigan. Copies of the great Labor
Day edition, minus liquor ads of any
character, are being shown by speakers
in various parts of the state. In this
connection a letter has reached the o. Z.
extending him an invitation to visit
Michigan and deliver three addresses,
one in Detroit, another in Grand Rapids
and then in the state capital at Ian
sing. However, owing to the press OF
work getting out The Bulletin and Civ
ing what little assistance we can to the
Wilson campaign in Colorado, we were
unable to accept the invitation.
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From Nebraska comes letter to the
o. p. praising the great work The BuI-
letin is doing and predicting that state
will 90 dry in the November election
by from 25,OOO to 10000. The writer,
strange to relate, expresses a queer po-
litical analogy, for he says: "Altho ]
shall vote my party ticket, Socialist, /
am praying to God that Wilson is elect
ed president. / do not see for the life
of me how a union workman can vote
for that class conscious capitalist Justice
Charles Evans Hughes" Perhaps my
Nebraska friend, between now and No
vember 7, will conclude to do like many
Denver Socialists this year and vote for
Woodrow Wilson, who in a contest be-
tween producers and exploiters stands
| for something much higher than party
politics.
Conducting a labor paper brings many
joys, not the least being kind letters
from appreciative friends. This week
one was received from a member of
Colorado Springs Carpenters Union No.
5l5, in which he says: "For some time
/ have had in mind few lines of good
cheer and appreciation, just to let you
know that your splendid paper is bring
| ing glad tidings and words of comfort
and value to your many readers in this
district, as well as to all other parts Of
our state. But ! knew your mail would
| great Labor Day edition, which alone
was well worth the years subscription
price So ] Just waited until you might
have an idle hour, then came this big
stunt of sending six prize winning trade
unionists to the Worlds Championship
ball games in the East, and this week
comes all the news about Teddy the
"terribull" and the Hughes silk stocking
special and then of labor's big program