The Glenwood post., 1916-10-07
Throws Down Gauntlet and Demands
That His Opponents Define Their
Industrial Program
We ARE KNOWN BY OUR WORKS

call that those charred ruins represent
all that remains of generation of ef
| thtside business and coal contracts,
which you mad spent years in getting,
were swallowed up by your competitors
in other states in the crisis of three
years ago, you will understand how
much it cost you to have officials in
power who were without sufficie Mt
strength and firmness to actually main
tain stable government.
! Taxpayers of Colorado, when won get
this late war debt fully paid and have
finally lifted from your businesses,
/ homes and farms, this 100000 worse
than useless tax burden you will sit up
and take notice that it takes grinding
toll and real sweat to pay for the
weakness of group of officials who
were so divided and disintegrated that
military force had to be submitted for
civil authority.
| Mr.. Citizen, when you seek to inter
est people in Colorado's resources ana
opportunities and find that it will be
years before the prospective investor
4 or- .homeseek kers ceases to question che
| stability of our government and the
safety of Colorado Investments. you,
too, will come to know how great an
| injury we have sustained because of
this collapse of government. .r..
If the Republican party had done as
much injury to the state it would not
have the brazen effrontery to ask again
| for official power, at least for long
period of years until time had blurred
the hideous memory.
| What reliable assurance have we that
the legislative, executive and judicial
machinery today proposed by our op-
ponents will not break to pieces under
the strain as did its predecessors! The
forces of disintegration haven't changed
their political affiliations. There is
some good material in Democracy's
latest offering of candidates: there was
much good material in the old; but the
same loose theory of government still
obtains.
The leaders of one party have led
state into strife, confusion and tur-
moil. Another party has brought it
back to stability, harmony and good
order. To allow party to return i'm
mediately to power and at once escape
all responsibility for collapse of gov.
ernment is to render more likely the
speedy recurrence of the same condi-
tion. The fight is eternally on 20
maintain stable government against the
ever-present tendencies of disintegra-
ton. If the people defeat those who
have proved their competency and dis
position to maintain stable government
and elect those who but shortly before
proved their incapacity, not only are
, they taking useless chances but they
themselves have thereby dulled their
only spur to constructive and effective
action.
The time has come in the history of
this country when government must
function to eliminate the tremendous
waste loss of life and property, by the
prompt application through impartial
and competent governmental agencies
of the principles of arbitration, or else
the future of our country is in danger.
Since the party platform of our oppo-
nents is silent on this most important
/ question we wish to know if their
standard bearer will not speak. Judge
Gunter, we ask you to tell the people
of Colorado are you for or against the
industrial law?
| we ASK IOI u TcluIH W ohiS"i WI
troll because whole party's deep de-
termination to sustain stable govern
ment is not dictated by political expe-
di.ncy, but comes from the strong con-
viction of its entire membership.
We ask this, too, because We believe
that every right the law gives to the
working man or that is inherently his
should be maintained by the whole
power of Colorado government; because
we believe that every dollar invested in
legitimate and protective industry
should be conserved and protected by
the whole power Of Colorado govern
| ment.
We maintain that stability is the first
indispensable of government; that with
out it life, labor or industry are equal
ly and continuously imperiled. We
maintain that with the right of univer-
sal suffrage there is such ample oppor-
tupity for civic advancement through
the orderly means Of government thst
insurrection can never be justified.
We accepted from preceding admins