Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-17
PARTY LINES BREAK
|NCO[ORADOF|G
Conservative Democrats In
dorse G. O. P. Nominee
for Governor.
LAW AND ORDER ISSUE
Republican Candidate Favors Con-
tinuance of State Constabulary
+; Which Radicals Oppose.
LAW AND ORDER ISSUE
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
DENVER. Colo. October 11---Law
and order. which specifically means the
maintenance of state constahulary. is
the big iSsssa which has split the two
old parties in Colorado and drawn
clearly defined battleline between con-
servatives and radicals.
Former United States Senator
Thomas. democrat. and Tyson Dimes.
another leading democrat. are prime
movers in an organization of business
and professional men which has in
dorsed the republican candidate for
governor Benjamin Griffith. because
he favors the continuance of the poll
cies of Gov Shoup. republican, whose
administration has been popular, while
William F.. Sweet. the democrat nomi-
nee, not only wants the constabulary
abolished bat favorS ,he erection of
state warehouses for farmers and
other proposals of the Non-Partisan
League
Labor unions are fighting the con-
stabulary idea and are lined up be-
hind Mr. Sweet. democrat. who. by
the way, defeated the Two other demo-
crat aspiranrs for the nomination by
an overwhelming vote in the pri-
conservatives. and much of their fol-
lowing will naturally gravitate TO the
republican ticket
Industrial Friction Old.
II is natural TO find the friction be-
tween capital and labor deeply en-
bedded circumstance in the politics of
Colorado This is the state whose
memories of labor warfare with its
tragedies of Cripple Creek and Ludlow
are still vivid in recollection. Colo
RADIO. TOO. has been a pioneer in what
has since developed into the Henry
Allen idea of an industrial court. Back
in 1915 the Legislature passed an act
creating an Industrial commission.
There can be no strike or lockout save
on thirty days notice and the dispute
must be submitted to the commission
first for mediation. 1t is not Compul-
sorry arbitration as provided by the
Kansas plan. but there have been no
labor troubles of consequence since
the industrial commission began to
function
The secret of the commissions sue
cess is its personnel. 1t consists of
three men-a representative of labor.
a business man and a lawyer. They
do not sit as representatives of a
One of the difficulties about the Ia
Dor problem everywhere is the protec-
ton of men who are willing to work
In the place of strikers. Colorado
doesn't feel it has absolutely prevent
ed strikes or lockouts even though
the danger of them has been reduced
to a minimum. Labor evidently Is not
sure warfare is a thing Of the past.
1t views q state constabulary as an
instrument of it's foes, but here, as
hot if he
lice force, a state constabulary or
militia, the whole question turns
upon the proper use of this arm OF
the law. The state militia has been
men dislike strike duty. The con-
stabulary of sixty men has been SUI
fcient to maintain order in recent
years and the militia which. OF
course. can be called out in a great
emergency. has been recruited and
strengthened.
Good Strike Record.
The state tabulary performed
excellent service during the coal and
rail strikes last summer. Colorado
had very little trouble and maintain
cd it's coal production pretty we'll
Mr.. Sweet. the democratic nominee.
Is calling loudly for the abolition OF
the constabulary. Although the Den
yer Post, one of the leading news
papers in the west. has frequently
supported democratic candidates and
was a conspicuous factor in helping
Woodrow Wilson carry the west in
1916. the platform of the democratic
state ticket is so thoroughly disliked
that the Post has just come out edf-
torially today in support of the en-
tire republican state ticket. Says the
Post:
The republican platform indorses
the sacredness of the constitution
of Colorado and declares for the en-
forcement of her laws. 1t opposes
these pernicious foreign "isms" i'm
ported into Colorado from Europe.
1t stands for the protection of prop
erty rights. 1t stands for continued
peace and prosperity and the employ
ment of both labor and capital. and
in all other ways is q patriotic Amer
lean platform.
Series of Walls.
1.-THE democratic platform, on the
other hand, is a series Of walls. of
suspicious, of imputations. 1t is a
platform of gloom and complaint. 1t
is a platform of vagaries holding out
promises of relief for imaginary
a repetition Of governmental theories
that have been a failure wherever
tried. 1t is a bid for the votes Of all
peoples The platform Is a composite
of the Farmers Alliance. the socialists
and the bolsheviks. 1t is a universal
panacea for all evils, real and imag-
mary, and the platform seems to have
been made very much more for catch
ing votes than for any other purpose.
This. however, is an evil practiced by
republicans and democrats alike.
And SO, after going over the SPLEEN
did record of prosperity and peace
and full employment Of labor at
good wages that existed during the
past four years Of the Shoup admins
tration and going over the failure of
the democratic administration that
preceded Shoup. the Post believes that
much more prosperous. better gov
erned, and that her people will be
more contented and happy, that law
and order will be better maintained
by the election Of the republican tick
ct this fall in its entirety than it
would by the election of the demo-
cratic ticket
The foregoing represents to a large
extent the feeling of many democrats
who are a1igning themselves behind
the republican nominee. The Pueblo
Star-Journal. the leading demo-
cratic paper in southern Colo
RADIO. has also come out for the
North Dakota, Montana. Oregon and
Iowa, the issues have become far
more important than traditional party
names or labels The conservative
forces Of the state are grouped in sup.
port of the republican nominee, while
the radicals. as we'll as large num-
bers Of dissatisfied farmers who are
getting low prices for their products.
are turning to the acknowledgements