The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-17
BY DAVIE. LAWRENCE.
Especial Dispatch to The Reformer
DOWNRIGHT 1922

+ (SpeclaI Dispatch to The Retormer.) 4
Copyright 1922.
DENVER, Col. Oct. 17-Law and !
order which specifically means the main
tenance of a state constabulary, is the big |
issue which has split the two old parties !
in Colorado and drawn a clearly defined |
battle line between conservatives and |
radicals.
Former United States Senator Thomas. |
Democrat, and Tyson Dimes another lead
ing Democrat, are prime movers in an
organization of business and professional
men who have endorsed the Republican
candidate for governor. Benjamin
Griffith, because he favors the continu-
ance of the policies of Governor Shoup,
Republican, whose administration has
! been very popular, while William II.
Sweet, the Democratic nominee, not only
wants the constabulary abolished but
favors the erection of state warehouses
for farmers and other proposals of the
NOn-Partisan league of North Dakota
| fame.
Labor unions are fighting the constabu-
| larry idea and are lined up behind MIR
Sweet, Democrat. who by the way. de
| feated two other Democrat aspirauts for
! the nomination by an overwhelming vote
/ i'll the primaries. The other candidates
| were conservatives and much of their fol
| lowing will naturally gravitate to the
| Republican ticket.
Pioneer In Labor Plan.
! 1t is natural to find the friction be
| tween capital and labor a deeply mbeded
] circumstance in the politics of Colorado.
| This Is the state whose memories of labor
/ warfare with its tragedies of Cripple
| Greek and Ludlow are still vivid in recol-
| lection. Colorado, too, has been 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 80 days notice and the dispute must
| be submitted to the commission first for
| mediation. 1t IL not compulsory arbi-
| tratiOn as provided by the Kansas plan
| but there have been no labor troubles of
| consequence since the industrial commits
| sion began to function.
The secret of the commissions success
| is its personnel. 1t consists of three
| men--a representative of labor bust
! ness man. and Il lawyer. They do not sit
| as representatives of n class but as dis
| interested medators. They are respected
because of their impartiality.
Protection of Workers Opposed.
One of the difficulties about the labor
problem everywhere is the protection of
| men who are willing to work in the place
| of strikers. Colorado doesn't feel il has
absolutely prevented strikes or lockouts
| even though the danger of them has been
| reduced to minimum. Labor evidently
! is not sure warfare is thing of the past.
| Ii views state cOnstabulary as an in
strument of its foes but here, as else
| where. whether it be a city police force,
n state cOnstabulary, or Il militia, the
whole question turns upon the proper use
of this arm of the law. The state militia
Il L 4
| dislike strike duty. The constabulary of
60 men has been sufficient to maintain
order in recent years and the militia
which. of course, can be called out in n
great emergency, has been recruited and
strengthened.
cellent service during the coal and rail
strikes last summer. Colorado had very
little trouble and maintained its coal pro-
\ duction pretty well.
Mr. Sweet. the Democratic nominee
is calling loudly for the abolition of the
constabulary Although the Denver
Post. one of the leading newspapers in
the West has frequently supported candi.
dates and was a conspicuous factor. in
helping Woodrow Wilson carry the West
in 1916, the platform of the Democrat tic
state ticket is so thoroughly disliked that
the Post has just come out editoriallv to-
day in support OF the entire Republican
state ticket. Says the Post:
why Democratic Paper Turns.
1.-THE Republican platform indorses the
] sacredness of the constitution of Colo
RADIO and declares for the enforcement OF
her laws. 1t opposes these pernicious
foreign isms imported into Colorado fron,
! Europe. It stands for the protection OF
4 property rights. IT stands for continued
Y peace and prosperity and the employ
I / ment of both labor aud capital and in all
other ways lisa patriotic American plat
I form
4 .9Ehn Democratic platform. on the
other hand. is n series of walls. of sus
I picions. of impulsations IT is Il platform
= of gloom and complaint. 1t is platform