The Delta independent., 1922-10-20
DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPLIT;
LEADERS TO FOLLOW GRIFFITH

men regardless of politics, have
awakened to the necessity of electing
Ben Griffith governor. and the entire
Republican ticket. They have organ
| lied the Colorado Business Mems as
sociation. with offices at AIS Seven
! teenth street with Tyson Dimes. Sr,
one OF the states leading Democrats.
as president, and with Frank L. Bir-
| ney as secretary. and Fred B. Marvin
| in charge of headquarters.
| In one of the most ringing state
ments of the campaign, Mr.. Dimes sets
forth why he will vote for Griffith and
why William E. Sweet is not real
Democrat. 1t is one of the strongest
statements that have been issued in
this campaign. and it is indorsed by
such old-time Democrats as Charlie S.
| Thomas former governor and former
| United States senator: Charles R.
Brock. widely known lawyer; Orville
Smith of the Smith-Brooks Printing
company; David Harlem, real estate
operator. Calvin H. Morse of the
Brown Palace hotel and other Denver
Democrats. and by George Mason.
candy manufacturer of Trinidad and
men equally prominent in other towns
| in Colorado.
These business men have laid their
party politics aside: they have laid
aside their wn business and their
professions to take up the work of
keeping Colorado peaceful and of pre-
venting the election of William E.
! Sweet acknowledged leader of the
radical element who has advanced
himself by his wealth as head of the
Democratic party in Colorado.
Statement Of Greed.
The objects of the Colorado Busi-
ness Mems association is given as
follows:
Organized to assist in the protec-
ton of the fundamental principles
upon which the government is found
ed; to preserve the constitution of the
United States with is representative
form of government and the right OF
individual property ownership; to
stand firm for law and order: to eN-
pose radicalism in all its forms no
matter under what name it may ap-
pear and to prevent its growth: and
to advance the peace, prosperity and
welfare of the people of Colorado
in particular. and of the United States
in general
Mr.. Dimes in his statement says:
81 have been Democrat all my life
and I believe in Democratic princi-
pies. constitutional government. in
the enforcement of constitutional
laws for the protection of the lives
and property of all citizens and all
classes and I am against special leg
| islation in favor of any class. whether
it be rich or poor.
Class Agitation Deplored.
81 am opposed to special privilege
or legislation to build up any class as
against the other classes. am oppos-
ed to all agitators, whether within or
without our country who oppose CON
stitutional rights and who are deter
mined to override our constitution in
favor of classes. and to stir up classes
against one another.
Now. the man who gets the nomi-
nation of the Democratic party and is
not in favor of these principles is not
Democrat, Democracy stands for
equal opportunity for all.
"William f. Sweet does not stand
for Democratic principles. Taking his
own utterances and a letter he him
self wrote as evidence, he is revealed
} as being in favor of the closed shop.
which means that he is in favor OF
the man who doesn't belong to a union
not being allowed to work That is
opposed to Democratic principles.
| Sweet is No Democrat.
Even though a Democrat all my
life feel that 1t is not my duty to
support Mr.. Sweet because he doesn't
stand for these Democratic principles.
am opposed to the freak legislation
he advocates-leEislation which has
been tried and which has failed in
, North Dakota,
, "As to Mr.. Sweets condemning the
, deportation of William T. Foster.
believe he has no cause to. The Anglo
Saxon race has always stood at COM
> mon law at placing every protection
' around life and property When a
] man comes into the state preaching
: revolution and sedition-and Foster
4 was self-convicted in the Washington
+ probe of this sort of thing-it is the
}. community's perfect right to eject
1 him.. The people of this country have
/ not lost their right of self-protection
= and self-preservation by engaging in
s the experiment of self-government II
e they have. then, indeed, have our
Q boasted liberties become as sounding
brass or tinkling cymbals."