The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1923-11-01

OPEN CAMPAIGN
AT DINNER
Loyalty to Party is Voiced At
Annual Gathering Of Lincoln
Club In Denver; Republican
Newspaper Associations Of The
State Elects Officers

With thunderous salvos Of applause
Republicans from all parts Of Colora-
do formally launched the presidential
campaign at the annual dinner Of the
Lincoln club on Roosevelt day Sat-
urday in Denver. More than five hun
dred men and women, some Of whom
travelled hundreds of miles to testify
their allegiance to Republican princi-
pies, attended the dinner in the DAN
iels & Fisher tea-room, which follow
ed meeting Of the state central COM
mittee in the drawing room Of the
Brown Palace hotel in the afternoon.
Governor Arthur M. Hyde of Mis-
souri,, who made the principal address,
voiced the adherence of his party to
the ideals Of Roosevelt when he de-
clared that Republicans. at time
when unrest, class strife, socialism,
bourgeoise and proletarian were words
OF common conversation, had only one
ideal-that of following in the path
Of true and stalwart Americanism.
The reasons that women should
sunport Republican candidates at the
polls were given by Mrs. Florence M.
Stote of Colorado Springs. She cited
the passage of the suffrage amend
ment and improvement in the immi-
grafton laws as among the great leg
islative accomplishments of the Re-
publican party.
Short talks were made by Senator
Lawrence C. Phipps, Congressman
William N. Vaile, Guy U. Hardy and
Charles B. Timberlake. former Con-
gresham Frank Mondell of Wyoming,
and George H. Shaw Of Fort Collins,
Republican state chairman. At the
suggestion Of Senator Phipps. the din
ers observed moment Of silence in
tribute to the memory Of the late Sen
ator Samuel D. Nicholson.
The dinner was opened by Will R,
Murphy, president of the Lincoln club,
who announced that the club hereaf-
ter would observe each year the anni-
versary of Roosevelt's birth. Charles
F. Morris was toastmaster. The invo-
cation was given by Dean Duncan
Browne Of st. Johns cathedral.
County chairmen, vice-chairmen and
Republican editors were guests Of the
Republican state central committee at
the dinner.
Officers of the Colorado Republican
Newspaper Association were elected
for two year-term and 1924 cam
paign plans were outlined by the Re
publican editors of the state at a
luncheon in the Metropole hotel last
Saturday preceding the Roosevelt day
dinner Of the Lincoln club. Whole
hearted support of Republican policies
and candidates was pledged by the
editors, and arrangements were made
for exchanges Of views as the cam
paign progresses.
The following were elected:
President. Charles E. Adams of the
Grand Junction News: vice-president,
George w. Johnson Of the LonRmont
Call: and secretary-treasurer. p. R.
Mcdowell. of the Julesbure Grit-Ad-
vocate. Directors are Patrick L.
Burns Of the Pueblo Indicator; r. L.
Giffin of the Ordway New Era; B. L.
Price, Of the Alamosa Courier; E. L.
Godfrey of the Yampa Leader and
Will C. Ferrill of the Denver Rocky
Mountain Herald.
Members of the association pledged
themselves to work in harmony, by
giving constructive publicity to party
ideals with a minimum Of personal at
tacks on opposition candidates and
policies.