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The Sugar
Beet Crop
HUGE TONNAGE WILL BE HAR
VESTED THIS YEAR IN COLO
RADO.—R EPO RTS FROM RAIL
ROADS AND FROM FACTOR
IES AND FARMERS INDI
CATE THE LARGEST
CROP EVER HAR
VESTED.
The sugar beet harvest Is on In
earnest and as Indicated by prelimin
ary reports from both railway and far
tory sources, the Colorado farmers'
“money crop" will equal, if it does not
exceed the record of last year in total
tonnage. The experts on beet testing
gave the signal for digging yesterday
In the Loveland, Fort Collins, Windsor
and Longmont districts and the farm
ers put large forces of diggers and
teamsters at work Immediately to send
the big tubers to the factories at th»*
points named or to places along the
railroads where they are dumped into
cars, which carry them to the sugar
mills.
Digging in the sugar beet field.*
down the Platte river began this year
from September 14th to 21st, matur
ing a little earlier than in Larimer
county on account of the difference in
altitude. The factory at Sterling
started to slice beets on September
21st. and the mills at Brush and Fort j
Morgan 1 ■in work September 28th.
Burlington and Union Pacific traffic
officials say the crop is being offered ;
at a lively rate along the Platte val 1
ley. Officials of the Great Western
Sugar Company, which controls the
three Platte valley factories report the
crop equal to that of last year, both in
quantity and contents as far as can
be judged by expert tests and from
uniformly cheerful reports from the
beet farmers. Comparatively few re
port a shortage of crop and whatever
loss might be suffered in this respect
is probably more than made up in the
increased acreage over the beet area
last year.
The Colorado & Southern reports
the beet crop beginning to move at a
lively rate and that there will be
plenty reserve stock on hand to per
mit the Windsor. Collins, IxnHand and
Longmont factories to start in a few
days. The Greeley and Eaton sugar
mills will begin grinding about Octo
ber sth and from that time until March
Ist, the wheels wiil run night and day
turning out the sacked article ready
for the market. The beet harvest in
the Arkansas valley is a few days
earlier and the factories at
Sugar City, Rocky Ford. Las Animas.
Swink, Holly and Manzanola are run
ning full blast.
Beet sugar production in 1907:
Total aoreajfe IU . 138.560
Total tonnage *. f.'crr.no
Surar produced (lbs.) 422.732 530
Capital Invested i factories ». f 1T.205.000
Paid to farmers f<*r beets . S 0.230.500
Paid to factory labor . ... J 2.315.000
Factories employed (hands) 4.577
The rapid increase in the Colorado
sugar industry is shown in the follow
ing figures:
1904 j fi.r,72 000
1905 7.435.57*
1906 12.412 680
1907 20.000.000
Irrigation and land projects are now
in course of organization and dam and
reservoir construction well under way
to add nearly 1,000,000 acres to the
area on which sugar beet crops can
be grown. The Henrylyn project for
boring the continental divide to turn
the waters of the Grand river into the
Platte will reclaim 100,000 acres or
more northeast of Denver. The Stan
ley project, with a similar ob
ject, is spending $1,250,000 in the con
struction of a system to irrigate 100,-
000 acres north of Denver and almost
in the city’s suburbs. The Pcudre val
ley project will divert the waters of
the big Laramie and irrigate 50,000
acres north of Greeley. Then there is
the government reclamation tunnel to
bring the waters of the Gunnison to
irrigate 150,000 acres of rich Uncom
pahgre valley land ar.d still other ir
rigation enterprises that will add t_
the wealth making agricultural area
before 1910 Capita! is eagerly on the
lookout for investment in those under
takings as soon as it is shown that
the water is available, for water on
Colorado land is always reckoned the
equivalent of money—Denver Repub
lican.
QEORGE 8. HODGES.
Republican Candidate for Attorney
General.
Democratic
Duplicity
CHAS. J. HUGHES. JR. AND J. F.
SHAFROTH.—THE UNHOLY AL
LIANCE BETWEEN COR
PORATIONS AND DEM
AGOGUES.
Mr. Bryan s principal stock in trade
this year is the denouncing of corpora
tions. He puts away from him with
loathing the idea of receiving any con
tributions for his campaign fund from
corporation sources. He has kicked
out Haskell, the man he put in as
treasurer of the national Democratic
committee because he is suspected of
being connected or having been con
nected with that monster of iniquity,
the Standard Oil Company. He caused
the majority of regular elected Demo
cratic delegates from the state of
Pennsylvania to be thrown out bodily
at the national convention, not because
they had not been fairly elected but
because their leader. Col. James M
Guffey, was connected in some way
! with the same gigantic corporation.
The bulk of the Democratic cam
-1 paign talk and newspaper articles has
i been in the same line of denunciation
of corporations.
With what sort of consistency can
I the Democratic party of this state
carry on this line of campaigning when
; Charles J. Hughes, Jr., its nominee for
the highest office within the gift of the
| people of Colorado, that of United
j States senator, is and has been for
many years a corporation attorney and
has become a millionaire by his valu
able services to those corporations?
Further, the Democratic newspapers
of this state have always held up the
public utility corporations of this city
to be more especially monsters of ini
quity. It is for these very corporations
that Mr. Hughes has been principal
attorney and from them he has de
rived a large part of his present
wealth.
With what sort of consistency can
the Democratic party of this state
keep on denouncing corporations and
corporation attorneys when it has
nominated for the office of governor
a man who has acted as attorney for
the Denver Union Water Company and
has advocated its cause in court many
times and with all th<> ability, learn
ing and eloquence at his command?
The truth is that the Democratic
party in this state consists now of two
fundamentally irreconcilable factions.
The demagogic faction, headed by Sen
ator Patterson, one year ago “spewed
out" all the delegates who had been
elected by the other faction to the
state convention, branded them as cor
porationists and refused to recognize
them as Democrats. This year Mayor
Speer and his friends having in the
meantime been successful in the Den
ver city election, it was all the Patter
son!tea could do to keep from being
thrown out of the convention them
selves. A temporary truce has been
patched up. and the ticket nominated
at the Democratic state convention
shows the presence of both factions.
The nominees for the Supreme
Court, or at least three of them, repre
sent the demagogic faction and if
elected their opinions would conform
to the views of Thomas M. Patterson
The candidates for United States sen
ator and for governor belong to the
corporation element and are closer to
corporation interests and more likely
r ° be influenced by them than any
candidates the Republican party has
nominated.
It is not alone because the Demo
crats have nominated corporation at
torneys for the two highest offices on
their ticket that Republicans denounce
them, it is because of the duplicity and
hypocrisy which the Democratic party
shows in denouncing and opposing
corporations and announcing through
i lts nationa l Platform and its national
candidates a desire to destroy them al
together. while at the same time ask
ing people to vote for two of the most
prominent corporation representatives
in the state of Colorado for the two
highest offices in the gift of the peo
; pie.
Georgp S. Hodges, lawyer and states
man and Republican nominee for attor
ney general, was born near Rochester.
N Y., Aug. 7. 1556. In 1579. during the
gold escitcment at Leadrille, he cast
his fortune with other gold seekers and
the following year was admitted to the
bar and practiced law until 1883. He
then returned to the East for a time.
In June. ISS7, he returned to Colo
rado and entered upon a renewed prac
tice of his profession and has always
been engaged in any public enterpriae
which would tend to advance the inter
ests of his adopted state, and has been
one of the leading attorneys of the
state.
As attorney general of Colorado, Mr.
Hodges will conduct the affairs of bis
office without fear or favor and the
rich and poor, the high and low, will
receive the same treatment.
JUSTICE LUTHER M GODDARD,
Republican Candidate for Judge of Supreme Court —Six-Year Term.
Justice Luther M. Goddard is another
candidate for re-election to the Su
preme bench, whose name is a guaran
tee of excellent service to the state in
that capacity. He has been ‘tried as
by fire and not found wanting.
Justice Godjard is one of the most
distinguished men in the West today.
He has served on the Supreme bench
Who Are
Your Friends?
SHALL COLORADO PLACE HER
SELF IN THE OKLAHOMA
CLASS?
At the coming election the state of
Colorado is going to line up with one
or the other of two groups of states in
the Union. Shall we line up with New
England, New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Illinois, Michigan and our sister
states in the Rocky Mountain region,
or shall we line up with South Caro
lina, Mississippi, Arkansas an 1 Okla
homa?
Twice the majority of the voters of
this state have elected to g«t in line
with the latter group.
How diii we like it?
Was it pleasant for a Colorado man
who had a first-class mining proposi
tion to present to go to New York and
find as soon as he announces the stat**
of his residence, that nobody with
money to invest cared to hear any
thing further about it?
Can anyone rightly estimate the mil
lions of investment money that might
have been placed in Colorado which
were withheld simply because this
state in 1>96 and 1900 had chosen to
place itself in the Democratic column?
The people of Colorado are among
the most intelligent in the Union.
Shall we join with the other states oi
intelligence or shall we join with the
group of states which has the greatest
percentage of illiteracy, the smallest
school attendance and the smallest
number of voters in proportion to pop
ulation of any part of the Union?
In the state of Colorado as high
wa.ves are paid to labor as in any state
in the Union. The people of this,
state believe in a generous remunera
tion of every man who works as the
fruit of his toil. Shall we line up with
the states in which high wages are
paid, in which union labor secures its
fullest recognition, or shall we line up
with the states where unions are
scarcely recognized and where wages
are lower than in any other portion of
this country?
Now is the time for Colorado to
keep step to the music of the Union.
Now is the time for us to declare by
our majority for the Republican na
tional and state tickets that we belong
among the progressive states—that we
desire a place in the prosperity col
umn. and that by our votes we propose
to claim that place.
The Doers and Talkers.
The Doers and Talkers once held a
big meeting.
To see who for president they would
be seating;
And during the session the Talkers
were cryln’
‘‘Just look at the votes we are making
for Bryan!”
But when It was over the Doers just
laughed—
The vote had been largely for William
H. Taft!
for twelve years and is highly regarded
by the bar of the state, without regard
to party. He also served on the dis
trict bench of Denver some years ago
and his decisions have successfully
stood the test of the higher courts. His
opinions since he has been on the Su
preme bench have been models of ac
curacy, conciseness and evenly tem
pered justice.
When Democrats
Are Happy
ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING DE
SCRIPTIONS HEARDINTHE LAST
CONGRESS WAS IN A SPEECH
BY HON. WILLIAM A. RO
DE N BURG OF ILLINOIS.
Mr. Rodenburg said: “Mr. Chair
man, the average Democratic states
man has always been a disciple of the
doctrine of despair. His is the philos
ophy of pessimism. To him the Lam
entations of Jeremiah are an inspira
tion, an exhilaration. His face is ever
turned toward the setting and not the
rising sun. He is never so much at
peace with himself as when he is quar
reling with someone else. Instinctively
he prefers a funeral dirge to a wedding
march and believes that the song of
the dying swan would make a most
glorious national anthem (Applause
from the Republican side). When
camping out. purely as a matter of
choice he always pitches his tent
amid the sombre surroundings of a
cemetery, in the cheerless shade of a
weeping willow (Laughter), lie is
happy only when his fellow man is
sad. Night after night he sends up a
fervent petition to the Great White
Throne asking the Good Lord above to
visit his children with some great dis
aster such as fire or fever, flood or
famine, drouth or death, earthquake
shock or ocean storm, for in a visita
tion of that kind his morbid and mel
ancholy mind thinks it sees some
promising political possibilities (Ap
plause on the Republican side), it
does not take much to encourage him,
however. When he picks up his
morning paper and reads of a default
ing bank cashier he at once grows
hopeful; when he scans the market re
ports and finds that the price of wheat
has dropped one cent he actually be
comes cheerful; and when he learns
that cholera or some other contagion
has broken out in one of our insular
possessions, he simply grows delirious
with joy and forthwith proceeds to
gather together all manner of indorse
ments for a political job under a Demo
cratic administration (Great applause
on the Republican side).”
“The Democratic platform nowhere
points out the expenditures which
might be reduced or avoided. It would
be found generally that to the in
creases which have occurred Demo
cratic representatives in Congress
made no opposition but rather sup
ported the measures providing them
and now the party has not the cour
age to indicate what part of govern
ment cost it would end. It joins the
Republican party specifically in ap
proving the outlay of $150,000,000 as
pensions. It expressly favors the cost
of greatly increased river and harbor
improvements, the cost of doubling the
navy and of many other enterprises to
which It urges the government. This
attack therefore has nothing in it
either of fairness or sincerity.”—Wil
liam H. Taft, in Speech of Acceptance.
Guaranteeing
Deposits
NOTHING BUT A DEMOCRATIC
VOTE-CATCHING DEVICE.
The unanimity with which the
members of the American Bankers’
Association at their Denver meeting
jumped on the Oklahoma plan of
guaranteeing bank deposits was almost
amusing. Practically the unanimous
agreement of the members was that if
the plan had not been seriously pro
posed by a national party and advo
cated by Its candidate for President it
would not be worthy of discussion by
a body of sane and intelligent men.
These bankers are the leaders of
the banking world in this country.
They know what they are talking
about in a case like this. When they
agree that the plan would be dan
gerous and its working disastrous they
may be presumed to be able to fore
see its probabilities better than the
average citizen.
Some of the objections to the guar
antee plan are:
It violates the freedom of contract.
That is, it undertakes to compel ev
ery banker to make a contract
whether he wants it or not. Every
lawyer knows that no contract is
valid without the voluntary assent of
all the parties.
The contract it contemplates is a
one-sided contract —the banker puts
lip his money, and. whatever happens,
he loses it —he can’t win. There is no
possibility of profit, only an assur
ance of eventual loss.
The plan would encourage wholesale
borrowing by banks which get a large
rate of interest, and would tc?nd con
stantly to raise the interest rate to
borrowers.
Depositors would not care to inquire
into the soundness of a bank or the
integrity and standing of its officers,
if they thought they would get their
money back anyhow. The bank would
most attract depositors which would
offer the highest rate of interest on
deposits; to pay this interest it would
have to get large rates for its loans
and, in the long run, that would inev
itably mean unsafe loans, failure and
an eventual enormous increase of the
guaranty fund.
The collection of a guaranty fund
would remove that much money from
circulation—several millions in the
aggregate.
Where would the guaranty fund be
kept? If in a bank, the bank might
fail; if locked up in a vault in Wash
ington, it would simply lie idle. The
worst feature of all is the attempt to
compel the prudent, honest, careful
banker to pay the debts of the reck
less or dishonest banker, whether he
is willing to do so or not.
Suppose A is a banker in Oklahoma,
B a banker in New York and C a
banker in Colorado. A borrows SIOO,-
000 from Bat 5 and lends it out at
10 There comes a bad year; grass
hoppers, perhaps, or drouth. The bor
rowers cannot pay A. A cannot pay B.
A shuts down. Here comes in C who
is compelled by federal law to help
pay part of A s debt to B! What jus
tice or fairness is there in that?
The depositor could not get his
money as soon as the bank failed, no
matter how large the guaranty fund.
The bank's assets would have to be
realized on first, before the amount
was known which the guaranty fund
would have to supply; and we in Colo
rado know how long it takes to clear
up the assets of a failed bank. In one
case, for example, that of the German
Rational Bank of Denver, it took over
a dozen years to clear up and pay the
final dividend.
These are a few of the objections,
stated briefly, to the Oklahoma idea,
as applied to the nation. Mr. Bryan
likes the notion because he thinks it
will be taking with “the masses." He
believes the majority of Americans do
not stop to think and that any clap
trap device may gain some votes for
him. In fact, he believes that the
voters do not need to think—all that
is necessary for them is to listen to
him talk.
This Oklahoma plank is about as
rotten as the rottenest in the whole
Democratic platform. j
One of the humors of the Haskell ;
fiasco is found in a circular letter from
Haskell to the Democratic newspapers
which many of them in Colorado keep
standing at the head of their editorial
columns. In this letter Mr. Haskell
says: “Beware of the trusts bearing
gifts." From recent disclosures it is
evident that if the trusts had any
gifts to offer Haskell wanted them to
come to him, and not to the editors.
“The mere statement of things actu
ally done by this administration at
home, in our dependencies and in for
eign affairs shows a marvel of suc
cessful accomplishment and if ever a
party has entitled itself to an approval
of its work by a renewed mandate of
power from the people whom it served
it is the Republican party in the pres- I
ent campaign."—William H. Taft In
Speech of Acceptance. I
The Candidates
for Governor
THE TWO PRINCIPAL NOMINEES
CONTRASTED BY AN INDE
PENDENT NEWSPAPER.
As between the Republican and
Democratic candidates for governor
the people of Colorado ought to have
no difficulty in making a choice. Jesse
F. McDonald, the Republican candi
date, is a man of tried ability and ex
perience, having already given the
state one of its most successful admin
istrations. Mr. McDonald was elected
lieutenant-governor on the ticket with
James H. Peabody in November. 1904,
and succeeded to the governorship the
following January as a result of ‘the
contest which eliminated both Peabody
and Adams. He assumed office at a
time of unusual stress and excitement:
the whole state was wrought up over
the events growing out of the Western
Federation strike, and seldom has
more bitterness been engendered by a
political contest than was caused by
the struggle for the governorship be
tween the adherents of Peabody and
Adams.
A strong man was needed at the
helm, a man who could step in at tao
head of the state administration and
restore peace and order. Governor
McDonald proved to be the man for
the place. With his accession came
an end to the turmoil. Throughout
the two years of his administration
the state enjoyed industrial peace and
prosperity. Its affairs probably never
were better administered, and Gover
nor McDonald retired from office at tne
end of his term with the respect and
confidence of his political opponents
as well as of all of his friends.
Mr. Shafroth, his opponent, who re
joices in the appellation of “Honest
John,” is the gentleman who attained
fame a few years ago by resigning his
seat in Congress just in time to save
himself from being kicked out because
of his fraudulent election. Undoubtedly
Mr. Shafroth is an “Honest John" just
as there are thousands of men in the
country who might call themselves
Honest Bill, or Honest Jim, or Honest
Tom, with perfect propriety, if they
regarded their honesty as so excep
tional as to require advertising—which
seems to be the case with the Demo
cratic nominee for governor.—Colo
rado Springs Gazette.
When Mr. Shafroth, Democratic can
didate for gubernatorial honors, makes
his arguments in Colorado beet dis
tricts, voices in the audiences have
been heard to exclaim, “Oh sugar!”
The business interests of Colorado
will be glad to see Hon. Jesse F. Mc-
Donald in the governor's chair again.
He belongs with the doers and not
with the talkers.
In the matter of campaign contribu
tions Bryan is trying to make it appear
that his morals have improved since
1596.
One of the most personable men on
the state Republican ticket is the Hon.
orable Clarence V. Benson of Fort Col
lins, candidate for Lieutenant Gover
nor.
Mr. Benson has hosts of friends
throughout Colorado and is fitted in
every way for the duties of Lieutenant
Governor, which would make him the
next presiding officer over the State
Senate. Quiet, firm, forceful and cour
teous, he will draw votes from every
side, almost regardless of party.
He is secretary of the Pacific juris
diction of the Woodmen of the World,
with headquarters in Denver, although
his residence is in Fort Collins. He is
a graduate of the scientific and math
ematical departments of the State Ag
ricultural College and of the law de
partment of Ann Arbor.
HON. CLARENCE V. BENSON.
Republican Candidate for Lieutenant
Governor.