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THE NEWSPAPER.
C. T. AND G. O. BLAKE,
E'litoro and Publishers.
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elasH matter.
Democratic National Ticket.
For President,
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice President,
JUDGE JOHN W. KERN,
of Indiana.
Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor ,
JOHN SHAFROTH
For Lieutenant Governor
H. R. FITZGARRALI)
For Secretary of State
J. B. PEARCE
For Treasurer
J. W. GALIGAN
For Auditor
RODNEY KERNAHAN
For Attorney General
JOHN T. BARNETT
For Resent*
RALPH TALBOT
ETHELBERT ADAMS
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
KATHERINE COOK
For Railroad Conynlasloners
A. T. ANDERSON
FRANK P. MOORE
W. L. SEELEY
For Supreme Court Ju<lk«i
S. H. WHITE
W. A. HILL
G. W. *1 USHER
MORTON S. BAILEY
For Congrcwman 2d District
JOHN A. MARTIN
For Co agrees in an at Large
EDWARD T. TAYI.OR
For Presidential Electors
S. N. WHEELER
C. L. JEFFERSON
D. T. SAPP
T. J. EH RHART
C. S. THOMAS
Democratic County Ticket.
For Representative,
I>R. J. A. WHITING.
For Countj Com. 2d District.
W. H. STEELE.
For County Com. Hd District.
A. L. ROBERTS.
For County Clerk.
DR. H. K. GIBBS.
For County Treasurer,
J. J. BRADLEY.
For Sheriff,
I. If. WILLIAMS.
For Superintendent of Schools.
MRS. MILDRED ANDERSON.
For Assessor.
S. L. COCK REHAM.
For County Judge,
CLYDE STEWART.
For Coroner,
DR. C. H. BURG IN.
For Surveyor.
GEO. C. VICKERY.
Democratic Judicial Ticket.
For District Attorney
R. M. LOGAN
Who can doubt that if Lincoln
and Jefferson were alive they
would vote for Wm. J. Bryan?
No one at all familiar with their
political history.
While the newspapers of both
parties are calling attention to
what they call the apathy of
voters, other columns convey the
information that everywhere over
the state the registration is heavy.
This shows that the failure of
voters to rend their underwear
and the atmosphere in mad en
thusiasm, they propose to vote
and that is what counts. People
this year are doing some heavy
thinking for themselves and are
not following processions.
Quite a significant cartoon ap
peared in the Sunday Pueblo
Chieftain. An elephant with a
cap inscribed “G O. P.” holds a
large key marked "Prosperity.”
Under the cartoon is the legend
"The Elephant holds the key to
prosperity, and if you give tlie
signal on November 3, he will un
lock Good Times.” Well now,
isn't that refreshing? Are we to
infer that the elephant locked up
Good Times last October and
proposes to keep them locked un
less Taft is elected? What other
inference can be drawn?
While on his southern tour,
Mr. laft plainly told the people
1 1> I lie souih that th-y could ex
[ peci nothing from national legis
lation unt'l they got t) voting the
republican ticket. That was very
nice. It was a confession that a
republican adm n stration is not
tor the whole people but only tor
those who vote tor it. Since when
has the machinery o: government
become the private property of
any political party? We had sup
posed that the national govern
ment should be administered for
the benefit of the entire country.
But Mr. Taft told the truth so tar
as his own party is concerned.
IHE cr< wd which greeted Mr.
Hr> an at Denver last Friday is
conceded to have been the largest
ever assembled in that city, yet
the Denver Republican says it
was assembled largely from curi
osity to see Bryan Queer isn’t
it? Probably two-thirds of the
people there had seen Bryan be
fore, many of them several times
Why then such a scramble merely
to see him again? The Republican
must be out of ammunition.
A RECEPTION was given to Jesse
Ja excuse us we mean Jesse
McDonald, on the occasion of
his visit last Monday. Thirteen
people turned out to say hello to
the man who retained Alva
Adams’ stolen seat foul years ago.
We might add that someway we
are sort of impelled to call Mr.
McDonald Jesse James, though
we recognize the unfairnes to Mr
James. He at least did his own
stealing
Did Jesse McDonald resign
when he found himself in poses
sion of a stolen office? all,
he held on to it. When John
Shatroth found that fraud had
been committed which rendered
his title to a seat in corgres*
doubtful, he resigned. Both these
men are asking the people to
elect them to be governor of 'the
state. It ought not to be difficult
for any honest man to make a
choice.
The big republican papers
should get together. The Pueblo
Chieftain scores Bryan for put
ting his old-time friend, in the
background for the Spcer-Evans
gang, while the Denver Kepubli
can scores him for an attempt to
put Patterson in the foreground.
Evidently Bryan’s visit to Denver
did not please these papers, but
they ought to agree on the lies
they will tell about it.
One of the amusing pranks of
the republican papers is their
varying attitude towatd T. M.
Patterson. One day they pat
him on the back and say he is the
leading democrat of the state, the
next they jump on him with both
feet and insist that he has been
discredited and repudiated. It all
depends on what Mr. Patterson
has said or done as a basis for the
comment.
The impudent falsehood that
trusts and monopolies cheapen
products and benefit the con
sumer is by the fact
that the price of commodities
controlled by these monsters has
been arbitrarily increased for no
cause except to pay dividends
on fictitious capital by methods
that make larceny respectable.—
Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls.
The Pueblo Chieftain editorial
writer should study up a little. In
the Sunday edition referring to
Bryan’s trip to Colorado, said of
it "a state that has only three
electoral votes anyhow.” When
did the state lose the other two?
"HE BANKS ARE FOR THE PEOPLE—NOT THE PEOPLE FOR THE BANKS."
The Gun<i Junction News
counsels Mr. Br.au to "Read the
story of Absaloman, ’ but fails to
cite the book aid chapter. By
the way who is “Absaloman’’ any
how ?
Leslie M. Shaw, former secre
tary of the treasury in an inter
view August 12, 1903: *lt is all
nonsense to talk about a revision
of the tariff. It can not be done.
You may as well tfltvN. island that
at the outset. Republicans who
are demanding revision are de
minding the impossible.”
Moke than two dollars ol every
five raised by the federal govern
ment goes for the support of the
army and navy. Representative
Burton, iii a speech in congress,
said: "In no country has the in
crease in military expenses been
so marked as in our own ” The
man who labors f<*ots the bill!
Today we are t icing problems
greater than we have t ad to meet
since th • civil wtr. I mean the
problem** of h \v to regulate ihe
enormous wealth which is being
accutmil ifed Wcal'h is coirupt
ing ihe bill -t and low. r ng the
standard of public servi c It has
broken down the old lines, of
social conventionality and made
possibly the increasing number of
divorces It has destroyed the
o d national ideals and put money
above conscience and probity It
will be a continuous menace to
the na'ion unless fortunes are so
taxed that they may *ake the bur
den of government off the shoul
ders of the common people and
unless each man may have a
larger opportunity to gain a
competency. This is not socialism
—Chas. B. Ward
Bank Deposit Guarantee.
The bill introduced by the
chairman of the house committee
on banking and currency in Janu
ary last (reported by the com
mittee February 20) provided
that the banks should deposit
with the treasury 5 per cent of
their note issues and deposits,
creating a fund "to guarantee the
payment of all individual depos
its, bank notes, bank deposits and
government deposits without dis
crimination or preference. "The
bill was recommended by such
eminent financial authorities as
Horace White and Lyman J.
Gage, secretary of the treasury
under McKinley.
Defending the deposit-insur
ance feature. Chairman howler
urged that the public character of
banks was recognized by govern
ment supervision of them, and
many people ignorantly supposed
a national bank must be safe be
cause the government stood be
hind it. "I assert,” he wrote,
"that government supervision,
state or national, should be with
drawn and the public left to the
terrific school of experience; or
that the gsvernment should com
pletely perform its work and im
pose such obligations upon the
banks as will truly justify' the
confidence the people have in
these quasi-public institutions.”
All this, of course, is recent
history— to which we refer merely
because a good many enthusiastic
Republican organs are citing de
posit insurance as an example of
the Democratic mind’s peculiar
liability to insanity'.—Saturday
Evening Post.
Gov. Adams' Father Dead In California.
John Adams, father of . the
Adams brothers, well known in
this state, died Sunday at his
home in Pasadena, Cal., after a
long illness The death had been
expected, tor old age had worn
upon Mr. Adams' rugged consti
tution until tlie machim ry was
about used up He was in his
ninetieth year, having been born
in Kentucky that many years ago
Later he liver! in Wisconsin, and
about IS years ag » moved to Wis
consin He was married (13 >c»rs
ago Though n v« r a irsidcnt of
Colorado he had visited here a
number > f times, th li**i being 12
years ago, when h»s son Aiva was
inaugurated governor of the state.
Mrs Adams, four *»ons and a
daughter su»vive. The sons are
Frank, tor \ears at the head of
ihe Denver fire and police board;
William, state senator; John, a'
well known ranchman, and Alva,
twice governor of the state.
A Republican Confession Defi.
The Chicago Jntcr Ocean, a
republican paper, in its issue ol
October 7, printed an editorial
from which the following is ’aken:
"Judge Parker let out a whoop
at Baltimore on Monday over the
$1,00,000 that the republican
national committee received from
the Standard Oil company—and
did not return —in the Roosevelt
campaign of 1904.
"As a matter of fact, the re
publican campaign fund got SIOO,-
000 from the Standard Oil com
pany, as in 1890 it got $50,000
from the New York Life Insur
ancc company and in 1904 £200,-
000 from E. H. Harriman. What
of it?
"The only questionable feature
of these transactions is that in
1904 the country was given Mr.
Roosevelt’s wortl of honor that
his campaign fund had not re
ceived contributions from large
corpoiations, when, in fact, it had.
However, that is Mr. Roosevelt’s
affair, not the party’s.
"Otherwise, what of it? What
effect did these contributions have
except to promote the political
education of the public?”
Commercial Printing.
Of every sort and kind prompt
ly turned out at this office. Give
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Send The Newspaper cast.
FAMOUS MAN MOVES WEST.
Brings Prosperity in His Wake.
B. A. Booster has come to Den
ver to make his home. Booster
is probably' one of the most in
teresting men of the age and it
was a fortunate day' for Colorado
when he traveled west.
In appearance Mr. Booster is
built on a large plan, reminding
one a little of Taft. He has a
loud, cheerful laugh, a cordial
handshake and he fairly radiates
enthusiasm. When Booster is
tor a thing—his opponent might
as well give up. That is the
reason why he lias met with such
remarkable success. His enemies
call him a "hot air merchant”—
but his kind of hot air runs a
steam engine.
Booster has settled himself on
what was orcc a hotel on 17th
street. Although the place still
retains the name "The Albany”
—it is now Booster's home.
Booster himself is a regular hu
man "Welcome”—and anybody'
who is a friend of his rushes
right from the depot to the Al
bany. It doesent make any dif
ference what time of day or night
it is the traveler can begin busi
ness at Boosters. His interest is
Booster’s interest. His scheme
is Booster’s scheme and before
he has half unfolded it, the thing
is as good as accomplished.
"Good” says Booster, slapping
him on the back. Then he hears
the real Booster laugh and if he
has doubted it for a second, he
regains his belief in himself and
his success. Just because every
body’s business is Booster’s busi
ness, there is more going on at
his place—The Albany—than
there is any place else »n the
state. There is not a part of
Colorado’ that isn’t feeling the
influence of Booster. Booster is
as necessary to business as the
Colorado sun to the climate.
He i« the "Man Behind” the
forgotten man sometimes per
haps, but the man that does the
work.
If you arc looking for success—
B A Booster, Albany- Hotel,
Denver, Colorado.
Boulder Bankers and Bryan.
George R Williamson, as pres
ident of the Buuldcr National
b»nk. like William H. Allison,
president of the First National
bank, James C. Hankins, manag
mg director ol the National State
bank and Ilouston Jones, cashier
of the Mercantile bank of this
city, believe firmly in the efficacy
of Mr. Bryan’s plan to prevent
panics by government and state
guaranties of deposits Mr. Wil
liamson has attested his faith in
Bryan by contributing S2OO to the
Bryan campaign fund, for which
eastern bankers give not a cent.
Eastern bankers don’t want bank
ing so safe that our Western
bankers will not have to rely
upon them as reserve agents.
\\ hat they want is a continuance
of the plan which requires large
reserves—reserves enabling spec
ulation in Wall street and finally
the over-speculation which results
in panics. Bryan proposes to stop
panics and prevent closing of
factories and business stagnation.
Taft says 'Let good enough
alone.” We admit that conditions
have been good enough for Taft
who has held office ever since he
was twenty-six years old. But
times arc not good enough for
those 200,003 idle men in New
York who asked him how labor
could be provided for their hands.
To them, he said: "God knows,
don t Bryan plcrds for poor
and rich alike and his plea finds
echo in the West where people
arc not wedded to their idols and
know and love and esteem their
Ilryan,— Camera.