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Circulation 1550 —Guaranteed three time* th at of any competitor Franklin's Paper The Statesman VOL. XVIII THE FULL DINNER PAIL The Peace and Prosperity Of Colorado Demand the Re-election Of a Republican Administration and the Defeat of “Reformers” t pon the outcome of the coming • lection rests In a large degree the prosperity of the state for tb* next two years The Statrsmai d<x s not favor voting on ixdltlcal qiestions or u|K>n candidates from a mere sent! mental view, and so In supixjrtlng the Republican ticket this >ear w. feel •hat we have made n choice which will be best for the continued prosperity and peace of our Hate. Binlt.g th< matter down to a narrower and more |h rsonal view, the villflcation and mis iepres« ntation of the Ncg-o tvs the chief campaign argument of the Deni ocratlc party In Ceorgla, certainly makes us prefer even supine fiend ship to active enmity. The Democratic platform is replete with promises of the most ewtrpfng re forms, denunciations thunder through It of everything from the Supreme Court down to the smallest detail of government. If we did not recall hit - terly the experiences of the national government with Democratic Incom potency nt law-making, wo would still be loathe to comnn*. oil Twelve*, to this drastic program of the Pat lei son ma chine, for has not part of it turned state's evidence and branded the plat form as a delusive snare to catch votes? Then there is the Lint sey De mocracy that Is having rather a sea sick time. The Judge is a nice little man. but an Independent move is short lived at beat. Negroes start in any thing at the bottom and have to have time to get any standing. Lindsey Ism won't live long enough tor us. So It comes down to why we should DENVER, COLORADO, FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1906. support the Republican ticket slnc«* there 1* no reason for sup|)ort of the Democratic jiarty either In itb sinion purity or In the mongrel. The good sens* of the state may b« submerged for the while by yellow press distor tions of fact the demagogue may thth* on the human tendency to change with or without nason. but inn bring out all the more clearly the id vantages which w. have enjoyed luring two years of peace in this storm tossed, union ridden state, and reports from all parts indicate that prosperity is not to be sacrificed for the problematical performances of De mocracy. Six years ago Mark Hanna as campaign manager for the national H<*publican party, secured a most over whelming majority for McKinley. He had one slogan, and the American peo ple were too sensible to be led off by \ anions promises of Democracy and exchange prosperity for experimental government. So now in Colorado "the full dinner pail" pleads for the re election of n Republican administra tion. No Coloradoan but knows the labor difficulties with which the state has been hampered. Life and property have been held at hazardous risk and only the militia could insure any kind of safety. Now all has changed. The bitterest enemy of the Republican party dors not deny the results. l>e mocraey, unable to remove the mono mental evidence of a business like, equitable administration of the state's affairs, must sling mud in a campaign of vllitleatlon. it seeks to deface what it cannot destroy. | The personnel of the Republican ticket is good. Candidates have been chosen who have capabilities for the ' offices the> seek. Not so many prom is. - apjH ar in the Republican platform, and since a few good laws are all that one Legislature can pass, there is ev ory probability that the party will maintain its pood faith with the peo pie by carrying out its platform to the letter. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com pan> will give employment to as man> Negroes as appl> in its \arious do part men 1 8 in this state, and has now in the steel works at Pueblo the larg est number ever on its pay roll; the beet sugar factories are offering Ne groes good wages for cultivating beets on company land, with a bonus of the land itself after so long a time. Den ver has employment for everj Negro who really seeking work, so why should we give up a prosperity which is for the sake of electing a blatant lot • • '"•* '• ats nfco with 111- Bt n goods on them? Why should we seek to add prestige to a party that uses us for iKditical argument only, even going to the extreme of misrepresentation as has just happened in Georgia? We would not accuse Colorado Democrats of blackening white men's faces and having them commit assaults on white women so as to lay charges of criminal assault on Negroes as Hoke Smith did in Georgia, but If Colorado sends a delegation to Congress it will echo the sentiment of the dominating southern faction. If we send a Re publican Legislature to our state bouse and It elects a Republican senator, we may count on one more vote for the fulfillment of the Republican national platform of two years ago. This year has witnessed for the first time a colored man in a position of au thority in i>olitical matters in Colorado, with workers to hire and pay, with plans to make and carry out for the gotni of the Republican party. It has found colored business and profes sional men awakening to their duties as well as privileges in politics. All this is preliminary to a fairer share in the after-election results than has yet oome to the Negro, a thoughtful review of the arguments to be made on the various sides and an under standing of our conditions will con vince Negroes of their duty at this election. With our industrial and our political future hinging upon the success of the Republican party, we must regis ter. We must work for victory as never before. Vote’ Vote for the "full dinner pail Vote for the full enfran chisement of the Negro! SPEAKERS ABOUT TO TOUR THE STATE. The cititens of the various cities of Colorado will Ik* visited by speakers of note in the course of the next few da>B wh » will expound the facts in the campaign so that he who runs may read Crater of Mauna Loa. The crater of Mauua Loa. ia the Sandwich islands, the largest volcano in the world, is twenty miles in diam eter Sometimes the stream of lava Uaulug from it is fifty miles long NO. 10