The Colorado Statesman

THE COMING CITY ELECTION.
As the day of election, Tuesday, May 20, approaches, the respective candidates for mayor, councilmen and members of the election commission are showing a lively interest in the keen contest that is sure to take place. Their supporters, no less interested, are engaging in every means and adopting plans to secure the return of their choice for offices. In this issue we present five men, residents of the city and county of Denver for very many years, and who are thoroughly conversant with the various political phases success and failure that our city has passed through. Seeing that the public is determined to have as their representatives men that are competent, free from obligations to any private sources, fair and unbiased in the support of that which fosters anything for the good of the community, we specially request our fellow citizens to study well the planks in their platforms and weigh the promises for betterment of civic life, improvement of our general conditions and cause our city to be attractive to those who are seeking comfortable residences and permanent homes in a community of which they will not be ashamed. The announcements of the candidates in this paper are clear, intelligent and filled with the ability of each candidate to serve the people, and that faithfully, and the attempt to denounce or make appear that any tendency to demoralize or make unseemly the idea of respectable living should not be cherished by voters in exercising the power of the ballot. But three years ago, when the late Robert W. Speer was a candidate for the position of mayor, the cry of Increased Immorality, Wide Open Town, and everything disastrous, sounded in our ears by some of our daily and our weekly papers at every tick of the clock, but the people who are fair and honest in judging a man by his works elected him by a large majority on his merits, not what was said in opposition and just to meet election campaign. It is, therefore, necessary that electors attend the several meetings of the candidates, get their views on civic government first hand from them; see whether they agree or disagree with their platforms, and then, being thus governed, go to the polls and help to select the best man for the position. This is the action of the COLORADO STATESMAN, who offers you the same advice.