The Fremont County record., 1882-11-25
cHAFFEEs cARD.
A Review OF the Causes Of Campbell's
Defeat.
Hill. Wolcott 4 Co. Held mp Before
the Public Gaze.


paign just closed is so remarkable that I
feel it my duty to you and the republicans
of the state to give some explanations Of
my part in it, and also some of the reasons
why our candidate for governor was de-
feated.
We have elected our entire state ticket,
including the member of the Forty-eighth
congress, and about fifty-three ont of the
seventy-five members composing our 1egis-
lative assembly. In year like this, when
the clamors of "boss and " bossism and
kindred islns" have been sounded all
over the land, shaking the foundation OF
our party from one end of the country
to the other, it is victory for which VIC
have a right to feel proud, especially 80,
when treason ran riot in our own ranks.
Nobody has pretended that Ernest l..
Campbell was not fairly nominated by the
state convention. The friends and repre-
sentatives of Henry II. Wolcott i'll the con-
vention pledged their support, in advance,
nee, and participated in all the business
before the convention aud ratified all its
acts, part of which was to make Mr.. Camp
BELLS nomination unanimous. They also
nominated, and the brother of Mr.. WOlcott,
who was a delegate, seconded the nomina-
tion of the chairman of the state central
committee, whose election was made unan-
imous by the convention. / mention
these facts here because the cry of boss !"
and "bossism was raised by the defeated
knew the only attempt to boss the party
had been made by Senator Hill and his
friends in their effort to nominate Mr. VOL
colt as candidate for governor.
The history of Mr.. Wolcott's efforts to
secure the nomination would add nothing
to his former reputation. The efforts
made by him to secure delegates in Arapa-
hoe, Gilpin and other counties by the free
use of money was new feature in the
politics of this state, and one that ought
not to be tolerated in the republican party.
The attempt to purchase votes i'll the con-
vention was iii keeping with the efforts to
secure the primaries in Arapahoe and other
counties.
Having failed by these methods to con-
vince the people of his fitness for the posi-
ton, or to buy the delegates in the conven-
tion, the political firm of Hill, Wolcott &
Co. set out to defeat the choice of the re-
publican party. They made an alliance
with the democrats to defeat Campbell, our
nominee for member of congress, and judge
of the supreme court.
This firm controlled the columns of the
Denver Tribune and the Denver Republi-
can, the two morning dailies of this city
which had heretofore been republican
papers. The former has been open and
therefore more manly in its opposition to
the candidates heretofore named; the latter
kept on its guise of rcpublicanism, but
steadily stabbed the ticket in the NEST
hypocritical manner,
Soon after the convention adjourned I
commenced making arrangements to pub
lish morning republican newspaper in
the interests of the party, whereupon Mr.
Cooper and Ziegcnfuss, the manager and
editor of the Denver Republican, called
upon me and pledged, with apparent hon
csty, the hearty support of that paper to
the whole ticket also promising that the
slanderous abuse of myself should cease
while the campaign lasted. For while
the paper did support the ticket in pro
formd style, but, as the public will attest
soon fell back into its old style Of false
praise, deceitful opposition, and finally into
open opposition to Mt least part of the
state ticket.
Senator Hill, who, if unable to contrib
ute much personal influence, could furnish
larger amount of cash, which he had
heretofore found to be nearly if not quite
equal to brains, appeared to be an active
member of the firm and made tour of the
state, planting the seeds of treason wher-
ever he found available and willing minds
when he could not, he prophesied defeat
for the head of the ticket, declaring that
Campbell had no right to the place. This
reasonable firm found willing friends in
those who could manipulate the vote of
the Denver & Rio Grande railway, as well
as the sheriff of Arapahoe county and the
chairman of the county republican commit
tee of Arapahoe county. Senator Hill oc-
cupies the highest position within the gift
of the state, and the party that placed him
there had a right to expect and ought to
have received from him cordial and earn
est. support of the whole ticket He has
betrayed his party and merits the condeE-
nation Of all true republicans everywhere.
The cry of boss and bossism applied to
me as chairman has been echoed by the
two newspapers heretofore named and re-
echoed by some of the smaller fry in the
state, in its most offensive sense Senator
Hill and the friends of Wolcott attempted
to boss the party by forcing his name upon
it for governor; then, having forced the
Craftsmanship upon me when they well
knew / did not desire it, they, through
their personal organs, denounce me as a
boss, and load their columns with malicious
abuse of myself personally and as chair
man of the committee That wolcott was
unworthy of the nomination has been
shown by his own conduct since the nom.
ipation of his opponent. In the conduct
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