The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1882-10-28
DECENT JouRNALIsM.

road Corporation and u small eoterie of re-
publican politicians.
The influence of those papers, in rail-
road sense, has been used to OPPOSE every
railroad project except those of the corpor-
alton in control of those papers, and the
opposition has not been confined to a de-
cent objection, based upon principle or pol
icy, but has incluEFfd Es9 b8 gross personal abuse
=. VI ili,'i ,...n otor the solemn words of
run for the adyant the bond and unite
interests of the political coterie in control,
and in their efforts at advancing the inter
ests of themselves they have not been salts
fed with decent advocacy of their own
claims upon the party; but, instead, have
endcavored, by personal abuse and attempts
at bulldozing, to " down. every republican
who did not bow the knee of servility to
them. That the two republican morning
papers of the metropolis and capital of the
state should be under the control of such
influences has been matter of great regret
to all republicans throughout the state for
more than n year past 1t WAS patent to
every thinking republican who knsw the
status of the case that such influences in
control of the two leading republican pa
pers of the state boded AQxGQNd to their
party. An alliance bett a powerful
railroad corporation and small coterie of
republicans, organized into close political
corporation, and the parties to that alliance
in control of the papers before mentioned,
was matter of graver import to the inter
ests of the state and of the republican
party than could be comprehended without
a thorough analysis of the matter. The
success of the alliance involved its domina-
ton over the republican party. That is,
that the railroad corporation and the politi-
cal coterie before mentioned should rule
the republican party of Colorado. 1t was an
attempt at bossism upon stupendous scale
While the republican party should not be-
and is not, the enemy of any corporation
within the limits of the state, it should not
and will not, oe dominated over by any
one of them. While the republican party
is not, and should not be, the enemy of
any of its members it should not, and Will
not, be dominated over by any small coterie
of the party. The candidacy for the nom
nation of governor of one of the parties
to the alliance above mentioned precipitat-
ed a fight between the party and that alli-
ance. The hot contest previous to, and at,
the republican state convention was not a
personal fight upon Mr. Wolcott, but ra-
ther upon what he represented. 1t was a
fight for the independence and life of the
republican party. The unanimity with
which the republicans and the republican
papers throughout the state took up the
battle showed conclusively that the fight
was comprehended; showed that they were
determined to set the seal of their disap-
probation upon the management of the two
great daily republican papers of the state
And they did set the seal of their disap-
probation upon the unholy alliance. The
result of the republican convention was the
vindication of the party against bossism as
represented by those two papers and their
controlling influences. The measures and
the men they had favored were defeated,
the measures and the men they had opposed
were triumphant. 1t was complete vic
tory for the rural roosters" and COM
pIete rout of the high-cock-a-lorums of
the metropolitan tripods. We are aware
that all the elements that entered into the
combination that wor the fight at the con-
vention were not animated by the highest
regards for the welfare of the party, neither
were all the elements composing the grand
army of the republic, which saved the ma
ton, animated by the highest regards for
the welfare of the country for which they
fought; but they contributed to the success
of the nation, nevertheless The grand idea
of that convention was that the republican
party should be ruled by no corporation,
nor by any newspapers that were controlled
by corporations or by any clique of repub-
licans. The demand of the republican
party throughout the state is that the re-
publican papers at Denver, which by vir-
tue of their position, are the leading papers
of the state, shall be run in the interests of
the whole party, for the party, and not in
the interests of any monopoly, corporation,
or particular members of the party; and it
demands that those papers be edited and
managed by republicans, and not by demo-
Gratis.
The Tribune is doing all in its power to
laf n ffoLraf it,t hi
paign, because it wants to rule or ruin.
The Republican is giving the ticket
halfway support which is of but little, if
any, good to the party.
The campaign, so far as newspapers
are concerned, is being run by the rural
ROSTERS" as the Tribune has been wont
to term the editors of newspapers outside
of Denver, and they are all in line, doing
good service for the whole ticket.
The Denver evening papers-Times and
World-are both doing good service for the
cause; but, as their circulation is mostly
local, they, too, may be classed with the
rural ROSTERS" Therefore, the fight is
between the rural roosters and the met
ropolitan game cocks
The Denver newspapers are against the
republicans in this campaign, and last
weeks Inter Ocean gives the reason why.
From it we summarize as follows:
Ihe JOURNAL OF commerce oHered Its
support to the republicans fer 81 800 The
offer was refused, and it is now supporting
the democratic ticket.
Pomeroy's Great West offered its SER
vices for money. Its offer was refused, and
it is supporting the democratic ticket.
The Denver Star was offered to the re-
publicans for $500, which offer was refused,
and it was sold to the democrats for $625.
"The Denver Republican claims to be
supporting the ticket, but its policy is hy-
pocrisy and its honor is sham. 1t wants
Campbell defeated, because its own candi-
date, dictated to it by its monopolist own
ers, was defeated. 1t is but fighting the
battles of defeated monopoly and defeated
bossism.
"The Tribune is at least clear-tongued
in its opposition. 1t, too is owned by
monopoly and an ambitious political boss.
It's abuse of Campbell is dictated by these
owners, the impulse being that of disap-
pointment, and the motive that of personal
spite"
The opposition of these papers and of the
aforementioned alliance is mostly direct
ed against Campbell, because it was he who
defeated one of its members.
This campaign, but more particularly the
gubernatorial part Of it, is fight of the
party against indecent journalism.