St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-27
COLoRADO'S CHOICE.
The Man With the Biggest Doodle
Will be the Next Senator.
[special Telegram 70 DE Globe.

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-'The boys have had
their innings" said Mr.. T. D. Cooper, of
Denver, to a reporter to-day, '.and now the
members elect will play their hands for all
they are worth"
The gentleman was abiding TO the coming
senatorial contest In Colorado, and the re-
porter was doing his best 10 catch on TO his
slightly metaphorical language 'sThere are
good many high flyers In the game. and
the most Of them are well staked, and the
man that rakes in the pot will have TO come
right down TO cail.''
'Do you mean to convey the idea that
money will be used to influence the resultl"
asked the reporter.
"Oh, come now, don't play the innocent.
Do mean 10 do so; no, sir; not since ] read
Senator Hill's interview the other day, where
he said he never spent any money only for
legitimate purposes and that Colorado leg
islature was pure, iuc orruptible being, so
good that he WAS beginning to spread his
wings and prepare for heavenly fight l
will tell you a little secret. When
Hill was here last week, he took me
up into his room and showed me the con-
tentJ of his valise. Bless me, if it was not
chuck full of tracts and nice little Sunday
school books. He said that those wicked fell
lows, Teller, Chaffee and Routt, were all off
on wrong lead, had mistaken the character
and bearings of the members and were cal
culating to allure and entice them with
champagne suppers, free whisky and coin,
but he would do the Christian
statesman act and appeal to the re-
ligious and moral sides of their natures.
My, what a roar there must have been In
the camps and canons when that interview
was read. What nice lot of taffy he was
giving you. You can bet quartz mine to a
piece of fat rock that he will be careful to
let them know that he was talking for this
latitude. A senatorial fight means some
s1ing else in Colorado than the selection of
bright intellect and the meeting Of legitimate
expenses. 1t means good, hard spot cash,
and the man who puts up the most will rack
his brains and air his tongue at Washin gton
for the next six years"
'You put a low estimate on Colorado
legislators"
''Do l? Then do them an injustice, for
they come mighty high. Mind You, do not
say they are all for sale, for there are some
good, honest, honorable fellows among
them, but want to crow this one fact loudly,
that this next Colorado legislature will absorb
$3.50 900 as easily as faro bank can take a
poor mans wages of a Saturday night. The
boys have got big Jack pot and it takes
money to ante this trip.'
''Who is going to wing
81 wish knew. If did. would 60 out
to Denver, insure him for the race, and
gather in nice premium. 1t is big odds
against Hill, for there is field of good ones
against him, and they will get into pocket
If they can. He never can reach enough
Republican members to pull through, and
his only hope is to reduce sufficient num-
Der of Democrats to stand In and land him
q neck ahead at the vim ming post, but he is
drawing TO bob-tail flush in that situation,
for, while there are good many Of them
open to argument, still there are some who
cannot be bribed, bought or bullied, and il
takes them all to make the center shot. He
may get. there, but If he does he will have to
take flying start and run e-end to e-end.''
Chill failing, who has the next best
chanceP'
II should say Teller, but he won't get
there near as easy as boy slides down
slanting roof, and there is big chance that
silver will catch and hold him before he
reaches the water trough He has been
playing Deacon Slick all through the fight
That is the way he got up the com animation
that knocked Hill out in the state conven-
ton and fetched him in the Arapahoe county
candidate, and told him THAT Hill hal
sure thing unless they com bned, that be did
not care for the senatorship himself. but
only wanted to beat Hill on account of their
old quarrel, and that for that purpose he
would rat up Teller men In the outside
counties and turn them over to him (Routt
when they were needed. Routt swallowed
the bait as quickly as an eastern
green horn jumps at prospective
hole, put up his coin, and pitched
in and beat Hill in Arapahoe and helped
elsewhere. Now he is fully persuaded that
be is the principal stakeholder and is looking
for the promised dividends. Maybe he will
get them and may be Christmas will come on
the 4th of July, but would back the mega
tive, in both propositions. If he is not
bunkoed in the deal, then l don't know any,
thing about Teller, Chaffee, Bill Hamill and
that crowd"
us Chaffee genuine candidate?n
swell, he would like TO 90 back to the SEN
ate well enough, but just now he is PLAYING
stool pigeon for Teller. TIE fact is, Chaffee
is badly bent That fancy son-ln-law has
cost him drawer full of money, and, while
he is not broke, still Grant and
Ward twisted him. Then Blaine's
stump has knocked his calculations.
He stood in to make a heap of coin If the
Maine man had won. AS it is, he is just
picking up odd ends, and getting together
what he has saved. He is lucky if he gets
through with couple of hundred thousand.
Ii the fight shapes itself SO that Teller can
reach it, Chaffee win help him. II not, he
will stand In as a compromise between Routt
and Teller and may get through"
show about ROUTE"
she is the broncho candidate. the fayorite
Of the cattlemen and COWBOYS, and he is ca
Vorting around with two or three million be-
bind him, and wants to get into the senate
On the strength of it, There is more am
bition than force to the old man. and he has
been used as cats paw so far.n
Chicago Election Investigation.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 26.-About fifty prom
lnent citizens met this afternoon to consult
In regard to the further prosecution and in
vestigation into the recent election fraud in
the Eighteenth ward. Numerous speeches
urping the necessitv of pushino fha ;,,o,,;.,,