The Bessemer indicator., 1894-11-03
A PLAIN STATEMENT
A Concise, e,StraightfOrward amt Manly
View of the Political Situation as
Seen by II Liberal Republican.
A Writer who Places Principle Above
Party.

| desire small space in your paper
for the purpose Of speaking out in
, meeting. / have voted the republican
ticket on every occasion, for fifteen
years. and | expect to do so as long as
the republican party remains what it is,
and will put up honorable men for office.
In the words of the Hon. H. NJ Teller
which he used in his speech on Oct "a
1894. and which the Pueblo Chieftain
failed to give in full: Il am republican,
| have been republican all my life and
| expect to remain republican as long
as | live. | DO NOT FEEL. THAT IT Is MY
DUTY TO SUPPORT \ DISHONEST MAN oN
MY TICKET BECAUSE | AM \ REpURLICAS.'
And that is the way feel in regard to
the present incumbent of the chair of
justice in our judicial district. His past
record, Including his notorious Rohre
decision. which should make any
honest man blush and compel him to
seek oblivionl is such that would not
feel worthy of exercising my rights as
an American citizen if were ever to
entertain a thought of voting for him.
To vote for Judge Elwell and elect him
and men of his class. would mean the
ruin of our beloved party for years to
come. Let us purge il now and elect
men, though not Of our political creed
who are in every way worthy the honor
and dignity of the judicial erminc which
has been so ruthlessly dragged in the
mire of political corruption by the man
whom the republicans have. 10 our
sorrow. renominated, \ good rcpubli
can cannot do his party better service
than to vote against Elwell. Dixon and
their kind of men. | know that we in
dependent republicans are termed
"kickers' and "bolters' and that we are
threatened with terrible future polit
ical death, but if we take the history of
"kickers" in Pueblo county the results
have been to the contrary, as some of
our present county officials can testify.
who kicked" over part of the county
ticket i'll 1889, and secured office them
selves in 1891.
The nominees ON the republican
judicial ticket are exhorting all re
publicans to throw off their coats. be
earnest and active, work hard for the
straight republican ticket and are us
ing the old worn out cry of all political
jacks, Stick to the straight ticket II
the honest republicans of Pueblo county
do their duty on Nov. 6 and wish to save
their party from future defeat and
humiliation they will bury j. C. Elwell
as the people of New York did Maynard.
in the deepest kind of political grave. i
If men like I. II. Devine. men of
sterling qualities, men of unquestioned
ability. men of honor and integrity are
elected to the judicial bench in the
Tenth judicial district there will be no
padding of the lists or illegal naturaliza-
tion mills, nor stutfing the jury box for
the purpose of carrying primaries for
self advancement under their judicial
rule.
Pueblo county is full of revolt. The
search light of honest inquiry is being
lulHt' uIi iIlt past TtCbTt vi MI TslNelI
and his henchman. Geo. Seaver, the man
who said he put II. NJ. Teller in the L. |
S. Senate in 1885. The fact that many
loyal republicans have freely declared !
themselves opposed to machine nomina
tons of obnoxious candidates shows how
deeply the people are aroused.
i have no apologies TO make on the |
subject of party. Principle is higher
than party. and it is principle and not
party that is involved in this judicial
contest. | appeal to all good republi |
cans in the name OF honor, in the name
of home and all that is dear to us, to
defeat this man who did most of his in 1
decent work in the midnight hours long
after honest men and women had re
tired to their homes, work which would |
cause the lowest ward heeler to blush |
with shame, il such thing were
possible. if the work was publicly ex- /
posed to the gaze OF honest men.
Defeat Elwell and Dixon in such man
ner that il will be a rebuke to them and |
their methods and strike terror to the |
manipulators OF the corrupt machine !
now controlling our county politics. and |
put men on the bench whom we can
trust
One OF MANY.