The representative., 1894-04-11
COLORADO TROUBLE.
THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE Gov
ERNOR'S FIGHT WITH THE GANG.

THE TRUTH CONCERNING THE GOV
ERNOR'S FIGHT WITH THE GANG.
He Made Some Mistakes In the Start, but
Has Been Honest, Law Abiding and Cour-
ageous All the Way Through-It Is a
Fight to Head OFF the Peoples Party.
The lying reports sent broadcast over
the land by subsidized Associated Press
agents concerning the trouble in this
state calls for an explanation of the
whole affair for the benefit of our read
ers in other states
In the first place, Colorado has long
been controlled by as rotten ring of
politicians as ever went unhung, and in
their efforts to run everything, political
ly and otherwise, stopped at nothing, no
matter how criminal it might be, to
carry the ends Of the big corporations
that kept them in campaign funds. The
whole machinery of the state was run
for corporations. The corporations fur
nished the Doodle and then turned around
and robbed the people to make up the
amount contributed. This condition ex-
listed until 1892, when the people hurled
the thieving whelps from Office and took
charge of affairs themselves through
Populists.
A part of the governors power is the
appointing of the members of the police
board and board of public works.
Denver is the political cancer of the
state. Through these two boards the
criminal classes and the corporations
have been keEt in line always for the
Republican party.
When Governor Waite was elected, he
called about him lot of corncob states
men C) who meant well enough, but
were weak and chumpish. They ad-
vised him in his appointments, and as
result poor, weak incompetents were
named.
The old party corporation schemers
and gamblers soon had these appointees
with ropes around their necks, and the
old party machine in Denver remained
undisturbed. 1t was then that this pa
per opened up it's fire on Governor
Waite. In due course of time the gov
ernor saw the mistake he had made and
removed his appointees to the police
board. A resistance was made, but the
supreme court decided that the governor
was one of the three coordinate branches
OF the state government and was vested
with the power to appoint and remove
for cause.
A new set of men was then selected.
but the moment they were named all
Populists felt sure that the governor had
again made a mistake, and it didn't take
long for the governor himself to make
the discovery, for his new board were
soon found to be cheek by jowl with the
gamblers and corporations. This made
the old man exceedingly mad, and he
expressed himself willing to change his
police board every day, if necessary, un-
til he could find a board that would
prove true to the people and above the
bribes Of corrupt politicians.
The gamblers and the corporations saw
in the new board (the last one a lot of men
that meant defeat for Ed Wocott this fall,
for the new board stood pledged to drive
about $500 voting criminals, consisting
OF gamblers, plmps, corporation tools,
etc., out of town. All Of these people
were known to be Wolcott men and men
that could be depended upon to vote for
the Wolcott legislative ticket this fall.
When the governor decided to make the
change, he knew that row would fol-
low any attempt to induct his new board
into Office. He sent for the sheriff Of the
county and explained to him his fears
and notified him of his duties as peace
officer to see to it that the peace was
kept.
The sheriff's office is an old party in
stitution in Denver, and the sheriff lost
no time in warning the chief conspira-
tors against good government in the
state of the governors intentions. In
stead Of preparing to keep the peace
the sheriff at once began to arm the
gamblers with dynamite bombs and other
instruments Of death to defend the old
board that stood up for the criminal
classes and his crowd. The governor at
once saw there was nothing to expect
from the peace officer. Then came the
outrage, the crowning cap Of infamy, in
shape of an order from Judge Graham
of the district bench (an old party rem
nant enjoining the governor
Right here is where anarchy started,
an anarchistic order in the interest of
anarchy. The cohorts Of the corpora
tions and gamblers openly boasted that
now they were in shape to defeat the
governor and keep his new appointees
out of office through delay in the su-
preme court that would cover the time
existing between the present and the ex-
piration of Governor Waite's term.
To be plain, these whelps of iniquity
proposed to defeat justice by delay. The
governor concluded, too, that this was
their design and drew his conclusions
from snub received at the hands of
Judge Victor A. Elliott, member of the
supreme bench, who contemptuously
threw his case out Of court recently when
asked to give him an opinion.
The old party millionaires all sided
with the sheriff and his city hall bunko
gang, as they did in 1892. when they
voted and spent money to defeat the gov
ernOr.
The governor was aware of this fact,
and knowing the average usurer to be
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