The herald., 1894-01-07
A sUPRRANNUArED pRssImrsr.

adopted state, that came into the throng
of starry-browed sisters while they were
celebrating the centennial anniversary
of the grand republics birth. But the
old man is TOO far advanced in years to
fill ittingly the governorship of q
frontier state. 10 an old community
like Delaware, Rhode Island or Yer.
mont he might scquit himself credita'
bly,, but in new state of great area,
like Colorado, he is out OF place. The
governovship of frontier state de-
mands as its incumbent man not over
So years of age. one who is thoroughly
in touch with the present generation OF
active business men, rather than With
the retired capitalists who have passed
the sixtieth meridian of life's longitude,
and who is still in so vigorous condi-
tion of health as to enable him to search
into every detail of state government
and make himself thoroughly familiar
with ali the popular requirements.
Some of our sblest governors have been
young men. Stanford was Al, Lowe 30,
Irwin 48 and Haight "A, at the time of
their respective elections. They were
still in the prime of life. Lowe and Irwin
put themselves on record in reference to
the aggression of corporations, in way
that come OF our people still remember
with gratitude, while one or two of
Haight's messages, on the management
OF our prisons and asylums, showed that
no branch Of the state government had
escaped the rigor of his scrutiny. Older
men would have been. perhaps, re-
strained by failing health from making
researches into matters concerning
which the masses were hungry for in
formation, but these lusty young men
probed all these questions to the bot
tom, and our young state got the benefit
of their vigilance.
The people OF Colorado or, more prop.
erly speaking, the business men OF that
state, acted very sensibly a short time
ago in calling a state convention COM
posed OF something outside the rank
and file of professional politicians, to
front them and to suggest remedies. To
ignore actual certainty was futile task
but it was, on the other hand, down
right cowardice to exaqgerate trouble.
The man who starts panic that he may
buy up, at reduced prices, the securities
that have become deprecated by that
panic, is no better than the Bsrnegat
and Fire island wreckers of fifty years
ago, who placed false lights on the shore
that they might decoy ships bound for
New York and plunder the wrecks.
Whether Governor Waite had any ulSe-
rior object in his remarkable letters and
proclamations OF impending calamity
in the Centennial state or not,
, has not yet transpired, but one
thing we do know. he has sent
forth to the world pen picture Of desc
lstion, sorrow and misery that is amply
reiuted by the statistics sdduced by the
business mems convention above re-
ierred to. The writer was in Denver
three months ago, as the guest OF Gen
eral McCook. commanding the depart
ment of Colorado. In conversation
about the anti-silver legislation then
pending in congress the survivor OF "the
fighting McCooks" said:
''Of course this legislation will hurt
this state, beyond question. But it will
hurt Colorado the least OF all the states
which produce the precious metals, be-
cause she is the least prospected of sny
OF them. She has miles and miles Of
land over which the prospector's mule
has never plod ded his weary way, and
hundreds of deep and gloomy gorges
where the clang of the miners pick has
never yet been heard. The depression OF
silver will create an increased demand
for gold, and that demand will lead up to
a livelier search after gold bearing
mines, which. but for this search, would
have lain dormant for half a century.
My word for it, you will hear accounts
of gold strikes on Cripple creek in the
next ninety days that will equal the
palmiest days of the Comstock. | got a
letter yesterday asking for military
eecor. to go into Cripple creek, to pro-
tect party of twenty prospectors; and,
feeling the importance of gold discov-
cries at this junetuse OF affairs, | have
forwarded the letter to the secretary Of
war for instructions, accompanied with
my endorsement"
Within the past twenty days, despite
the harsh weather that must prevail in
| Colorado at this season, have come re-
ports from Cripple creek OF strikes
equaling Allison Ranch or keystone in
their best days. The veteran warriors
predictions are already oeing veri-
fed, but nothing to what they
will be when the warm weather
comes. The statistics OF the business
mems convention also show a marked
increase in gold product, enough to
more than compensate for any decline
in silver. So that Governor Waite's
picture OF his own state becoming de-
serted by its active, energetic and
wealth-producing population; and being
converted into desert wilderness OF
eagebrush, rocks and silence, is far from
being a true one.
We have written this in no unkindly
spirit toward the chief magistrate OF the
Centennial stste. but became we be-
lieve lie i.ilsrepresents the lusty young