The Delta independent., 1894-08-22

Scnclnc 10 com MeNlcan dollars %
worth 80 cents and make them a legal
tender for 81 squints that way.
The fraud perpetrated upon Colorado
| by the claim of the Populists that they
| We're the only simon pure silver party,
| and by means of which they secured
control of the state two years ago, will
be punished in an exemplary manner
this fall Nothing dsgusts decent peo-
| pie like false pretenses.
Colorado's business interests demand
Il return to conservative, legitimate
methods of government. Experimental
| cranks who are running the state for
personal revenue and political prefer
mcnt will be turned down this fall.
| The people have had enough Popu-
lism for the rest of the century.
For a party built on reform princi-
pies, the Populist organization man
ages to commit phenomenal series of
blundcrs. While claiming to relieve
the burdens of the people. they have
| placed an unnecessary load on the
treasury of nearly S25o.OOO for extra
session foolishness and picturesque
militia maneuverS.
Waites belief that he is, as COM
| mandcr-in- chief of the state military
forces. superior to the civil law, is re-
| SpOnsible for Il good many of the bad
breaks he has made in the attempting
to override the law for political pur-
poses. Notably in the matter of the
wardenship of the state pcnitentiary
and the Denver police board.
| COlOrado's material prosperity de-
pends upon conduct of affairs that
| will inspire confidence in the conServa-
| tivism and business judgment of those
in charge. The POpulist party has
done nothing to inspire, but everything
to destroy this confidence. And as pros
pcrity throughout the commercial
world can never happen until conf
dence is restored, the first step in that
direction is to turn down the present
PopuliSt gang of tax eaters.
Populists realize that they have but
one hope in the coming election, and
that is to again deceive the miners
and workingmen into the belief that
through Populism only can free coin
age be secured. But not until they
shall have solved the problem of how
to make the tail wag the dog will they
be able to accomplish free coinage.
The only hope of this desirable con-
summation is through the Republican
party.
1t matters little by what name they
have been heretofore called, every citi-
zen of Colorado who is interested in
the material welfare of the state will
cast vote this fall to stimulate her
populate her vacant lands. A vote for
the Republican party this fall is
move in that direction. A long pull,
strong pull and a pull all together
will redeem the state from her present
incubus of Populism.
If Governor Waite is the "reformer"
he claims to be, on what principle of
reform does he assess the policemen
and members of the fire department Of
Denver for political purposes? Does he
not know that every dollar thus taken
from the earnings of his appointees
goes into corruption fund and the
bare fact that a mans tenure of office
depends on the promptness with which
| he pays his assessments impairS the
efficiency of the city government? And
yet there are misguided people who
say "the old man is honest"
The election of Waite or any other
| Populist for governor means that the
penitentiary and all other state in
| stitutiOnS so far as practicable Will be
run as an annex to that particular
party. The Denver city government
will be Populist political machine to
IN even greater degree than at pres
cnt, for the reason that time and eX-
perience will enable those in charge
to see how this can be accomplished.
They have already shown considerable
| skill in that line, and only need a little
more time to have a machine equal to
Tammany's. Turn the rascals out.
After much fuss and feathers, the
prosecution in the Tarsney outrage
cases threatens to prove a fizzle. The
much advertised confession" of Will
son. one of the men for whom Tarsney
went in person, with sensational effects
In the shape of n gun play at Kansas
City. does not seem to be SO vitally
important as at first claimed. 1t is a
little singular that with so heavy re-
wards pending for the arrest and con-
victiOn of the perpetrators of this out
rage, so little evidence has been pro-
cured Can it be that Tricky Tom
would actually try to have the prosecu-
ton fail for political effect?
The women of Colorado are awak-
ing to an active realization of their
privileges as citizens. A woman's in
tutons will reach the truth ut bound
long before the laborious logic adopted
by the masculine mind has arrived at
a conclusion. The fact that this re-
filming factor in politics has been in
| troduccd in Colorado is an auspicious
omen for the Republican party, since
| il is the party that stands for law and
| order and good government. 1t Is not
| Il party of doubtful experiments nor
nnarchistic theories, but represents the
| highest political ideals. The women of
| Colorado will hold the party on this
plane and an era of uneXampled pros