The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1894-10-05
I1OYAL TO GOV. WAITE
PEOPLES PARTY OF COLORADO WILL
STAND BY THE MAN OF NERVE.
He viii Be Reelected Governor and Then
Sent to the Senate-Lafc Pence Is Made Of
the Right Kind of Stuff--An Able Man
For Lieutenant Governor.

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For Lieutenant Governor.
Davis H. Waite will not be the next
governor Of Colorado This is an official
fact that will be received with surprise
by q great many people who imagine
themselves members Of the inner arcana
and are figuring Oh their rewards for
active support during the campaign.
His cSccllency has loftier aspirations,
and there is scarcely a shadow Of doubt
that his political plans will be carried
to thcir full fruition. He has not made
q single error in his calculations SO far,
and there is every reason to believe that
he will not make q faux pas Of his lat
est and lofticst aspiration He will rep
resent Colorado i'll the next or Fifty
fourth congress rs the successor Of Sen
ator Wolcott. Iii making tho race for
governor he simply seeks yindication at
tho bands of his constituents, who, by
their election two years ago, enabled
him to teach the bankers an object les
son on the rights of labor. For his
service i'll their cause the executive has
been abused and vilified to IN extent
without parallel, even i'll the cases Of
Altgeld and Pennoyer, his able and
fearless contemporaries in the field OF
national politics. He has been exten-
sively described as the insane governor
Of Colorado, and his enemies havo been
slceplcss il their attempts to cover his
administration with Odium.
Notwithstanding these assertions the
governor today can challenge his slam
dercrs to adduco q single case where the
courts have not sustained him III what
ever action he took. But this is not the
kind Of vindication Waite is after. He
is u man Of broad calibcr, who rises
above the petty local jackals who bark
in his wake, and he is going to mako
al appeal to tho people Of the United
States from the senate chamber. The
one man who might possibly have dis
putod the honor Of a nomination with
him is Lafayette Pence.
The latter has retired from the field
by accepting the nomination for q sec
ond term III congress from unjs district.
Pence is a firm friend of the a0luinis-
tration, and during the few weeks that
intcrvencd between his return home and
the date of the state convention at Pu-
oblo ho WAS the governors most active
supporter III the state canvass. 1t is truc
that he WAS after the nomination for
tho senate and expected the Endorsement
OF the Pueblo convention, but as the
campaign shaped itself he was persuad-
cd to abandon his pet schomc to save the
party i'll Arapahoe county, where the
ha@dost fight OF the season will be made.
The Republicans had decided to put up
thoir strongest candidate i'll the First
district and stiffen his knees with gem
erouS financial aid Inevitable defeat
stared the Populists in the face and
tho only name that s;lyorcd OF victory
was THAT Of the young man who had
just completed his first term III congress.
He was appealed to, and although he
declared that there was plenty of good
timber in the ranks the people We're not
i'll q mood to Try any experiments at q
critical time. Finally, when the first
congressional convention was called to
order, {; spontaneous call was sent out
for the choice of the people. Pence re-
sponded, and after reaching tho platform
Wept at the demonstration that greeted
his appearances He told the convention
that he was there to do his duty to the
party aside from all individual interests
and would go into the campaign side
by side with Governor Waite. He will
stump the state i'll the governors be-
half, and it is fondly believed that next
March will see Waite and Pence rep
tb1S Ct.,tf, SNaC
Under these circumstances the nom
ination Of the lieutenant governor is
imbued with new interest. The nomi-
nee is S. w. Harmon, u young and ac-
tive member of tho cigarmakers' union,
who has made his mark III labor circles
through his close attention to legisla
tive work. He compiled set of laws
for the consideration of the special ses-
sion, about which there was such an out
cry last winter. Most OF his suggestions
We're enacted into laws and tho re-
mainder will be submitted to tho regu-
lar biennial session in January. MI.
Harmon is a self poised man and will
mako an able executive officer for tho
state He will follow the same lines
as tho present governor, and the cause
Of labor will be safe in his hands,
Reports from tho interior towns favor
the nomination of a straight Populist
legislature. Last session there was an
even break on polling the house and one
majority for the joint Republicans and
Democrats, who We're given the organi-
zation by the detection Of Populist
from Kiowa county. The senate stood