The Meeker herald., 1894-09-08

The Populist county convention of
Arapahoe met on Monday in Denver
and-split in two. The cause of the
open rupture was the feeling between
the Waites and anti Waites. The for
mer proceeded to ride rough shod over
the latter, and the ants, to the number
of $50, left the hall and held another
convention.
The following speech delivered by n.
b. Bachtel, president Of the anti Waite
convention, shows the feeling against
the governor in his own party;
Ladies and gentlemen-We should
congratulate ourselves that we escaped
alive from that rump convention up the
street. A more high-handed, outrage
Gus, illegal or dangerous body of people
never met to handle civil affairs. To
think that there should be in the new
party, the party Of reform, such lot of
chronic otlice-seekers as thoSe-men
whose appetite for greed has not only
been sharpened, but whetted to a point
of magnificent sharpness is a sorrowful
disappointment. At the Coliseum hall
now, pretending to do the bidding of
the Populists of this county, is raven
Gus horde of oflice-holders and Office
seekers, sycophants of an unfortunate
and unappreciable governor, whose pa
triotism is submerged i'll personal mo-
tives, whose ambitions are as high as
their own heads, and circumferenced
with the range of their own linger-tips.
To them the feelings of their own
brothers and sisters are the feelings of
inanimate creatures-nothing to them.
Had the name of Davis IL. Waite
been placed at the head of the state
ticket by honorable means, and the
fight for such nomination been made on
honest lines, there is no man in this en-
tire state who would have rushed to the
front quicker or carried the Waite ban
ner higher than myself; yet look at the
miserable spectacle which we have been
confronted with these days. A herd of
hungry papsuckers at the trough of the
administration, groveling in the mire of
debasement. 1t will meet with but one
end. We shall bury Davis III. Waite so
deep in his own filth that he will never
be heard Of again"
Mr. Bachtel was frequently inter
rupted in his remarks by outbursts of
applause.
WHAT THEY THINK OF WAITE.
The Denver News of Sunday, editori-
ally speaking, said:
"a Waite machine, built by Waite
Office holders and paid for out of public
taxes, has probably secured a majority
of the Pueblo convention for Waite for
governor.
"The News has done all it can to pre-
vent this calamity to the Populist party.
1t will not be a calamity to the state,
for Waite cannot be elected.
I'm the opinion of the News, there are
at least 5000 Silver Democrats and Re-
pubicans who would vote the Populist
ticket with some other candidate for
governor at its head-but who will not
vote for Waite under any circumstances.
"There are not less than 5000 women
in the state who would vote the Popu-
list ticket, but who will not vote for
Waite-because of the secret, SANDER
ous warfare made on good woman by
him and his chief of the Denver police
board.
at Is the deliberate judgment of the
News that Waite will be defeated for
governor by not less than 10000 votes.
Any other acceptable Populist would
win by handsome majority.
1.-THE News is an advocate of Populist
principles, but it is not a slave to any
party. 1t has not hestated in the past
to repudiate what it believed to be i'm
proper nominations by its party-it will
not hesitate in the future to exhibit the
same independent spirit.
''The convention has right to NOM
mate whom it will. The News has the
right to support whom it will. When
the conventions work is over 1t will at
once make plain to the state its attitude
towards the convenilon's nominees.
1.-THE News will regret more than It's
readers il 1t shall be compelled to re-