The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-12
Chicago Times.)

DENVER, Colo Sept. 3.-The first guns
ties in Colorado will be fired in Pueblo
tomorrow. and thence to the first week of
November the world will be called to wit
ness the finish fight between the two old
parties and the new champion of the peo-
pies interest. Populism will either live or
die this year. The order has gone forth
that the young and vigorous party should
be throttled in it's infancy. Those who
sneered at the launching of the Populist
party have become alarmed and are re-
penting the tolerance which allowed it to
come into the world
Never was there a stronger concerted eff
fort to suppress the right of free Speech
never was the influence of banks and corpo-
rations more directly asserted for the pur-
pose of overriding the voice of the people
1t has become the open boast of the capt.
talsts that there will never be another
Populst administration in Colorado. The
leading representatives of the money power
have banded themselves together for the
avowed purpose of winning victory at all
hazards. To win by fair means is prepos-
ferrous in view of the overwhelming vote
cast at the last general election, and other
means will be sought to achieve the results
desired.
Redemption leagues, business mems
leagues. and law and order leagues are
the craze They have enrolled thousands
of mercenaries in this county, where, as
in all large cities, the ignorant element is
in frequent evidence. Voters, on the per
diem plan, can be had for any party, and it
is natural that the organizati ton with the
most money will gain the most numerous
following. The business men have opened
headquarters at the Brown Palace hotel,
where corps of clerks is kept busysday
and night preparing lists of voters. Every
employee in this city will be called to vote
at the dictation of his employer. He will
not be ordered, for that would be too
coarse for the elite of the mercantile COM
munity, but the proposition will be made
in unmistakabe language The employee
will be told that he, in the interest of
ings in the election. The reelection of a
Popust administration will be the signal
for the withdrawal of all Eastern capital.
This implies the dismissal of such men
as were blind to their employers business
and continued to vote for the Populst
candidates. A regular Pullman blacklist
has been drafted and the actions of all
workngmen from the high class clerk to
the lowest paid laborer will be closely
scrutnized on election day by hired de-
tectives. The consequences of defying this
oigarchy of employers will be disastrous
to those who rely upon the secrecy of the
Australian ballot law for concealment of
their intentions.
Under the circumstances it looks as
though Arapahoe county will, if anything
increase it's usual Republican majority. If
this will suffice to overcome the reliable
majority of the state is the question that
is causing great concern to the men at the
head of affairs in this state.
WHERE THE POPULIST MACHINE is
WEAK.
The Populist machine is defective. 1t has
no strong backing to furnish funds for
the legitimate campaign expenses and the
perpetual ton of party principles is depend
ent upon the personal enthusiasm of the
individual voter. Before the convention it
Is a matter of conjecture how the LEADER
will stand after the nominat tons are made
sonal interest involved in the outcome and
rumors of boiling rife. Gov. Waite
poets to get the nomination for a second
term on the first ballot, while his adver-
saries SAYS that John G. Bell, representa-
tive in congress from the Second district,
will be the nominee. Bell is not DESTROYS
of pushing his nomination and will only
consent to the use of his name for the pur-
of defeating the chief executive.
Waite is not popular with the conservative
element. who recognize the fact that his
nomination will enable the business men to
conduct a campaign on strong lines that
may win over the miners and farmers
through the influence of the bankers, to
whom they must appeal for financial assist
lance in developing their various enter
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