The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-02-01
MENTAL DYNAMITE.
scORCHED BY CoLoRADo's
GRAND OLD GOVERNOR.
Tells Why the Gamblers, Thugs, Prosti-
tutes and Pimps Were Opposed to
Populist Government-Populis Proud
of Her Enemies.

The following letter by Gov. Waite
of Colorado explains itself and will
well repay reading:
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, DENVER
Dec. 1, 1894
''To the First National bank, Ameri-
can National bank; j. G. Mitchell,
Peoples National bank; s. N. Wood,
j. II Poole, IT, j. collars, secretary
Colorado Building and Loan associa-
ton; John j. Huddart, the Denver
Consolidated Electric company; the
Appel Clothing company; the May
Shoe and Clothing company, the Skin
ner Bros. and Wright company; r.
Douglas Crockery company, the Hughes
& Keith Plumbing and Chandelier
company; the Flanders Dry Goods
company; the Parkinson & Wallace
China company; Cordes, Feldhauser 8,
Lotus Carpet company; the Roth I'm
porting company; Il. e. Babcoc1S, Gar
son, Kerngood & Co.; E. 3. & II. n.
Lee, hatters; the Henry Bohm COM
pany; n. j. Woodside & Co.; H. Bost-
wick; the George Tritch Hardware
compay; the Leonard-Scheck Saddlery
company; the Knight & Atmore COM
pany; the Brown Hotel company;
the Golden Eagle Dry Goods com
pany; the M. Hyman Cigar and I'm
porting company; Schradsky, Bee
Hive Shoe company; A. j. Stark
and company, the Denver Consolidated
Gas company, the Backus Heating com
pSny, the Albany hotel, the st. James
hotel, the Windsor hotel the Mark
ham hotel, the Denver Stove and Hard
ware company, the KpightCampbell
Music company, Lewis, Son & Barrow,
G. 81. Braman, H. z. Solomon, Gano &
Co., the Denver onyx and marble COM
pany, T. W. Grommon, Western bank,
S. Eckles, W. B. Fe1 1ker and C. S. Morey
mercantile company:
''Gentlemen: Your petition of Nov.
%, 1884, for the reopening of the
gambling houses of Denver, addressed
to myself as governor, to the fire and
police board and to the chief of police
Of this city, was duly received. To
compel the gambling halls of Denver
to remain closed is without doubt det-
rimental to some of the business in
terests of Denver. Gamblers who are
prevented from the practice of their
profession, in consequence, vacated
buildings and parts of buildings occu-
pied as saloons and residences, which
remain unrented, and a large amount
of money is withheld from circulation
that otherwise would be expended by
the gamblers in the purchase of neces-
saries and luxuries. To that extent
the suppression of gambling has made
hard times in Denver, and 1 have
never hesitated to acknowledge my
full share of responsibility for this re-
suit. 1t is no wonder that every gam
bier IN Denver every pimp and prosti-
tute, every confidence man, bunco
steerer, thief and hobo and every all
night and Sunday liquor seller, Ii
censed and unlicensed, joined the re
deemers' to redeem the state from
Populist misrule, and furnished money.
and men and women to colonize the
city with fraudulent voters in the in
terest of the republican party. The
gamblers and the lewd women of Den
yer had a grievance. The Populist state
administration had injured their busi-
ness, had prevented them from loan
ing capital for the promotion Of busi-
ness enterprises, and had reduced
some professionals to actual pow
erty. Smarting under sense of per-
sonal injury the gamblers of Denver
poured out their money like water for
political purposes, and resorted to any
and all means, no matter how fraudu-
lent, to defeat at the late election the
IPopulist state administration.
'"The Protestant religious element of
this city, represented by it's distin-
guished doctors of divinity, by the Y.
M. c. A. and the w. G. T. u, protest
against the protection of the gambling
business by the police, on the ground
that gambling is immoral
"My own action as governor was not
upon any such consideration. Gambl-
ing is no more immoral in Denver than
in Leadville or Aspen. The laws