People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-02-28
WoLcoTT OF COLORADO.
A "Redeemer" Who Needs Advertising
In the Reform Press.

A "Redeemer" Who Needs Advertising
in the Reform Press.
Denver Road.
We desire to call the attention Of the
secretary of the National Reform
Press Association that he has over
looked something. We refer to the
Chicago Times editorial On the re-elec-
ton of E. o. Wolcot. to the United
States senate.
Here it is:
The triumph of republicanism in
Colorado has brought the usual result
Of republican victories; surrender to
the corporations, trusts and monopol-
les Of the lawmaking power Of the ma
ton.
The battle cry of Colorado republic
cans in the last campaign was Redeem
the State" On that issue they won,
and they have begun the process Of re-
dempiOn by re-electing Edward Oliver
Wolcott to a six years term in the
United States senate. 1t seems almost
blasphemy to speak Of "redeemer"
and Ed Wolcott in the same sentence,
for the latter is the antithesis Of the
former. He represents all and singular
the very elements and conditions from
which the people seek redemption.
A few days previous to Walcott's I'M
animous Endorsement by the republic
an caucus some satirist introduced in
the legislature a resolution declaring
that mo person should.be sent to the
United States senate from Colorado
who will not pledge himself to sever all
relations with corporations and trusts"
Nothing has since been heard OF that
resolution through the press, but if the
present legislature is anything like the
one that elected Mr.. Wolcott six years
ago, it is fair to presume that some per-
sonal friend of the senator's stole it.
Edward o. Wolcott is not only cor
poratiOn lawyer and representative,
but he is of, by and with the trusts. He
is an integral part and fractional ex-
ponent of every big monopoly in Col
orado. From the corporations and
trusts he receives his princely income,
and in turn he is as watchful Of their
interests as an Argus and as faithful
as Fides herself. A bat in the sunlight
is not binder than is Senator Wolcott
to the public veal when the interests Of
corporations and trusts are concerned.
He is the general counsel Of the Denver
& Rio Grande railway, as we'll as a d.
rector of the company. He is the Color
ado representative Of the Burlington &
Missouri railway and the Missouri Pa
cific, which later is the eastern con-
nection of the Rio Grande. He is also
the general cousnel and moving spirit
CT the Denver City Gable Railway COM
pany. Whether or not he is regularly
retained by any other railroad cOrpor-
alton is not generally known, but every
railroad entering the state regards him
as a friend. The number of mining
corporations, many of which monOpol-
les growing out of the spoilation of in
dividual claim owners, represented by
Senator Wolcott is approximate to the
number of the state.
In the interest of these corporations
and monOpolies Edward o. Wolcott be-
came the dominating spirit of political
rings in the republican party Of Color
ado, that he has never hesitated to de-
bauch the franchise, bankrupt the state
treasury, and enact laws that placed
the people at the mercy Of corporation
rule. Indeed, so shameless was the pro-
fiigacy and crminality of the henchmen
Of Senator WOlcott that the legisla-
ture which first elected him to the SEN
ate actually carried away the furniture
and supplies in the legislative hall
when it adjourned. 1t was the same
legislature which awarded contracts to
Senator Wolcott's active workers for
many thousands of dollars more than
value received, the warrants for which
were sold to eastern men md repudi-
ated by the state. The public press cid
not hesitate to stiymati2e members OF
that legislature is thieves and robbers
They were elected not TO represent the
people but to vote for Ed Wolcot- for
United States senator.
The senator's eaemeis n Colorado
assert that it cost $4,000 to elect the
republican ticket in Colorado last No
vember. This coul1 only refer to what
it cost the corporations, for the bitter
cost to the state from being represented
in the upper house of congress by a
monopolist and railroad attorney can.
not be counted in dollars and cents.
The reelection Of Senator Wolcott
being practically the first act of the re.
enthroned republicans Of Colorado, the
work of redemption in that singularly
unfortunate commonwealth will I'm,
doubtedly go bravely on.
We desire to add that it is the duty
of the association to run it through
the ready print papers in the R. P. A
and give it the widest possible circula
ton, for nothing truer was ever writ
ten.
1t is a stem winder.