Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-26
OUR LETTER.
1.-THE Optics" Pueblo Correspondent
Dishes Up a Palatable PoIit-
fcal Supper.

To the Editor of the Optic.
PUEBLO, Colo, August 23rd, 1885,
The democratic state convention was the
principal attraction during the week.
They resoluted and wrangled in The
most approved style, and then nomi.
mated the candidates, took a parting
suffer a the"Lobby"bar, and returned
to their respective homes.
Ex-Gov. Alva Adams, who has al
ready served two terms as governor,
was nominated for governor. MIR.
Adams is certainly an able and a
popular nan His election may bt
safely predicted.
The democratic convention made q
record for itself by nominating a repub
Iican and u populist for Bryan and
Sewall electors. This Looks very much
as if the millennium had come, and thai
the lion, the lamb, and the jackass car
now lie down together, to sweet ano
pleasant dreams Of Office, and
"boodle." But, later on, when the
question OF spoils looms up, the happy
triangular combinatlan will BIZ foupc
knocking each other %endways. sPeac'
hath its Victories but not so the poll.
~tician, who hopes to ssget thereu OF
the tsband wagon OF the other party !
Olney Newell, whom THE OPTIC
remembers as a former editor of the
Trinidad NeMs, proved the lucky noml-
neo for state treas Neweil's
nomination Is another proof that j.
pays TO be honest, even though it some
times lands one into Office.
Fourteen candidates were nominated
by this convention, yet of these four
teen, but one is o woman, Miss Grac'
Patton, of Fort Collins, who vas nomi-
dated for state superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
Considering the fact that the womer
If Colorado poll a large vote, an,
alwa avs cast it on the side of law, order
and good morals, it seems like down
right injustice to dismiss the woman
claim for consideration with one paltry
office, and that probably given unde,
protest. The woman suffragists are
still novices in the art of wire. pulling
and political skull. duggery, but they
will catch on, by and by, and they will
loom up solidly on the ticket.
The Colorado prohibitionists, on tn,
other hand, have shown the ladies 3
greater appreciation than was accorded
them by the democrats. They havt
nominated four women for office, on.
being for lieutenant governor, one TO,
state auditor, and two for presidential
electors.
The Leadville delegates to the con
vention, came with a fine drum ano
fife corps, uniformed a la zouave, witt
red, baggy Turkish trousers, and Turk
ish Jackets, and they made a very
favorable impression, while here, but,
al the same, when the votes have beer
counted in November, this martha
band will be called on to lead the pro-
~cession that is heading up Salt river.
with Bryan in the lead, but on thai
occasion their drums will be muffied
Two republican state conventions
are called to meet. next month. One
wing in the favor of Bryan the other
will vote for Mckinley. Each will
have a full state ticket in the field.
This split in the republican party re.
minds me of the split in the republican
party in New Mexico in 1884, when
Gov. Prince and Col. Rynerson ran foi
congress on the republican side. Tht
result was, as might have been ex.
pected. a republican Territory wa
represented by a democratic delegate
The G.. 0. p, which seemed for .
time to have been lost in the shuttle ir
this state, is now beginning to loom VI
in fine shape. The Pueblo ladies Of
the republican faith have organized o