, 1896-10-02
RIPPED Up THE BACK.
A VOTER DISSECTS SOME OF THE
REASONINGS OF THE COLO
RADIO MAN.
His Early Freaks in Laramie-Colora-
do Has Always Acted the Fool
A Mckinley Man Unsafe Within
Her Borders-Wyoming Will Not
Take Her Political Cue From Her.
o the Editor of The Republican.

To the Editor of The Republican.
1t has come. The first installment
CT missionaries which Colorado has
promised to send here to convert the
benighted heather Of Wyoming to the
glorious doctrine OF silver. appeard last
evening in the person Of John P.
B~rOckway. Mr.. Brockway was form
erly a resident Of Laramie. He was
probably the most noted crank in the
state. There was nothing in the way
of absurdity toe strong for his stom-
ach or too large for his gullet. He
swallowed everything in a religious
way, from i%nfidelity down to spiritual
ism and Christian science. He show,
ed his public spirit on occasion by
importing at his own expense a noted
infidel lecturer from the east, and fur
nished a hall in which to ridicule ev.
erything held sacred by the Christian
world. Naturally such a man as that
SIdNlldttu " Sololduo, IL Nv iouAo
free scope for his natural affinity for
such beliefs.
Colorado has never missed an oppOr-
tunity to act the fool for some years
past. They have sown to the wind and
are reaping the whirlwind. Armed
riots in Denver. incendiarism and civil
war in her greatest mining camps,
Cripple Creek and Leadville. and a
general spirit of unrest throughout the
whole state, has been and is being the
harvest which they are reaping for
their folly. There never vas such a
spirit of intolerance manifested; there
never was such extremes in boycott
ting and b%ull-dozing practiced any
where in the south and the southern
states as is being practiced in Colorado
today. In a large share of that state,
Il man who lets 1t be known hat he is
in favor of sound money is scarcely
safe in his person or in his property.
In his speech Mr.. Brockway had a
good deal to say about the oppression
and tyranny which was being exercised
against labor unions and laooring men;
but tdoay. the only place we know in
all our broad land where the most su-
perhuman efforts are being made and
the most arrogant war waged against
organized labor. is being conducted by
the silver barons Of Colorado against
the miners of that state.
1t would be difficult to undertake to
review the speech of Mr.. Brockway.
One might as well attempt to reply to
or reason against the roar and clatter
OF a Chinese gong. Wyoming has never
been referred to by the Colorado press
except as a barren vast of sand, rock
and sagebrush. 1t has been almost i'm
possible to eve get them to speak IA
vorably Of jill mining prospects, or Of
any other Of our resources. They have
extolled without stint and without con-
science everything in Colorado right
up to our state line, but in regard to
anything north Of that they have been
as mum as an oyster. Now they want
us to help them double the price Of
their products. We were told last
night by Mr.. Bockway in substance,
that if we would vote to pay the silver
barons Of Colorado twice as much OF
our gold for their silver as we are now
required to pay; that II we would pay
twice as much for the fruit, and vege-
tables that they are sending up here to
us as we now pay, that Colorado would
Immediately forge to the front as the
great Giastacutus in the march OF pro-
gress, leading the van. and Wyoming
could have the poor satisfaction Of
trotting along at the tail Of the process
sion like a little yellow dog with his
caudle appendage between his legs. Mr..
B%rockway gave distinctly to under
stand, however, that Colorado would
always march in the front.
The speaker was endowed by nature
with the natural attributes which
would make him a success in this great
and glorious cause in which he Is en-
grade, with the track especially greas-
bowling success. He pictured the whole
country as going to the devil at the
rate of a mile a minute on a down.
grade, with the track especially ereas-
ed for the occasion. Only one thing
%eonsoled him: That II he and his con-
~ferrees couldn't win with bullets, they
could resort to bullets.
Mr.. Brockway boasted Of the fact
that he Is an apostate republican who
has now Joined the democratic party.
He didn't tell us which wing Of the
democracy he Joined, whether It was
the element led by Altgeld, the anarch-
list, or the n dominated over by
Blood to the Birdie" Waite and
'Sockless Jerry" Simpson. or the popu.
listic element Of Tillman; but from hia
we'll known capacity in that respect II
Is presumed that he Is able to swallow
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