Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-08-14
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A Very RoadabIe hatch OF Gossip
From an Old Friend of 1.-THE
Optic" Readers.


without respect to previous party afilia-
tons, are called on to be on hand and
participate, and thus endorse the Chi
cago platform and free coinage with.
out waiting for the consent or Coop
Grafton of any effete monarchy on the
other side OF the big salt pond.
In Colorado. old party lines no
longer count, the great majority of
our voters demand tree coinage, and to
gain this end men of all parties are
willing to support Bryan because be
stands the pledged champion Of free
silver and equal privileges before the
law for all. That Bryan will carry
Colorado, is q foregone conclusion,
the only question at issue being the
si2s Of his majority over Mckinley.
There are, no doubt, many MoKln-
ley men in this city, but a singular
fact is one rarely ever finds a man on
the street who wears a Mckinley but.
ton or badge, and the majority of re-
publican papers in this state have thus
far failed TO hoist the name of McKin-
ley in their columns for president.
This fact does not prove that the repub-
iican party is disrupted in this state;
1t simply proves that the republicans
are In favor of free silver, irst, last and
all the time, and therefore will support
the man for president who stands
ready to advance the cause of free sill.
yer when he becomes president.
Gov. j. P. Altgeld, Of Illinois, is
now a sojourner at Glenwood Springs,
this state. He is there to recuperate
his health and get himself ia fighting
trim for the coming campaign in his
state. A delegation from this city,
headed by ex Gov. Adams, visited the
springs a few days since, with a view
of having Gov. AItgeld stop over on
his return to Chicago, and deliver a
lecture, but Gov. Altgeld declined on
the score Of Ill health. This noted and
much abused mar seems 10 have many
warm admirers In Colorado, who laugh
at the idea that this quiet, pale faced
and kindly man should be mistaken
for a bowling, bloodthirsty anarchist.
Gov. Altgeld's offense seems to be
chiefly that he is a man of broad views
and progressive ideas, and that he has
the courage Of his convictions, hence
the old fossils who discern no future,
but revel In the past, sit on the dead
limbs of their decayed polite tree and
howl, "Anarcby!" when Altgeld
heaves in sight.
The "curfew" ordinance, which re-
quires children to be in their homes by
8 O'Clock each night, has been passed
by the city council and is now a law
II is a measure that meets the hearty
approval of all good people, since it
takes from the streets that class of
yonng hoya ~hn each night make the
streets where electric lights are stu
ated unpassable for ladies, because of
their noisy profanity and obscene talk.
If the council will now pass an ordin-
ance which will eliminate the brainless
fop, who stands on street corners,
stares at passing ladies, and often be-
comes impudent in his attempts to
make a fsmash," Pueblo would almost
be a perfect place to live in.
A fierce gsle passed over the city
| Monday night. 1t reached a velocity
of nearly fifty miles an hour, but did
no damage other than piliDg up dirt,
sand and other things against walls
and fences, which has caused much
impromp;u profanity OF the part OF
the tired citizens whose task it was to
remove the debris accumulated during
the gale.
And now it seems that "royalty" is
but another way of spelling it "beg-
gar" Prince Henry of Battenberg,
recently deceased, the son .in-law of
Queen Victoria, who put on more airs
than his old mother-in-law ever dream
ed of, left his widow, as a legacy, the
magnificent sum of ,$5,145, being the
entire sum of all his earthly possessions.
When the Vanderbilts real this item,
they will turn their noses skyward, un-
til an angle of Is degrees Is reached.
The miners strike, up at Leadvilie,
which was about to be settled, remains
on, the trouble arising out of the scale
of wages to be paid miners and labor
ers. 1t is believed, however, that an
agreement will be reached in q few
days, which will put al end to the
strike.
Lake Minnequa, just beyond the south
ern limits of the city, which is reached
by the electric cars, is a favorits re-
sort for the people these hot days. A
ride around the lake on the electric
launch OF "world's fair" fame, is sure
to make one feel that life is still worth
living, in a land where the sun stroke
a not get in its work.
The Denver district of the M. E.
church south, meets to-day at Corona
church on the mesa, to hold Its
annual conference, and devise a
new programme to wage the
war against "Old Nick" for
the coming year. A large number
of visiting preachers are here, which
accounts for the fact that the chickens
have all retired under the barns, where
they will remain in eclipse, so to speak. |
until the reverend visitors have left the
city.
The Pueblo Central Trades and La
Dor union has decided to send a CON-
petent man from its ranks to canvass
the eastern states and talk silver to the
laboring men there. In order to raise
the needed funds q concert will be
given in the Grand opera house, next
week. Our silver men are dead in
earnest. They believe the silver ques-
ton should be plainly understood, as it
affects our prosperity as no other ques-
tion now before the public does, SO
that the wage. can ntallioentlv