The state herald., 1897-04-23

| the carving she has received. Poiltichl
Painters and butchers have done their
worst. Let them retire nnd give Colora
do chance to get on her feet ngain."
| The evident desire of the writer OF the
above article was that it should be cir
cnlated M widely as possible and to aid
Ms much MS possible in gratifying tins
desire and also to show our hugh appreci-
alton Of the kindly feeling which 10 doubt
prompted the writer, we have copied the
article into the columns OF tho HERALD.
Strange as it may seen to the writer of
the Advocate article, even after receiv-
ing the sledse hammer blows OF his heavy
editorial, we still have no apology to Of
| fer him for the course which we took in
the recent campaign. No one but COW
ard will refuse to admit mistake in
public life when he has been convinced
that it wns mistake, but the Advocate
editorials have, so far fallen far short Of
convincing us that we were mistaken IN
our judgment as to the right and con.
sistent position for MS to take in last
fnll's campaign. and to convince us of n
mistake IN that campaign will require
editorials backed up by n larger supply
OF grey brain matter than il sufficient
SIMPLY 10 call pet nnmca. The Advocate
seems to be worried about our political
aspirations and, to relieve it from all
worry on this line, We desire SIMPLY to
say that, whatever our political asplra-
tlous may be, they are not OF the pie
counter" variety. According to the Ad-
vOcate we wero crazy m the last cam
paign, but we have noticed that very
common deluslon with those who are
troubled with too many wheels in the
head Is that every body else is crazy"
We are told that we did what we could
to secure She election of the "rankest
outfit that ever assembled as law makers
for this great state" We did favor fu
sion and helped to elect fusion ticket
but the writer of tho Advocate article
should lave informed his reader. that,
when II came TO the organization Of the
senate aud house the only members oi
the Legislature, who are recognized b.
the Advocate as republicans, thought
highly enough Of this so called "raukest
outfit to form fusion with them there.
Ivy enabling them to control to u great
extent the legislation Of the lessiun
There WAS small faction In the state
who seemed determined to rcpulinte u
principle upon which the republican
party OF Colorado had for years mndc lis
campaigns and in order to do 30 had lie
cidrd il possible to defeat the re.el,ciiUn
OF Senator Henry NJ. Teller. In order to
stand true to the cause Of silver and IN
sure the reelection OF Senator Teller, we
advocated and supported fusion and this
50 called "fankest outfit" were elected.
GA the other hand the only members OF
the legislature recognized 10y the Advo-
cnie as republicans formed fusion with
this so called "rankes, outfit" not IN sup.
port OF n part, principle, but simply aud
'olely for the purpose Of securing Il share
Of the political spuils, consisting Of a lew
clcrkslIips N the two bodies and III order
tosecnre this paltf! share ol''pie counter
spolIs We're perfectly willing To place
this so called "ranktst ou,iit" in a posi-.
non where they could ehape TO grca,
extent the legislation OF the session. The
writer OF the Advocate article seems 10
be little short ON consistency. When
We are informed that the meD elected to
tho state legislature last fall are the
"rankesl outfit that ever assembled as
law makers ior this great state" IL very
naturally eScites the suspicion iha, this
part Of the article u' least must have
emcnatcd from the editor whose residence
IN Colorado dates from comparatively
recent da,c,for an old settler in the state
would not risk fuch rash statements
The fiat unucies" to which the article
refers is the free and unlimited coinage
OF silver for which the republicans OF
Colombo had, for several years, declared
~ every parry platform, state, district
aud county and which had been adyo
Gated by every campaign speaker OF the
party and by nll OF the leaders OF the
party not oven excepting tho only mem
her of the Advocate editorial s,nG whu
uP TO the opening ot tho las, campaign
hld ever taken rart In Colorado cam.
paign ltthis was "ha, unacy" last
tnll, It waa fiat lunnry whrn formerly
advocated b, one of the present editors
q the advocate and tue editor recently
from Nchrursa, Who evidently has not
now aud never has had any sympath,
whatever for The movement IN behalf of
the rcmonottgniion ot silver. should he
moro cmetul IN his editorials than to
plaza his partner 10 unch an !ncpnsistcnt
pomlton, We dislike very much to re-
sort t1 articles Of a personal nature aud
would not have done NJ hal II not bccn
forced upon u by tho unreasonable a,.
tack Of tho Advocate from time 10 time
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