La Junta tribune., 1898-10-19

This hucsstering remnant that was ief,
sold their blrthrtghts as Republicans, and
abjured the iasi particle of Republican
principle they ever possessed. for two
paitry state officers. Truly. M friends,
the OK knoweth his owner and the ass hts
masters crib. and the iudierous part oi
IL is they try atill TO call themselves Re-
publicans.
| In the vote on the last tariff bill nay
colleague declined TO vote. The congress
man from the F!rst district voted against
IL and the other congressman from Colo
rado was at home. Remember the words
OF Mr.. Teller here when he entered the
| Democratic convention at the close OF the
al jouEumvnt Of the Blood convention,
| when hs said ''iu 1900 shall be found
| marching with you.'' Aud when he told
that convention that not only upon the
| money question, but upon All others the
| hopes OF the country lay In the Demo-
cratic party. l speak OF him. fellow cit
txens. with great respect and II Is little
enough and true enough 10 say that he
combines most of the brains and all OF the
character among the small set called the
| Blood Republicans. The reslIt. fellow Cit
| izens. OF that convention, was the most
iamcntably conglomeratcd ticket that was
| ever nominated. but MIR Thomas, who is
| travelling around the state. as am told.
| dcnounccs Populism and all its works.
| And second upon the ticket was Francis
| Carney, II Populist OF Colorado compared
| with whom Governor Waite WAS a suck
| ling dog. The story OF that convention
| ought to be made familiar TO all OF US.
The history OF the last few months of
| their party do not care TO so over at
| length but on the 9Th OF July the regular
| Republican state committee was called to-
| ecthcr and accepted the resignation of
4 Irving Howbert chairman and Judge
| Hodges and elected Broad In his place and
| on In July Mr.. Todd called "a meeting of
| the committee and declared there had
been too many proxies used and removed
| Hodges and elected Board in his place and
1 wers tho first to use the name silver Re
publican" Broad WAS elected by the
highest power in tho state. Mr.. Towne
| was appointed by committee who lacked
authority and was elected provisional
chairman TO act until his successor should
be named by a national convention OF the
| Silver Republican party That convention
| has never been held md never vii! lie
! held. This same man. but two years ago,
| defeated while running as Populist and
| Democrat. and not as "A Silver Republican,
and defeated by large majority, removed
Broad. There was never "a greater outrage
| perpetrated on any man.
| The Broad convention which met IN
| this city and to which most of the Silver
| Republican delegates went. adopted
| platform upon which any Republican
| could stand. They declared their willing
ness to 20 over to the Democrats aud the
| rank and file of the party now proposes
| to come back to the party they left but
| temporarily. In this state there today
| only Republicans and Democrats. Silver
| Republicans have no place I'm state poll
/ iics as they have none In national politics.
In lssS the Indian utints closed down and
| the agitation Of the silver question began.
This state registered a big majority for
| Weaver but in 1894 elected a fun Republi-
| can state ticket. In 1886 the people sent
eight delegates and eight alterua;es to the
| convention at st. Louis who were in-
structed TO leave that convention unless ii
| ns-d In.E
| 10 Colorado Republicans walked out of
| the convention at st. Louis but II is
source OF satisfaction to know that l3 out
of the is are back again in the Republican
| ranks. There then began In this state a
| campaign unparalleled for vilification and
v.tuperatIon. We have made ourselves a
laughing stock to the people OF the coun-
| try because VIC stick our heads into the
ground and yelled Sixteen TO one and
would not see that the sun was shining.
Tho Democrats and Silver Republicans
are not fusing in other states but the
Democrats are going alone. In Montana
according to my latest advices, n Repub-
| lcan victory is assured Nowhere outside
| OF Colorado are the Democrats even con-
sidering the coinage of silver at IL to for
the United States alone The Repuhii-
can party has been and always will be
favorable to silver II left to work out Its
own principles. In Colorado the papers
! say the Republicans are for gold We be-
lieve that bimetallism alone will bring
true prosperity. We are for bimetalIism
and not silver monometaliism. The great
er nations might secure the restoration of
silver but the United States cannot do Il
alone at present People of the United
States do not realize the immensely and
extensiveness of the problem. The ques-
ton VIII never be solved but by an inter
national agreement and then never but by
an international agreement through the
Republican party. believe the world will
come to realize the need OF both gold and
silver. The United States is fast becom-
ing creditor nation and this question
of silver is now a matter of more concern
to the other nations than to us, and IL we
continue our prosperity which believe we
win under Republican administration. /
believe the other nations will ask us upon
what basis we will restore silver
The desire of all three congIomerated
parties to secure my place is the only is
sue that has been offered to the people
of the state in this campaign and digress-
ing little would speak of the candidate
for governor freely as could were he
not SO close In blood and kindship. but l
ask whether Thomas is a greater friend
of silver than Henry X. wo!cott.
The senator quoted several things from
Charles S. Thomas. the Fusion candidate |
for the governorship of Colorado. Among
the quotations was the following:
1t was taken from the Denver News |
September 2s. 1894, on the occasion OF the |
formal opening of the Democratic cam
paigD.
I'VE are told that the PopulIst party |
Is the only friend of silver. 1 have the |
greatest respect for the Populist party |
but every man with grievance has got |
into the party and has got his grievance |
into the platform. The general tendency |
OF the Populist party seems to be |
towards thoroughly unsound. unsafe |
irredeemabie and unlimited currency
based on land. wind and pumpkns"
Proceeding he said: Now, fellow citi-
zcns. that is the party whose vote Mr. |
Thomas is now soliciting and whose |
candidate for lieutenant governor is one |
OF its great leaders. have said that the
Democrats had no other platform. They
have another. and It is a platform of OBJ
struction and platform of negation. 1t
is platform which permits them to wait
until the Republican party advocates
measure and then joins hands to try to
defeat 1t. And just now they are en-
deavoring to stir up the filth and find
some ground Of accusation against the
administration because of the conduct
OF the war. Fellow citizens. want to
call your attention for moment or
two TO the injustice OF this charge. The
yellow journals have taken them up too.
and have become hysterical over 1t. When
this war was first impending you will re-
member that the president of tho United
States opposed ii, and wanted to postpone
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