La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-09-24

| with an apparent badge of authority
which was n forgery and fraud.
want 10 tell you, fellow citizens. for II
Is essential, that the people of this
| state know what the facts are concern
ing this violent attempt TO seize the
party. In July. 1896. when our chair
man. Irving Howbert, called the State
| Republican committee together, they
/ We're called TO meet at the Brown Pal
ace hotel, when Mr.. Howbert presented
his resignation. and Judge Hodges,
who has since served us so ably as
| chairman. was elected in his place.
| Following that in August. u notitica-
| tion was issued by one w. ID. Todd.
| claiming that too many proxies We're
/ used, and the action was not legal. and
| he thereupon called IL meeting of the
/ state Republican committee TO meet
On Il certain day. They met and as
| sumcd To remove Judge Hodges. and
| elected in his pace Richard Broad. Jr.,
\ Of Golden. still as n Republican. The
! convention met in September. they Is
sued their call in August for meet
ing of silver Republicans. and for the
first time in that call and for the first
| time In that convention, in the whole
| United States. the phrase silver Re
| publican was used. At that conven-
|
elected by the convention of his party,
the Silver Republican party. as Its
chairman, elected by acclamntion.
| From that day until the meeting Mt
| Colorado Springs there was but one
official action of that party. and that
was IN meeting a year ago. which
was called by Richard Broad. chair
man, and in which his authority was
recognized. and ii had not been recog
nized until the meeting last week at
Colorado Springs. This election. you
viii remember, of Broad. was in Sep
temher. 1896, and on February -.
1897, nine gentlemen in Washington
published declaration tp the public.
in which they said thai there should
bc established n National Silver Re
publican party and that they recon-
sncnded that provisional member of n
state COMMITTEES he appointed in the
different states uhey did not say howl.
and that these people should act here
after as a committee pending the call
ing together of National Silver Re-
publican conycntidn. These nine gen
tlemen said that pending this. they had
taken tie liberty ef naming Mr.. Towne
ns chairman of sfIe Provisional Nation
nj Silver Republican committee.
THE CHDe,E OF TOWNE.
Later. In September. some twenty
gentlemen or more. representing bat
few comparatively OF the states in slie
Union. met in Chicago, and this Iro-
visional committee proceeded 10 name
Mr.. TOwne NJ their chairman without
any authorisF. and named him as ckziir
man pr0visiu1nlly until a National I'LL
yer RepuiAtr1n convention shOuk be
hereafter caHed. and that is the sole
and only authority which Mr. T~wne
ever had conferred upon him. ana that
National SILVER Republican convention
has never assan called and IL win never
be, for there are not enOhgh aaft of
them to do it, That is the history OF
the appointment of this zAan .xnu of
his authorsfy. and the result N his
Illegal and violent exercise of fEis ali-
thority WIS ithe awful mIrier at Colo
RADIO Springs last week. and the re-
sponsibiIity, fellow ctizeEzx, fOr that
tragical event. that awful murder,
must always rest nj the ssoor ~ the
violent anR Illegal action Of tliss in.
truder from Minnesota, w.so assumed
to violently take possessios Of IA Silver
.Republitan convention over wliidh he
had no aullDrity.
Fellow citizens. depime fhui 'vio-
lence. ! dsJnecate ii. as yya do. u Is
better 10 suffer than foC0w violent
methods. We have no symiathy with
il, and yet. my friends. VI, must nj
ways remeaiiber that that xas IA yntir.
der, gross murder. and that the ,mur-
herer. still uppunislied. was II member
and an adtserent of that faction which
has been appropriately named by itha
press. and Will appropriately go down
by name in the history Uf factiUnal
| ay. Il. lIsASxv
Convention The chief anxiety Of'fhat
lifncIional convention seemed so be lest
,the people OF the United States should
Ibe informed thnt Bryanism was nOt,Bs
rampant In Colorado ns 1t used 10 he
i 1t is of Infinitely greater importance
rf1lat the people OF the state n Colo
rndO should know that no methods
were too violeir or too NleEa1 TO
overthrow the xsghts of an hOnest ma
jOrity. and we arc willing that both
the East and West should he inform
ed mat the smnM gang OF disreIsutsiijle
1nnnipulators who have disgraeed rhe
Republican party for years were Will
ing to take pot-laek with Democrats
on POpulists, or asry other old party
that would receive them. For ny
ynrt. fellow citizens. pray heaven
THAT that small gang of manipulatOrs
| Who traded and dickered that eOnyen-
tion have forever lef1 the ranks Of the
Republican party. For my part. I
would rather we " oulI 60 down 10 de-
feat forever than reHt upon the mn
nipulntion and management Of such "A
gang. for we do not need them. What
was the result of thnt convention.
even ns It turned out? take the hg-
ures frs1n one of these yellow jour
nails here in Denver, which stated that
there were 1876 contrasting delegates.
that of the remaining delegates 127
went to ffe Blood convention and 242
| went with the Broad convention,
which did not propose to fuse with
POpulists and Democrats.
REPUBLICAN, COOPERATION.