Cañon City record., 1898-10-13


I lsft the haIl refusing 10 be carried body
and breeches into the Democrats party.
This huckBferfne remnant that WAS left
soId their birthriEhts ss Republicans and
eb3ured the last particle ot Republican
principle they ever posstssed. for two
pa1fry state officers. Truly. my frfends.
the OK knoweth his owner and the ass his
masters crib, and the ludicrous part Of
FIT Is they try still 10 call themselves Re-
publicans-
colleague declined to vote The congress-
man from the First district voted against
| It and the other congressman from Colo
/ rAdo was at home. Remember the words
l Of Nj Teller here when he entersd the
Democratic convention at the close of the
ad5ournment of the Blood conyenticn,
when he said lin 1900 l shall be found
marching with you" And 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. / speak Of him. fellow cit
fxens. 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 result, fellow cit
izens. OF that convention. was the most
1amentably congiomerated ticket that was
ever nominated, but Mr. Thomas. who is
travelling around tho state. as am told.
denounces Populism and all its works
And second upon the ticket was Francis
Carney. "a Populist Of Colorado. compared
with whom Governor Waite was q 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 go over at
length but on the 9Th Of July the regular
Republican state committee was called to-
gether and accepted the resignation OF
Irving Howbert as chairman and Judge
Hodges and elected Broad in his place and
on In July Mr. Todd called a meeting of
II unit feo m n declared there had
been too many proxies used and removed
Hodges and elected Board In his place and
were the first to use the name silver Re
publican" Broad was elected by the
highest power in the state Mr. Tovne
was appointed BY a 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 and never viii, fe
held This same man, but two years ago
defeated while running as a Popuiist and
Democrat and not as a Silver Republican
and defeated by a large majority. removed
Broad. There was never greater outrage
perpetrated on amy man
The Broad convention which met in
this city and to which most Of the Silver
Republican delegates went. adopted a
platform upon which any Republican
could stand They declared their willing
NESS to go over TO the Democrats and the
rank and file of the party now proposes
70 come back to the party they left but
| temporarily In this state there are today
only Republicans and Democrats Silver
Republicans have no place In state poli-
| tics they have none in national politics
In Iss3 the Indian miuts closed down and
the agitation OF the silver question began
This state registered big majority for
Weaver but in 1854 elected a full Republi-
can state ticket. In ISss the people sent
eight delegates and eight alternates to the
convention at ST Louis who were in
structed 10 leave that convention unless 1t
declared unequivocally for silver. Those
| lf Colorado Republicans walked out of
The convention at st. Louis but II is
source of satisfaction TO know that 10 out
Of the IS are back again in the Republican
ranks There then began In this state a
campaign unparalleled for viilificatfon and
y.tnperation- We have made ourselves
Laughing stock 10 the people of the coun-
try because we stick our heads into the
ground and yelled Sixteen to onef' and
would not see that the sun was shining
The Democrats and Silver Republicans
arc NOT fusing in other states but the
Democrats are going alone In Montana.
according TO my latest advicer q Repub-
Of Colorado are the Democrats even con-
sidering The coinage OF silver Mt 16 TO for
the United States alone The Repubif-
can party has been and always VIII be
favorable to silver IL left to work out its
oEn principles In Colorado the papers
say the Republicans are for gold We be-
heve that bimetailism alone will bring
true prosperity We are for bisnetaliism
and not silver monometalli<m- The kreat-
| er nations might secure the restoration Of
silver but the United States cannot do II
alone at present People of the United
States do not realize the immensely and
extensiveness OF she .-obiesa, The uues-
ton will never be solved but by an inter
national agreement and then never but bs
an International agreement through the
Republican party believe the world will
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silver The United States Is fast becom-
| ing a creditor nation and this Question
Of silver is now a matter OF more concern
to the other nations than to tfs- and IL we
continue our prosperity which believe we
will under Republican administration. 1
believe the other nations will ask US upon
what basis We Will restore silver
| The desire of all three eonsiomerated
i parties to secure my place Is the only is
sue that has been offered to the people
of the state in this campaign and diKress-
| ing a little would speak OF the candidate
for governor as 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 r. woicott.
| The senator quoted several things from
Charles s. Thomas the Fusion candidate
fer the Kovernorship of Colorado. Among
| the quotations was the following.
| II was taken from the Denver News
September - 1884. on the occasion OF she
4 >4%~-~@*'t
! pairn.
I'VE arc told that the Populist party
| Is the only friend Of silver. have the
ereatc<t respect for the Popuiist party
but every man with grievance has got
Into the party and has got his grievance
| into the platform. The general tendency
OF the Pcpu,iss party seems to be
| towards thoroughly unsound, unsafe
| irredeemabte and unlimited currency
based on hand. wind and pumpkins
| Proceeding he said. NOW. fellow citi-
zens. 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 1t is platform OF OBJ
struction and a platform OF negation- 1t
Is a platform which permits them TO wait
until the Republican party advocates a
measure and then Joins hands to try to
| defeat IL. And just now they are en-
| deavcring TO stir mp the nth and find
some ground of accusation against t-ae
| administration because of the conduct
cf the war. Fellow citizens. l want to
call your attention for moment or
two TO the Injustice of this charge. The
; yellow Journals have taken them up too.