Cañon City record., 1899-03-23
MS Advice He Wants.

EDITOR RECORD would like to
know what, in the name of Joye and
all else that is good and prehistoric,
Colorado. Canon City, and Colorado
and Canon City Republicans are COM
ing to. Time was, and not 80 very
long ago either, that Colorado and
Canon City were both safely Republi-
can. What do we find today! Colo
RADIO is presided over by one Of the
worst gangs of political cut throats
and unscrupulous politicians it would
be possible to get together outside
of Chicago.
But it is of Canon City Iwish to speak
particularly. You now have two
tickets up on pretense of a license
or no license issue. Look at the po-
litical shades of those two tickets.
What do you find? That almost
without exception every man is
Populist or Democrat. 1t is merely
a little study in black and white.
Take the so-called Taxpayers"
ticket for example: 1t is headed
by Thos. S. Wells for mayor.
With his tendency to frequent politi-
cal changes it would be hard to de-
termine just what MIR. Wells is politi-
cally at any stated time, were it not
for his freedom in announcing himself.
One good thing about Mr. Well is
he doesn't often change more fire.
quently than once year and as he went
with the Democratic party again only
last summer l infer that he is still
Democrat. Before that he was
Populist, before that a-well, why
waste space in tracing his political
geneology further. Next on the
ticket is S. W. Humphrey for alder
man in the First ward. He is as
rank. rabid and unreasonable in his
Teller-fusionist ideas as is possible
for one of his advanced age to be.
l.. X. Kohlman in the Second ward
is good fellow, but Silver Repub-
lican or Democrat. N. F. Trayer
in the Third ward, having been such
traitor on the license question, can
not be given credit for having any
honest political convictiohs-though
it is common talk on the street that
he is owned and manipulated by the
strongest Democratic influences. A..
E. Rudolph, candidate for treasurer,
has been before the people of Fre-
mont too many times for anyone to be
ignorant of his Populistic proclivities.
James L. Cooper, in political way,
is he only redeeming feature to this
ticket.
The Reform ticken is no better in
this respect. Frank Thomas, the
candidate for mayor, has always been
prominent Populist and is now
county chairman of his party. James
J Lantz is the only Republican on the
, ticket. Anson Rudd is-the H6rd
knows what. 1t doesn't take much
, of memory to recall the time when
Anson was publishing a paper in the
interest Of Organism, free silver and
high license. However, he has had
a little over two years now in which
to reform his political ideas, and he
may be different. The candidate in
the Third ward, Mr.. Arthur Willett,
has never taken much part in
politics, and, if anything, is
Prohibitionist. Mrs. Rogers, for
treasurer, has, understand, never
had any political ideas except along
the prohibition line. And Mr.. Cooper
for attorney has been mentioned.
Now, Mr.. Editor with this layout
before him, what is a Republican,
who has never in his life voted any
thing but Straight Republican
ticket, and who would rather have
case of small pox than be guilty of
assisting Populist into Office to do?
| would like to ask also, is this Popu-
listic-conglomeration coincidence or
is it not more likely the result of a
deep laid scheme being manipulated
all over the State to get all power
and all the city Offices in the hands of
the fusionists? ! am not politician
and don't know much, but it looks
this way to side observer.
REPUBLICAN.
We didn't do it, 80 please don't
stop your paper. EDITOR.