The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-17

(FrOm Ex-GOV. waite, or COlOradO.)
ASPEN, Co.., Aug. 4, 1899.
; Dear Donnelly:
The skies are clearing. 1t is impos-
sible for fusion to stand much longer
the persistent kicking of the Democ-
racy. Gov. Stone is right. No party
can derive any permanent benefit from
the support of those who do not believe
| in it's principles, or who render allegi-
ance to any other political organization
A victory of the heterogeneous mass
without common object is a disaster
| Gov. Stone gives the lie to the false pre-
| tense that the principles of the Chicago
| platform and Of the Populist party are
| the same, and demands of the fusion
Populists and silver Democrats that
they repudiate their distinctive organi-
cations, as inconsistent with Democratic
professions.
1t has been almost impossible to make
Populists see the radical difference be-
tween the principles of the Chicago and
Omaha platforms, chiefly because not
only the exact language of the Chicago
platform, as finally adopted, was denied
publication and misrepresented, but be-
cause such leading Populists as Weaver,
. Butler, Allen and others in whom our
party had confidence, professed to be-
lieve that the Chicago and Omaha plat
forms were substantially the same.
Messrs. Simpson and Butler were at
Denver last fall, at a so-called "Popu-
list meeting, and made speeches which
were published in full and illustrated
with cartoons displaying the gestures
and positions of the distinguished ora
tors Said the renowned "Sockless,"
assuming that the Democratic and Pop
ulist parties are Identical: "Why should
we fritter away our time about the kind
and name of the banner under which we
should all work for the common good?"
This was his exact language; 1 know be-
cause it was published with an eulogis
tic cartoon, in the Rocky Mountain
News, which 1 posted up in my out
house, and I have just examined it.
The Democratic national committee
have torn down the Haunting lie"
Now let Weaver, Butler, Allen, Simpson
and the other Populist demagogues.
who know all the while that fusion by
Populists with the Democratic party
meant the destruction of Populism. 90
over to Democracy where they belong.
The political pot is boiling in Color
ado, and no man can predict what will
happen. Fusion, think, is played out.
The "smelter" strike is also a factor.
and may blow everything sky-high.
Turkey-necked Thomas, who went into
Office last fall with very little opposi-
ton, will evidently go out of Office with
none at all. Patterson has boxed the
political compass, and has managed to
sell out every faction to which he ever
belonged. Exactly where he is now, the
tually become Of all such men, is no
secret in any orthodox community.
We have at Boulder a new "Chautau-
qua," where the latest advanced ideas in !
circles are duly aired. The
last exhibition was by George @. Can
non, whose Mormon seraglio is one of
the suburbs of Salt Lake City, and con-
sists of six or seven residences for his
various wives, and a single schoolhouse
for the education of his children. There
was a mystery about this school matter,
which the advanced lady suffragists of
Colorado were inclined to investigate.
Since the adoption of unrestricted fe-
male suffrage in our state Ito which I |
am opposed), we have open gambling
in Denver-that is, any gambling house
keeper can run his tables undisturbed
by the police if he pays his assessment
to a Democratic fund, and agrees to
vote the Democratic ticket. Spectacular
prize fighting is also legalized, with ad-
mission at parquet and gallery rates. AT
every election since 1894 the female suf-
fragists of Market street, in Denver,
have been marched to the polls by the
police. Until the last Denver city elec-
lion the police belonged to the G. o. p,
and the said suffragists wore the Re-
publican emblem pinned onto their
:haste bosoms; but Gov. Thomas, after
his election, changed the complexion Of