La Junta tribune., 1900-10-17
THOMAS AS CITY BOSS.
How He Wrested Control OF the
City Machine From Ma 'oney-A
Carnival Of Crime--Lewed Wo.
men herd-d to the Polls for
Thomas.


ter OF the city OF Denver. c!ty Affairs
are mingled incxtricably with state
affairs. The governor hns absolute
control over the fire and police boards
OF the city, and this has caused trouble
under previous administrations, not
ably that OF Waite. But II remained
for Thomas to make the departments
under his control In the city per
feet political machine, which has Gu
abied him TO wrest the control OF city
politics from Maloney and TO pack the
Democratic primaries In his own inter
est. II may be said without fear Of
denial. that much more Of the COVER
nor's time during the past few mouths
has been taken UP with city affairs
than with state affairs, although he
has been served by such capable
lieutenant rs II. w. Spcer In rounding
up the vicious and criminal elements
OF the city for political purposes.
Reference has been made TO the pard
ons OF Ryan and Mccoy; and the rea-
son why they were let out of the pen
itentiary appears In the political work
they did perform for the Thomas mn-
chine nj the time Of the contest In
the Democratic primaries. II may be
that Maloney would have used them
II he could. but the fact remains thnt
they were used for Thomas. and II was
partly through their influence. and
largely through the influence of men
like them that the control OF the ma
chine was wrcsted from Maloncy and
secured by Thomas. The contest was
for control of the Democratic primar-
les which sent delegates to the state
convention. Under the orders OF the
Police Board. the police force WAS EN-
ployed In rounding up and running In
mt the primaries by the hackful the
lcwd women OF the sluins and Of
Market street Ordinarily such women
do not care TO vote; but II was neces-
sary for the Governor to capture the
primaries, and the women were made
to vote by the police force, and to vote
the Thomas ticket In the same way
the gamblers. thieves and thugs xen-
orally were also rounded up Ia the
same interest, and Thomas wen q
great victory over Maloney, and got
his delegation seated In the state coll
vention. When reproached by men,
bers OF his own party for the use Of
such methods, he incautiously remark
ed: They don't criticise the work Of
our boards OH election day" The In
ference as to the method by which II
possible the Governor and his party
expect to carry Arapahoe county at
the coming election Is very plain.
While the police were thus engaged
-and they have been engaged In polit-
icnl work for the Governor ever since
seven assaults on women have been
committed In the city OF Denver. In
fhe most pcpulOus residence dIstricts
The women have been beaten and
robbed: one of them has died, and an-
nj hnr fhts xyrttiV1y ta nnf nv fo<tf IN,
live: and yet the police have made no
arrests. and apparently no attempt has
been made to find the guilty parties.
Perhaps they are political workers for
the Thomas machine. too.
Thomas' Prize Fights.
The Governors connection with the
prize-fight bill IL well known. He has
said that he signed II with his eyes
open. and 1t would be no compliment
to his Intellect to suppose that he
signed II In any other way. He need
ed the votes OF the sporting" element
for his political game, and to get them
he catered to the element that wants
to have Denver wide open.- The
decent people of the city have made
efforts to stop the carnival Of prise
fighting that has gone on In this city
ever since the passage Of the bill; and
finally the law was declared unconsti-
tutionaL But the governor and his po-
lice board were not to be baked BY
little thing like that: and the police
board made q new regulation, permit
ting glove contests" OF not more than
ten rounds in duration; and 1t ID under
this police regulation. and not under
any law. that the fights are now held.
A Few Othee rlstaees.
Space fails to enumcrate all the '@mis-
takes" or worse that have been made
by this administration. There = the
the Golden Girl" There Il tie record
OF whitewashin4 investigAtSoas uo6e
under the goveEnor's directtca- Thefu
- the hypocTisy Of settiRg - h tfssI
Dea.ocsatic coavs.tisa 4 pesseA e