Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-05-23
PEN PoaraA,T OF TOM.

Phouolits relis Ill About Thornas n. Pss
tsrsoa, Editor, lawyer and Public Aas.
"Phonolite" in his remarkably bright
series Of pen portraits Of noted Colora-
doans in the Colorado Springs Gazette,
Preached Thomas M. Patterson last Sum
/ day and treats his subject in nearly FIVE
columns. every line Of which 10 praise Of
this silver leader. We regret very much
our inability to reproduce the article,
but will content ourselves by giving =
few selections from it.
ain 1888 he went to Washington to do
what he could to prevent the repeal Of
the purchasing clause Of the Sherman
act, but no one could do anything. That
was the beginning Of his contempt for
turncoats. He saw senators and repre-
sentatives, elected as silver men, 20
back on their constituents, under the
promise of preferment or the threats of
Cleveland. An eastern politician has
said. God Almighty hates gutter, but
even God Almighty cant hate that sort
of an animal much more than Patterson
does. TWAS this experience, and the
attitude Of southern congressman that
convinced Patterson that nothing bu, a
general exodus from the ranks of the
Democracy would ever bring it to its
senses, and therefore he became identi.
fed with the Peoples party. At that
time he was not dyed.in ,the-wool Pop.
ulist but as he studied public questions
and watched the trend of public events
he became thoroughly imbued with a be.
lief in government ownership Of public
utilities, some check on the accumulation
of vast fortunes, and the other planks of
the Omaha platform. He has stood like
Gibraltar for every measure that pro.
tected the people against the encroach-
ments and unjust demands of the cor.
porations of Denver, the hungriest and
most barefaced robbers of all the corpor.
ate crew. This is his greatest claim on
the people of this state. He has never
taltered for one instant in his warfare on
those who subsist by charging the people
ruinous rates tor the necessities of life.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that
shall never call retreat, and II at the
present moment he is apparently saying
nothing, it is simply that he is taking
long breath before beginning again.
I'm 1909 it was not his fortune to be on
the floor of the Democratic convention,
demanding hearing. Instead he was
sitting in the gallery directly back of
Mrs Bryan and when Bryan was nomin
ated, he was the first to shake her hand,
and wish the hero of the silver cause
success. He has done all that one man
can do to help Bryan win that success.
He has spoken ali over this country, he
has kept his paper hammering awav,
and early and late he has reiterated his
answering loyalty both to Bryan and
silver. In the event of Bryan's election
nobody will be any nearer the throne
than Patterson
"But whatever his shortcomings may
be. no one will deny that Patterson is a
great man. Heis so far above the aver
age in so many ways. he has proved his
title in so many fields, that it is folly
to dispute it.
"No one questions Patterson's place at
the bar. He is second to none and first
TO 90 per cent of the lawyers in the
country, He is unquestionably the most
powerful man before a Jury in the entire
west. He is great reader, and a stu.
dent of men and things and events. He
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