La Junta tribune., 1900-09-29

but l am prosperous and ev-
cry dollar l have made, l have made
In Colorado-in the honorable practice
Of an honorable profession and in min
Ing for silver in these mountains. ZAP
plause.) Since 1 have been in the SEN
ate have never-with one exception,
years ago. when for my health vas
to go abroad-I have never
been absent from Colorado month In
any year except when was absent on
my public duties. am never absent
from the Senate at Washington before
the session Is closed. When ! can l
stay looking after the pensions Of our
Colorado boys (ADplause), and since the
war commenced, looking after our boys
in the Philippines and Colorado inter
ests there.
have been abroad twice ut the re-
quest Of the President and Congress,
seeking to procure international bimet-
allism, and my greatest obstacle was
the Bryan opposition In this state. l
have been member Of the finance
where am called now, but
am unable to attend, and in investiga-
tions where AN compelled to be pres
ent. / am now in my thirtieth year Of
residence In Colorado. I
have lived here since I was boy. 1
have known no other home. l shall die
here, and, II heaven grants me the
extended to the average man,
l shall be living here when the in
fluence of that yellow journal, and per-
haps, though l hope not, when the
Democratic aspirants for my place In
the Senate, whose chief stock in trade
is mud, are dead and forgotten.
Cheers and long applause)
81. 10,
fidence and your support for twelve
happy years. With limitations and
failings, OF which no man can be more
conscious than l am. upon my honor,
| say to you when sent me, Mt the close
of my second term in the Senate. that
since l have been there, there is no
public act of mine that Iwould change
or disavow, and that return you my
commissions with clean hands and
able to look you In the face. (Cheers
and loud applause)
NY return to the Senate Is not essen
tial to my happiness or to your welfare.
If am retired to private life l shall
still be found battling in Colorado for
Republican principles, and l shall be
established ut WOlhurst with the latch
string always out. loud and continu-
Gus applause.)
say II Is not essential that any Re-
publican senator from Colorado should
90 back, but 1t Is important, II we want
to share in the general prosperity and
not be represented by backbitcrs and
reactiOnists and snarling critics, for the
Senate Of the United States Is free
from all assaults upon the flag. (Cheers
and applause) 1t is not essential. fel-
low citizens, that the electoral ticket
in Colorado should go Republican, al
though we would have much better
taste in our mouth II we quit lining
nm with Missouri and Arkansas and
some of the other Intelligent states OF
the Union. A great overwhelming ma
tority in the electoral college. without
our four votes In Colorado, will be cast
this year for William Mckinley.
Cheers and continued applause.)
The Essential Matter.
It II essential, fellow citizens. that in
Colorado this year we redeem this
state from its vicious and bad rule,
and that we, by majority vote. which
we Will see counted this year, shall
send to victory the state ticket and
your nominee for the Supreme Court,
who will be named In this convention.
The editor of this paper here seems
to object because am so much away.
but would like to send him a message
that II he will go away from this state
and take his yellow journal with him, l
will guarantee that ninety-five per cent.
Of the taxpayers of this state, irrespec-
tive Of party, will contribute to his
support in increasing volume the long
er he stays away. applause and
cheers)
This man complains about the census
= Nnrf all Atn
census of Denver was fairly tnken. 1t
shows sair growth, but nothing like
the growth 1t ought to show, and the
responsibility for that lies chiefly at the
door Of the Rocky Mountain News.
Cheers and applause). For years that
paper has vllified every man in this
state, living or dead. 1t has attacked
every industry, our banks, national and
savings, our corporations which serve
the people and should be protected. 1t
has given counsel Of violence at all
times. 1t has sought to declare war be-
tween labor and capital. 1t has arrayed
itself against the prosperity OF Colo
RADIO, and has declared us all to be Inn
poyerished and on the way to the poor
house, and 1t has degraded our state
and has kept from 1t tens Of millions
Of dollars and thousands OF good citi-
Zens. (Applause.)
BsysnIsm and Democracy.
And I'm this connection, and turning
to national topics, want to call your
attention to the remarkable fact that
wherever there has been complaint in
these United States MS to the popula-
ton az shown by the census, and wher-
ever there has been loss, you will
find It always in states where Bryan
ism and Democracy nre triumphant
II there is any place where there II bit
ter complaint because the growth has
not been large enough, It is due to
Organism. Take Denver, where In
stead Of twenty odd per cent, we ought
to have shown sixty or seventy. It n
Democracy and yellow Journals. Take
Lincoln, Nebraska, where there has
been an actual falling on in population;
1t il matter of Organism. In Charles
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