The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-09-25
SENATOR WOLCOTT'S SPEECH
Held in Denver,

I as was when you first sent me to the
senate; but | am prosperous and ev-
cry dollar | have made, | have made
IN Colorado-in the honorable practice
of an honorable profession and in min
ing for silver in these mountains. ZAP
plause) Since l have been in the SEN
ate L have never-with one exception,
years ago, when for my health i was
compelled to go abroad-I have never
been absent from Colorado a 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 I can 1
stay looking after the pensions of our
Colorado boys (Applause). and since the
war commenced, looking after our boys
In the Philippines and Colorado inter
ests there.
l have been abroad twice at 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 a member of the finance
committee. where am called now. but
am unable to attend, and in investiga-
tons where | am compelled to be pres
ent. l am now in my thirtieth year of
continuous residence in Colorado. |
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have known no other home. shall die
here, and, If heaven grants me the
longevity extended to the average man,
l shall be living here when the in
fluence of that yellow journal, and per
haps, though | hope not, when the
Democratic asprants for my place in
the Senate, whose chief stock in trade
is mud, are dead and forgotten.
Cheers and long applause)
l have enjoyed, my friends, your con-
tidence and your support for twelve
happy years. With limitations and
failings, of which no man can be more
conscious than | am, upon my honor,
| say to you when sent me, at the close
of my second term in the Senate, that
since / have been there, there is no
public act of mine that l would change
or disavow, and that l return you my
commissions with clean hands and
able to look you in the face. CHEERS
and loud applauseD
My return to the Senate is not essen
tial to my happiness or to your welfare.
If l am retired to private life l shall
still be found battling in Colorado for
Republican principles, and l shall be
established at Wolhurst with the latch
string always out. loud and continu-
Gus applauseD
/ say 1t Is not essential that any Re
publican senator from Colorado should
go back, but it is important, If we want
to share in the general prosperity and
not be represented by backbiters 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
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taste in our mouth If we quit lining
up with Missouri and Arkansas and
some of the other intelligent states of
the Union. A great overwhelming ma
jority 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.
1t is 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 n message
that If he will go away from this state
and take his yellow journal with him,
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
of Denver also. Fellow citizens, the
census of Denver was fairly taken. 1t
-. e. ....- IN,.A II IN
the growth it 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 vilified 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 i'm
poverished and on the way to the poor
house, and it has degraded our state
and has kept from 1t tens of millions
of dollars and thousands of good citi-
zens. (Applause)
Organism and Democracy.
And in this connection, and turning
to national topics, l want to call your
attention to the remarkable fact that
wherever there has been complaint in
these United States as to the popula-
ton as shown by the census, and wher-
ever there has been n loss, you will
find it always in states where Bryan
ism and Democracy are triumphant.
If there is any place where there is 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. 1t is
Democracy and yellow Journals. Take
Lincoln, Nebraska, where there has
been an actual falling off in population;