The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-02-11
FIELD and |NY'.E
IN COLORADO.
Both Of them Wrote for Denver
Newspapers.
The POLITICAL DEMAGoGuEs.
Something About the Interesting Sides
OF Newspaper Lifc-Dcnvcr,L Like
Other Cities. Has Its
Sums.
[HE POLITICAL DEMAG0GUES.

DENVER, COL, Feb. S-As ministers
frequently say: II come with no new
theme, but my topic shall not be the
roseate hues of early dawn, the bright
ness OF the days or the crimson OF sun
set sky, nor even the moon or the stars
and the glory thereof, nor niggcrs and
grave-yards, or the shooting OF recalcit-
rant editors, except to say, the wounded
editors TO whom ! referred in a former
letter are still alive and likely to recover.
In the quiet hours of their suffering
these lines Of Byron should come TO
them with force and ilnpressiveness:
These thorns which 1 have reaped, are
of the. tree l planted,
They have torn NE and bleed,
I should have known what fruit would
spring
From such seed"
In the early days Of Denver a. goou
clean sheet was published here entitled
THE Denver Tribune, and at one time
on its editorial staff was the late ana
Iamented poet Eugene Field, whose git
ed pen contributed largely to the sprisht-.
illness and brillfancy of the journal. \
numerous witty letter also appeared IN
each Sundays issue fresh from thu pen
of Bill Nye, who in those days published
the Boomerang at Larimie City, Wyo-
ming After Field was forced by III
health to retire from the paper. its power
and strength abated
TO a HIGHER SANCTUNL
At about that period a man by The
name Of Richardson from some miasma-
tic locality, somewhat broken down in
health, sought recuperation III this health
restoring cline and in due time started a
small paper, called The Denver Reprlb-
lean" which met with much favor and
support. but its founders i'll health soon
called him to a higher sanctum. Had ne
lived, his aim would have been to make
the paper a live apostle of intelligence
whose preaching makes the world throb
with quicker pulse and glow with deco
err life lie would have so conducted 1t
as to strike old fogydom with the start
ling emphasis of a new revelation, and
proved a power brooling no rival. tole-
rating no dictation, and accepting no
compromise with any agency in its fight
ing and never know any compromise be-
tween good and evil, freedom and OPP
preston. After his death the paper
struggled along under adverse conditions
The Hon N. p. Hill, the successful
manager of the Boston and Colorado
Smelling Company and United States
Senator from Colorado, having fore
bodings Of defeat for the next term, for
which reelection he was looking for
ward with a longing, ycarninS heart, saw
the necessity of strong newspaper ;iid
Having wealth at his command. he pur-
chased a controlling interest in the Re
publican and Tribune" and consolidated
.he two papers, and from that time forth
it was devoted to tHillism'' and the
great need and Importance CD Of sending
Nathaniel 2. TO the Senate for second
term.
UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL
The chief senatorial work and devotion
of his term in office was an untiring eff
fort to get a bill through to deprive the
Western Union Telegraph Company of
it's franchises and have all telegraph
business under the control and operation
of the United States Government. SINH
lar in management to the postal sys-
tenn. But just as he got the matter
well in hand his term expired, ana after
4 heated struggle in joint session OF
the State Legislature, failed in i re-
election. Disappointed. embttered and
soured over the defeat, the "Republi-
cam has since then taken an attitude of
chronic mud singing"
The leaders in its own party and sue
cessful candidates fell victims to the
flatulent drivel measured off on its edi-
torlal page. No spleen too rank or
odium too great to hTrl at those in pow
err Instead of being the unfiinching
champion and most faithful ally Of every
honest enterprise and q power to strike
boldly and fearlessly down to the roots
of every evil, and uplifting and uphold
ing the honest efforts of the party who
supported it and to which it professed
to belong, and pay eloquent tribute to
the dignity of journalism, it merged into
a tool to vent the spite OF a disappoint-
cd turned-down office-seeker, using its
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