The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-16
Colorado Lining Up.
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d will be found at the next election In
its old place in the Republican column.
That place It would never have left but
for the silver madness which swept over
the West In a time of extreme depres-
sion. The people OF Colorado experience
ed more than the average OF CONNER
cial misfortune. The decline In the price
Of silver affected all industries In a
community where silver mining engag-
ed so large a share Of capital. Color
ado. remote from the East and feeling
her condition intolerabie. could not un-
derstand It's real causes II was not I'M
natural that her people should attribute
It to the state OF the silver market. and
should believe that this could be i'm
proved by legislation looking toward
free coinage.
Since II was this issue which misled
the Republicans OF Colorado, they can
return 70 their allegiance without re-
preach now that free silver is dead and
buried. II has been proved that pros
perity n the gold standard belong to-
gether. in Colorado as In the rest OF
the country. Practical men do not
spend the rest OF their lives fighting for
dead and discredited issues. The line
that separated the Republican voters Of
Colorado from their associates in the
rest Of the country has been wiped put
They have no desire to flock by them
selves" All their interests demand that
they shall be in sympathy with the
party Of progress, the party that Is to
control the nation for years to come.
They cannot afford 10 stand for another
four ear as professionals over the grave
Of a cause whose memory Is already
fading.
Colorado Republicans are returning TO
the Republican party. Leaders Of the
silver faction. men who organized the
holt four years age are announcing
their loyalty TO old ideas. Senator Tel
Ter felt that he must deliver, over the
financial bill. a sort Of funeral sermon
to defend his own folly. But he OPP
poses the false constitutional doctrine
which Democrats are attempting 10 en-
force In The case OF Puerto Rico. Sem
ator wolcott Is already on the right
side. The people of his state admire
and respect him. They know that for
sincerity. force n ~eloquence he has
few equals In the senate. They see that
by retaining his formal attachment to
Republican policies as declared by the
majority he has been true to the party.
TO the state and TO himself. He enjoys
today at home the popularity that his
qualities deserve and that his political
wisdom commands. Republicanism In
Colorado Is already reconciled and
sweeping enthusiastically to the support
of the administ ration.
TIT Is one Of the final acts In the
poll rehabilitation Of the West.
Washington m oregon have spoken.
The Dakotas returned to their allegiance
long ago. Not a stronghold where Pop
ulism prevailed In all the wes. remains
except Nebraska and the mountain
states where the Importance OF the sill
yer mining interest made men feel for
n time that free silver only would save
them That Illusion ~ dispelled and
that possibility destroyed forever. On
all live Issues Of the day their sym
pathies are wholly with the Republi-
cans. We believe that next November
win see them all arrayed once more
where they naturally belong. by inter-
est. by inclination. by the Intelligence
and progressive character OF their peo-
pie. under the Republican banner. II
was Colorado ha, headed the revolt. II
is atting that Colorado should lead the
column for the homeward march.