Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-07-01

and the life COLO a,,ss4o,,Mainz Lends
who will att rapssoi sss,petuation but
the attempt Vii be futile. even in the
strongest silver camps. New issues
must be raised and there will be
plenty OF them when the time comes"
Continuing. Mr.. Robinson suggested
that Colorado had not profited finan-
cially or politically as result of her
irritation with Populism. sailing under
the flag OF Democracy. He expressed
the opinion that Charles S. Thomas
was the greatest Democrat in Colo.
RADIO and one of the greatest men of
the nation. His refenence to the
election of Senator Patterson was ex-
tremely sarcastic and the conduct of
the senator since his election has eyi-
IDENTIFY been anything but satisfactory
TO the well known Democratic leader.
Mr.. Robinson's characterization of
the new revenue law and the meth
DDS adopted in its framing and final
passage were extremely vitriolic.
He did not hesitate to make the asser
ton that it was framed for the pur
pose of holding up" the corpora.
tions for sum approaching very near
the $4,000 mark. He said he had rea.
son to believe that it cost the corpor.
ations considerable sum to have the
ihquisltorial clause stricken from the
measure. This was the section that
required banks to furnish a list of
depositors and divulge other valuable
information supposed to be sacred uu-
der the general construction of the
bill of rights.
Mr.. Robinson is manager of the
Dives-Pelican. mine of Silver Plume
and one of the most prominent min.
ing men in the state. For years he
has been a leader of the local as well
as the state Democracy and his repu-
diation of fusion and Organism has
created something of n sensation In
the county.
The change in sentiment in Clear
Creek Is something without prece-
dent since the time when the Populist
wave submerged everything before
1t. Mr. Robinson has many followers
who are as open in their statements
as he is. A. b. Clark of the Silver
Plume Standard. an ultra silver sup.
porter. and whose paper has been Il
devout exponent of the regime of the
past six years, makes the following
frank admissions of conditions In the
last weeks issue of the Standard:
Republicans always have n habit
OF claiming everything in sight. and
are not lacking in that respect at the
present time in this country. so they
are already predicting success for that
party In Clear Creek at the next cleo
ton. While such claims do not cut
much of figure. there Is no denying
the fact that the political situation
Is rather an interesting one. to some
at least and there is no telling what
may happen. There does not seem
to be any possibility OF saving sill
YER any more, so that about the most
that can be done is to try and save
the offices, but to whom they will fall
depends considerably upon circum-
stances. With the nti-Republican
forces divided as they have been for
some time past in this county. the
Republicans will more than likely
win"
Last week the Georgetown Herald
the official organ of the Democracy
OF the county, sounded the alarm by
suggesting that the county central
committee should be called together
for the purpose Of devising ways and
means to prevent the inroads being
made by the Republicans.