Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-09-04
HARMONY IN HUGE CHUNKS.

sore spots remain. The harmony
salve is not working as well as one
might expect after such advice as ad-
vanced by the Hon. Charles A. John
son and the Hon. Adair Wilson. May
be it was put on too thick. At any
rate the open spots refused to heal,
and with bated breath vengeance is
the slogan with many. The magic
wand of Organism that held the peo-
pie in line for a long time. until the
state and counties became public
property for corruptionists. fails to do
the work In fact. Bryan is no longer
implored to step in and lead. but the
meek and lowly Teller, and while pro
Tossing loyalty in this direction there
-sis IL undercurrent that would work de
vastation to the Democratic party If
it once gained little headway. With
out Teller Democracy is lost, and un-
der his banner the oflice-seeking por
tion of the party hope to retain con
troll.
AS announced in Saturdays issue,
the anti-Day faction won out by mar
row margin. This was big surprise
as the opposition felt confident of
safe majority. But there had been
agencies" at work. Thomas II. Tul-
ley was not laying around Durango
couple OF days with his hands in his
pockets to no purpose He was here
as the direct representative of the
Stimson-Thomas and Arapahoe eoun-
ty commissioner combine against Or
man and Adams. 1t is known that
thousands of dollars were spent in
Teller county and why not some of the
filthy lucre in La Plata county. The
Herald has no direct proof of boodling
only street talk but one man gave
it out that he. had spent $500. The
money came from some power behind
the throne. Surely no Durangoite
would think of thus blowing himself.
And money has charms. 1t often
works wonders. At any rate the Day
Johnson combine came near winning
the day. 1t was altogether too com
Portable to be close, When the Gre
dentials committee submitted its re
port the battle opened. Three mem
bers reported in favor of allowing the
contesting delegation in the 18th hall
vote and seating the anti-Day Co
luIlbuS utlCSatioi. i'aS IiVN'' '''N
adoption of the minority report which
was ably seconded by his commanding
general, Mr.. Johnson. Then the com
mittee on credentials was asked to eX-
plain. 1t was shown that in the 18th
no record had been kept of voters and
several afiidavits were presented show
ing that Democrats were refused the
privilege OF voting and ii was also
stated that a great many more ballots
were counted than We're cast-that
many put in two and possibly three
ballots rolled together and that they
were separated and counted. all this
swelling the majority of the ticket
headed by Johnson, which had A to 81
for the opposition. Owing to this ap.
parent skuduggery the committee, or
the majority, thought each side
should have half a vote. Then in re
gard to Columbus, it seems the anti
Day delegation met and elected del
egates and afterwards the Day faction
followed suit and the majority of the
committee held the latter had no
standing Our genial Mr. Johnson
thought the 18th precinct delegation
headed by himself was regular He
thought by thus disfranchising the ma
jority would not result to the good Of
the Democratic party at this critical
period 1t might be good thing to
rule him out of the convention. but
was it the proper policy to pursue as
Democrats. Mr.. p C. Shannon who
had been refused a vote by Mr.. John
son, was called upon. and he said he
had always been a Democrat and that
Mr. Johnson has mis-stated facts. AT
ter the flow of oratory had ceased the
vote on Mr.. McCloskeys motion to
adopt the minority report carried as
already noted. by vote of 81 to 30,
Then came another scrap on resolu-
tions. The majority of the committee
was of the Day-Johnson crowd and sub
mitted report which ignored the
state administration, while the minori-
ty report endorsed it. The majority
report endorsed the work of j. c. Bell
but did not ask for his endorsement
for another term. The minority re
port did Otherwise there was not
much difference in the two sets of res
olutions Mr.. Burwell, as the spoltes
man for the Stimsonites attacked Or
man and said l9 per cent of the ap-
pointees came from two families,
meaning the Orman and Adams re
time. The governor was attacked in
other matters. w. A. Reese replied
in behalf of the apparently much abus-
ed governor and said to ignore the
state administration or condemn 1t
was equivalent to condemning the pas
sage of the revenue act, the refusal
to send troops to Telluride and many
other things which were commendable.
After the gentlemen of elocutionary
proclivities had their say vote was
taken and the minority report endors-
ing the Orman maladministration
passed by vote of Al to 35h
This was followed by the election
of state and congressional delegates.
There were two sets, both containing
the names of three, T. II. Wiggles-
worth, Jack Cunningham and Joe
Freed, Jr. One of the queer PROPOSE
tions was the placing OF Judge j. H.
Russell on the Day-Johnson ticket.
This was probably played as a shrewd
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