Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-11-03


on the Barnum principle, the people
want to be humbugged And then
the senator proceeded to naunt the
Hin and Fowler bills, holding them
up as though he was waving q red
| aag in front of a bunch OF bulls. But
there was no stampede. And then
| the senator said there would be no
Fowler or Hill bill pass the senate
| that himself and other Democrats
would talk them to death If they
reached the senate-talk on the sub
| ject until the session expired by lin
itatiou. To avoid this he wanted
Colorado to stand by the Kansas
City platform. BY doing so the day
would be saved. We all know the
senator has great staying qualities
when ii comes to~talking and that he
would be in his element talking a bill
to DEATH but as We are afraid he
is overeslimating his powers in this
direction and the good intentions of
his colleagues. We have faint re-
membrane of few years ago when
the senate was Democratic and Pop
listic by twelve to fifteen majority
| ana III llt idtt VI thlH tue ontl illdl
law was repealed by the senate, Dem
ocratic and Populstic though it was
| This has probably been forgotten by
| the senator. Then the senator felt
bad because the greenbacks were kept
out of circulation. One would sup
| pose the speaker was a greenbacker.
! He overlooked the explanation that
the reason that grecnbacks were not
in circulation was because gold had
taken their place and that the green
backs are kept in the treasury to pre-
vent the continual chain that caused
so much trouble a few years ago
Leaving the money question Sen
ator Patterson took up state affairs.
saying that the only hope Republi-
| cans had was to hohbe into office on
two miserable crutches-the Populist
and Socialist parties. These parties
We're compared to crutChes several
times-two despised and rejected
parties. There were several Populists
present who thought the senator was
| overstepping the hounds of deccncy
when he referred TO their party as
rejected and despised after 1t had
enabled him to go to the United
States senate. He said the remnant
Of the populist party should take to
the woods and scored the Socialists
as revolutionary and property de-
/ tstroyers.
The senator then took up the can
didates on the Democratic ticket.
| Teller came in for,the same econiume
Ia. Ha 81,
people of this state for twenty-five
years. but forgot to mention that for
over half this time there was moth
ing too mean for his paper, the
| Rocky Mountain News, to say about
Teller and that be had accused him
OF standing in with corporations. the
Union Pacific railroad and other cor
porate Interests; 4sAll this has been
have someone to save them and 'reI.
Ter was selected as the scape goat.
| And then came Bell, and while the
| speaker gave Roosevelt credit for his
| part of the irrigation bill one would
| think to listen to Mr.. Patterson that
had L not been for Bell and Shafroth
the dill would have gone under. He
| lIid'N s''N' al SllEllilllS REMARKS dDDUl
Bels opponent and his name. which
wre not received with good grace by
tie audience. 1t was an insult to an
Intelligent audience. He wound up
by saying: You take care of Bell
and we will take care of Shafroth."
He should have added that the re-
peaters in Denver will do the work.
Then Adams, Stimson and Annear
were lauded. Sighting remarks were
made concerning Brooks and Peabody
nut his sarcasm fell on barren
ground. He held up Peabody to ridi-
Guile as banker and endeavored to
make 1t appear that he was a first
class banker, as he could figure out
the interest and foreclose deeds and
mortgages as well as the best of
them, trying to prejudice the voters
against the man because he had
worked himself up through hard
work. He waited several times for
applause when making these slurs.
but only once was there response |
and then from only four people in the |
audience. They had too much re-
spect to cheer such cheap utterances.
And then the senator said these |
men should be elected because of the |
Democratic principles and then
launched into the trust question and |
made himself ridiculous by plac-
ing everything bearing on the ques.
ton to the credit of the Republican
party and that the Democrats We're
the only good people on earth He
said every trust was domineered by
Republicans. ignoring the Cotton bale
trust of which Bryan's Democratic
chairman of the National committee.
both times he ran for president, engi-
neered along with the sugar trust,
the newspaper trust, not to mention
The Patterson newspaper trust of Den
YER,
And such was the strain of the
senator's remarks. The audience,
however. was not responsiv Not
1ne-third found 1t convenient TO ap-
plaud his remarks at any one time.
The senator certainly did not make
any votes, for instead of drawing I
Popullsts to the Democratic ticket he ;
made them irmer than even. and
aUan tun In fnrp,ob ttu ,lf, |