The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-01-30
WoLcoTT URGES REPUBLICANS
70 ACCEPT ELECTION.
ONLY THING TO Be DONE
Too Late Now to Undo the Great
Crime Committed Against Re-
publican Party and Justice.

Denver, Jan. 26.-The climax in the
senatorial fight in Colorado came to-
night when ex-senator e. O. Wolcott,
the candidate Of the so-called "stal-
wart'' wing of the republican party,
announced his practical withdrawal
from any further contest and urged
the people of Colorado to accept the
situation as it>stands by the election
yesterday of Senator Henry M. Teller
to succeed himself by the joint session
Of the democratic senators and rep
resentatives. The announcement
was made in a signed statement, in
which Mr.. Wolcott charges certain
republican leaders associated with the
anti-Wolcott forces in the republican
ranks with treachery, deliberate and
continuous, although he disposes of
others of the anti-Wolcott crowd by
characterizing them as "dupes' of the
main conspirators. He refers to the
refusal of the anti-Wolcott members
of the house to unseat the democratic
members from Arapahoe county and
calls it "a crime against the republi-
a party and against justice" Mr..
Wolcott declared that Lieutenant
Governor Haggot, when he withdrew
from the senate chamber and with
less than a dozen senators whose
seats were undisputed organized an
other senate, was assured OF support
by his associates in the state govern
ment, which support "fell away from
him."
Tells How 1t Was.
Continuing Mr.. Wolcott says.
..There were three joint sessions OF
the genera assembly. At the last
one 81 democrats voted for Teller. No
other joint session had been held and
no republicans had voted in a joint
session. The election of Mr.. Teller
was tinctured with fraud, first in the
trickery of adjournment by the demo-
Gratis of the house, second in the ar
bitrary and fraudulent expulsion OF
two legally elected senators. There
is. however, now no other legally con-
stituted senate las might have been
but for this conspiracy (referring to
the alleged combination between dem
ocrats and anti-Wolcott republicans,
and it is now too late to undo the
wrong and by u~nseating the fraudu-
lently~ elected members from Arapa-
hoe county insure the valid election OF
a republican senator.
Locks That Way to WoIcott.
wicked and unforgivable as is the
wrong lone the republican party, YET
from the point Of view of highest cit
izenship there is but II thing to
be done and that is for the people to
accept the deplorable situation and
the governor of the state to issue a
certificate of election to Mr.. Teller,
Mr.. Wolcott says that important
matters requiring legislative action
will be coming up and will demand
all the time and attention of the leg
islature, therefore the senatorial con
test should not be further continued
Tribute to Teller.
Speaking of Mr.. Teller, the ex-sen
ator says hat in no sense was lie {
party to the frauds above referred
to, although he was the beneficiary
He pays the following tribute to the
senator-eIect:
"He has served Colorado nearly
generation at Washington and wha,
ever may be our regret that he Ii
longer marches in the ranks of th'
rarty which has so highly honore'
him, every citizen of the state wishe
him health and strength and believe
that he is ~single-minded in his devo
ton to the material interests of tn
state"
Mr.. Wolcott concludes his statemen
by saying that for himself he has no
the slightest sense of personal dis
appointment nor does he cherish rar
cor towards anybody. He declare
that he will always be found in tn
ranks of the republican party of Co
orado.
Teller Talks Of Election.