The Lamar register., 1903-01-28
DEMOCRATS CLAIM SENATOR
TELLER is LEGALLY ELECTED

opposents who are engaged in a con-
troversy among themselves such as
has never before been known in this
state; If it has been paralleled in the
United States, | am not aware of 1t.
Every effort has been made that was
possible to divert you from what you
believed to be your duty, to stand by
the candidate of the Democratic party
at the last convention. l am elected
as a Democrat. | have not announced
myself as Democrat at all times. but
| have been defending and sustaining
Democratic principles in the Senate of
the United States. l shall expect as
your representative to continue SO to
act, and so to vote. Allow me to say,
however, .hak in the discharge of my
public duties. shall not act as Dem
ocrat in the sense of representing only
the Democratic party. but at all times
strive to represent the whole people of
Colorado.
IF admitted to a seat as believe l
shall be, | shall feel myself under re-
newed obligations to discharge the
duties of the senatorship with devotion
and with the best ability the Almighty
has endowed me with. Again thank
ing you for your kindness, l will re-
! frain from further remarks
| Then ensued a sort of Demo-
cratic love feast, congratulatory
speeches being made by Sena-
tor Patterson. Ex-Governor Adams,
Charles J. Hughes. ex-Gov. Charles
S. Thomas, T. j. O'Donnell, b. F. Mont
gomery. Milton Smith and Representa-
tive Stubbs, after which the joint As
sembly adjourned to permit the sena-
tor to hold reception, which lasted
but brief time, as supper was ready
for the senators, who decided that 1t
was still necessary to hold the Senate
chamber and to keep in continuous ses-
sion. until the controversy with the Re
publicans has been ended
In regard to the attitude of the Re-
pubicans who support ex-senator VOL
colt, the Denver Republican this morn
ing says:
AT the Wolcott headquarters the of
fetal statement was given out by one
of the leaders as follows:
"If the Democratic Senate is the le-
gal body then 1t is possible that Sena-
tor Teller will receive certificate of
election which the Senate at Washing
ton will recognize. Our fight will con-
tinue, as it has in the past, along the
lines of uniting the Republican party
into an effective organization. We
want to elect Republican senator If 1t
| is possible, ana tnere is certainly Stlll
wide margin of probability that the
Republican senator can be elected.
| But in any event we will have the
satisfaction of knowing that the men
in the House who decided that our
views on organization by the Republic
cans were right. stood by their colors.
Not one of them voted for adjournment
to-day. There was not one of them
who was not ready, at any moment, to
begin the fight to unseat the Democrats
! fraudulently seated from Arapahoe
county, and thereby end for this ses-
sion any talk of electing Democrat.
They were ready to keep the House in
session and so prevent vote. The
other people preferred to vote with the
DEMOCRATS and to give them what they
wanted-a free adjournment after they
had notified the House that their joint
session was about to convene"
The anti-Wolcott Republicans having
no official organ in Denver. their atti-
tude in regard to the action of the
| Democrats is not yet announced.