Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-01-17

and making the statement tnat II the
Arapahr es are unseated in the house,
they will proceed to unseat every Repub-
lican elected in the outside counties of
the state.
To aid them in carrying out this des-
perate threat, they have adopted the
Goebel ''cloture' rules which brought
bloodshed and riot in Kentucky. They
asked Senator Blackburn for a copy of
these rules, and are openly boasting that
they were the same rules that created
such chaos and disorder in the blue
grass state
This is about the condition of affairs.
The Democrats made plea all over the
state to save Teller, and employed the
most violent mechanism in the machin-
cry of Arapahoe county to elect Demo-
cratic Legislative representation. Now
they have abandoned Teller and are en-
deavoring to .pay Senator Patterson's
debt of promise to Alva Adams and send
him to the United States senate in the
place of Teller
The mean. contemplate and vitrolic
abuse of Senator Wolcott is simply
subterfuge-a blind 1t is hoped by the
Democrats that it will serve to divert the
minds of the people from the promises
of the Democratic representatives made
to Senator Teller.
We trust there will be no revolution
and no revolutionary tactics, but should
there be, we feel that the people should
know who the parties are to whom the
responsibility for any such acts may be
charged.
The people of the entire state, re-
gardless of party affiliations, are agreed
that no party can condone crime against
the ballot. Whenever an American citi-
zen is refused the right 10 cast his ballot
freely and the right to have it counted
fairly, he is refused that which is most
sacred to him and to his right as a citi-
zen.
We believe it is the duty of the Re
publican party in the state to stand loyal
to it's pledges to the people and to the
time honored customs. 1t is the duty of
the party to aid and assist its Legislators
in probing the fraud and if the members
from Arapahoe were elected fraudently
it is the duty of the party to fire them
out of the legislature and then follow
with prosecutions against the leaders
who connived to bring about such con-
dition of affairs in the election in Arapa-
hoe county and the thugs and plug uglies
who were hired or forced by the police
department to do the dirty work for the
leaders. The penitentiary full of such
people would look mighty we'll to the cit
izens of Colorado, and the sooner wrong
of this character is properly redressed,
the better it will be for the Republican
party and for the Democratic party.
The next step for the Repu ublicans
to take is to remove from party councils
all members who were leaders in the
conspiracy to condone fraud of this char
acter. Those who were led blindly into
the Adams-Patterson jungle by Repub-
lican place hunters are not, directly re-
sponsible for what they did. Many Re
publicans were at first fooled by the 81
rem song of these alleged leaders, but
when the facts became public property,
the spirit of Republicanism awakened in
the state, and the voice of the party is in
no sense uncertain
Let us be straight Republicans and
refuse the dirty mantle of fusion. We
want no senatorial togas made by such
tailors.
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