The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-28

Alva Adams is not only a wholesome
rebuke to them, but 1T proves how lit
tie influence United States senator
can exercise in his own state Some
decent Democrats apologize for Patter-
son, but most of them denounce him
Senator Teller, who used to be one
of the most radical of Republicans
| is now a Democrat all over and in
tensely bitter toward his former po-
| htical associates here and everywhere
He has been acting with the con-
sentative party, and has exercised con-
siderable influence because of the
great respect in which he is held.
| The business men of Denver, in
| Guiding a considerable number OF
Democrats. have organized what is
Law and Order league of Denver and
they take the grounds that the repu-
| tauon or Colorado as a civilized state
| will suffer unless Peabody is re-elect-
| ed. They argue that it is not a QueS-
| ton of the personality of candidates;
| that while both Adams and Peabody
| may represent the same interests, and
| While Adams will make quite as good
| as governor as the present executive,
| nevertheless it is realized by every bus
| mess man who is familiar with senti-
| ment outside of Colorado, that if Pea
DOdy should be defeated it would be
proclaimed and accepted as a victory
| for the Western Federation and the
| anarchists and others who are in SYM
| pathy with the methods adopted by
u
district of Idaho and in the Leadville
and Cripple Creek districts of Colo
RADIO. They refer to the many miSrep-
reservations and the consequent mis-
apprehensions that have prevailed and
still prevail about the condition of af-
fairs in Colorado throughout the entire
east.
Tourist travel this summer has been
very light compared with previous
years, and the popular hotels have
Oeen practically empty. People at
Denver, Colorado Springs and else
where are continually receiving letters
from friends in the east inquiring
whether it would be safe for them to
visit Colorado; banks, insurance COM
panies and other money loaners have
refused profitable investments because
OF misrepresentation as to the extent
and location of the disturbances. They
tell me that the prevailing impression
in the east seems to be that all the
miners in the state are on strike and
are going about killing inoffensive
people. The other day 1 was shown a
letter from a Boston man who owns
a house in Colorado Springs, inquiring
whether there was any danger of the
Cripple Creek strikers looting that
place and destroying his property.
The Business Mems league argue
that if Peabody is turned down it will
be difficult to convince apprehensive
people outside of the state that life
and property are safe here, and they
to Vindicate its reputation by support
ing the man who suppressed the in
surrection and enforced the laws.
Father Malone of the Roman Cath
Ole church, who is a powerful factor
in any undertaking he may join, has
declared himself boldly in support of
Peabody and the Republican ticket,
and has declared that it is not so much
a question of candidates at this cleo
ton as the character of the support
they are receiving. While he sees lit !
tie difference between Peabody and
Adams he declares that every anarch- |
list, every socialist, every dynamiter, |
every man who is in favor of over |
turning the laws and destroying socie- |
ty will support Adams. That, he in |
SiStS, is the issue of the campaign. One
candidate, he says, represents the
home, the school. the church and the |
state, while the most active advocates
of the other would destroy all of these
blessings and are endeavoring to fasten
the most pernicious of socialistic doc
trineS upon the people.
While the election for United States
senator will not occur for two years,
and the only candidates before the
people this time who will have an
active participation in it are seventeen
holdover state senators, a good deal
Of undertow is felt on the Republican
side, which is running against Pea
body. Edward o. Wolcott has been
storm center in Colorado politics for
several years, a man of ungovernable
temper, unmitigated selfishness and
unlimited ambition. He has insulted,
iffronted or wounded almost every
Republican in the state. No politician
deserves friends less than he, and yet
hone has more devoted, loyal follow
.rs, who will condemn him to perdi-
ion one hour and in the next will be
;acrificing their most sacred possess
ions in his behalf.
Wolcott has a charming personality;
lie hypnotizes people; he fascinates his
'ictimS whenever he chooses and, not
the treatment they have
eceived from MIN in the past, and only
gently his former lieutenants are
alking of taking up the fight again I
nd reorganizing their forces in order
o send him back to the senate two |
ears hence. They have made no l
hreats, but their hearts are bad" to- ts
Yard the Republican candidates and I
he managers of the present campaign. {
The recent Republican convention at | {
Denver was controlled by Wolcott's re- g
sntless enemies. A. NJ. Stevenson, his c
and a member of the nation S
Republican committee in Colorado,
fas denied a seat, and w. c. Gowdy,
Tho defeated Wolcott the last time he
yaS a candidate for the United States q
anate and made the deal that re-elect- -
d Teller, was chairman of the conyen- e
on and spokesman for Governor Pea :
ody. None of WolcOtt'S men is in this =
ampaign. They are doing nothing and r
aging nothing, and their intentions are q
matter of great concern. The man =
gers of the campaign are awaiting :
for his return from Europe, !.
oping that the Denver and Rio Grande II
abroad, the Colorado Fuel and Iron y
and other large corporations y
Y which Wolcott is employed, will per- y
Iade him to pull all his following into q
ne for the Republican ticket
WoIcott has no organization. how q
yer, either here or elsewhere in the q
ate. Everything has been against him a
,r several years. He was beaten for n
lie senate in 1900 and 1902, and last q
1ne, at the first, election under the b
aw charter, he made the most des- N