Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-02
LIFE IN A HUSTLING WESTERN CITY
Former Democrat Reporter Writes Interesting Account
 of His First Few Weeks in Denver.

1 nuFe IdIeH. He news or the over whelming victory of the republicans l was surprise to me but I expected q Roosevelt victory although not by such q big majority. I see that the democracy has some clever! traitors in It's ranks. Isn't it about time that 1 these honorable men, as Mark Anth- { Ony would call them, were exposed good and hard?
 Politics in the east was tame con- pared to the battle of ballots in Den yer and throughout Colorado. It was battle between capital and labor, and the latter won out in electing l Adams governor over Peabody, the l present incumbent, but with the ex- ception of Peabody the rest of the re- publican ticket won. Peabody was frightfulIy scratched by members of his own party. He still claims how ever, that he has been elected. and that Adams received number of fraudulent votes. Both sides shout fraud, corruption and bribery of all kinds. Politics i'll Denver and in other parts of Colorado must be in a rotten condition if one half of what a person hears and reads is true. Forty per sons would be registered from a house where there would be only six persons residing. Out here women vote as we'll as the men on all questions and some of them are said to be as deep in the mud of dishonesty and corrup- ton as the men, Remember this is only hearsay, l am not speaking from experience. It is strange to see women stump speeding and racing around in teams on election day to get the women voters to the polls
 The earlier returns on election night indicated Peabody victory and the band, engaged by the republicans, visited the headquarters of the demo cratic leaders, marched along the corridors of the hotel, and played a dead march. Two nights afterwards, when the election of Adams appeared certain democratic organization or ganized a parade and marched over the principal streets of the city, In the parade was hearse in which was q coffin supposed to contain the re- mains of Governor Peabody and all that he represented. Many democrats as well as republicans thought that this was stretching the limit. Affairs are becoming more quiet and business is increasing, but 1 am afraid that there will be much ill-feeIing and many riots if the republicans should count Governor Peabody into office. The old condition of unrest and dis turbance will prevail again.
 While speaking of politics and cor ruption might say that last spring the present mayor, MT s Speer. was elected as democrat against the combined opposition of all the news papers, who denounced him, so am Informed, as a gambler, bOOdIer and Ipin fAf 1 ruption were shouted from the house tops and are re-echoed to this day by some people, but Mayor Speer has proved worthy executive in the short time that he has held office. The newspapers as well as the politi- clans indulge ill the mud throwing. During the late campaign the Post, which claims adherence to no party made an aRAouncement about two weeks prior to election that it would support Peabody The Times, at once said that the Posts support had been bought by the republicans and began guessing contest among it's readers to see who could guess the amount of the bribe. The night before election it announced that the bribe was $1O.- 900. The Post retaliated by replying that the only attempt to bribe the Post was made by Senator Patterson several years before and it was unsuc- cessful. Politics are surely strong game in Denver.
 Among the items included in the election of James +. Hogan. candidate for district attorney, were the follow ing 60 boxes of cigars $21O; 15O lbs of candy, $9O; 10 lbs of chewing gum. calling cards, $25; charity, alms and social drinks, $190. I don't know but what he tried to win the women yot- CTS by giving them gum and candy, and probably a social drink or two?
 The most interesting happening in the religious world since my arrival has been series of lectures preached against Socialism" by the Rt Rev Bishop Metz, who denounced Social ists as a "damnab1e sect'' opposed to authority and tending to immortality. The day after one of the bishops ser mons, l happened to go into q store to buy newspaper Before I came out l was loaded with Socialistic pa- pers, documents and pamphlets. The proprietor and his wife are strong so- cialists and publish a weekly paper devoted to the interests of socialism. l am now devoting some spare mo- ments to the perusaI of these papers, and as the proprietor told me that no intelligent man, who made an earnest study of socialism, ever failed to em- brace its doctrines unless he held q political or some other position that he was afraid of losing. I ana there fore in danger of falling under the bishops ban. Upon my return to Wa terbury I may be full f1edged social ist and probably one of their stump speakers.