Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-10-15

he will be deserted by the substantial.
thinking Democrats. Besides the
large Democratic vote. Dr. Bnchtel
will receive the unanimous SUPPORT OF
the Republican party of COLORADO.
These are facts. These are Things
that are being talked on the snseet
everv day. and cannot be controverted~
by blatant. inane abuse of men ana
measures by the radical and anaTchs
tic Democratic leaders.
Even the gamblers are giving odoS
and DIR. Buchtel is the favorite. win
Democratic money on Alva Adams
hard to find. Bets do not elect can
didates. but the odds before election
quite generally show pretty clearly
which way the wind is blowing. IN
dications now are that DR.. Buchtel
will carry the. safe with iandsiloe.
! People want prosperity and are moi
going to place pporters OF destr"c,
ton in power. Alva Adams never did
a positiye act yet. He is the original
wet blanket. The folk of Colorado
| do not want a wet blanket thrown on
their prosperity. They will have none
| of Alva Adams, if there is any Virtue
| in signs.
Every paragraph punctuated with
rancorous abuse of the candidates on
| the Republican ticket, sentence after
sentence filled with blasphemous RI
baldry. the speakers at the Democratic
ratification meeting held In Denver on
| Tuesday night vented their spleen In
personal trades and left the issues
of the Colorado state campaign abso-
lutely untouched. The auditorium OF
Coliseum hall was comfortably filled
with the followers of Patterson, who
laughed and applauded at the personal
abuse heaped upon the opposition.
Senator Teller, but few years since
converted to Democratic ways, pre-
sided Milton Smith, he of the cor
porations, attorney for predatory"
wealth, was notably absent. He
would have made discordant note,
and Patterson said that he was not
to come.
Alva Adams, the meek, said that
Judge N. Walter Dixon. travelling with
Dr. Buchtel had grown so pious that
he never opened a cold bottle or
Jackpot without prayer. This was
wonderful strong argument on the Is
sues of the campaign, He quoted
Scripture to serve his ends, He said
that DR.. Buchtel was without doubt
an able and good man, but he
wished him to remain at the head OF
Denver University, so that he, Adams
might sit In the gubernatorial cbeir,
He abused DR.. Buchtel further, say
ing that he was an unpledged candi-
date. This thing of being an un-
pledged candidate is something new
to Alva, and he could not imagine
man who could get a nomination
without giving pledges. He said that
DR.. Buchtel was unpledged and that
he believed that DIR. Buchtel was tell
ing the truth when he said that he
was unpledged. Alva, pledged In
hundred ways by the willy Patterson,
could not conceive of a man who
could get a nomination without hav-
ing many strings to it. This ranked
in his bosom for fully fifteen minutes
while he abused DR.. Buchtel Then
Adams defended or tried to defend his
own incompetent administrations and
read letter to prove that he had
not built up political machine in
Denver. He did not state that he did
not need machine in Denver for
brother Frank Adams had the Denver
machine already built. He stole Re-
publican thunder when he spoke of
"sinless Ben," who he said was am
bilious This was sinful In the eyes
OF Alva, and he warned the faithful
Pattersonites that a vote for Lindsey
was half vote for DIR. Buchtel, the
criminal. who has for years success
fully conducted university. Then
his mind wandered to the govef1ar-
ship stolen for him by Democratic
bogus votes and he wept over that
again. He assured the mob that he
would storm the capitol with armed
force next time. If they did not take
him, even though he had a majority
OF but one bogus vote. He, like Sam
! Belford spoke of the Scarlet letter
OF shame and closed his remarks.
| X. P. B..