Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-26
PArrERsoN's SUCCESSOR.

ance is the election OF United
States senator to succeed Senator
Thomas M. Patterson.
The event is scheduled. according
to law. to take place early in Janu-
ary, few days after the Legislature
has convened.
The successor to Senator Patterson
will be Republican, the Legislature
standing seventy-one Republicans to
twenty-nine Democrats. and 1t only
requires fifty-one to elect.
The Republican fortunate enough to
receive this senatorial toga, viii be,
from all present Indications, the Hon.
Simon Guggenheim. one OF the great
smelling and mining men of the coun-
try.
There was no other Republican can
tiidate In the field during he cam
paign.
There is no other one at this time.
And ,there will likely be no other
Republican seeker after the position
held by Senator Patterson when the
legislature Is ready to proceed to an
election.
1t is, therefore, safe to predict Mr..
Guggenhelm's election for his great
honor.
In sending this gentleman to the
United States senate from Colorado
the Republicans will be comforting an
honor where 1t is deserved, carmel.
and belongs on account of the result
of the election.
Mr.. Guggenheim is in the ve-y
prime OF life.
He has been part OF the material,
industrial and mining growth of the
state for The past eighteen years.
He knows, as well as any man
within its borders. what the state
needs. In the way of business and
finances to develop its latent posi-
bIities and hidden wealth
And no man Is better fitted or more
willing to use all his best talents in
that great work.
1t is true that Mr. Guggenheim will
not be a senatorial orator, one of
those spell-blnders that fill pages of
the Congressional Record with hot
air" that in no way benefits the ma
terial interests of the states they rep
resent.
But he will be working senator,
one OF the kind that thinks and acts
according to clear. common sense,
business ideas.
The senatorship has been earned by
Mr.. Guggenheim through his loyalty
to the Republicans and the support
he has always given to the party.
At no time has he failed to help the
party to success, in everyway that was
within his power.
In fact, his financial generosity to
the party was one of the grounds of
opposition to him on the part of the
Democrats.
An absurd ground, to be sure, when
one gives it the slightest considera-
tion.
What seeker after political prefer
ment in Colorado. or any other state.
does not contribute, If he is able, to
the expenses of the party through the
success OF which he hopes to crafty
his ambition?
Can you think of any senatorial
candidate In Colorado, of either old
party. that did not contribute. some
more, some less. according to his
means or generosity?
guess not.
All of them have gone after the
honor with what they were able, will
ing. or thought necessary to dig up.
In this respect MIR. Guggenheim has
done only what all other senatorial
candidates have done-given of his
means what he thought would help
his party to win.
While Mr.. Guggenheim, at any and
all times, deserves the senatorship
the same as any other foremost citi
zen OF the state, and has earned it
through his loyalty and generosity to
the party. yet this time the honor
should especially come to him because
he was made that issue in the cam
paign by the Democrats.
The Republican state convention, IL
Is true. did not nominate him for the
senatorship. but 1t might as well have
done so, because he became, in the
eyes of the voters, before the cam
paign was ended, as much the Repub-
lican senatorial candidate as IL he
had been named by the convention.
The Democrats charged him with
being candidate; they made an Is
sue OF his wealth and connection WITH
the smelling industry. and the Repub
licans acknowledged the charge, and
accepted the issue. by not even men
uoning the name of any other mem
ber of the party in connection with
the position.
There is, therefore, no reason why
the Republicans of the next general
assembly of Colorado should not
unanimously select Simon Guggen-
helm as the successor TO Senator
Thomas NJ. Patterson in the senate of
the United States.--Georges Weekly
The Denver Post says Denver banks
are swamped with business.