The daily sentinel., 1906-09-20
THE REASON
STEWART QUIT
THE TICKET
WAS AFRAID OF DEFEAT
He Saw the Handwriting on the
Wall, and Realized That Pure
Iy Corporation Ticket Was
Doomed to Defeat.

In yesterdays Pueblo Chieftain,
that strongest of Colorado Republi-
can newspapers, there appeared one
of the most forceful and ringing de-
nunciations of the domination of the
recent Republican convention by ths
corporations that has yet been pen
ned.
1t embodies the declaration that
Phillip B. Stewart got off the ticket,
not because he did not like Gabbert
but because he realizes that the
ticket nominated last week is doom
to certain defeat.
The editorial closes with a strong
appeal to the Republicans of Colo
RADIO to repudiate the ticket and place
another in the field.
The following is a portion of the
editorial which has attracted wide
spread attention throughout the
state:
The refusal of Phillip B. Stew
art, the corporation candidate for
governor on the Republican ticket,
to make the run i'm company with
Judge William II. Gabbert, IA Popu-
list whom the corporations forced up
on the ticket as II candidate for su-
preme judge, has come like bolt
of lightning across the political sky,
and seems to have brought the Re
publicans of the state to n tardy real
ization of their present condition and
danger.
The prctense of Mr.. Stewart and
the corporation gang managers that
they are against Gabbert will deceive
no one.
The Republican state platform en-
dorses all the decisions that have
been made by Gabbert odious in the
eyes of the people of the state, and
that platform wa.s approved by Mr..
Stewart when he accepted the nom
ination.
If the Republican party of Colo
RADIO endorses what Gabbert has done
why should il not nominate him for
office?
The chief source of corporation
strength in the state convention was
the Denver delegation, and the Dem
yer delegation was made possible by
the action of Justice Gabbert in
throwing out, without trial, the regu-
Iarly elected Democratic officials of
Denver, and seating the present ma
chine officials.
IL xvnnIH ha hasa ffIII.a
the Denver machine to desert Gabbert
after he had created 1t.
If MIR. Stewart wished to put him
self right before the people of the
state as an honest citizen, he should
have withdrawn on accounty of cor
rupt corporation machine methods
that secured his nomination, as well
Rs the nomination of Gabbebrt, and
on account of Gabbert, who made
such nomination possible.
The real reason of Stewards with
drawal, and the real reason why
Stewart notified the corporation man.
ayers in advance that he would not
make the run with Gabbert, is that
he knows, and everyone else knows
that the ticket nominated in Den
yer by the Republicans last week
is foredoomed to certain and ineXit-
able defeat.
So far as Gabbert is concerned, he
is perfectly justified in refusing to
give up the nomination he has re-
ceived.
He has earned it,-not from the
Republican party, which owes him
uopVIodIoo Sql moII ana '5uIIpou
machine that controlled the Repub-
lican convention. When that machine
was distributing the offices, Gabbert
was entitled to his share.
But the weak place in the Repub-
lican ticket is not the presence of
Gabbert; 1t is the fact of corporation
control.
And that weakness is not to be
remedied by the withdrawal of Stew
art or the withdrawal of Gabbert,
or the withdrawal of any other indi-
vidual, or by any other action less
radical than the selection of n new
ticket free from the suspicion of cor
poration control.
IL may be that il is already too late
to rescue the Republican party from
the position in which the corporation
gang forces have 1t: but il is not too
late to make the effort.
And the only alternative to such
an effort is to acknowledge that the
party is hoplessly wrecked, which is
what Mr.. Stewart has done.
We have practical workmen for
all classes of work. Lewis and Sa-
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