The daily sentinel., 1906-09-22
THE HIGHER CALLING, WHICH,

In our life we have had opportun-
ity to know personally and TO have
been associated in young manhood's
days. with some great lights of the
Methodist church. We say great ad-
visedly, as beside those whom We re-
fer to Chancellor Buchtel is a much |
lesser light, so far as his learning and
individual capacity is concerned. We
have heard such men speak, have lis
tened to what in their judgment con-
stituted the sole aim of their exist |
ence as teachers of the people, but
we found none who held such viewsi
as does Buchtel. The lamented Bish-
op Simpson, than whom none have
grown greater in the Methodist
church than he, who knew person
ally and counted as his friends every
politician of moment In this country,
the companion and counselor of
General Grant. never had the vaunt-
[ ing ambition to hold office that seems
/ to actuate the policy of Buchtel.
1t is said that General Grant Of
Z ltItN lllt am ud5AduOl sup " llt iOulA
OF ST. James, the most exalted ofiic
al position in the foreign service of
our government, ranking high in the
plane of public preferment, but IT.
did not tempt the illustrious Simp-
son lie answered his great friend
that there was no higher calling on
earth, than being vlceregent of Christ
on earth and he was most satisfied
with his great position, greater than
what man could bestow upon him.
We should like to be able to be-
lieve that Chancellor Buchtel is not
the minion of the predatory corpora
tions, who acknowledges the power
and leadership of william G. Evans.
AS the candidate of Evans he must
stand for the crimes perpetrated
against the people by Evans nd the
allied corporation of Denver.
Nor can we bring our minds to be
leve that Chancellor Buchtel can con-
veive that there is call for him to
abandon his high calling to serve the
people as the governor of this state.
So that We can place his acceptance
of the nomination, refused after being
hawked about the state by number
OF good men on the grounds of moth
ing more + less than his inordinate
desire to appear in the political arena
to satisfy an overwhelming ambition
to play at the game of politics.
II will also be remembered that
Chancellor Buchtel is not a liberal
man in his ideas. He drove from the
university in Denver a young man by
the name of Reed, who presumed to
criticise the acts of Peabody when
governor and when performing his
great act of deportation in the state.
Reed was told to retract or to forego
his promise of graduation. A man
who can be so warped that he can
not permit others the right of their
own opinions in our Judgment is
mighty poor timber for governor of
great state.
Buchtel has now shied his castor
into the political arena and he will
be treated as any other candidate.
II he was member of our own party
we should hold to the same opinion
of his position, as we do now. Wei
have not changed in the least in our
! judgment of his actions as a polite
ian and in trailing the garments OF
his high calling in the dust of par
tisan politics.
No crisis in the affairs of this state
existed that would necessltate his
Abandonment of the chancellorship
of the university over which he pre-
sided, so that he cannot offer that as
an excuse for his ready acquiescence
to the beck and cali of the peoples
antagonist-Ev Evans.