Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-10-22
EDITION.
Abuse Their Stock in Trade

Alva Adams, Doc Rowan. Judge
Seeds and Miss Honora Maloney ar
rived last evening and addressed a
Democratic meeting at the Durango
opera house, beginning at o'clock.
w. A. Reese acted as chairman and
Doc" Rowan, of Ouray. who is can
didate for congress from the Second
districs was the first speaker intro
iduced by him. Doe delivered a
platitudinous speech, saturated with
vulgarity, and interspersed with dis
gusting story or two. He was pal
pably out OF his element on the plat
form; and where he had not commit
ted to memory the sounding phrases
he had strung together and which by
courtesy we will designate as his
speech, he decended to puerile argu-
ment and vulgar witticisms in order
to occupy the time allotted to him on
the program. Grunting like a hog in
derision of Congressman Hogg when
reference was made to him in connec-
ton with Mr.. Haggotts campaign was
about the limit, and the disgust of the
audience thereat was only too evil
dent.
Blair Burwell introduced Miss Ma
loney. who glibly recited a set speech
of ten minutes duration and retired
to give place to the star of the even
ing. Alva, whom Doc" Rowan had
designated as that Incompatible pa
triot and martyr, robbed of his seat
by that iniquitous body known as the
Fifteenth general assembly"
Alva's speech was his old, old plea
for "vindication." He alluded to the
history of the last four years in Colo
rado politics as garbled for consump-
ton by the credulous, alluded to Chan
cellor Buchtel as great preacher and
teacher and pleaded with the aud
ienos not to spoil him by electing him
to .he office of governor, where he
, alleged he would be under the guild
sance and subject to the corrupting
Influence of Evans in spite of him
self. Reviewing the events surround
ing his loss of the governors chair
"Alya forgot the 10000 fraudulent
votes which put him there temporar-
lily and called upon the voters to be
true to the state and vote for him that
the great wrong thereby perpe-
trated might-be righted and he have
he governorship once more. Re-
garding the local fight he referred to
Simon Guggenheim as an aspirant for
the senatorship from this state and
accused him of the desire and the in
tention to corrupt the legislature in
order to gain his end. With this bald
assertion and on no other grounds
he asked the suffrages Of the people
for the Democratic nominee for the
Legislature. He didn't mention Pat
terson and his manipulations in con-
nection with the matter; oh, no.
Judge Seeds of Cripple Creek
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Trades with a veritable volcano of
words. He vomited forth phrases,
sentences and paragraphs in an un-
ending stream, asking repeatedly who
was elected governor two years ago,
and accusing Peabody and his sup
porter of every infamy man is ca
pable of perpetrating. He defended
Alva's course in stepping down and
out when the legislature declared
Peabody elected, but conveniently for
got what put him there in the first
place and ignored the well known and
ihcontrovertible facts in connection
with the matter. In his endeavor to
work the audience up to the proper
pitch he drew narrowing pictures OF
the conditions in the Cripple Creek
district at the time, endeavorlng to
shield himself by one-sided state
ments from the unenviable light in
which he placed himself then. The
impression created was that of man
fend himself.
When Judge Seeds had concluded
there was an immediate stampede for
the doors, although there was another
speaker on the platform Indeed he
had hardly finished when the exit of
the audience began.
There were plenty of empty seats