The daily sentinel., 1907-02-28
INSANE DOINGs

What species Of insanity has taken
hold of the legislature of this state?
When has IL become n part OF par
Ilamentary procedure that. the speak
er Of the house may dictate what shall
be made of record I'm the journal Of
I the house and what shall not be re-
I corded?
Can this state avoid intcrminable
suits upon the legislation which may
be accomplished. II the determination
of Speaker breckenridge TO color the
proceedings is persisted in?
SO secure did the house feel in its
Republican majority that II felt that
IL could ruthlcssly do things with i'm
punity and that there would be no
hereafter, II the journal of the pro-
ceedings of the house could be doctor
ed each day, to suit and fit the house
proceedings.
Never did an assembly begin its
work under greater fanfare OF trum-
pets and golden promises. Never has
an assembly so signally failed. The
start was false. from the inaugural
ceremonies and has continued
through the fifty or more days of the
existence of the assembly.
Henry Augustus BuchteI was not
so particularly desirous of being in
auguratcd in Trinity Methodist
Episcopal church because he had been
pastor of that church and was con-
cerned In its building, as he was to
be peculiar and do something which
would attract attention TO himself.
In short he wanted to do something
well studied out before hand, as
Roosevelt has done them ON the spur
of the moment. the result of impulse.
generally correct.
lie imagined that governing the
state of Colorado, as its chief execu-
tive, would he a small side issue to
the regular performance of his duties
~ chancellor of Denver University.
He finds that the state and its inter-
csts are much larger than he had any
idea of and that to correctly fulfill his
duties ns the states chief executive is
something much more cNacting than
his training as IA preacher and pcda-
goguc has fitted him for.
But the most deplorable spectacle
thus far in his utter subserviency to
the corporations, whose selection he
WINS. He does not dare, nor are his
inclinations so bent. to do anything
which will cause the railroads and
the allied interests n particle of doubt
of his being their tool and ally upon
all measures affecting them. All
things must bend 10 these Interests
and he makes no bones about IL. He
does not desire 10 do for the people,
but TO fool the people into the bellef
that owing 10 his cloth, he could do
nothing against their interests.
hut Rev. Henry Augustus Buchtcl
will find that the stunt that he is at
tempting TO perform, hns been the un-
solyable riddle of men and measures
for all time-carrying water ON both
shoulders"
Really the failure OF the adminis-
tradition So far is so lamcntably mp
parent that the governor who
thought that he could direct things
with such n free hand and make the
members of the assembly mere pup
pets, that he Is TO be pitied rather
than condemned.
Every prediction made by the sane
ones outside OF politics that an ad-
ministrntion that was bolstered up,
after number of the best men I'm the
state had refused to run and as last
resort an appeal was made 10 man
they felt sure. they could use and
who could be made TO fool the people.
because of his cloth. has been vcri-
fed.
IL was n sorry day for the state
when the corporation leaders of the
Republican party, determined to