Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-20
COLORADO JUDGE WOULD HANG
 GUGGENHEIM
lighting" Judge Declares that Senator Bought HonoL and Puts Him In List of i'Un- desirable Citizens.

| CHAUTAUQUA. N. r., July 19.-
 Senator simon Guggenheim of Col
 orado, either should be sent to the penitentiary or hanged for the meth
 ods he used insecuring his election
 as United States senator" said Judge
 Ben B. Lindsey, "the fighting judge"
 of Denver, who in an interview after
 his address on 'aThe Child and the
 State" before the woman's club at the Chautauqua assembly today elab-
 orated on some statements made in that address.
 The new senator from Colorado,
 the judge maintained! is absolutely without a claim or qualification for the office he holds. He is worse
 than a man who throws a bomb. and if bomb thrower should be hanged, then Guggenheim and his political partner, Evans, should swing alsO," said the judge.
 Though a Democrat politically and Iopposing the Republican machine of Colorado for it's corruptness, Judge
 Lindsey was emphatic in his asser-
 tion that President Roosevelt is the | greatest man on the planet today, and
 that the only salvation for Colorado,
 which is now politically rotten be-
 yond description, lies in the rising up lof some man like Governor Hughes or Senator LaFollette to the leader ship of the Republican party there. New York is infinitely ahead of Col orado. he asserted for a bill like the public utilities bill would never pass lin Colorado, chiefly because Cobra
 do lacks a strong man like Hughes as governor.
 If Mover and Haywood were guilty
 and deserve to hang" said Judge Lindsey, then Guggenheim and Will liam G. Evans. the Republican boss, deserve hanging more than they do, for the crimes of Guggenheim and Evans are infinitely more far-Teaching
 than are those of these men. if guilty, Tor Orchard. I know Guggenheim and Evans are vile and. everyone in Col | orado knows it, but what can be done to get such men even in the peniten- tiary when they own the legislature, both parties. many of the judiciary and the press of the state?"
 Simon Guggenheim absolutely
 bought his way into the United States senate-yes. bought declared the
 fighting judge" banging his fist on the table William G. Evans gave him the election because Guggenheim ] furnished the money to make Evans political master of the political ring
 that has thrOttled the state Evans
 made a deal with Guggenheim by
 which Guggenheim put up the money
 to carry on the Peabody campaign and 1 the last campaign-apd GUggenheim l got his senatoTship. Men who ran | for the legislature and who 'snitched' l on the gang have given me absolute | proof to back up my statements that 1 GUggenheim put up the money and | bought his way, step by step to the 1 senate''
 l Did Guggenheim have any claim
 on the senatorship?" the judge was | asked.
 None. absolutely none,'' was the i immediate reply. He never made l speech before the people in his life; | he never helped to get a law through that would benefit the people or any
 enc but him. He secured the passage l of some of the most vicious legisla- l UiOn ever put on the statute books. l lie never did anything for the people l he never did anything but oppose | the people for the advantage of what 1 President Roosevelt would call pre- 1 datory wealth-that is the record of | the United States senator from Colo rado'
 In a further indictment of Guggen- helm and Evans the judge was any l thing but complimentary to D. H. | Hartman.
 "Guggenheim and Evans are crim- inals of the Hartman type" said Judge Lindsey. "They are the Harri- mans of Colorado. When Chancellor i H, A. Butchel of the University of Denver. came out in support of the | Guggenheim-EYan combination, 1 wrote him letter telling him could not imagine how a man could attempt to hold up high ideals before uniyer- sity students and then turn around and support such men as there, who know absolutely nothing of the prin- | ciples of manhood who are despic- able criminals and ought at least to be in the penitentiary.
 He didn't dare to reply to it, and | Guggenheim and Evans dared do nothing because they knew I could back up my statements with absolute evidence.
 Colorado is practically rotten and getting constantly worse. As a state it is absolutely in the hands of the criminal rich. Now. I am no oppoent of men who make their money honest ly, but these men have stolen their millions from the people and by crimes more far-reaching than those of Mover and Haywood, if charges against them be true, have outraged fle very nrincinles of gDyernment