The daily sentinel., 1907-01-08
A STATE DISGRACED.

/ What if it is all true, what has been
said of the manner in which Simon
Guggenheim stifled the consciences
and opposition of the men of wealth
and position in Denver and the state
1t is charged that to make those
men of real influence hold their peace
while he made his play for the sena-
torship that the stock of the smelt-
ing trust was manipulated to make
ordinary men millionaires.
We say again. what will be the
consequence of such barter and trade
upon the minds of the common peo-
pie?
Do they imagine that the common
people will long continue to stand for
such treachery. No indeed, politi-
cal cataclasm is coming and we are
not pessimistic at all, the change that
will make the rich fall to the level of
the poor. If not by evolution will come
by revolution.
The people who have purchased
the stock of the smelter trust, during
its manipulation TO make his political
friends millionaires. have been the
ones that have paid for the election of
Simon Guggenhelm.
There will be a reckoning day for
the state of Colorado which has so
stultifed itself.
Where are the Wales, the Goudys
and the other men of the Republican
party that, they have left this mon
ster trade and barter go by default
without ever uplifting their voices.
Have they too been stifed or are
they afraid of future consequences, to
dare rebuke the notorious sale?
We hardly believe that all those
men. once prominent in the Republi-
can party, have stultified themselves
to Guggenheim' ambition. Rather
shall we place their supine condition
to fear of what consequences might
be. to oppose the freebooters of the
Republican party now in the saddle
and who are riding rough shod over
allthe history of the party in the state
They know. they are fools II they
they don't, that Simon Guggenheim
had he not put up vast sums of money
for Republican campaign expenses
and in other ways made wealth for
party leaders. would never have been
thought of for one minute to fill that
most exalted position of United Stat
es senator from the state of Colorado.
To think that no other man pre-
sented himself for this great posi-
tion, but one who stood ready and
willing to purchase for himself this
great and splendid honor without any
qualifications save his wealth.
Is there no other Republican in
the state of Colorado who was of suf-
ficiently lofty character nd of high
estate to aspire to this position?
Indeed has the Republican party
fallen to a low level when men like
Broad and Vivian. who are notorious
as henchmen and political fixers, may
sell n United States senatorship, as
they would sell a pig at public ven
due?
Broad has Haunted it into the faces
of the people of this state for low
these many years past that he had
undertaken the job of lifting Simon
Guggenheim into the senate of the
United States by means of money and
he has kept his word and will deliver
the goods, there is no question.
Senator DeLong has given no rea-
son why he could have not stood
out against this sale Simon Gug-
genheim did not pay for his election
nor did that of Representative Hoyt
still they acquiesced and consum-
nation of the bargain.
From a political standpoint II
ought to defeat the party in this state
for the next ten years, for whatever
has been done by Democracy, 1t never
quite reached the obloquy of selling a
senatorship. in open sale. as has been
done by the Republican party in this
year of 1907.