The Glenwood post., 1907-10-12

Denver, Oct 9.-With Instructions to
go out and get all the "roasts' he
could on Governor Buchtel on the sub
lect of the controversy at the Soldiers
and Sailors home, young reporter
on the News got busy. He was under
the impression that "any old thing
would do. He had been working on the
paper for some time and became i'm
bued with the spirit of taking, espe-
cially when such taking affected the
governors office. A few baldfaced
roorbacks, the young reporter believed,
would max hit in the front office, and
he saw visions of an increase in salary
or rather in the miserly stipend which
he, with other employees of the News,
receives from Editor Patterson. But
he made serious mistake, and it was
so bad that even Patterson could not
stand for it. The reporter faxed up
dead for years.
This aroused such storm of indig
nation that Patterson ran around in
n circle in his office. The poor little
reporter, who had done the best he
knew how to follow the policy of the
News was led forth to the sacrifice af-
ter being "bawled OUT in the front
office for his awful bundcr in search
ing the graveyard for expressions of
opinion..' Had he faxed up inter
views on live men it would have been
all right, but even the Patterson news
papers could not stand for nightmares
from the tomb on live subjects. So
the energetic young reporter is looking
for another berth, but the News may
take him back if he promises to fix up
some good fakes without quoting dead
men.
In Sundays news there appeared
purported interviews with the late w.
S. Decker and the late R. W. Cline re
garding the retention of Commandant
Aldrich and the conduct of Governor
Buchtel These outbursts on the part
of Mr.. Patterson which are leading to
dangerous lengths are alarming his in
Inmates. They fear for the next step.
His overpowering hatred of Governor
Buchtel and of Mayor Speer have I'D
him beyond any lengths to which he
has ever sought and he cannot or docs
not seem to try to get away from this
occasion. Alienists all agree that a
man who wraps himself with this kind
of venom is unsafe in his own inter
ests.
Because Governor Buchtel refused to
listen to lot of cheap politicians and
discharge good servant, Mr.. Patter-
son saw in this a chance to stir the
G. A. r. and he has been running at-
legged interviews in his yellows in De
nunciation of the governor and the
commander of the home. Here is one
of these taken from the News:
"Words cannot express the feelings
of most of the veterans regarding this
matter, so the less we try to do-so the
better. We can only say that we have
all been wronged by this action ami
that we will stand together by tn"
four particular ones who were
wronged. Past Commander w. S.
Decker.
Judge Decker was good soldier and
- prominent citizen of Denver, and one
might have thought that Mr.. PatteI
son would have permitted him to rest
but not so; his consuming passion anf
the cxigencies of yellow journalism re.
quircd this desecration.
/ This is another:
at is an insult to the order and to
every individual veteran. Expatiate
on that as much as you please, but
that one sentence will express every
thing except uncomplimcntary things
better left unsaid. Past Commander
II. w. Cline.
Mr. Cline has been in his grave for
years but he had to be used in this
sensational attack on the governor.
He treats the living no better. II. II.
Mcllette, commander of the depart
nent, and w. w. Ferguson, assistant
adjutant general, are out in signed
statements characterizing purportcd ir
terviews with them as false and
groundless.
Governor Buchtel requests the Re
publican to say once more in the most