The newspaper., 1908-05-15

-tntftheSlS TO tudt OF the SentleIndn WHO
will today be elected. in accord with
the decree of the people, registered at
the polls in the recent election.
The platform of the Democratic
party in the late campaign contained
the following specific charge:
I'VE directly charge that the Repub-
Iican party has entered into compact
under which the sovereign power of
the legislature of this state to elect
United States Senator is delegated to
the executive committee of the Amer
ican Smelling and Refining Company"
So far as | have been able to OBJ
serve, that charge was never denied
through any authoritive source during
the campaign nor since either through
the public press or from the rostrum
There was no other candidate, serious
iy suggested by Republican leaders
than the executive head of the smelter
trust
Mr.. Guggenheim in a recent inter
view Is reported to have said:
Before the election, the issue was
plainly fought out 1t was Guggen-
helm against Patterson and Guggen
helm won. The people knew that Pat
,erson and myself were the issues AMI
that vote for Republican legisla
tive candidate was vote for me-"
This language may be somewhat
stronger than the fact justifies. yet IL
cannot be doubted that the issue was
sufficiently plain as to the proposed
election of MIR. Guggenheim.
Today Witnesses the consummation
OF the contract. so charged in that plat
form. The sad feature of IL all Is that
the final exchange Of "A senatorship for
gold, seems to bear the authority and
direction of the people. feel that il
he so chooses. no Republican senator
can be Justly criticized for so voting.
This apparent authority and direction
cannot be laid to any class or creed.
A Republican state administration
was none the less active and enthusias-
tic than Democratic city administra'
tion. Labor and capital, the saloon
and the church. the preacher and the
gambler, the purist and the criminal.
the Jew and the Gentle. the Catholic
aud the Protestant were all united.
The amazing feature of 1t all WIS
that the leader of great labor
organization. in the penitentiary
in distant state, without trial;
spirited away In a manner said By
a justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States to be a crime upon the
part of the executives of two states:
this man. claiming his innocence OF
crime. and to crush whose organization
the writ Of habeas corpus was denied,
military despotism was enthroned:
hundreds of its members and sympa-
thizing citizens were deported beyond
the confines Of the state, in trainloads
and by official command: and TO sus-
tain which action a Supreme Court was
packed and state senate and a COVER
norship stolen. And yet this leader OF
tabor gave the use of his name and that
OF his organization as well as his ey-
cry effort, not only to elect the smell
ter candidate but to continue the re-
gime that was responsible for the woes
of himself and his followers.
Even that immaculate OF purists. Mr..
Lindsey. with his somewhat dispropor-
tiOnate head filled with vanity, fattery,
egotism and ambition. scared aloft like
a toy balloon. burst. and fell at the
feet of mammon. Those two alone.
Haywood and Lindsey. had sufficient
combined strength to determine, and
did determine the result.
To what interest have we so bartered
the states honor?
The Democratic platform further
charged:
Colorado feels the heavy hand of
the smelter trust: the products of ou.
mines no longer have access TO an open
market: they are absorbed and settled
for by the smelter trust at such prices
and upon such terms as the arbitrary
will Of those who control this great
corporation dictates This trust has
suppressed competition and closed
mines at will IL is now insidiously en-
gagged, through the power 1t has ac-
duired. in an effort to secure within
it's grasp the producing mines Of the
continent. The prosperity of this state
40 largely depends upon the prosperity
Of our mining Industries that we can
sot willingly submit to their monopoli-
zation by a trust controlled and man
aged from Wall street.
Does any well-informed senator chal
Ienge that Indictment? Is 1t not true
that the smelling trust is, with one
exception, the most dangerous and
vicious trust in the world? What of
ficer dictates its policy. If not the man
we elect today. and how can its pur-
poseB be accomplished without alli-
ance with every other one of such COM
binations?
It Is remarkable that with the Presi-
dent at Washington. in brave and
uneven fight to the death with the mon
stef. predatory wealth, Colorado is
nat