The La Jara chronicle., 1908-10-09
Democratic
Duplicity
cHAS. J. HUGHES, JR. AND J. F.
SHAFROTH.-THEu uNHoLY AL
LANCE BETWEEN COR
PoRATIoNs AND DEM
AGoGuEs.

Mr.. Bryan's principal stock in trade
this year is the denouncing of corpora
tons. He puts away from him with
loathing the idea of receiving any CON
tributions for his campaign fund from
corporation sources. He has kicked
out Haskell. the man he put in as
treasurer of the national Democratic
committee because he is suspected of
being connected or having been con
nected with that monster of iniquity,
the Standard Oil Company. He caused
the majority of regular elected Demo
cratic delegates from the state of
Pennsylvania to be thrown out bodily
at the national convention, not because
they had not been fairly elected but
because their leader Col. James NJ.
Guffey. was connected in some way
with the same gigantic corporation.
The bulk of the Democratic cam.
paign talk and newspaper articles has
been in the same line of denunciation
of corporations.
With what sort of consistency can
the Democratic party of this state
carry on this line of campaigning when
Charles j. Hughes. Jr.. its nominee for
the highest office within the gift of the
people of Colorado, that of United
States senator, is and has been for
many years corporation attorney and
has become millionaire by his valu-
able services to those corporations?
Further, the Democratic newspapers
of this state have always held up the
public utility corporations of this city
to be more especially monsters of ini-
guilty. 1t is for these very corporations
that Mr.. Hughes has been principal
attorney and from them he has de
rived large part of his present
wealth.
With what sort OF consistency can
the Democratic party of this state
keep on denouncing corporations and
corporation attorneys when it has
nominated for the office of governor
man who has acted as attorney for
the Denver Union Water Company and
has advocated its cause in court many
times and with all the ability. learn
ing and eloquence at his command?
The truth is that the Democratic
party in this state consists now of two
fundamentally irreconcilable factions.
The demagogic faction, headed by Sen
ator Patterson. one year ago "spewed
out all the delegates who had been
elected by the other faction to the
state convention. branded them as cor.
porationists and refused to recognize
them as Democrats. This year Mayor
Speer and his friends having in the
meantime been successful in the Den
yer city election. it was all the Patter-
sonites could do to keep from being
thrown out of the convention them
selves. A temporary truce has been
patched up. and the ticket nominated
at the Democratic state convention
shows the presence of both factions.
The nominees for the Supreme
Court, or at least three of them. repre-
sent the demagogic faction and if
elected their opinions would conform
II,
The candidates for United States sem
ator and for governor belong to the
corporation element and are closer to
corporation interests and more likely
to be influenced by them than any
candidates the Republican party has
nominated.
1t is not alone because the Demo.
Gratis have nominated corporation at
torneys for the two highest offices ON
their ticket that Republicans denounce
them, 1t is because of the duplicity and
hypocrisy which the Democratic marty
shows in denouncins and opposing
corporations and announcing through
its national platform and its national
candidates desire to destroy them al
together while at the same time ask.
ing people to vote for two of the most
prominent corporation representatives
in the state of Colorado for the two
highest Offices in the gift of the peo.
pie.