Gilpin observer., 1908-10-22
DEMOCRAT
SPEAKERS

Owing to the severe weather and als'
to the fact that the speaking had no
been sufficiently well advertised, only +;
couple of hundred greeted Tully Scot
and Mrs. Alma Lafferty at the oper;
house last evening to hear discussion
of national and state issues from Dem
ocratic viewpoint. The lack of number.
in the audience was overcome by the
attentiveness to which the speaker!
were listened and everyone remained
until the last speaker to address the
gathering had finished. H. C. Bolsingel
presided as chairman and made gooc
one.
Mr.. Scott was the first one introduced
to the audience. He is not an eloquent
speaker but is very conservative anC
most convincing. The gentleman halls
from Cripple Creek and is well acquaint
ed with conditions prevalent in the min.
ing camps of Colorado. He knows Gug.
genheim and his smelter trust like a
book. He condemned the sale of the
senatorship by the last Republican as
sembly of which he was member, but
was on the minority side, saying it was
a lasting disgrace to the state. Senator
Scott gave his audience an insight into
the doings of the last legislature and
told how the Republicans ignored the
pledges they had made to the voters
prior to election and had failed to enact
into law any of the measures they had
promised. He said the railway COM
mission amounted to nothing and that
the Republicans put joker in the bill
so that the supreme court could declare
it unconstitutional. They did give us
a banking law but refused to put in a
clause guaranteeing bank deposits, "
said the speaker Mr.. Scott said he
found that in the last legislature the
railroads prepared the railroad laws,
the insurance companies the insurance
laws and the bankers the banking laws,
and the Legislators sat there like bumps
on logs-the Republicans being agree
able to that kind of a program and the
Democrats powerless to change the sys-
TEN. He spoke about the land frauds
and said Mark Woodruff, formerly reg
istrar of the state land board, was a
thief pure and simple; that he was a
criminal and ought to be in the peni-
tentiary, but instead was over in Utah
defying the state officials to come after
him under the threat that he would ex-
pose those higher up who were back OF
his misdeeds.
Mr.. Scott said it was the intention OF
the Guggenheim interests if Simon car.
ried this election to send Clarence Ham
lin to the u. S. senate. Hamlin is heac
of the mill trust and was secretary OF
the Mine Owners association at Cripple
Creek during the troublous times of the
Peabody administration. He to large
extent was responsible for the deporta
tion of miners and the state of riot thai
prevailed. Hamlin would make fine
companion to Guggy in the senate.
The remarks of Mrs. Lafferty were
brief. She is splendid speaker ane
was listened to most attentively. Mrs
Lafferty is a legislative candidate OF
the Democratic ticket from Denver
county and should she be elected woulc
make forceful representative of tht
women. She would see that the womer
received consideration and that law.
would be passed which they want.
AS the chairman, Mr.. Bolsinger said
the best was saved until the last. Judg,
Hicks was introduced and made tall
that outclassed the efforts of the speak
er of the evening. He didn't hesitat,
or mince words in telling the people th'
needed Legislation he would work TO
when he went down to the legislature
IF anything can be done to curb tn
monstrous smelter trust from plunder
ing, l am going to do all l can to effec
remedy" declared the gentleman
Mr.. Hicks said he felt confident of elec
ton, and when he made this remark i
was evident that the audience acquiesc
ed in what he said by applauding hir
loudly. The Democratic legislative can
didate!said he would be heard again o
the platform before the campaign clos
ed; he wanted the voters to hear hir
and he was only too willing to discus
the issues before the people.