The daily sentinel., 1910-05-18
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ing Chancellor Buchtel and that part
dealing with Senators DeLong and
O'Connell, follows:
1T has been left to the Rev. Henry
Augustus Buchtel to be the one man,
in any sort of reputable public posi-
ton, to try to defend the indefensible
For the second time in the history of
Colorado he has rushed forth to
champion the Beast. He has pub
lished and circulated a long explana-
ton of his part in the events narrat-
ed in chapter -0-in which describ-
ed the comforting of an honorary de-
gree upon me by the Denver univers-
ity, and the sequel of that Incident
and he concludes his own defense
with defense of the man whom |
have accused.
Now, | did not say, in chapter 10,
that | thought Chancellor Buchtel
was party to the use that was made
of his university, nor even that he
was aware of it. ! did not believe
he knew. In those days of our per-
sonal friendship, thought of him as
bland and childlike, simple Chris
tian minister. who was unconsciously
used by the men who wished to
use me.
Il have related in chapter 10
series of incidents. none of which is
denied by Mr.. Buchtel. Because of
those incidents, | say, l wondered
whether there was any mark of the
Beast in my diploma. The suspicion
that there might be such mark rath-
ei tuok THE gilt from my gingerbread.
| felt that l had been given an hon.
orary Bill Evans degree
Just before he was elected gov
ernor | wrote him a letter-which
was not only delivered into his hands,
but was also published in the Denver
Times-giving him proof that he was
being used by as infamous a pack of
political scoundrels as ever disgraced
state or debauched a community
Il watched his pardoning and pa
rolling, at the reqrest of pothouse
politicians, all sorts of poor tools of
vice and infamy who had been caught
by the law. | saw him fighting the
real measures for local option intro
duced by Senator Drake for the Anti
Saloon league in the legislature of
1907. and aiding the fake Kelly bill
fathered by the liquor interests, until
his own ministers of the Methodist
church, at a ministers meeting, re-
puuidleu ulu anu MS lluuOr Dill, anO
he was finally forced TO stand for the
right. l heard him, subsequently,
claiming a public credit for the pass
ing of the very local option law that
he had so insidiously fought. | saw
him the defender of the Guggenheim
steal of the senatorship; the champ
ion of the corporation political ma
chine: the advocate and exalter of
those men who have made the poll
tics of Colorado. reign of corruption
and tyranny of crime. And 1t be-
came impossible for me to believe
that he was anything but willingly
subservient to the interests of public
wrong.
I'm the last session of our legisla-
ture (1909), the opponents of our
reform program had no more loyal
supporters than Senator Barney
O'Connell and Senator Horace T. De
Long. In the fight for direct primary
laws and other measures designed to
restore representative government in
Colorado, both these men rendered
distinguished services against the
people. But on the ground that they
had both voted against measure
that did not repeal, but slightly mod
ified, the local option law, Chancellor
Buchtel awarded them honorary de-
Srees from the Denver university"