The daily sentinel., 1910-09-13
PLAYS
HAVOCfAM0NG.
REPUBLICANS

OF course the democrats have
known pretty well just how rotten the
republican party was in its relation
to the great trusts of the country, but
the local republicans were amazed
last evening when United States Sem
ator Joseph l.. Bristow, of Kansas,
told them what awful depths of de-
pravity had been sounded by their
national leaders in their liasons with
the rubber, lead and other great COM
bines of the country.
Senator Bristow painted such vivid
pictures of the degeneracy of the re-
publican party that even such old
wheel-horses as Edwin Price, ID. w.
Aupperle and A. c. Newton, sat and
shuddered in their seats, while Sem
ator Horace T. DeLong. congressional
aspirant, from his point of vantage.
stared wide-eyed as he heard of the
fabulous sums divided by the trust
magnates among their faithful agents
in the national congress for valuable
services rendered in tariff-tinkering
and other needed reforms for the
benefit of the money-power. He ap-
peared to be both astounded and
aggrieved.
Hon. Merle ID. Vincent, aspirant for
the republican nomination for gov
ernor of Colorado, was a mere incl
dent last evening. He was permitted
to make a few remarks, as was also
Attorney Moynihan. of Montrose, but
Mr.. Bristow was the big gun. For
mer Attorney-General N. c. Miller of
this city gave the speaker an approp-
riate introduction and then the fire
works began.
II is to be regretted that more re-
publicans were not present. AT an
outside estimate there were not to eX-
ceed four hundred people present at
the Auditorium last evening, of which
number nearly half were democrats.
The republicans were there. presuma-
bly, for enlightenment-and they got
1t. The democrats were there for
lcorroboration of some of their charges
| against the republican party, and
| there was plenty of that
Senator Bristow had his facts well
| in hand and showed conclusively
wherein the Guggenheim-Aldric
Payne interests were directly con-
cerned in the maintenance of high
tariff on products of their own manu-
facture and had succeeded in their
endeavors at the expense of the peo-
pie at large.
He showed wherein Senator Aid
rich had pulled down nearly million
dollars in dividends within four
months after the merger of the rub
ber companies. c'Horrible,' was the
exclamation heard from Senator De-
Long in hoarse whisper)
| 1t was shown that the rubber trust
was clearing 100000 a month prior
to the passage of the last tariff, and
that since then the price of all rubber
products had been increased 25 pei
cent.
The House of Guggenheim then
came in for a splendid write-up at the
hands of the noted Kansas insurgent
He showed the close relationship ex-
isting between Colorado's senior
United States senator and the rest OF
the rubber. lead, zinc. tin and smelt-
mig syndicate. He showed their deer
personal and financial interest in the
tariff and how nobly Senator Simon
had responded to the call of fila
duty in standing by the Guggenheim
interests by protecting them in the
revised CD schedules. POSTMASTER
Price wept copiously at this tale OF
Simon's perfidy.)
For an hour and half Senator
Bristow poured molten mischief into
the ranks of the regular republicans
much TO the qualification of the in
surgents and democrats present. He
drove the wedge of radicalism deer
into the tree of republicanism, wa
tered 1t with his facts and figures,
and then departed for Denver with
the sound of cracking and splitting
partisan republicanism ringing in his
ears.
1t was great occasion for repub-
licanism-maybe.