The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-09-30
"SESSIETY" HATES
FRIEND OF BOYS
PEOPLE OF DENVER
DON'T LIKE JUDGE LINDSEY.
With Fearless Pen Founder OF JuVe-
nile Court Has Shown Up Wick
edneSS of Rulers.
Zach McGhee in Columbia State.

eminent citizen OF the SLdle ol ColO-
rado a. this time is not highly in
vogue among the smart contingency
of this town. He has preached, they
say. But + Roosevelt, the most mar
velous political genius Of modern
times, knew how to use him, and he
did, to advertise his own personal in
carnation of all the public virtue in
this or any other land.
where is my friend Judge 'll2i.-
sey?" asked Roosevelt when here
short time ago. He was speaking to
members Of the reception committee,
who with malice aforethought had left
the offending judge off of their COM
mittee and who had issued to him no
invitation to take part in the recep-
ton ceremonies. Judge Lindsey hao
told a story in a magazine of the cor
ruption Of Denver's most influential
leaders, of the collusion between the
big moneyed concerns of the city with
the city, the county and the State gov
ernment. The story had caused bitter
resentment among the influential lead
ers of Denver. T. Roosevelt knew this;
he knew where Judge Lindsey was; ne
was in the background. T. 4. knew
varv we'll why he was in the back
ground. But this same story and 9TH
er things now rather widely known
about this judge of the juvenile court
had been highly approved by the best
citizenship of the whole country. With
the rank and file Of the people OF the
whole United States as we'll as OF CO.
dorado Judge Lindsey was hero. No
one who knows Theodore Roosevelt
had any idea he was going to let such
an opportunity pass. And he didn't.
The committee made some sort of lame
excuse about the absence from the
ceremonies of the most distinguished
citizen of the city, but they couldn't
down T. R. He told the committee
that he would not proceed unless they
produced Judge Lindsey. By accident
he spied the judge in the crowd as be
was entering the hall to speak. he
called out to him, asked him to &C
company him, and then when he got
into the hall, walked up to the edge
of the platform and addressing the
newspaper correspondents, said:
Guest a Host.
"Gentlemen, I wish it understood
that Judge Lindsey is my guest here
and that wherever I go, he goes also.
If there is any news in that I should
be glad for you to send it out"
Was there any news in it? An
swer me that, you people who have
been disposed to censure the press for
advertising Roosevelt. 1t was the
story Of the day. Theodore Roosevelt
went from here on East. The next
great opportunity he got was at Chi
cago, and as usual, and as all who
know him might have expected, he
pulled off a similar performance when
he let it be known that he would not
attend a dinner unless Senator Lori
mar. @voe -n1,hhe6
Colorado, as I have already writ
ten, is, next to Illinois, the most cor
rupt State / have visited. Judge Ben
B. Lindsey of the juvenile court, who
for many years has been in a position
to know, has told about it, giving
names, places and dates. Those who
have been grating on the --ic, brib-
ing legislatures, fixing" judges, gov
ernors, State officers, and all other
needful officials, so as to protect them
in their graft, belong to the most
prominent families of Denver. Up
on Capitol Hill, the fashionable part
of the city, the judge is naturally under
the ban. By accident I met a fair
representative of this Capitol Hill So
ciety, in the very attractive person
of a young matron, who gave me the
"society" viewpoint of a graft exposer
in the average American city. We were
in the gallery of the house of repres-
entati7es at the capitol, and she was
pointing out to me the only woman
member of the legislature. I was in
terested to know now the women in
this woman suffrage State behave in
politics. "Oh," said my companion,
''the women here, I suppose, are like
they are elsewhere. The general run
of them care nothing about voting and
taking part in politics; it is only a
few of the formal and faddish ones
that go in for that sort of thing"
That was itself interesting, but I
wanted to have her viewpoint on an