Gilpin observer., 1911-05-11
POLITICAL VILLAINS
cRUcIFY DEMOCRACY

To the disappointment and chagrin
of the genuine Democrats of the
state, the legislature adjourned Sat
urday evening without eleoting a
successor to Senator Chas. ]. Hughes.
No act of commission or ommission
(and heaven knows the latter have
been numerous in the past two as
semblies) will do more to swing the
state of Colorado into the Republican
column at the next election than the
failure of the Democrats to elect
a senator and give Colorado her full
quota of representation in the upper
branch Of congress.
With the members of the party 1t
must be plain where the responsible
lity rests for the failure to make a
sore-head who no longer claims to be
a Democrat (if he ever was one)
and a number of legislators whom he
controlled throughout the session.
Our utter disgust Of the actions of
the handful of so cal!e1 Democrats
who let such a singular opportunity
escape is SO strong we can hardly ex-
press an opinion that would ade-
quat:ly voice our contempt for those
in the house and senate who prevent
ed the party from fulfilling it's duty
in e!ccting a senator,
The Grand Junction Sentinel voices
our sentim ents in the following:
THE Democratic party Of Colorado
not all of it, but that part Of it
calling itself platform Democracy
ought to seek the largest hold in the
hills that it can find, creep within
and pull the hole in after it. for the
part it has played in the work of the
18th general assembly.
"The curses and condemnation Of
the rank and file of Democracy
should lodge on the heads of the
Adamsss; that old wart of politics,
Charles S. Thomas, and the greater
pot on on the head Of that old po-
litical villain, Thomas NJ. Patterson,
for the failure of the assembly to
ele t United States senator.
I'VE miss our guess much If it will
not be many years before Democracy
will have the call to turn down a
United States senatorship from this
state. There is no possible show to
elect senator two years hence, when
there will be two to elect, and we
will care very little indeed If the
Republican PARTY should grab both Of
them, which we feel sure they will.
ut has always been the way with
the Democratic party that it has not
had suff cient horse sense to know
what is well for it. Does anyone re-
ca a tine when the Republican par
ty perm tied an opportunity of elect
ing a United States senator to pass
by without taking advantage of its
privilege? They may have differences
In the party, but they never have
let patronage pass by on such ac-
count.
Dem Toc'a-y has had AMI always
viii have too many alleged leaders.
1t has always been the prey of other
parties. 1t has been used time and
time again by the Republican party;
but never has it permitted itself to
be used in the manner in which 1t
has teen by Thomas M. Patterson.
to exerc'Ge his hatred of a man who
has led the party to victory on num-
ber'e o casions and to finally cause
ad d'ournment of the Colorado assem-
by without having elected n senator.
st is srch shame that every true
Denocra in the state is cursing
those who have been directly respon-
sib'e. And those who have been the
cause Of such a fiasco will hear from
the reople in no uncertain manner.
Thomas NJ. Patterson and his
Rocky Mountain News have announc-
ed themselves as being Independents
What Gull, under the circumstanc es,
did he or his publication have to
try to dictate to the Democratic ma
jority Of the assembly?
THAT majority was not under any
call whatever to listen to one word
OF advice from an individual or n
publication that time and again has
trs rsitororsly b"ckcappe1 tfe party.
supp ,rted opposing candidates to the
candidates Of the party itself and has
for ye1rs teen without the pale Of
tr D. mocracy.
when we think OF the conditions