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PASSING Of SAAFROTn

"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Demo
Gratis:
elf You aak ne from, whence on:
candidate, l answer from the hearts
and souls of the masses, struggling for
equal opportunity under honest govern
ment. II you ask, what is cardinal "a
his creed, l answer, governments derive
their just power from the consent of
the governed and not from the decree
of privilege. If you ask, has he been
tried, l answer, tried in the crueible
| and found to be pure gold. If You
ask, is he courageous and faithful, /
answer, that for nearly two years the
shafts of privilege, the lure of oppor-
tunity and the pleading of expediency
| have fallen harmlessly at the feet of
this giant oak.
Unbribed by. gain and unawed by
power he has stood for the rights of
all the people all the time.
~ present the name of John f.
| Shafroth.' -
In the above language Senator Tully
Scott, now Judge Scott, placed the
| name of John F. Shafroth before the
last democratic state convention as
candidate for governor. Those who
were present will remember the result
of that eloquent plea. 1t was the turn.
ing point of that convention. The
stampede which it created defeated B.
( l.. Jefferson for the nomination by four
teen votes.
| Would such plea win nomination
for the governor today! Could even
Scott with the eloquence of years of
platform experience at his command
stampede any convention or any body
of men TO Governor Shafroth?
The answer is more readily found in
the fact that his precinct refused to
send him as delegate to the demo-
cratic county convention. His ward
declined to recommend his name as d
delegate to the state convention. His
city and county declined to ELECT him
as a delegate-at-large to the state con
vention and the democratic convention
of his county declined to even con-
mend. let alone indorse, his admins
tration. The men who became wildly
enthusiastic under the impressive
! strain of Senator Scott referring 20
him as the giant oak have during the
sober second thought of the past two
years taken his perfect measure and
know him to be a bending twis.
And why this change within eight
cen short months? The answer is easy.
Senator Scott allowed the majesty of
his eloquence to play, not as he sup
posed, ON a giant oak, but around the
small bush at the foot thereof. Gov
ernor Shafroth was not the man Sen
ator Scott pictured him IN that ad-
dress. Freak circumstances politically
had caused the people for the time 20
imagine that he was the coming savior
of Colorado and they delegated unto
him the power to set the state right
in a governmental manner.
When clothed with this power he
utterly failed. Ineompetency describes
every faculty which he has tried to
bring into play to make of Colorado a
better governmental habitation for her
people. Political chicanery describes
his attempts to secure the enactment of
alleged reform laws, while underneath
| his every move was the subtle founda
ton Of his candidacy for the United
States senate. Members of the legisla
ture were allowed to appropriate mil
lions of dollars beyond the income OF
J appropriations would build for himself
public machine that would make him
senator. In the exercise of his veto
power he played with the church ele
element the next, in the hope of win
ming to himself popular favor. In the
final signature of appropriation bills
he signed those which would reduce
his own taxes in Denver and vetoed
those that would decrease the taxes IN
the smaller communities, the loss of
| which meant little in the total sum of
the state. In his appointments, he has
played to both the Speer and the Pat
terson faction of democracy as exempll
fed on his state land board commits
sion, the result of which is that a once
profitable land board business for the
state is now on the verge of financial
collapse. In the distribution of the
finances to the public institutions, he
has forgotten these institutions, leav-
ing them dependent on the public char
ity collections of our people, while tn.
states money has been used for q po-
litical navroll headed nv such mn, es