Denver labor bulletin., 1916-11-11

was an atmosphere of depression among
the thousands of workingmen and wom-
en- who had assembled at the various
| places to get election returns. How
ever, Wednesday morning a different
aspect was placed upon the situation as
returns from the Western states gave
| Wilson a decisive lead. The phone in
/ The Bulletin office was kept busy re-
spending TO calls for information on the
results from the railway yards and
shops, and men employed on buildings
in the outskirts of the city. Before
noon the sadness of the night before
had turned to gladness and the fact that
Wilson had been elected president and
Gunter governor caused general jubila-
tion among the working people. In Den
yer and those sections of the state
where organized labor eXerts an influ>
ence, an unusually large vote was polled
for Wilson, Gunter and Democratic can.
didates for congress.
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There was great excitement Tuesday
night in Sarconi't billiard room on We'll
ton street, which was the center of
election betting. When the kilograms
were read from New York and Chicago
saying that the daily papers in those
cities had conceded the election to
Hughes, number of men who had
placed their money on Wilson became Sc
foolishly mad that they tore up their
tickets and threw them on the floor.
Others sold their betting checks for ten
per cent of their cash value. One man
who tore up a 81 900 check and threw it
in a cuspidore, came around Wednesday
morning endeavoring to find that por-
ton which carried the number 1t was
gone and he is out just $1,000 for his
foolish madness, as We're numbers OF
others who acted in q like insane man
ner. Henceforth Denver men who wager
on elections will preserve their paste
board tickets until they get returns from
west OF the Mississippi river.
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When the o. P. made his usual
Wednesday morning call at Machinists
headquarters in the Florence building,
he was agreeably surprised to find that
all three political divisions of the office
force were jubilating over the reelection
of Wilson and the defeat OF Carlson by
Gunter for governor. In this office,
Business Agent w. F. Evans is normally
Republicans; Financial Secretary
Charles A. Ahlstrom is a Socialist, and
Baniamin Franklin Perry, business agent
of the Federated Shopman, straight
line Southern Democrat. In Tuesdays
election, however, political affiliations
were withdrawn and at least two of the
Machinists' office force voted for Will
son, while the third, who supported the
Socialist presidential candidate, smiled
satisfactorily over the result.
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Weather Forecaster +. II. Branden
burg had bad slip-up in his special
predictions for Tuesday, election day.
Complying with the request of campaign
managers he went to the trouble of
issuing a special election forecast for
Denver and Colorado, which was pub
lished in black type in Tuesday morn
ing's issue of the News. Chief Bran
denburg predicted that Denver and
Colorado will have as fine an election
day as it is possible to have" As
matter of fact it began showing few
minutes before the polls opened at Z
a. m, and the storm ragged all day and
far into the night. These weather con-
ditions did not prevent the voters going
to the polls and rolling up the largest
vote in the history of the state.
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When Harry w. Fox, president of the |
Wyoming State Federation of Labor,
left this week to attend the A. F. of J.. |
convention in Baltimore he carried with |
him as a souvenir from the West, to be |
placed in the new A. F. of L. building |
in Washington, D. c., a majestic elk |
head. 1t was attractively mounted on a
silver shield and engraved showing that |
the memento was a present from the |
organized workers of that state. The |
head is one of the most beautiful speci |
mems and came from an animal killed on
the Wind river in November, 1915. The |
cost of the head and mounting was
about $500.
John L. Collett, official staff art |
critic of The Bulletin force, who draws |
a salary reading proof on the Times, |
came into our sanctum one day this |
week with every evidence of being much |
peeved. 1t developed that this was due
to his not having been given the privi
lege of passing official criticism upon
the article which appeared in last weeks |
issue, written by Otto F. Thum on the |
Nederland art exhibit. John said the
story was all right, and that Thum had
handled it in a very artistic manner,
but that if he was going to hold the |
title of art critic for The Bulletin he
wanted to exercise some of its preroga
tives Besides, he said, if the article
had been published without credit he
would have thought it came from the
pen of Julian Street, star art writer for
Golfers weekly. inns IS perhaps great |
er compliment to Julian Street than that
given him two years ago when Cripple
Creek changed the name of one of its
thorofares in honor of the New York
magazine writer.
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In the December issue of the Metro
politan Magazine which was placed on
sale in Denver this week, appears the
second number of the "John r. lawson
Story" by Harvey O'Higgins. 1t deals