OCR Text |
Show DENVER LETTER. HUD BATTERIES SOON TO BE OPENED BY FUSIONISTS A Scheme to Catch the "Woman Vote" The Campaign Turning More and More Into a Personal" Vituperation by the Fusionists Senator Teller's Break About RooseVelt Fusion Nof "Altogether Harmonious. Deaver, Colo., September 15, 1900. Tie fox .nists have at last got -Arough with their various conventions, and have fused more or less completely. complete-ly. The Democrats Have been very generous to the other parties, especially to the Silver Republicans. One. of the nominations given to the. Silver Republicans, Repub-licans, aowever, was not out of gener-sity, gener-sity, bat in order to avoid a very serious dilemma. The Democratic leaders found that Judge Goddard was so strong among the Democratic delegates in their con-ventioa con-ventioa that If they allotted the Supreme Su-preme Court judgeship to the Democrats. Demo-crats. Jndge Goddard might be nominated. nom-inated. The leaders did not care to have him nominated on account of the threats tkat had been made against Mm by eome of the labor unions. They therefore avoided the trouble by hand-tog hand-tog over the nomination for judge to the Silver Republicans. The representative of union labor who was chosen by the Fopulist convention con-vention as the nominee for lieutenant governor, John Calderwood, was not personally agreeable to Governor Thomas! and the Democratic convention, conven-tion, at Thomas' liiddiug, refused to ratify his nomination; and the Populist . convention, what was left of it possibly pos-sibly forty per cent, of the delegates-gathered delegates-gathered itself together, called itself a quorum, and at the solicitation of Hon. Tnomas M. Patterson, turned down Mr. Calderwood and put up Mr. Coates. What effect this will have upon the vote of the unions remains to be seen. One of the features of the Democratic Democrat-ic convention was the speech of Governor Gov-ernor Thomas, in which he took occasion occa-sion to go out of his way to make a violent assault on the personal habits and character of Senator Wolcott. He accused him of having broken nearly all the commandments in the second table, and made it clearly evident that the fusion campaign, when it is started, start-ed, will consist very largely of personal per-sonal attacks of the muddiest possible kind. Among the other agencies which will be employed is a pretty thoroughly or-. or-. ganized women's gossip club. This was employed against Mr. Henry Wolcott two years ago to a certain extent, and with such success that the fusion managers man-agers expect great results from it this year. Mr. Thomas, on whose behalf, at the Democratic primaries, all the slums of the city weiv forced to vote by the police under Mr. Thomas' control, is posing as a model of purity and personal per-sonal virtue. Nobody need be surprised at any outrageous out-rageous story that may be printed during dur-ing the coming campaign in regard to Senator Wolcott. The fusionists are evidently desperate, and realizing that they cannot possibly best him by fair and open political methods, propose to employ private slander to as large an extent as possible. Just as Mr. Thomas' speech was one of the features of the Democratic convention. con-vention. Senator- Teller's speech was the great feature of the Silver Republican Repub-lican convention, and just as Governor Tnomas went out of his way to slander slan-der Senator Wolcott, so Senator Teller went out of his way to, slander Governor Gov-ernor Roosevelt. ' Mr. Teller described Roosevelt as "The distinguished skulker of San Juan Hill the man who has taken the credit of what the negro regiment did." There are too many people in Colorado who have read Governor Roosevelt's account of the Cuban war, and too many mei whe were with him in the ' Rough Riders' regiment, for this slan-. slan-. der to have any effect on the people's estimate of Governor Roosevelt. It may, however, affect their estimate of Senator Teller. He has either become ee bitter from continuous disappointments disappoint-ments that he cannot recognize the truth when he sees it, or else he has deliberately made a statement which he knows to be untrue. The metnods referred to above as now In nse in Colorado are only a sample sam-ple of the kind that are in use throughout through-out whole country. The Chicago Bryan organ the other day published a statement that Mr. Roosevelt had said that any man who ever took part in a strike ought to be shot. Of course. Mr. Roosevelt, as soon as he heard of It, promptly telegraphed that it was a malicious He: but the denial will not be published in the Democratic papers which published the accusation. ' In the same way, throughout what they regard as the back districts the unenlightened states the Democrats are now circulating pretended news Items to the effect that wages have been reduced by a certain firm in a certain locality, generally in New England. Eng-land. These are pure products of the imagination, imag-ination, but when employed in Idaho, Utah, Nevada. Colorado and other faraway far-away states, the Democratic managers expect that the truth will not be able to catch up with the slander. ' In ordinary campaigns it is an established estab-lished rule never to believe any accusations accu-sations that are made during the last week of the canvass. In this campaign It seems to be safe to apply the same rule to the Democratic side six weeks before the election. |