Show LEADING COLORADOANS Three Distinguished Gentlemen Who Are Tisitiiiff the City Henry R Wolcott Brother of the Senator Sena-tor TalUs About Silver the West and Politics Henry H Wolcott brother of Edward I Ed-ward F Wolcott Colorados junior senator whose voice was raised in silvery sil-very strains in behalf of the white metal accompanied by F O Vaile and C G Codman is in the city All three are leading men in the business circles of Denver and mining circles of Colorado and are types of those citizens through whoseenergy Denver has been I built upjr The three gentlemn arrivd on the midnight train from Denver on Friday night and registered at the Knutsford Yesterday they attended to some business matters and last evening were guests of Colonel Estes at the Alta club A Herald reporter met Mr Wolcott and had a few moments mo-ments conversation with him It came out that he is now on his way to Montana to look after various of his interests there while the other gentlemen gen-tlemen have come this way with the intention of visiting the Camp Floyd district to look over the ground and see what he prospects of development amount to When asked as to the silver issue Mr Wolcott stated that he had little to say as the subject had been thoroughly thor-oughly gone over by others He said he has hopes that something favorable will be done before long and bases his hones on his view of the situation in England which is almost certain to compel a recognition of the white metal As to the situation in Denver he said that there is a much better outlook out-look now than sixty days ago The people peo-ple are regaining their courage and are working together to build up the industries indus-tries that have been partially prostrated prostrat-ed during the financial depression The statements that Denver is prostrate in the business walks that crime is prevailing pre-vailing to a frightful extent and that destitution among the poorer classes is awful to contemplate were denied flatly Speaking of the west generally he affirmed that there are too many resources in the region to warrant the belief that the destruction of one of them can prostrate the business thereof there-of If silver should go lower than it is and even if all the mines should be shut down he sees no prospect of a depopulation of the west the returning return-ing of a prosperous country to its primeval pri-meval barrenness On the contrary he believes the people will simply turn their attention to other matters and develop other resources that have been neglected Concerning the political situation in Denver he averred that he has no doubt that the next legislature will be Republican for the people realize that they cannot support the Populist party while it is led by such men as Waite even though they fully recognize that neither the Democratic nor Republican parties will do anything for silver |