Show A LITTLE HISTORY HIS TOSy we are told by a contemporary that the tribune roundly abused tom patterson there has been no abuse of 0 tom patterson rat terson in the tribune unless the statement of two or three well known historical facts constitutes abuse tom tarn batterson rat terson Is an original democrat D c me c rat IT he e worked tor for a great many years in colorado to change the political sentiment there enough to pu put t the state in the iho hands of the democratic party parly ile he tailed failed ile he went to the convention that nominated mr cleveland and falling to got get included in the platform a silver plank that suited him ho be came home and turned his paper into a populist paper with the very evident intention of 0 taking the electoral votes which naturally belonged to mr harrison in colorado away from him and with the faither intention of electing it possible a legislature made up of enough old democrats and republicans to in turn elect jilin him to the seri senate a te we to do riot not belleve believe that at any time lim he had any intention of permanently leaving the democratic party As harlie charlie C thomas expressed it sir wilton c Y II 11 sir r Clev elands right hind man at chicago rold cald to him V we e will give you leave ot of al absence luence from the democratic party for four years the same plan was tried in different places in some with tile the same success the object was waa to elect as many man legislatures as possible that would elect democratic senators and take as aa many of the electoral votes ns as TO possible which naturally belonged to the republican candidate away from him the movement carried beautifully in kansas in III idaho in nevada in colorado and some other naturally republican states it had no strength whatever no following and no consideration era lion in naturally democratic states iver nver since mr patterson through h his rs great newspaper has done ahat he could to divide and dest destroy ro y the re republican P ab party it if to tell the truth about him Is abuse then a new definition inaz must 1 be found for the word abuse |