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Show its good mv A Prominent Colorado Politician oil the Fight that is to be Made This Fall. An Additional Congressman to be Selected Se-lected in a Stone's Throw of the Jordan. CANDIDATES WE KNOW. Eelative Merits of the More Prominent and the Qualities They Must Possess. GALLANT ED WOLCOTT. The Western Tlmpire 1 Lis a Nominee for Governor Whom They Claim Will Sweep the Centvunial State. Turning from the irrepressible conflict between be-tween the honest silver dollar aud aud Wall street, the Hon. J. H. Fesler of Gleuwood Springs said this morning, in the lobby of Knutsford that among the prettiest fights to be made in Colorado this season was that for congressman, the irreat empire of silver getting two under the recent apportionment, appor-tionment, "I don't know much about the struggle strug-gle in the valley," caroled Mr. Fesler, "but we of the mountains are looking forward to the contest with a great deal of interest. The woods are full of candidates in our district, and without betraying be-traying any egotism I want to say that the mountains of our state grow tiie tallest and most formidable timber. When I say this, I mean timber that will yield to nothing in the strugsrle for a bill that wHI give us the unlimited un-limited coinage of silver." "And among tin: more prominent of the candidates "W-e-l-l," said the prophet reflectively "in the northwestern part of the district which embraces the great mining camps aud a mighty espouse of agricultural lands we shall iro as a unit for the Hon. B. Clark Wheeler. We recognize that, no man has contributed more prodigally from his pocktt or his pen and shall light for him until the last dog is dead. We feci that representing repre-senting the most important seat of riches W'U Bava the edge on the nomination aud that our claims are entitled to the tirst consideration. con-sideration. "Coining down on his high-beaded charger from the north will be State Representative Eddy, with a solid phalanx, I a'm told, following fol-lowing him. Eddy has been a- very prominent promi-nent figure in state politics, and is another of the brightest lights of the western empire. He was one of the principals in that terrible struggle for the speakership of the last house, in which your Colorado colony in Utah took sucii a lively interest. "Then there comes ti j from the San Juan empire the lofty Bewea Tom Bo wen, if you please. with his gilded trappings aud" all the splendor of the San Juan vailev and its golden hills. But Tom, I'm afraid, has a hard tight on hand. Ilis girdle is already tilled with rich and enviable laurels. He has adorned the bench, has been a United Stat.s senator. has the distinction of having vanquished Tabor, Ed Wolcott and even Judge Hodges in a game of poker. All this " "What more wiil ambition crave?" interposed inter-posed a hy. itandfir "Oh, Tom's liie is not complete unless it was w hirling through the irrldescent dreams of politics. His ambition recognizes no boun Js. But tht-n there are the people to be consulted in this race for congress, and the Coloradoan uenerally knows when he has given one man enough of the good things of life. "Now comes Congressman Townsend, the handsome Hosca we call him, who has represented rep-resented us twice in congressional halls at Washiuglon and who will report with the middle counties of the district. But Town-tend Town-tend lias the same disadvantage as Bow en to overcome. He has worn the mantle twice r.nd the average Colorado delegate has a horror hor-ror of third terms, ile a a good man, Town-send Town-send is, and has a host of admirers, but he is yet young and h.i J pl.mty of time to realize real-ize hii dreams of preferment. I don't think of a.iy more candidates for the congressional mantle at this time." "Now for governor." "Well, we've got a winning hand there, and I've no doubt the republicans of the entire en-tire state will endorse h.m that is the Hon. J. J. Bagurman of Colorado Springs, whose purse strings, whose intelligence aud whose energies are always open to the material wants of Colorado. Oh, well, it would be like tracing a circle for an eiid to attempt to enumerate what he has done for us. He is typically a Colorado man uud weli. pardon me, tnat implies all the virtues." "And for tiie United States senate';" "Vell, if there is a rehi Mte candidate in the lield other than Ed Woicott the gaiiant you;.g Champion, of silver, sil-ver, the man who hail the audacity to beard the president in hw den and to subordinate sub-ordinate all personal ends to the welfare of silver I have not heard of it. Of course he wili be fought, and fought bitter!', too, but that U1 'e mo-tiy on personal grounds. Ex-Senator Hill an.t the lwtblimu wiil maul him at every turn, Bill Griffith and the Sua will wage terrible war, but what then? His objectionable qualities are overcome by his good ones, his personal enemies will full before be-fore the Invincible sword of the masses- and already metbiuks I can hear the silvery notes of his acceptance but hello, the committee com-mittee on sights is wa-i t i n " the last word of the speaker dying out in the rattle of the carriage wheels. . m |