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Show SIMON GUGGENHEIM TO GO TO SENATE DENVER. Colo., Jan, l.--vMmon Guggenheim's Gug-genheim's election as I'nited States Senator to succeed Thomas M. Tatter-sc.n Tatter-sc.n is assured by the action of the Republican Re-publican members of the general assembly as-sembly in caucus yesterday. Mr. Guggenheim's candidacy was endorsed by a vote of fiS to 1. Seventy of the one hundred members of the Legislature are Republicans and all but one of them participated in the caucus. Mr. Guggenheim is ."0 years of age and is a son of the late Meyer Guggenheim Guggen-heim of New York. He is a very weaithv man and is a member of the executive committee of the American Smelting 4 Refining company. In an interview today. Mr. Guggenheim said: "If I go to the , Senate it will not be to represent the Smrlting company or anv other company or any interest. I will go as Simon Guggenheim -plain citizen to represent the people of id-oradn. id-oradn. An honorable nmbition iv per- j mitted to every man. een to the wealthiest, and it's my ambition to serve my country. "When I was a younger man I had the ambition to make myself indenen dent. I have done thir. I wanted independence in-dependence that I rright go into pJi-ti'S pJi-ti'S with free hands. Whv shouldn't an independent man s-erv Lis ititrv w.th a!l his health and ail his heart as well!" |