Show AS DONE DOME IN DENVER corruption in politics has been spoken of in utah but as a revelation of what corruption means tile the fOll following OlViDa taken from the denver post will ha be a revelation but not an example worthy of imitation W B bat masterson returned to denver too late for the last election but bo be does not fancy the free and easy manner in which his hia name was need during 0 th ohp campaign and he thus retorts the fact that not more than half the registered voters took the trouble to go 0 o to the polls this fall and vote vole indicates indicates to me that there tire are a great many people living in denver who are not entirely lost to all series sense of decency and self respect I 1 predict that the time is not far distant when it will be 1 a I difficult matter to get a belf re ejecting epe cling man to permit his name to be usco as a candidate for an office in this community no matter how bow important the office the decent element of voters has about concluded that there is no use in this voting business as no one but the wolves will get anything anyway so eo they will stay away from I 1 rom the polls and just let the wolves have it all the rocky mountain news raised a great hue and cry about the londoner election and paraded my name in its columns column quite often d during tiring the campaign The evident purpose of the news in resurrecting that election was to injure borstadt now I 1 want to say right ight here that I 1 never saw dor bor fladt in my life that I 1 know of and would not know him if I 1 were to meet him today it was not my coy business on the day of the londoner election to take voters to the polls and for that reason I 1 took none consequently I 1 did not meet borstadt or any other election judge my business was to pay day one dollar a head to good virtuous denver citizens after they had cast their votes and were brought to roe me properly certified to I 1 desire to add 1 authur that the same element of voters who told their votes for one dollar on that day are still selling their votes for the same game price if they can get it arid and less if they cannot the londoner election was wag not the abe only carru corrupt pt election held in this city I 1 remember about three years ago when we were all engaged in redeeming the state I 1 say we I 1 want it understood that I 1 did not officiate in a criminal capacity during tho tha redemption period in which we elected elec tel some one from somewhere in the san an luia valley for governor I 1 dont remember his came just koiv but he was a cuckoo the registration reg ai books of this city were e padded with about twelve thousand names mostly taken from the tombstones ut at riverside and fairmount cem et aries and they were all voted and the state was redeemed but is as that was done for or the public weal we I 1 suppose it was all right the city election last spring is not to be bei sniffed at we will likely bear about that later on when the wolves fall out prom from the charges and countercharges counter charges of fraud bribery and corruption that were flying so BO thick and fast durin during the last election it woul would d seem that the era of political reformation had not quite set in at least in denver deliver think of a man coolly admitting that he paid ore one dollar each for votes after they were properly certified and d that it kept him busy during the day and again of his charge that in another election the books were padded with twelve thousand names it is high time that the era of political reformation referred to slid did set in in denver |