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Show DISTRACTED COLORADO. There is promise of a very singular state of affairs in Colorado politically. The toughs, murderers mur-derers and incendiaries will, of course, votevthe Democratic ticket, for a Republican Governor and ' Adjutant General has been interfering with their plans and performances during the past year. But the corporation and trust class met the other day in secret session and .decided that President Roosevelt suited them exactly. But though this meeting was secret, there was some unfaithful one in the company who gave the thing away and the facts were all published in the Democratic organs. or-gans. But three days later the same crowd met again with the same president in the chair and resolved that Judge Parker was the man of their choice, they all wanting a careful and conservative conserva-tive administration. At the same time they fixed to have a certain man nominated for Governor, arranged ar-ranged to have a letter from him or a telegram, declaring that he was not only not an offlceseeker, but that it would be utterly impossible for him to accept the place; then to have debate enough in the convention to show that he was the only man who had the absolute confidence of the people, then to have a friend of the nominee in a ringing speech declare that he was jure that the nominee was too good a party man, too great a patriot to ie-fuse ie-fuse the unanimous desire of his party, and pledging pledg-ing his honor that he would accept. So the Democracy will go into the campaign with the claim that they are opposed to all trusts and illegal combines of capital and call on all who would put a curb on lawless wealth to join them; further, that the turbulence in the mining regions has all been due to the arbitrary acts of a Re publican Governor; that the assassinations committed com-mitted in the mining regions were all by non-union men who were seeking to drive the members or the Western Federation of Miners out of the state that they might obtain their places, all call for Justice and for Peace. The fact that only non-union men have been killed' Will be passed over as a matter of small interest. Then Senator Teller has come out in an open letter denouncing the Governor for grappling with the assassins and altogether the situation looks good for the Democracy in the Centennial state, but It surely looks badly for the peace, order, good name and prosperity of the state for the coming two or three years. But speaking of the Teller letter, it is replied to in George's Weekly of Denver by Pitz Mack. It is more than a reply. It is a dissection. It covers several pages of the Weekly and is altogether alto-gether as awful an arraignment of public murderers murder-ers and private assassins as was ever put in type. The arraignment is entirely respectful to Senator Sena-tor Teller, but it accuses Senator Patterson of being be-ing the attorney and apologist of the murderers, and charges the present condition of affairs in Colorado directly to him. Of the tone of the communication an idea can be gained from a single paragraph as follows: "Of course I shall not be guilty of the folly of charging that Senator Patterson has ever personally person-ally and maliciously connived at the murder of any man, but I tell you, Senator Teller, that the blood of more than forty murdered men, done to death in Colorado within the last few years under a system of stealthy assassination by the remorseless remorse-less Molly McGuIres, who constitute the "inner circle" cir-cle" (the killers) of the Western Federation of Miners I tell you, Senator Teller, that the blood of those murdered men cries out from the mountain moun-tain sides of Colorado to all humanity against your able and charming but reckless and demagogic dema-gogic fellow Senator, Editor Patterson, as the primary pri-mary instigator of their cruel death, and the public pub-lic apologist of the murderers." And this Is backed up by columns more of the same kind. It seems clear enough that the campaign cam-paign in Colorado this year promises to be somewhat some-what lively. |
