| Show VOTE RESULTS IN COLORADOS COLORADO'S P RIM A R Y HAS SIGNIFICANCE Republican Oha Chairman Un Un- Unable Unable Unable able to ibid Hold Own Stale Stae In Line I BITTER STRUGGLE Colorado Colorado Sp Springs News News- N Newspaper paper Owner Puts Up Uphard UpHard hard lIard Scrap Bv DI nO ROBERT EnT T SMALL SI Special Correspondent of J 1 lie he NEW YORK Sept 18 The It most significant primary event of the past week was the stunning blow delivered to tho the leadership of Senator Lawrence Lawrene C ot of Colorado Senator Phipps was selected some time ago aco to lead the national tight fight for Republican supremacy In the ho cenate of ot the Iho United States lb Ho was made chairman ot of o the tile Republican sena seno senatorial campaign committee commutes In his homo state he was routed nt at atthe atthe the the primaries lila his senatorial so- so se selection lection being snowed under and his gubernatorial candidate meet meet- meetIng meeting meet meet-Ine Ing a II liko Ilko fate TILE BATTLE The battle in III Colorado baa haa been bitter Ostensibly it turned upon the Ku lu Klux Klan Ilan In re- re reality reality re reality It was an out and ond out fight between Senator Phipps and Clar Clar- Clarence enco ence CO C Hamlin of ot Colorado Springs for tor control of ot the state Mr Hamlin Is the tho Republican national committeeman Ho and the senator have been bean at political swords points for tor or several yearn ear Senator ps himself does not come up for tor re-election re until 1930 1 Perhaps by that time somo some of ot the rancor will vitt have bave died down and ho he may be But If mal matters tel's stand in status quo Ham Ham- Hamlin Ham lire lin is likely to tight fight to the last ditch i The battle in C Colorado lorado was In inno Inno no sense a ft Coolidge or Cool anti Cool Idee Idge affair Both Doth Senator I 1 Mr 11 lamlin Hamlin admire the pre pre- president ident pod and arc are strong for tor his Ms rC j rc i nomination re in 1928 1 2 It It hc hO waftS wanta to run again Senator Pili I also was u 11 t gOose dose personal l f for or of the tho late President lint ding It As WU tb-As during during the Senator Harding reign that ho he tried te shunt shu lie r Hamlin aside as Ios a 0 power rower of or poll poll- politics tics in the th lr mountain state CO COULDN'T 1 STAl- STAl OUT OLT p Party ty leaders here In the east understood that Senator I was trying to keep out ot of o the tho primary wrangle in lila Ills home bomo horn I state but ho he could not do so Ills His Senator Rice nice W Means was eras standing tor for re nomination re-nomination re 11 was ln Moans Means eans be- be because because cause ot of the latter iatter connection with the klan Idan Hamlin a t two two- two fisted wo- wo fisted tighter fishier It if ever there was one had bad owed Vowed to run every Klu er out ot of the Republican party in Colorado or die In the thc attempt Ho Ha was outraged outfaced that t Means Ieans ever should have O been to the senate and for the tho past tw two years had be been n organ organ- organIzing organizing orean Izing the th against him Means naturally called upon his colleagues for help and while Senator Phipps rated as ns the rich rich- richest rich est man in hi his home homo state has no especial liking for tor the klan ho had bad to take tako up the tho cudgels for tor Means and the th two together do- do declared de declared dared war on Hamlin Vr to la breath In the tho nostrils ot of tho the dl- dl dl Colo Cob Colorado commItteeman of ot redo rado He lie was secretary of o the thc mine owners association during the Cripple Creek strike in In the gold country and fight for tor law and order at that Un o was a classic to which Continued on Pose Muc Flue VOTE RESUl RESULTS IS IN COLORADO Continued Iron Ironi rage One the tho Boston police strike which v brought Cabin Coolidge to na- na national national na national fame was a Sunday school picnic MANY 1 ChAlICES Hamlin was accused of starting starling all the strike riots His Ills denunciation atlon of at the strikers and their theira a ts of violence was vituperative tIe He knew no tear fear Ho made speeches from the tho ho tail end of wagons and dodged whistling bul- bul bullets bul bullets lets while he lie spoke Politics therefore Is Ii a tame game cam ame to him Sometimes called Tho The Little Giant of the th Clarence Hamlin Is known from coast to coast as one of the tho gamed gamest earnest men In a tight fight the west has hos ever known lie He H grow grew up In Wyo- Wyo Wyoming Wyo ming In a rough routh and read ready school Ho served tor for a a time In the Wyoming legislature and then moved to Colorado to take up the I practice of law Ills lIls Interest In politics continued lIe Ho also be- be became be became came Interested In journalism and bought the th afternoon paper In Colorado Springs Spring Lately ho he also acquired the morning paper there Then his friends called him Idea The Tho Lord of tho Pikes Peak region Whenever II a B sou- sou sou soubriquet t has been given him It always ha has had a hUng fighting ring to it 11 POLITICAL D DAVID Just now he h is being pictured as a political David who has slain the tho Goliath Phipps Many of his friends warned varned him against an open fight with so 80 o powerful and rich a man roan as a Senator Two years ago OBO Hamlin laid off and let Senator Phipps bo be I mated and re-elected re This was the time the Ku raised heir hooded heads head and attempted to control the tho th Republican party parly In the tho state Their boldest bId bIdwa wa was to send Rico Rice Means Moans to the senate This was as too much for Ho lie and his lila closest po- po po political associate in III the for formen state for for- mer men mer Governor Oliver OU H ll Shoup I put on their war ar paint and start started tant- tant I ed cd on their prowl No two wildcats wildcats wild- wild I cats cats could havo haro done dono more mor than they hav have accomplished According to the stories reach reach- reaching reach inc Ing the tho east cast ea t Senator tried to Induce Charles W V V Waterman to abandon his candidacy against Senator Means and to get Bet SIr Mr Shoup to abandon his campaign for the gub gubernatorial nomination against John Vivian Backing both Waterman and Shoup Sir Hamlin gave cave Senator PhIpps the hoarse horse hors laugh Senator Phipps said neither Waterman nor Shoup if It nominated could be elected said ho he h would rather have havo tho the grand old party buried d fathoms fathom under the Salton Sallon sea than to have hav It bend hend Its head bead to the domination of the ic Klux KI J Klan TOUGH nox ON Senator Phipps decided to ro- ro romain romain main ro-main main true tru to Means Man and Ills hits klan associates and antI the tho th battle battlo began bean It ended with the selection of ot both Waterman and J Shoup and now Senator Phipps I as chairman of ot the senatorial campaign committee must range hImself alongside lon ld Hamlin and try to elect Mr Waterman a warm personal friend and supporter ot of I President Coolidge The Tho Colorado situation la is sig- sig sig significant of tho ho great creat upheaval al which Is going coins on In politics everywhere |
