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Show ills ( Democratic Party in Colorado in a Deplorable Deplor-able Condition Denver, Sept. 13. "Conventlonltis' a disorder of the body politic, has attacked at-tacked the general assembly of Colorado, Colo-rado, sitting here in special session to enact legislation promised in the Democratic Dem-ocratic state platform of 190S, aud as a result the assembly suffers from total paralysis, which politlcat sawbones saw-bones declare can be cured only by the Democratic convention, which meets here tomorrow. The legislation demanded at the special session Included radical measures, meas-ures, among them the initiative and referendum, direct primary and a j bank guarantee law, which iiave been "damned by faint praise" by the con servalive wing of the Democratic majority ma-jority in the legislature. With the approach of the state convention, action ac-tion on measures remaining to bo passed slowed down appreciably, reaching complete stagnation yester-da yester-da a condition which will prevail until the convention has an opportunity opportuni-ty to instruct the Democratic members mem-bers of lhe assembly as to what the J party wants to do about its pledges j , of two vears ago |