Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1912 — GUGGENHEIM, THE EXPENSIVE LUXURY. [ARTICLE]

GUGGENHEIM, THE EXPENSIVE LUXURY.

By Ben B. Lindsey.

iSimon Guggenheim, of the Smelter Trust, is the Republican United States Senator from Colorado. He is the owner of the Republican machine in Colorado. He uses that machine to defeat the will of the people. He used it to pick the delegation from Colorado to the Republican Convention in June. With himself he placed upon this delegation such notorious tools of the corrupt moneyed interests of our State as A- M. Stevenson, more familiarly known in Colorado as “Big Steve,” and because of his notorious part 4n corrupt politics is sneeringly referred to as “Angel Archie.” The Republican boss in Denver is William G. Evans, president of the Denver City Tramway Company. He controls Denver’s street railway system and is political manager for the public service corporations Guggenheim and Evans are noted principally for their skill and lack of all sense of shame in using both the Democratic and Republican machines in Colorado to rob the people. Guggenheim’s money has been a material factor in the corruption of both old parties in Colorado. It was Guggenheim and such of his henchmen who deprived the people of Colorado of the right to a preferential Presidential primary. They knew that at such a primary, safeguarded by law, they would have been defeated as delegates to the Chicago convention by a vote of at least five for Roosevelt to one for Taft

The Guggenheim-Evans system of political pillage made the theft of the delegation from Colorado to the Chicago convention certain and successful, for it made a contest almost impossible, more infamous than it would have been had it been done directly and in the open, as it was in some of the other states. Guggenheim’s commercialized politics is a system of continuous robbery*„„lt began before the election of Mr. Guggenheim to the Senate. His election was only a part of it. It is not surprising that it should contribute materially to the theft of Mr. Taft’s nomination. Guggenheim and the Guggenheim trusts are for Taft. If they are satisfied they can’t get Taft they will be for Wilson. They will do anything to defeat Roosevelt. And then Guggenheim knows the value of the Democratic organization to big business. It supported the Guggenheim-Evans Republican ticket in Denver in 1906, when Guggenheim’s Legislature was elected. In 1908 the Guggenheim-Evans machine returned the favor to the Democrats by supporting the Bryan Democratic ticket in Colorado. They simply capitalized the reputation of Mr. Bryan as a Progressive, for it was the same Guggenheim-Evans machine that elected the Bryan Democratic candidate for United States senator. This Democratic Senator with other Democratic Senators joined Mr Guggenheim in the Senate in putting robber schedules in the Payne-Ald-rich Tariff Bill. Take pig lead as an example. This lead is all owned by Hie Smelter Trust. The sworn testimony before the Ways and Means Committee proved it needed no protection. But theY fixed the tax on pig lead at $12.50 per ton. It was done in pari by the wotes of Mr. Guggenheim and Mr" Hughes, the Democratic Senator from Colorado. Thus it is that every Ameri-

can citizen who buys a pound of paint, a tip cup, or a piece of lead pipe, pays part of the twelve to twenty millions of dollars of unjust tribute wrung from the people by the Smelter Trust last year. And for this robbery, as well as for Guggenheim, the Democratic machine was just as responsible as the Republican machine. Colorado politicians say that Guggenheim’s Senatorship cost him a million dollars. Based oU six years’ tribute he and his Democratic colleague helped to levy on the American people jt has cost not only the people ol Colorado, but the people of the United States, nearly one hundred million dollars on this one item of pig lead alone, and don’t forget the part of the robbery played by the Democrats elected in 1906 on the popularity of Mr. Bryan running on the same platform that Wilson is standing on in 1912. v