People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — WOLCOTT OF COLORADO. [ARTICLE]

WOLCOTT OF COLORADO.

A “Redeemer" Who Needs Advertising in the Reform I’ress. Denver Road. We desire to '-all the attention of the secretary of 'lie National Reform 1 Press Assoc' '.fion that he has overlooked somethin:’. We refer to tbe Chicago Tin. v vditorial on the re-elec-lion of E. (). V .xcott to the United fk.it93 senate. Here it is: The triumph of republicanism in Colorado has k.> ‘night the usual result of republican vli > l ies; a surrender to the corporation'; o usts and monopolies of the lav ;> C 1.,; power of the nation. The battle c y •’ Colorado republicans in the •-t c : paiirn was “Redeem the State.” (>n t • t issue they won, : id they have be- toe process of re- <■ M piur by re o .1 g Edward Oliver Y.'ulectt to a six y.:-.rs’ term in. the f’ r ii ■! States seratc. It seems almost blasphemy to speak ot a “redeemer” i.atl Ed Wolcott in ti e same sentence, fir the hitter is the antithesis of the f n-mer. He represents all and singular t .e very elements and conditions from j which tbe people seek redemption. A few days previous to Walcott’s un- ! u-iirnous inuorsement by the republic- j ; caucus some satirist Introduced in 1 -j legislature a resolution declaring taut no person should be sent to the United States senate from Colorado who will not pledge himself to sever all - r'Actions with corporations and trusts.” Nothing has since been heard of that re.iul.akm tiirough the press, but if the peasant legislature is anything like the one that elected Mr. Wolcott six years ago, it is fair to presume that some personal A'iend of the senator’s stoic it. I Edward 0. Wolcott is not only a corporation lawyer and representative, but he is of, by and with the trusts. He is ..a integral part and fractional exponent of every big monopoly in Colorado. From the corporations and trusts he receives his princely income, and in turn he is as watchful of their interests as an Argus and as faithful as I'ides herself. A bat in the sunlight is not blinder than is Senator Wolcott to cue public weal when the interests of corporations and trusts are concerned. Ho is the general counsel of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, as well as a director of the company. He is the Colorado representative of the Burlington & Missouri railway and the Missouri Paci.’ic, which later is the eastern connection of the Rio Grande. He is also the general cousnel and moving spirit of the Denver City Cable Railway company. Whether or not he is regularly retained by any other railroad corporat on is not generally known, but every railroad entering the state regards him as a friend. The number of mining corporations, many of which monopolies growing out of the spoliation of ind! iclual claim owners, represented by Senator Wolcott is approximate to the m iii. er of the state. . n the interest of these corporations p d monopolies Edward 0. Wolcott betas e be dominating spirit of political rings in ti.j republican party ot Colorado, that he has never hesitated to der - uc-h the franchise, banki apt th° state tr asury, and enact laws that place* t-.-j people at the mercy of corporation rule. Indeed, bo shameless was the profligacy and crminality of the henchmen of Senator Wolcott that the legislature which first elected him to the senate actually carried away the furniture and supplies in the legislative hall v- hen it adjourned. It was the same legislature which awarded contracts to Senator 'Wolcott’s active workers for many thousands of dollars more than .mue received, the warrants for which wt re sold to eastern men und repudi-at.-d by the state. The public press did .* *: hesitate to stiginati/.e member* of that legislature as thieves and robbers, h - . . tit elected uot to represent the people but to vote for Ed Wolcoti lor United States senator. 'iae senator’s enamels <n Colorado eri that it cost SISO,QOb to elect the republican ticket in Colorado last November. This could <>nly refer to what It cost the corporations, for the bitter test to the state from being represented it tbe upper bouse of congress by a list and railroad attorney cunhot be counted in dollars and cent 3. The re-election of Senator Woioott practicaliy the first act of the re-

enthroned republicans of Colorado, the v/ork of redemption in that singularly unfortunate commonwealth will undoubtedly go bravely on. Wc desire to add that it is the duty of the association to run it through he ready print papers in the R. P. A. and give it the widest possible circulation, for nothing truer was ever written. It is a stem winder.