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COLORADO. 



COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER. 



"recognizing Almighty God" in the preamble 

 of the platform, and the words were finally 

 inserted. The platform contains the following 

 propositions : 



The abolition of the saloon ; the free and unlimited 

 coinage of silver ; abolition of the national banks ; 

 Government ownership of railroad, telegraph, and 

 telephone lines : the election of United States Sena- 

 tors by a popular vote ; opposition to State convicts 

 working in the interest ot ditch corporations ; and a 

 " modification of the Australian ballot system, so that 

 a fair and equal consideration shall be bestowed upon 

 both old and new parties." 



Delegates were appointed to the national con- 

 vention at Omaha, and a preference was recorded 

 for John P. St. John as candidate for President, 

 and Gilbert De la Matyr for Vice-President. The 

 following was the State ticket : Governor, John 

 Hipp ; Lieutenant-Governor. D. W. Barkly ; Sec- 

 retary of State, R. A. Rice; Treasurer, Fred 

 White; State Auditor, L. C. Aley; Attorney- 

 General, J. C. Home; Superintendent of Schools, 



A. B. Hyde ; Regents of the University, H. H. 

 Hell, Edwin Hungerford. Frank I. Wilson was 

 the nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. 



The Republican Convention, which met Sept. 

 8, declared for free silver, and condemned Presi- 

 dent Harrison for his opposition to free coinage. 

 Joseph C. Helm was nominated for Governor, 

 J. M. Downing for Lieutenant-Governor. E. J. 

 Katun for Secretary, Harry Mulnix for Treas- 

 urer, Harry Tarbell for Auditor, C. S. Libby for 

 Attorney-General, G. B. Timberlake for Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, George W. 

 Allen for Justice of the Supreme Court, and for 

 Regents of the University, J. Semple and War- 

 ren E. Knapp. 



The Democratic Convention met at Pueblo 

 in September. The fusionists having gained con- 

 trol in the organization, the "straight" Demo- 

 crats bolted and held another cpnvention. Fol- 

 lowing is the ticket of the People's party and 

 the fusionists : For Governor, David H. Waite ; 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, D. H. Nichols; for 

 Secretary of State, N. 0. McClees ; for Treas- 

 urer, Albert Nance ; for Auditor, F. M. Goody- 

 koontz; for Attorney-General, Eugene Engley; 

 for Regents of the University, D. M. Richards, 

 W. E. Anderson ; for Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, John F. Murray; for Justice of the 

 Supreme Court. Luther M. Goddard. 



The bolting Democrats nominated the follow- 

 ing ticket: For Governor, Joseph II. Maupin; 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, W. M. McMechen ; 

 for Secretary of State, C. B. Noland ; for Treas- 

 urer, W. E. Hamilton ; for Auditor, John H. 

 Fox; for Attorney-General, W. P. Skelton; for 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Nathan 



B. Coy; for Regents of the University, Henry 

 Johnson, Lee Champion : for Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, Luther M. Goddard. 



The platform approved the platform and ticket 

 of the Chicago convention, favored the free and 

 unlimited coinage of silver, denounced the em- 

 ployment of detectives to coerce labor, and 

 urged legislation as follows: First, to prevent 

 combinations and monopolies designed to raise 

 the price of coal and other articles of necessity ; 

 second, to make eight hours a legal day's work ; 

 third, to secure to mechanics, miners, and labor- 

 ers an effective lien law ; fourth, to secure an 



equitable employers' liability act ; fifth, to pro- 

 hibit the employment of child labor in mines 

 and factories; sixth, to secure from railway 

 companies fair rates for transportation, and to 

 prevent unjust discrimination. 



Earl B. Coe and H. H. Eddy were the nomi- 

 nees of the Republicans for members of Con- 

 gress, Lafe Pence and John C. Bell of the united 

 People's party and Democrats, John G. Taylor 

 and John D. Bell of Democrats, and N. G. 

 Sprague and L J. Keator of the Prohibitionists. 



At the election in November the entire Peo- 

 ple's party, or fusion ticket, was elected. 



The Rev. Myron W. Reed, of Denver, was 

 nominated for Congress from the First District 

 by the People's party and both conventions of 

 Democrats. He declined, and Lafe Pence was 

 nominated on the fusion ticket, and John G. 

 Taylor by the straight Democrats. Later in the 

 canvass the names of the Cleveland electors were 

 removed from the State Democratic ticket. 



At the election, Nov. 8, the total vote for elect- 

 ors was 93,275, of which the Populists received 

 52.982, the Republicans 38,614, and the Prohibi- 

 tionists 1,677. The People's party elected their 

 entire State ticket. Following is the vote for 

 Governor: Helm, 38,812; Maupin, 8,938; Waite, 

 41,344; Hipp, 1,742. The Republicans will have 

 a small majority in the Legislature. 



COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER, discoverer, 

 born in Genoa, Italy, about 1446; died in Valla- 

 dolid, Spain, May" 20, 1506. The undisputed 

 statements in the undisputed will of Columbus 

 read : " I also pray the King and Queen, our 

 sovereigns, and their eldest born, Prince Don 

 Juan, our lord, and their successors, for the sake 

 of the services I have done them, and because it 

 is just, that it may please them not to permit 

 this my will and constitution of my entailed 

 estate to be in any way altered, but to leave it 

 in the form and manner which I have ordained 

 forever, for the greater glory of the Almighty, 

 and that it may be the root and basis of my line- 

 age, and a memento of the services I have ren- 

 dered their highnesses, that, being born in Genoa, 

 I came over to serve them in Castile. ... I also 

 enjoin Diego, or any one that may inherit the 

 estate, to have and maintain in the city of Genoa 

 one person of our lineage to reside there with 

 his wife, . . . from which great good may accrue 

 to him, inasmuch as I was born there, and came 

 from thence. ... 1 command the said Diego, 

 or whoever may possess the said estate, to labor 

 and strive for the honor, welfare, and aggran- 

 dizement of the city of Genoa, and to make use 

 of all his power and means in defending and 

 enhancing the good and credit of that republic 

 in all things not contrary to the service of the 

 Church of God, or the high dignity of the King 

 and Queen, our lords, and their successors." 



In view of these words, it seems amazing that 

 the long and involved disputes in regard to the 

 birthplace of Columbus could have arisen. That 

 claims should have been made by other cities was 

 natural, and they had some show of probability, 

 as, for instance, in the case of Placentia, where the 

 family of Columbus owned a small property in the 

 village of Pradello, which was originally held by 

 Bartolino Colombo, great-grandfather of Colum- 

 bus, and the rental of which descended to Co- 

 lumbus and his brother. Piedmont was a per- 



