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COLORADO. 



COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. 



one or the other course, the greater number in 

 favor of legislative action. The Senate rejected 

 the House bill appropriating $15,000 for pay- 

 ment of a portion of the expenses of the session, 

 and then adjourned for the longest time allowed 

 by law. The House refusing to adjourn and 

 the Senate to transact any other business except 

 action upon nominations sent in by the Gov- 

 ernor, a deadlock resulted, and the Senate 

 passed a resolution asking the Governor to pro- 

 rogue the Assembly ; but this the Governor de- 

 clined to do. 



Various other measures were resorted to by 

 the Senate to obstruct legislation, and no busi- 

 ness was done by that branch for several weeks. 

 No bills were introduced in the Senate. 



The House introduced 78 bills and passed 41 

 of them, all but 12 of which were rejected by 

 the Senate. Those passed were as follow : 



Making eight hours a day's labor for municipal em- 

 plovees. 



Transferring the surplus revenues of 1890 and 1891 

 to the legislative cash fund. The amount appropri- 

 ated is $100,000, but $83,000 of it was tied up by an 

 injunction, and not available unless released by the 

 courts. 



Amending the election laws as to grouping names 

 of candidates on the ballot; also providing for house- 

 to-house canvass to register woman voters. 



Providing an appropriation of $10,000 to continue 

 labor on State canal No. 1. 



Amending the attachment laws so as to provide a 

 pro rata clause, and the trust-deed law to allow the 

 equity of redemption. 



Exempting $60 a month of a workman's wages. 



Providing" for the construction of a bridge across 

 Bear river, Routt County, and appropriating $5,000 

 for the purpose, the labor to be performed by citizens 

 of Colorado who had been resident, of the State for 

 not less than ninety days. 



Two bills, one providing for the construction of 

 State canal No. 1, and the other for the construction 

 of Twin Lakes reservoir, were referred by the Senate 

 to those Senators holding over to the next regular 

 session, to be presented at that time. 



Political. The National Convention of Re- 

 publican Clubs met in Denver, June 27. The 

 most difficult point for the convention to settle 

 was its expression on the silver question. The 

 resolution as given below proved satisfactory to 

 both Eastern and Western delegates : 



We believe in the use of gold and silver as money 

 metals, maintained on a perfect parity and intercon- 

 vertibility. We do not believe that there will be a 

 permanent return of prosperity to our country until 

 the full use and highest position of silver shall be re- 

 stored, and we favor such legislation as will bring 

 about this result. 



The Republicans in State convention, Sept. 

 12, nominated the following ticket: For Gov- 

 ernor, Albert W. Mclntire ; for Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor, Jerrod L. Brush ; for Treasurer, Harry E. 

 Mulnix; for Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion, Mrs. A. J. Peavey ; for Secretary of State, 

 Albert B. McGaffey ; for Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, John Campbell. 



The Prohibitionists nominated George Rich- 

 ardson for Governor. 



The State Convention of Populists was held 

 at Pueblo, Sept. 5. The platform and ticket 

 follow : 



Standing for equal and exact justice to all, regard- 

 less of race, sex, religion, or political affiliations, the 

 People's party of Colorado heartily indorses the prin- 



ciples of the Omaha platform ; indorses the State ad- 

 ministration of Colorado and the congressional work 

 of John C. Bell and Lafe Pence ; demands the free 

 and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 

 1 ; protests against tfie issuance of Government bonds 

 in times of peace ; insists that the National Govern- 

 ment have exclusive control of all money issued by its 

 authority ; and demands the adoption of the methods 

 of the initiative and referendum and proportional rep- 

 resentation as means of securing all reforms in har- 

 mony with the will of the people, whose will should 

 be law. 



For Governor, Davis H. Waite ; for Lieutenant 

 Governor, S. W. Harmon ; for Auditor, Stan ton F. 

 Lincoln ; for Treasurer, Casimero Barela ; for Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Alice 

 Catlin ; for Secretary of State, Nelson 0. Mc- 

 Clees; for Attorney-General, H. G. Sales; for 

 Regents of the State University, L. J. Morrison 

 and Barney O. Driscoll : for Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court, J. Warner Mills. 



The Democratic State Convention met Sept. 3, 

 at Denver. The call to the convention was ac- 

 companied by an address to the Democrats of 

 the State, containing the following criticism on 

 the existing State Government : 



Populism, the natural offspring of Republican ex- 

 travagance, mislegislation, and profligacy, has been 

 in power for a year and a half Its so-called prin- 

 ciples, which are the logical result of past Republican 

 policy, have during that time been in full and un- 

 controlled operation. The miserable consequences 

 are everywhere apparent. The good name of the 

 State is 'imperiled. Many functions of Government 

 have been perverted to selfish, ignoble, and unlawful 

 ends, and imbecility in high positions has made our 

 career since 1892 a satire on self-government. 



The record which both these parties have made in 

 Colorado justifies the assertion that each has failed in 

 the attempt to properly discharge the trust with 

 which it has been endowed by the people. This is 

 the necessary result of a departure from Democratic 

 teaching and principle. To return to the one because 

 of the misconduct and shortcomings of the other is 

 only to continue our present unhappy conditions 

 under different forms, administered by different 

 agencies. 



Charles S. Thomas was nominated for Gov- 

 ernor, and Adair Wilson for Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court. 



The result of the election was a victory for 

 the Republicans, with a majority estimated at 

 nearly 20,000. The newly enfranchised women 

 of the State took an active part in the canvass, 

 and the Republican victory was attributed to 

 Iheir vote. It was reported that 55 per cent, of 

 the votes in Denver were cast by women. 



Two proposed constitutional amendments were 

 defeated. 



COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS, men who 

 represent mercantile houses in the larger busi- 

 ness centers, arid travel among their patrons in 

 the smaller cities and towns. Before 1850 it was 

 customary throughout the United States for 

 merchants in the smaller communities to visit 

 business centers (like Boston. New York, Phila- 

 delphia, and Chicago) in the spring and autumn 

 of every year to replenish their stocks and to 

 pay their bills for the year before. In 1850 some 

 of the larger merchants began to make occa- 

 sional trips to visit their patrons in the sm;iller 

 communities, taking with them a few novelties 

 to interest their customers, and to secure orders 

 that might pay the expenses of the trip. It was 



