The Tenderfoots

THE spring of 1881, memorable for the jangling aftermath of the bitter factional political struggle of the previous year which had resulted in the nomination and election of President Garfield, waned to its close, and on the second of July the nation was shocked by the news flashed over the wires of the shooting of the President in a Washington railway station by Charles J. Guiteau.

Isolated by distance from the populous East and Middle West, the new Colorado yet felt the shock and responded to it. Partisanship and the harsh pre-election epithets of "329" and the anti-Chinese cry of "Remember the Morey letter" were forgotten, and the city of the plain marked its sorrow and indignation, as it did everything else, with a magnificent Western gesture.