Aspen mayor and defendant

Aspen mayor and defendant

Editor’s note: This is part two of a three-part series. Part one ran on April 12 and part three will run Tuesday.  In an endorsement with gracious caveats, news of the 1890 mayoral election in Aspen, Colorado’s second biggest industrial mining city, provoked opinion even in the Denver newspapers. The March 29, 1890, Aspen Daily Chronicle excerpted from the Denver News-Report a capsulation of favored candidate B. Clark Wheeler that captured the m…