by Kenneth Jessen Most politics today are comprised of attack ads, but in the past, politics were downright dirty. Leave it to Colorado to raise the bar and do something unprecedented in United States history by having three different governors in one single day! The November 1904 election was so intense that few Coloradans paid attention to the presidential election with its heated contest between Theodore Roosevelt and his challenger, Alton Parker. This corrupted 1904 election may have started when the Denver police chief instructed several hundred prostitutes, saloon keepers, ex-convicts and gamblers how to become “repeaters.” In exchange, the ...