You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Friday November 11, 1904
Denver, Colorado - Alva Adams Wins in Colorado with Plurality of 10,500
The Honorable Alva Adams
From today's Wichita Weekly Eagle of Kansas:
ADAMS IN COLORADO
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Republicans Threaten to Contest His Election.
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IN COLORADO.
Denver, Colo., Nov. 10-D. B. Fairley, Republican state chairman, today abandoned his claim that Governor James H. Peabody had been re-elected and the governor himself conceded his defeat.
Adams' majority over Peabody in the city and county of Denver is 5,071 and in the entire state about 10,500.
Republicans still claim a majority for Peabody in the state outside Denver, but this claim is not borne out by the returns, which are still incomplete.
[Said Fairley:]
On the face of the returns Adams is elected..but the official count or a contest may change it to Peabody.
Peabody was beaten by 750 plurality in his home county (Fremont), though it was carried by Roosevelt by 200.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell, superintendent of public instruction, ran next to Roosevelt and may pull through, but the Republicans will secure all the other state offices, though in some cases their pluralities are small.
John F. Shafroth, Democrat, is apparently elected congressman-at-large with a plurality of 2,000.
Robert W. Bonynge, Republican, has about 800 plurality in the First district and Herschel M. Hogg, Republican, 22 plurality in the Second district. Both sides are claiming the legislature and the result will be in doubt until the official count is made in Denver and Pueblo. After conceding the election of Adams today, Governor dPeabody said:
The campaign just closed has been one of principles, not candidates. I have tried to maintain peace and quiet, law and order, in this state, as justly as was possible, and in no case did I exceed the law as interpreted by the supreme court of the state.
if the people of the state, by their votes, failed to approve that policy, I am still satisfied. The people know what they want and they always have the ballot with which to get it.
Denver, Colo., Nov. 10.-At a meeting of Republican candidates and party leaders today it was decided to immediately begin a contest for the places of all the Democrats who have been elected in Colorado on the face of the returns. An effort will be made to seat all the Republicans from governor down. The matter will be carried into the courts on the claim that the successful Democrats were elected by glaring frauds in Denver. A number of affidavits in support of the charges of fraud have been filed at Republican headquarters by watchers and judges. Chairman Williams of the Republican city central committee declares that nearly all of the increased vote polled Tuesday, amounting to approximately 7,000 more than the number cast at the city election in May, was fraudulent.
GOVERNOR PEABODY'S BRAND OF JUSTICE:
I have tried to maintain peace and quiet, law and order, in this state, as justly as was possible...
-James Peabody
Victor Daily Record force taken to the bullpen.
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Union Men Held in Peabody's Bullpen
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Peabody's Bullpen for members or sympathizers
of the Western Federation of Miners.
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Having your opponents deported greatly increases your chances on election day!
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The Western Federation of Miners Asks a Question
(For which, President Moyer spent months in bullpen.)
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REPORT FROM EMMA F. LANGDON OF VICTOR, COLORADO
THE ELECTION
The day after election [November 9th], returns showed that the state had gone overwhelmingly for Roosevelt. His plurality being over 34,000 votes. Governor Adams was elected by 11,000 majority and that a Democratic legislature had been elected.
The repudiation of Peabody could not have been stronger for the reason that the state had gone so thoroughly Republican for President, and that all the state candidates for state offices on the Republican ticket had been elected with the exception of Peabody. This, in spite of the unlimited money, expended by the corporations to insure his election.
It is clear that had it not been Presidential election, Peabody would not have received near as many votes. The result in Fremont county, his home, was an indication of his unpopularity. It went strongly against him; although he had at numerous times been elected to various county offices.
The corporations voted their employes as they liked in Huerfano and Las Animas counties. The C. F. & I. Company in Las Animas bringing in train loads of foreigners who did not have naturalization papers and voted them for Peabody. As to Teller county, the mine owners had local candidates for office in the field that they wished to elect as well as Peabody, and in spite of all plans of peace made by the unions and the Democrats in charge, Chris Miller, a well-known union miner, was shot and killed at Goldfield about 10:30 a. m. November 8, by Deputy Sheriff Warford, who also, almost at the same time, shot Ike Liebo [Leabo], a Democratic election officer. Other shootings and trouble of various kinds, all caused by the mine owners and Citizens' Alliance trying to steal the election, took place. Prominent and highly respected ladies while acting in the capacity of Democratic election judges were insulted and cruelly treated by the element managing the Republican interests there...
The night before election Miller, Liebo, Frank Mannix and two other prominent Democrats received letters telling them to leave the district. Miller and Liebo were shot the next day and later an effort was made to deport the others.
C. C. Hamlin was a candidate for office of district attorney and Ed Bell for sheriff. Hamlin's nomination was an insult to the people of the Cripple Creek district, but, for all that, he was elected by his own class stealing the election for him. Ballot boxes were stuffed. "Gun men" were at all the voting precincts and in some cases ballots were cast, we might say, at the point of bayonets. The union miners had been deported and many of their families had left the district.
Many of the city and county officers elected are connected with the Mine Owners' Association. The mine owners gave their men a holiday with pay on election day as an inducement to vote the Republican ticket.
[photograph added]
SOURCES
Wichita Weekly Eagle
(Wichita, Kansas)
-Nov 11, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Cripple Creek Strike
A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5
-by Emma F Langdon
"Being a Complete and Concise
History of the Efforts of
Organized Capital
to Crush Unionism"
The Great Western Publishing Co.
Denver,Colorado, 1905.
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
IMAGES
Alva Adams
http://www.nga.org/...
Victor Daily Record force in bullpen
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Miners in the Bullpen
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
The Bullpen
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
Deporting Union Men to Kansas
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Poster by Western Federation of Miners
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Emma F Langdon
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
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Fire In The Hole - Hazel Dickens
You can tell them in the country, tell them in the town
Miners down in Mingo laid their shovels down
We won't pull another pillar, load another ton
Or lift another finger until the union we have won
Stand up boys, let the bosses know
Turn your buckets over, turn your lanterns low
There's fire in our hearts and fire in our soul
But there ain't gonna be no fire in the hole,
There ain't gonna be no fire in the hole.
-Hazel Dickens
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