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 25, 1904
Denver, Colorado - Democratic Election Officials Arrested, Fifty-Six Thus Far
The Honorable Alva Adams
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Governor Peabody means to hold on to power despite a plurality of votes in favor of Alva Adams, estimated to be from 11,000 to 15,000. Democratic election officials are being rounded up, with twelve more arrested on Wednesday, bringing the total arrested to fifty-six. Meanwhile, it appears that the Colorado supreme court is preparing to throw out the votes of every precinct in Denver. Events in Colorado are being reported around the nation.
According to Wednesday's Wichita Daily Eagle, the credit for the large plurality in favor of Adams goes to the woman of Colorado:
The women of Colorado are given credit for the election of Adams. Peabody is said to have had a majority of the men on his side. Deported miners could not vote, but their wives, daughters, sisters and aunts could and did. If women had voted in Kansas perhaps results would have been different in some cases.
From The New York Times, November 24, 1904:
SAY WOMAN INTIMIDATED.
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She's Among Those Arrested in Denver
Election Fraud Cases.
Special to The New York Times.
General Sherman Bell,
ready if needed.
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DENVER, Nov. 23.-Pursuing the aggressive tactics they have recently adopted, the Republicans to-day caused the arrest of twelve additional Democratic officials of election. One of them was a woman. This makes fifty-six arrests since the election contest began.
The Democrats have been on the defensive and have engaged three additional attorneys and prepared to defend the arrested officials in the Federal and State courts. Though trouble is not seriously apprehended, Adjutant General Sherman Bell said to-day he would be ready for it if it came. A large part of the Denver police force is either under arrest or has escaped from town to avoid arrest.
The persons arrested, who were either judges or clerks of election, are charged with throwing out Supreme Court watchers, with intimidating and also with stealing votes for Adams.
Miss Sadie Plessner, Clerk of Election, was among those summoned to appear before the Federal Court on the charge of conspiracy to intimidate voters. Leading Democrats asserted to-night that Eastern capital was largely behind the move to seat Gov. Peabody.
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[photograph added]
From the Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor, November 24, 1904:
ALARMS DEMOCRATS
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Colorado Supreme Court May Throw
Out Nine Thousand Votes.
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GOV. PEABODY MEANS TO HOLD ON
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Bets Are Made in Denver That Alva Adams,
with Nearly 15,000 Plurality on Face of Returns,
Will Not Be Seated
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Governor Peabody means to hold on.
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Denver, Col, Nov. 24.-The supreme court has ordered the Denver election commission not to certify the returns of this county to the state canvasing board until further orders. This is to give opportunity for argument in the supreme court on the matter of throwing out certain democratic precincts in which the republicans alleged fraud.
The supreme court also made a ruling against the local district and county courts taking any further action in Denver county election cases. The order was the outgrowth of the mandamus issued by County Judge Lindsey, which was set aside by the supreme court. The latter courts hold that it alone has jurisdiction in the cases pending.
Gov. Peabody's purpose in refusing to concede Adams' election is now revealed and democrats who have said Peabody was bluffing are now thoroughly alarmed. As maintained in these dispatches from the first, Peabody really means to try to be governor.
The significance of the action of the supreme court lies in the fact that motions will be made to throw out every precinct in Denver and also in many other parts of the state. Nine thousand votes are to be thrown out in the entire state and this will elect Peabody. Of course, the democrats will make motions, but the supreme court contains two justices who are Peabodyites and one Adams man. Democrats say the supreme court will not take such action, which they call revolutionary. Republicans assert it is the only way the court can convert the fraudulent election into a fair one. While democratic leaders profess not to be alarmed, they are thoroughly frightened.
Non partisan citizens believe the supreme court will throw out enough votes to seat Peabody. Wagers at odds very nearly even are offered to that effect and the persons offering them were close to republican leaders.
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SOURCES
The Wichita Daily Eagle
(Wichita, Kansas)
-Nov 23, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Nov 24, 1904
http://query.nytimes.com/...
Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor
(Fort Scott, Kansas)
-Nov 24, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
See also:
Tag: Colorado's Stolen Election of 1904
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Search: "western federation miners deported colorado"
http://www.dailykos.com/...
IMAGES
Alva Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
Miners Deported from Cripple Creek, June 1904
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
General Sherman Bell
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Governor Peabody
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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For today's song H/T and big thank you to NCTim:
Homestead Strike Song - Pete Seeger
I have ordered this songbook and will re-post video
with lyrics whenever it arrives:
American labor songs of the nineteenth century
Philip Sheldon Foner
University of Illinois Press, 1975
http://books.google.com/...
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