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-Mother Jones
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Wednesday January 11, 1905
Denver, Colorado - Alva Adams Inaugurated as Governor of Colorado
Governor Alva Adams
Despite the ongoing political and judicial wrangling over votes in the state of Colorado, Alva Adams was inaugurated as the fourteenth Governor of that state at noon yesterday. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice William H. Gabbert with ex-Governor Peabody standing at his side. The cannon roared and Democrats cheered in his honor.
Governor Adams gave a brief inauguration address before the Joint Assembly in which he laid out his recommendations regarding laws that, if enacted, might restore peaceful relations between the warring factions of Colorado.
He advised the Legislators:
Colorado is a great state; you are its moral and material guardians. The first bill introduced, as well as the last, should recognize this responsibility. Do not wait until the last hours of the session to economize. The earliest hour is the best hour for doing right.
Let the troubles and turmoils of the past be forgotten as we turn our faces to the future and press forward to a certain and splendid destiny.
[emphasis added]
Report from Mrs. Emma F. Langdon of Victor, Colorado:
ADAMS INAUGURATED.
On January 10, 1905, the entire preceding day having been consumed by Republican leaders, in attempting, through resolutions and protests, before the joint Assembly, to prevent the same, the Honorable Alva Adams was inaugurated.
The president of the joint session announced that Alva Adams had received a plurality of 9,764 votes. This did not include the votes he received in the city of Denver that had been thrown out by the supreme court.
In his inaugural message to the Fifteenth General Assembly which occupied less than half an hour in its delivery, the briefest address of the kind ever delivered by a governor of Colorado, Governor Adams made the following recommendations:
An honest eight-hour law, a promise made to the people by both parties, and which should be kept.
An amendment to the arbitration law requiring a compulsory submission of any grievance or difference between employer and employe to the board of arbitration.
An honest and efficient primary election law.
A law making clear, definite and limited the power of the state board of canvassers.
A reduction of the tax levy to the minimum point which will enable the state to take care of its institutions in a respectable manner.
Enact good laws, to see that they are administered with justice and impartiality, and to collect and spend the money of the taxpayer with wisdom and integrity, are the sacred duties of the government.
Colorado is a great state; you are its moral and material guardians. The first bill introduced, as well as the last, should recognize this responsibility. Do not wait until the last hours of the session to economize. The earliest hour is the best hour for doing right.
Let the troubles and turmoils of the past be forgotten as we turn our faces to the future and press forward to a certain and splendid destiny.
As citizens and official(s) you and I must make Colorado noted as a state of wise management of state institutions, just and fair expenditure of the people's tax, equity and justice in our courts, integrity and ability in official, patriotism in citizen, purity in the election franchise, virtue, honesty and loyalty everywhere, religion respected, education universal, civic righteousness the daily thought.
An eloquent and touching tribute was paid to Senator W. S. Buckley, former Governor Eaton and Representative White, all of whom have died within the past few months and were in their lifetime connected with affairs of state.
[photograph and emphasis added]
From The Cincinnati Enquirer of January 11, 1905:
CANNON
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Roared a Bold Salute
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When Adams Was Sworn in
as Colorado's Governor.
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Peabody Escorted Him to
the Legislative Hall,
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And Heard the Huzzas of
Victorious Democrats
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Meanwhile Plans Were Making
To Contest the Seat in the Legislature-
The Executive's Message.
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Chief Justice William H Gabbert
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Denver, Colo., January 10.-Standing beneath the draped folds of the American flag while the walls about him and the floor beneath him trembled in response to cannon that roared a salute in his honor, Alva Adams was at noon to-day inaugurated Governor of Colorado. While he stood with uplifted hand taking the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Gabbert, there was at his side the athletic form of ex-Governor James Peabody, who will inaugurate the most energetic and bitter contest that Colorado has ever seen for the right to fill the position that Governor Adams has just sworn by the everliving God to administer to the best of his powers of body and mind.
The inauguration ceremony was simple in the extreme. A few minutes before 12 o'clock Governor-elect Adams called at the office, of Governor Peabody, who was to accompany him to the House of Representatives, where the inauguration was to be held. Arm in arm the two men, Peabody on the right, Adams on the left, entered the House, which was packed almost to suffocation by Senators, representatives and visitors. Lieutenant Governor Haggott, presiding over the joint session of the Legislature, greeted both men as they stepped on the rostrum with a shake of the hand, and seated Governor Peabody on his right, the Governor-elect on his left.
Chief Justice Gabbert stepped forward and in a few seconds the oath was given and taken, and Alva Adams was the Governor of Colorado.
Took the Seat of Honor.
Lieutenant Governor Haggott still reserving the seat of honor for the Governor of the state, requested ex-Governor Peabody to change seats with Governor Adams, and the man who went out passed to the left of the presiding officer, while the man who came in took the post of honor on his right.
Governor Adams then commenced reading his inaugural address. In his address Governor Adams said:
During the past two years Colorado has had many incidents to regret, many deeds to deplore, but much of our evil fame is due more to our own exaggeration than to facts. The truth has been bad enough without partisan color. Lies need no press agent. It is not true that half the voters of Colorado are dynamiters and Anarchists, nor is it true that the other half are Shylocks and oppressors. We cannot complain if the world takes us at our own estimate. Hereafter when we paint our own picture let us use a brush that will not hide all our virtues and intensify our faults.
First among the enactments in obedience to the expressed mandate of the people should be an honest eight-hour law. This both parties promised the people. Let that promise be kept.
Next, an amendment to the arbitration law requiring a compulsory submission of any grievance or difference between employer and employe. This is not compulsory arbitration, nor does it lead to a compulsory decree, but it does compel a conference, and where the parties to an industrial conflict honestly confer a settlement is almost certain.
In framing your election laws see that the meshes are strong enough to hold the big election thief as well as the small. The ordinary ballot crook at the polls is bad enough, but back of him, responsible for him, is some one infinitely stronger and more dangerous.
A Contest Coming.
Ex-Governor Peabody
Ex-Governor Peabody's notice of contest will be filed January 13, the last day allowed under the law. The hearing of the contest will consume at least six weeks.
There is every assurance that the investigation will be conducted fairly and with an impartiality unusual in contests of this kind. Neither man will be seated by an arbitrary act of the Legislature if the result of the recount shows his opponent to have a clear majority of votes legally cast. That this will be the outcome of the contest has been made practically certain by men representing the great corporate and financial interests of Colorado.
The Republican county officers who received certificates of election in pursuance of the order of the Supreme Court took the oath of office before Judge Booth M. Malone in the District Court this morning. Immediately thereafter they went through the courthouse demanding of the Democratic incumbent the offices to which their certificates entitled them. This election was held last May, and the Democrats claim that its manner of holding was invalid.
Suits are to be filed immediately against the Democratic holders by Republican claimants.
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[photographs added]
SOURCES
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/...
The Cincinnati Enquirer
(Cincinnati, Ohio)
-Jan 11, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Alva Adams, 5th, 10th & 14th Governor of Colorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
Emma F Langdon
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Chief Justice William H Gabbert of Colorado
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
James H Peabody, Governor of Colorado 1903-05
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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