You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday January 3, 1905
Denver, Colorado - Gunthug-Detective, K. C. Sterling, Appointed Custodian of Senate
By Ryan Walker, Appeal to Reason, August 13, 1904
Although it now appears that Governor-elect Alva Adams will be sworn in next week, the plot to unseat him thickens. The rule of Czar Peabody will, thereby, be continued.
Republicans now have complete control of the both houses of the Colorado legislature, and they can credit that victory to rulings of the Supreme Court and the two Peabodyite judges, owned heart and soul by the Mine Owners' Association. Republicans have chosen W. H. Dickson as speaker of the house. In the senate, the mine owners' detective, Gunthug K. C. Sterling, has been appointed custodian of the senate.
The scheme to unseat Adams and overthrow the will of the people of Colorado will now be advanced in the state legislature. The Mine Owners' Association now controls, not only the judicial branch of the government of the state of Colorado, but the legislative branch also. They will not be satisfied, however, until the executive branch is under their control as well.
CAUCUS VICTORY WON BY PEABODY.
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Name Former Chicagoan
for Speaker of Colorado House.
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Republicans Ask What of His
Pledge Not to Accept a Fraud-Tainted Seat.
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Denver, Colo., Jan. 2,-[Special.]-After an extended caucus, during which Frank R. Frewen, a Wolcott lieutenant, was an insurgent, W. H. Dickson, a former Chicagoan, who began practicing law in Denver three years ago today was chosen for speaker of the house by the republicans. Dickson is comparatively unknown, but enjoys the favor of the big corporations. Frewen's action leads the democrats to hope Wolcott has decided to oppose Peabody, but they have no definite proof of that.
K. C. Stirling [Sterling], a gun fighter and mine owners' detective, who was at the head of sleuths who deported many Western Federation of Miners members from Cripple Creek, has been appointed custodian of the senate, and is surrounding himself with other members of the mine owners' detective band.
Union Miners Deported from Strike Zone
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Written Evidence of Frauds.
Written evidence to prove that there were 18,000 fraudulent votes cast for Alva Adams in Denver at the late election has been prepared for presentation to the president of the senate Wednesday afternoon by Attorneys John M. Waldron and James H. Brown. The written confessions of repeaters and those who hired them are a material part of this evidence.
Since election day Brown has had a large corps of assistants working on a recanvass of every precinct of the city. He asserts that there were 20,000 dishonest ballots cast. The affidavits he will file, with the records of the new canvass, will form the basis of the sworn assertion that fully 18,000 spurious votes were cast for the democratic candidate for governor.
To Swear Adams In.
Alva Adams
Alva Adams, according to the program arranged by the democrats, will be sworn in by Justice Robert Steele of the Supreme court. Steele is a democrat. The other two judges, Gabbert and Campbell, are Peabodyites.
The republicans, however, will ask Adams to live up to his statement made when he asked that all the ballot boxes in the city and county of Denver be opened. Adams at that time said incidentally he would not accept a seat if it were tainted with fraud, and when the written confessions showing 18,000 spurious votes are shown, Adams will be asked to say whether he considers that amounts to tainting his seat with fraud.
The republicans will ask that all the ballot boxes in Conejos county, be opened. There is a contest on foot in the legislature, and this is one of the counties where democrats have alleged gross frauds were committed by republicans
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Will Try to Convert Denver
With violence possible in Denver at any time as a result of the gubernatorial contest, J. Wilbur Chapman, the Presbyterian evangelist, will inaugurate a three weeks' series of evangelistic meetings there tomorrow night.
The Colorado legislature will convene tomorrow, and the day is expected to be a crucial one in the election controversy. Dr. Chapman and nine other evangelists left last night for Denver.
The meetings to be conducted will be by districts, each of which will be supervised by a subevangelist, as was done last spring in Chicago.
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[photographs added]
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SOURCE
Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
Jan 3, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
For more on the infamous K. C. Sterling, see also:
The Labor History of the Cripple Creek District:
A Study in Industrial Evolution
-by Benjamin McKie Rastall
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1908
(search: Serling)
http://books.google.com/...
Search: "K. C. Sterling"
https://www.google.com/...
Search: "K. C. Sterling" + Rebel Graphics
https://www.google.com/...
IMAGES
Laws to the Highest Bidder by Ryan Walker,
Appeal to Reason of Aug 13, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Cripple Creek Deportations June 1904
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Alva Adams, 5th, 10th & 14th Governor of Colorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
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