Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday November 17, 1914
Denver, Colorado - Labor Vote Defeats Governor Ammons in Colorado
From Sunday's Tulsa Daily World of Oklahoma:
LABOR VOTE CARRIED COLORADO ELECTION
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MINERS GAVE SUPPORT TO CANDIDATES
WHO HAD.
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MANY VOTES SCRATCHED
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Democratic Senator, Republican Governor
and Woman Superintendent of Schools.
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DENVER, Colo., Nov. 14.-Voters of Colorado sustained President Wilson in his efforts to settle the coal strike when they returned three Democrats to congress and re-elected their Democratic senator last Tuesday.
E M Ammons, Democratic Governor of Colorado
who presided over the military despotism
which resulted in the Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914.
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The striking feature of the election was that these same voters repudiated the Ammons Democratic administration which permitted the Ludlow massacre and other strike disorders resulting in the murder and cremation of thirty-four men, women and children. With the exception of two offices every Democratic candidate was defeated.
John D. Rockefeller spent $100,000 to make the state go dry, it is said, and Senator Patterson claimed in a public speech that he also handed the Denver Post $600,000 to support his candidate for governor. This with the odium attached to the Ammons administration was too much for the Democratic state candidates to carry.
Labor won a splendid victory when they elected District Judge Teller to the supreme court bench, thus defeating Judge Campbell who has been notoriously opposed to organized and unorganized labor.
Labor centered most of its support on Mary C. C. Bradford, superintendent of public schools and re-elected her by a handsome majority.
The faith of the people of Colorado in the president is well shown by the vote for United States senator. While the disgust of Colorado citizens with anarchistic rule of the Ammons Democratic administration led them to elect a Republican governor by a vote of 121,061 to 87,533, the voters returned the present democratic United States senator, Charles S. Thomas, by a vote of 94,834 to 90,173.
Congressman Edward Keating, who has put up such a splendid fight in congress for the striking miners, was re-elected by a good majority, while Congressman George Mindel, the only Colorado representative to oppose the workers, received but 5,000 votes for the United States senate as against the 94,000 vote of Thomas.
Keating's majority in spite of a Republican landslide, is a splendid tribute-a handsome reward for faithful service to his constituents.
The corporation steal of county offices in the strike district was even more corrupt than in former years. Heretofore the coal companies were content with voting their pay roll. This year it is claimed that they voted 356 more men than were on their pay roll. With an honest election the labor ticket would have been elected by a majority of at least three hundred.
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