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Wednesday December 28, 1904
From The Labor World: Supreme Court Advances Peabodyism in Colorado
Alva Adams
When first Governor Peabody
announced his intention to remain in power despite the 11,000 vote plurality given to former Governor Alva Adams by the people of the state of Colorado, the blustering of the defeated executive seemed almost laughable. However, that absurdity is now becoming a reality as the Republican Colorado Supreme Court comes to the aid of Peabodyism in the once great state of Colorado.
The Labor World of December 24th predicted that Peabody was, indeed, headed toward victory in his attempt to overthrow the will of the people of Colorado:
It looks very much as though Gov. Peabody would succeed in continuing himself in office for two years more. The same judges who supported him in his exploitations of last year are now rendering him valuable services in throwing out strong Democratic precincts in the city of Denver.
From The Labor World of December 24, 1904:
GOV. PEABODY GIVEN NEXT LEGISLATURE
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Supreme Court That Upheld the Czar
in His Exploitations Aid Him.
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Thwart Will of People by Throwing Out
Several Precincts In Denver.
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Governor Peabody
Denver, Colo., Dec. 22-The Republican Supreme Court has made plain its intention to defy public sentiment and seat Peabody as Governor in spite of Alva Adam's 11,000 plurality.
Disclosure of its attitude came when Chief Justice Galbert [Gabbert] announced the court's decision to throw out the entire vote of three precincts of the Fifth Ward and one precinct of the Seventh Ward at the late election, on the ground that gross frauds were committed in violation of the injunction served upon the election officials.
Judge Campbell concurred in the decision, but Judge Steele dissented, saying that only the illegal votes, which had been identified, should be counted. The decision does not affect the votes for President and Congressmen.
Through the action of the court in excluding five Denver precincts from the abstract of returns to date the Republicans will obtain a solid delegation in the Legislature from Denver and will obtain control of both branches of the legislature, which canvasses the vote for state officers.
On the face of the returns, Alva Adams, Democratic candidate for Governor, had a plurality of about 11,000, but the Republican managers disclose the scope of their plot when they assert after all fraudulent votes are eliminated Governor Peabody will have a plurality and will be seated.
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An Editorial from The Labor World of December 24, 1904:
PEABODY AND HIS JUDGES.
It looks very much as though Gov. Peabody would succeed in continuing himself in office for two years more. The same judges who supported him in his exploitations of last year are now rendering him valuable services in throwing out strong Democratic precincts in the city of Denver.
It is a strange coincidence that Judge Steele of the Supreme court of Colorado, he who scathingly rebuked Peabodyism in a dissenting opinion against the court's ruling in favor of the suspension of the writ of Habeas Corpus, now dissents against the action of the court in arbitrarily disfranchising so many thousand of Denver's citizens.
The whole conspiracy which is supported by Peabody, his judges, the mine owners, and public service corporations, is the most gigantic and outrageous scheme of election robbery ever concocted and carried out in the United States. But it is typical Peabodyism, and if permitted to run its full length will only be emulated by others in due time.
Justice Robert Wilbur Steele
The frenzied effort by the conspirators to capture the state legislature is due to a desire to secure two Republican supreme court judges, whom the corporations will name through Peabody. The Denver Tramway holds that its franchises are perpetual and wants the supreme court to sustain its claim. The great mining corporations are contesting the new revenue law, which changes the old system, under which their property was practically exempt. They want the supreme court to take their view. The fuel and iron companies, the railroads and mining companies, and the Denver public service corporations are opposed to the taxation of franchises as property and want the Supreme court to declare it illegal. They want the Supreme court to declare an eight hour law, if one should be passed, unconstitutional.
The Mine Owners' association will demand that a law be passed to tax and collect from the people the $1,000,000 that the association advanced to pay for the national guard while they were filling bull pens and exporting men by the hundreds.
Is it not an awful conspiracy? Does it not make your American blood boil? Will the true patriots of Colorado submit to such and outrage against free government? This remains to be seen.
The poor, miserable wretches who stuff ballot boxes or heard repeaters are angels of innocence compared with the well dressed scoundrels who deliberately plan the theft of an entire state that they may shift taxation from the wealth they control to the farming and industrial masses; that they may prevent law and justice through a bench garbed in the servile uniform that marks their millions; that they may compel the people to restore to them a million of dollars they expended to overturn free Republican institutions in the state, and that they may elect some one of their Robin Hood guild to represent Colorado in the Unites States senate.
Beware of assassinations or a revolution in Colorado. There is a resisting point in the heart of every American.
CITIZENS ALLIANCE OF SAN FRANCISCO PREFERS WAR TO BARGAINING
It appears that the Citizens Alliance of San Francisco has been busy preparing for a war against organized labor since the conclusion, less than a month ago, of the twenty-fourth annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor in that fair city. The December 24th edition of The Labor World published the following article warning of a threat delivered to organized labor from Mr. Ready, editor of a Citizen's Alliance newspaper:
PEACE IF POSSIBLE; AND WAR IF NECESSARY
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Citizen's Alliance Declaration
of An Industrial War to the Bitter End.
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Organ of Citizen's Alliance
Comes Out With Death Statement.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22.-"Peaceably, if possible, war if necessary." The above threat has nothing to do with the war in the "far east" but appeared in one of the Citizens' Alliance organs published in this city.
This is a fair sample of the propaganda work of the Parry organizations of the Pacific coast. They say that the trades unions are unpatriotic and unAmerican. At the same time labor holds that if the spirit breathed in the declaration, "Peaceably, if possible; war if necessary," is any indication of the Parry organizations idea of patriotism, then the labor organizations are proud to differ with them.
The paper in question is devoted to the cause of the Alliance. It bears the evidence of a pure graft sheet. Its editor, Mr. Ready, who boasts of being the most noted strike breaker in the country, spends most of his time telling about his admirable qualities in the publication. He has held the manufacturers of the west, who are opposed to union labor, up for immense sums of money to publish his sheet.
When the Alliance wave is over, Mr. Ready will step down and out with his pockets well lined with ill-gotten ducets, and the dupes of manufacturers who were his easy prey, will have seen the error of their waves [ways?], and make peace with honest, reliable and intelligent labor.
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A Welcome to the A. F. of L. Convention from the The San Francisco Call
The San Francisco Call does not share the same hostility towards organized labor shown by Mr. Ready of the Citizen's Alliance. The day before the San Francisco A. F. of L. Convention opened, the Call published a fifty-four page "Labor Edition." The fine art work below is from the first page of the November 13th edition of The San Francisco Call:
The San Francisco Call's Labor Edition of November 13, 1904
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SOURCES
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Dec 24, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
http://www.newspapers.com/...
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Robert Wilbur Steele, Defender of Liberty
- by Walter Lawson Wilder
Carson-Harper co., 1913
(search: Chapter XI)
https://books.google.com/...
Proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor
Held at San Francisco, California November 14 to 26 (inclusive), 1904
https://archive.org/...
The San Francisco Call
(San Francisco, California)
-Nov 13, 1904
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
IMAGES
Alva Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
James H Peabody
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
The Labor World, Duluth, Minnesota, Dec 24, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Wilbur Steele, Colorado Supreme Court Justice,
lone dissenting vote in Tool Decision (Peabody v Adams)
(Click cover & click down X7)
https://books.google.com/...
Cover of Labor Edition, San Francisco Call, Nov 13, 1904
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
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