The Delta independent., 1904-11-04
Open Letter to the
Democratic Candidate


To The Hon. Alva Adams, Dear Sir:
Will you kindly again. stand up and
look the people Of Colorado in the eye
while your attention-and theirs-is
invited to
The Adams DeportatIonsf
You have literally dslueed the state
| with scaiding Democratic tears over
\ the alleged injustice done the danger
Gus characters who were sent out OF
some OF the mining camps of Colorado.
You weep because Of the violation Of
the constitution and because some OF
| these desperadoes had families. VIII
you please explain the difference in the
results to a man who is killed by a
desperate with a family and one who
Is killed by an unmarried assassin?
He would be dead in either event.
would he not:
But these tears OF yours-have you
| shed any in sympathy for the families
| OF the men whom the Western Fedora
tion OF Miners have manned and muir
| dered In Colorado. II SO. please tell
the people Of Colorado when and where
you did it?
We all know that you are personally
kind and that your sympathy naturally
goes out TO the unfortunate, but We
also know that in this instance. owing
to your weak and vacillating tenden-
cies. political -exrediency prevents you
from picturing to your hearers the dis
tress. misery and suffering caused hon.
est, law abiding American workingnen
by this vicious Western Federation Of
Miners. You dare not tell the people
OF Colorado the story of the brutal.
heartless and irhuman crimes Of this
| organization because you are running
Gu ticket and standing on a platform
SIDE by side with two representatives
Of the Western Federation Of Miners.
whose support you lack the moral cour-
age to sacrifice.
Now please stand still and look the
audience square in the eye and an
swer this question:
Don't you know in all times and in
all ages extraordinary measures have
been required to meet extraordinary
emergencies?
There are times when human i'm
pulse prompts people to do extraor-
dinary things and 1t requires extraor-
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m orderly and ordinary course.
Did you ever stop to think. Gov
eTnor. how Adam and Eve LEFT the Gar
den OF Eden.
Their departure is the first recorded
case OF deportation and you will also
remember that cherubim guarded the
Garden OF Eden with a flaming sword
to see that they did not come back"
Perhaps you may regard this extra
ordinary emergency" as too remote to
apply to q modern instance. II SO, here
is one that Is quite recent:
] know It Is your policy to admit
nothing and claim everything. but still
you will not deny that your brother
Frank Adams is at the head Of the po-
lice department OF Denver.
Your brother Frank has deported
about 800 OF your fellow citizens since
the present administration came into
office. -Inasmuch as this is all in the
family, you of course will not maintain
that you do not know of this outrage
GUS proceeding"
During the past week your brother
Frank has without any warrant OF law
gathered. up and exiled about fifty of
these down-trodden fellow citizens OF
yours. the most Of whom were harm
less and tnoffensive. their only crime
being that they were poor and friend.
less. There had been q number OF hold.
ups in the Capital City. Your brother
Frank and his policemen were unable
to locate the criminals; they therefore
arrested every one who in their opin-
ION looked suspicious; they arrested
them without warrant or the slightest
semblance OF authority OF law. They
made no charges against them except
that they were suspicious" They
were thrown in jail and after a time
given . certain number OF hours to
leave the city under threats OF tmpris-
onment.
Your brother Frank reasons this
way: I'm this bunch are undoubtedly
the 'hold.ups' whom We are after. but
unable to Identity. cannot tell the
Innocent from the guilty. but I do
know that the people Of Denver are
entitled to protection from this tough
element and am going to .deport the
whole bunch and be on the safe side
A man cannot identity the hornet that
stung him. but this fact don't prevent
him from cleaning out the whole nest.
Did you tell the ladies whom you ad-
dressed In Denver last week about this
outrageous violation Of the constitu-
donal guarantees by your brother
Frankf Did you tell them that these
humble citizens. the majority Of whom
were Innocent Of any crime, were
ruthlessly torn from the street corners,
the alleys and dives OF Denver and
forcibly driven from the city by your
brother Frank. Did you explain to
them that this was done by him in VIC
lation Of the provision Of the constitu
lion which says that no person shall
be deprived OF life. liberty or property
without due process Of laws"
Certainly not You were busy de-
nouncing Governor Peabody and the
authorities OF Teller county for doing
identically the same thing with the
which did not conflne itself to theft.
but which murdered fifteen non-un,on
men In one day.
Do you approve OF the deportatioas
by your brother Frank. II so, how do
you reconcile his action with tho pro
visions Of that glorious document
which you and your party have under
taken to suard-the constitution. II
you do not approve It. why have you
not protested against this Tyranny"
l Do you know OF anything In the con,
lstltution that permits policeman to
grab citizen who 10 quietly passing
along the street. violating no Law. and
hustle him out of the city limits In this
manner.
When you get to this point In de
scribing the deportations In Cripple
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