The Grit-advocate., 1904-10-21
ALVA ADAMS BROTHER FRANK DEPORTING
CITIZENS FROM DENVER EVERY DAY
THIRD OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE.

To the Hon Alva Adams Dear Sir:
Will kindly again stand and look the people OF
Colorado in the eye attentionand theirs is
invited
THE ADAMS DEPoRTATIohs.
You literally deluged with scading Demo
cratic alleged injustice done the dangerous
characters who sent out of Of the mining camps
OF Colorado You because Of the violation OF lhe
constitution and because OF these despeadoes had
families Will you please explain the difference in the re-
suits to who is killed by desperate with 1amy
and who is killed by unmarried assassin he would
be dead in either event, would he not?
But these of yours-have you shed any in SYM
pathy families whom the Western Fed
Grafton Miners MANNED and murdered in Coorado
If please people of Colorado when and where
you did it.
We all know that you personally kind and that your
sympathy naturally out to the unfortunate but we
also know that in this instance owing to your weak ana
vaclang" tendencies political expedency prevents you
from pcurng to ca-Hrs the distress, mser! anu
suffering caused honest, :aaabidng American WORKING
by this vicious Western Federation OF Miners. 1ou
people Colorado the story OF the brutal
nhuan crimes of this organization because
you running ticket and standing on platform side
by representatives of the Western Federation
Miners, support you lack the moral courage to
sacrifice.
Now please stand still and look the audience square ii
the eye and this question:
Don't you all times and in all ages extraordinary
required to meet extraordinary emer
gencies?
There are times when human impulse prompts people
extraordinary things and it requires extraordinary
bring them back to orderly and ordinary
course
Did you ever stop to think Governor how Adam and Eve
left the garden of Eden?
Their departure the first recorded of deportation
and you will remember that cherubim guarded the
Garden of Eden with flaming that they did
not come back"
Perhaps you may regard Extraordinary emergency
remote to apply to modern instance II So mere
is that is quite recent
know it is your policy admit nothing and claim
everything, still you will not deny that your brother
Frank Adams the head of the police department of
Denver
Your brother Frank has depored about 900 your
fellow citizens since the present administration came into
office? Inasmuch this is all in the family of course
will maintain that know of this outrageous
proceeding"
During the past week your brother Frank without
warrant of law gathered and exed about fifty OF
fellow citizens of the most Of
harmless and inofensive, their only crime
being that they and frendess There had been
number of holdups in the Capital City Your brother
Frank and his policemen unable to locate the Grim
nas they therefore arrested everyone who in their opinion
suspicious they arrested them without warrant
slightest sembance of authority of law They made
charges against them except that they were suspicious
They thrown in Jail and after time given certain
number the city under threats of mprs
onment.
Your brother Frank this "ln this bunch
are undoubtedly the holdups whom after but un
able identity tell the innocent from the guilty
but do know people of Denver entitled to
this tough element and am going to de-
port the bunch and be on the safe side man
identify the hornet that sunS him, but this fact
bou't prevent him from cleaning out the whole nest.
Did you tell the whom you addressed in Denver
last week about this outrageous violation of the constt
tonal guarantees by your brother Frank? Did you tell
hat these
were innocent any crime ruhlessy torn from the
street the alleys of Denver and forcb
driven from the city by your brother Frank Did you
plain to them that done by him in violation of the
provision of constitution which says that no person
shall be deprived life. liberty property without due
process of law"
Certainly not You busy denouncing Governor
Peabody and authorities of Teller county for doing
dentically the thing with the dangerous and murder
element confne itself to theft but which
murdered fifteen non-unon men in one day.
Do you approve of the deportatons OF your brother
Frank? you do how do reconcile his action with the
provision glorious document which you and your
party undertaken to guard-he constitution II you
approve why have not protested against this
tyranny"
you anything in the constitution that permits
policeman grab citizen who is quietly passing along
the street. violating law and hustle him out OF the city
limits in this manner?
When you get this point in describing the deporta
tions In Cripple Creek, you say:
"If any of these criminals in Gods name let
the criminals be punished let not the innocent suffer-
Have you ever said this to your brother Frank while
pleading him to desst in his mperiaistc polcy OF