The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-10-06
OPEN LETTER TO ALvA ADAMS

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In the place the ehArx.
could possibly be made question of
law and order
You o platform approved by Western Fed
Grafton OF Miners and beside stand two
OF that body who running you.
That organization recently officially
Of its with the improved that an
army OF $4,000 federation men might be organized
of III Dare even mention It in public address,
destroyed s5oooo MILL killed two three wounded
others wardner Idaho Do discuss 1t
o,neay and directly and either approve or disapprove it
This organization boush, IS pres
an alta mi
ride Three killed eighty
three forcbly driven
many OF them barefooted
Do approve of this along with federation
colleagues specifically
the stump? You know it will merely that
law and either
disapprove publicly of this revolutionary organization
which committed this crime.
Your neighbor your personal your political
'ege the man whom you made governor James orman
from the abiding of the Tel
property bring end the reign of
which had prevailed in that district months
agitators judge, all
of whom sympathy with the awiess policy of the
Western Miners temporze and with
virtually the rioters status
of actual beigerents in war because he was afraid
sauits terrorism which followed this
hibon omciai cowardice the of friend
oman II he did not have advice in this matter he
was certainly entitled to 1t.
disapprove of his action in leaving the people
of the Telluride district be in the control of this
audience people you
would do In similar case
Murder of Jerry OT>eefe.
Do you remember Jerry o'Keefey in
Leadvile Federation strikers armed with West
Fl. wos fireman and was irving to estinsuIsh a are
started by these federation strikers who had dynamited
some mine buildings
You, do not murder
Jerry oKeee but for political believe it
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Your would undoubtedly be have
alton friends. F. r. wheeler and James F. Burns.
None of the gentlemen this policy of murder
but they of this organization that does
prove it and which says that property is robbery
Have told audiences of the hundreds of
American miners who have been MANNED. crippled and
by the Western Federation of Miners in the Rocky
mountain states?
you told them the widows and orphans
Of the murdered made by the Western Federation of
Have you ever mentioned to them the names of the
twentyfour Colorado miners who have murdered be-
of their opposition to the Western Federation of
Miners?
Have you to long
and other crimes which this organisation has committed in
Teller county?
Have you enlightened them to prop
erty this organization destroyed in Colorado?
Have undertaken to explain to your hearers the
enormous mining
the railways and the working people Of this state have lost
Have You ever explained to your why your allies
Federation of Miners fired into crowd of
unarmed citizens in Victor June 9Th. killing two and
wounding several confederation men?
you thrtyhve rines, shot
hirtynne captured with the
of Western federation
| headquarters from which the shots were hredf
told people these things should
vitality interested in the principle in
all this record of crime and violence.
An Explanation
You would able explain to them what
VIII place principle above
VIII me that in favor of the
and principle and in the breath bitterly
Peabody because OF the expense of
principle You have said things Peabody
things talk straight the point
make people believe that you too have he
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many that the conservative Demo
of glad to have explain One
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What you when in referring TO Cripple Creek
labor troubles Colorado working
not poems? the impression that Colorado
woriingmen we poems? Was 1T your colleague James
+. Burns your friends Meyer and Haywood!
| Do mean to MP that the who went out n
strike Cripple Creek at the command oil Meyer and hay
wood and who receiving SO day for eight hours
. work in dry healthful m peonsf
Or you that the $500 working in the
Teller mi the wages and at the same
. hours were poems? simply talking in your
sleepy
are very much interested be hoped that
wi specifically and not trim or hedge but
frankly all reference to your belief
in Justice honesty virtue Commandments.
what they want 20 is that have not had
political alliance with the Western
of would have the courage to
pose the revolutionary policy which
the event that elected gov
i ernorI Sincerely yours
i f Il. t,ITTENHoUsE.
u Editor Colorado Springs Telegraph.
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