Arizona republican., 1904-09-01
PHOENIx, ARIZONA, SEPT. 1, 1904.
Governor Peabody.

bOhCIiOI GoDOdg O1 SOlOIdOO llSiS received the endorsement of the bus.- ness men of Denver for renomination. This was done at a meeting of the Bus mess Mems Law and Order league of Denver on Tuesday night. This organi- zation is made up of men who care more for the good of the state than they do for political parties. The en- doTsement which they have given Gov ernOr Peabody is an endorsement of his course in the. troubles in the Cripple Creek and other strike infested districts of Colorado.
 The situation in the Centennial state is an unusual one. It is perhaps with out a parallel. In no other case which can be called to mind has an indus trial disturbance affected a whole com monwealth and so nearly obliterated political liEes. It IS true that an effort is being made to make political cap ital out of the occurrences which have attracted the attention of the whole country. Condemnation of the action of the governor in suppressing violence formed one of the blanks of the na- tional democratic platform and unfav- orable allusion to it has been made in many of the pls tforms of democratic state conventions. It happened that Governor Peabody was a republican. Perhaps if the chief executive of the state had been a democrat with a care for his oath to preserve order within its borders, disorder would have been as summarily suppressed.
 It is true that there have been acts of lawlessness in Cripple Creek and Victor, committed by those who were in sympathy with the efforts of the governor to promote good order, but they were no part of his acts. The deportation of agitators can be excused only under the law of necessity which is a dangerous law to enforce though the object of the Citizens Alliance was to accomplish what the governor was trying to bring about.
 Ii is true that Governor Peabody may have erred ir the treatment of the sit uation but it will be agreed by all that it needed treatment and treatment of a heroic character. There is no safer sentiment than the business sentiment of a community and until there Is meeting of a body of business men of Colorado to condemn the actions of the governor, it may be assumed that he is supported by that element which has the welfare of the state most at heart.
 William Macleod Raine, in the cur rent number of the Reader Magazine" under the title of "The Supremacy of the Law" reviews the Colorado situa- tion from the beginning and concludes: There is certainly far more danger Of a state government failing to protect it's citizens than of using its authority fin an arbitrary manner; far more dan ger of it's being too lenient to those abusing liberty than too harsh. Gov ernOr Peabody emphasized again the great truth that TO body of citizens, however large in numbers, is superior to the state, and that lawlessness is not the less criminal because hundreds are engaged in it Instead Of one. He has rendered a service to the country in distinguishing sharply between or ganized labor that seeks legal redress for grievances and that which attempts to force what it desires by dynamite and intimidation. The present govern or did not create the condition which he had to meet. He was not respon- sible for the failure of a corrupt legis- lature to pass the eight hour bill which had been pledged by both parties. It was unfortunate that the labor troub- les that had been brewing for years grew acute just at this time and, that revolutionary labor leaders turned to Colorado as the Mecca of their disor- der. But these things were conditions and the new governor accepted them as such"
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