The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-09-28
A SPEECH UNFIT TO BE MADE
BOurke Cockran's Remarks Com
demned by Democratic Party Organ.

Bourke Cockrnn's Remarks Com
demned by Democratic Party Organ.
[From the Brooklyn Eagle Sept. 49,
The Eagle published BQlrke Cock
rams speech in full on Sunday. That
much was due to news. The Eagle
gave to the speech not only full publ
cation, but prominent placement That
was due to the magnitude of the meet
ing. The Eagle made no comment up
OH the speech when it published ii, but
cannot withhold candid comment from
it today with justice to its readers or
to itself
As much Of the speech as condemned
the conduct of the governor of COlOra-
do against mobs which claimed to act
as labor organizations should not have
been delivered and should be pointedly
condemned by every law abiding
newspaper The mobS We're made up
of murderers, manners, terrorizers and
outlaws. As many as twenty-one muir
ders and twice as many maimingS
We're scored against them. Arson and
terrorism further decorated the con
duet Of these "organized" outlaws.
They threw down law. They sacrificed
life. They wounded whom they could
not Kill, and they followed such per
formauCeS. Cnngenial to them, with dy-
Mantle and the torch What they did
was infamous The condition which
they brought about was intolerable.
They made war, with its worst atroc-
tiles, on government on order, on prop
erty and on life.
What was done against them by the
state government OF Colorado, either in
lis judicial or i'll its military capacity,
was rightly done, bravely done, lauda-
bly, doae. sternly done, admirably well
done. We hope that the doing of 1t
will be approved by the people of Colo
RADIO. 1t VIII he approved by them If
they love liberty, respect human and
natural rights and deserve to enjoy
those rights. 1t will be approved If the
punishment of murderers Is to be pre-
ferred to murder as an industry and ii
the yindication of law is to be pre-
ferred to the coronation of systema-
tiZed crime.
1t SHOULD De lllCFtulDle llul tN til
Bourl<e Cochran should attack the ac-
tion and misreprcscnt the record of the
governor and government of Cot IrHlo
In this matter. But, being not incrCdi-
BILE, because he did so his couic.uma-
ton of ii should itself be condemned,
and the injury which without rcbHko
of him would ensue to those whom
he professed to advocate should Ice re
paired as far as ii can be. rs explicitly.
as earnestly and as soon as possible.
From much that Bourllc Cochran
said about free trade and a gloriiica
ton of boYeottS from much that he
said on collateral subjects. the Eagle
differs. but those are matters of mere
opinion, however unwise, premature or
overdogmatic Bourkc Cockrun's Opiu-
ions on them may be. They can be let
pass The things which we have de
tailed and denounced were immoral, in
cendiary and scandalous. We can
imagine nothing more hurtfu than
those things to the cause which BOurke
Cochran would or would affect to fl
vor As that cause is sincerely sup
ported by the Eagle. this paper feels
bound to note and to dcnouncc the in
jury to that cause which Bourke Cock
ran. Willingly or unwittingly. has
sought TO inhict upon it, His was II
speech. in the respects set FORTH unfit
to be made