The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-09-29

4 empnhtlChlly Hnu ueseTVeuly COnuemnS
that part of Bourke Cookran's speech
in which he denounced the action of
| the Governor of Colorado for his
course in the labor riots in that State.
The part of the speech the Eagle de-
nounces rs unfit to be made, " was
heard here in Montpelier, and these
criticisms, commendabe in spirit and
most admirable in trenchant express
sion, will. be highly appreciated by
those who heard the Tammany orator
during the campaign in this State.
The Eagles article follows:
1.-THE Eagle published Bourke
Cockran's speech in full, on Sunday.
That much was due to news. The
Eagle gave to the speech not only full
publication, but prominent Placement.
That was due to the magnitude of
the meeting. The Eagle made no
comment upon the speech when it
published it, but cannot withhold
candid comment from it today with
justice to its readers or to itself.
GAS much of the speech as con-
demned the conduct of the Governor
of Colorado, against mobs, which
claimed to act as labor organizations,
should not have been delivered and
should be pointedly condemned by
every lsw-abiding newspaper. The
mobs were made up of murderers,
manners, terrorizers and outlaws. AS
many as twenty-one murders, and
twice as many maimings were scored
against them. Arson and terrorism
further decorated the conduct of these
organized" outlaws. They threw
down law. They sacrificed life. They
wounded whom they could not kill,
and they followed such performances,
congenial to them, with dynamite and
the torch. What they did was in
famous. The condition which they
brought about was intolerable. They
made war, with it's worst atrocities,
on government, on order, on property
and on life.
the State government of Colorado,
either in its judicial or in it's military
capacity, was rightly done, bravely
done, laudably done, sternly done,
admirably we'll done. We hope that
the doing of it will be approved by
the people of Colorado 1t will be APP
proved by them, if they love liberty,
respect human aud natural rights, and
deserve to enjoy those rights. 1t will
be approved, if the punishment of
murderers is to be preferred to MUIR
der. as an industry and if the vindi-
cation OF law is to be preferred to the
coronation of systematized crime.
cit should be incredible that even
Bourke Cochran should attack the &C.
the Governor and the government of
Colorado in this matter. But being
not incredible, because he did so, his
condemnation of it should itself be
condemned, and the injury which,
without rebuke of him would ensue,
| to those whom he professed to advo-
cate, should be repaired as far as it
can be, as explicitly, as earnestly
and as soon as possible.
"From much that Bourke Cochran
said about free trade and glorifca-
tion of boycotts, from much that he
said on collateral subjects, the Eagle
differs, but those are matters of mere
opinion, however unwise, premature
or over-dogmatic Bourke Cochran S
opinions on them may be. They can
be Leu pass. The thugs which we
have detailed, and denounced, were
immoral, incendiary, and scandaious.
We can imagine nothing more hurt
full than those things to the cause
which Bourke Cochran would. or
would affect to, favor. AS that cause
is sincerely supported by the Eagle,
this paper feels bound to note and to
denoonce the injury to that cause
which Bourke Cochran, Willingly or
unwittingly, has sought 10 inflict up
on it. His was a speech, in the re-
spects set forth, unfit to be made.