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

CANDIDATE.
To the Hon. Alva Adams. Dear Sir:
VIII you kindly again stand and look the people OF
Colorado in the while attention-and theirs
invited to
THE ADAMS DEPoRTATiohs.
literally deuged the state with scaldins Demo-
the alleged injustice done the dangerous
who out of some of the mining camps
Colorado You because of the violation OF the
and because of these desperadoes had
families VIII please explain the difference IN the re-
suits a is killed by desperate with n family
killed by unmarried assassin lie would
be dead in either event, would he not?
But these Of yours-have you shed any in sym
pathy families of the whom the Western Fed
Grafton Miners manned and murdered In Colorado!
So please tell people of Colorado when and where
did 1t.
you personally kind and that your
sympathy naturally out to the unfortunate but we
this instance. owing to your weak and
vacating tendencies political expediency prevents you
from pcturng to your the distress misery and
suffering honest, aw-abding American working
m Western Federation of Miners You
dare tell the people of Colorado the story OF the brutal
heatess and nhuman crimes of this organization because
you running ticket and standing platform side
by representatives of the Western Federation
Miners support lack the moral courage to
sacrifice.
please still and look the audience square in
the this question:
you and in all extraordinary
required to meet extraordinary emer
gencies?
There
extraordinary things and it requires extraordinary
means to bring back to orderly and ordinary
Did YOU ever stop to think Governor how
left the garden of Eden?
Their departure is the first recorded case OF deportation
you will also remember that cherubm guarded the
Garden Eden with flaming sword to see that they did
not come back"
Perhaps regard this extraordinary emergency
as too remote apply modern instance If so. here
is that is quite recent:
know it is your policy admit nothing and claim
everything. hut still will not deny that your brother
Denver.
Your brother Frank deported about 800 of your
fellow citizens since the present administration came into
office? Inasmuch this is all in the family you OF course
will maintain that do not know of this "outrageon
proceeding"
During the past week your brother has without
any gathered and exiled about fifty OF
these downrodden fellow citizens of yours the most of
whom harmless and inonensive. their only crime
being that they and rendless There had been
number of hod-ups in the Capital City Your brother
his policemen unable to locate the Grim
nals they therefore arrested who In their opinion
looked suspicious: they arrested them without warrant
slightest semblance of authority of law They made
charges against them except that they were suspicious
They were thrown Jail time given a certain
of leave the city under threats of mprs
onment
brother Frank this 'In this bunch
undoubtedly the hodups whom after. but un
identity tell the innocent from the guilty
but do know that the people of Denver are entitled to
protection from this tough element and going TO de
port the whole bunch and be the safe side. A
identify stung him. but this fact
don't prevent him from cleaning out the whole nest
Did you tell the ladies whom addressed in Denver
this outrageous violation of the constitu
tonal guarantees by brother Frank? Did tell
that these humble citizens, the majority of whom
crime ruthessly torn from the
the alleys and dives of Denver and orcby
from the city by brother Frank. Did
them that this done by him in violation of the
provision of the constitution which that mo
shall deprived Of life liberty without
process Of law?"
Certainly You busy denouncing Governor
Peabody the authorities of Teller county
denticay the thing with the dangerous
element which did not confne itself to theft but which
murdered fifteen nonunon men in one day.
Do you approve Of the deportations Of your
Frank? you how do reconcile his action
provision that glorious which your
party undertaken to guard-the constitution
approve why have protested against
tyranny"
you of anything in the constitution that permits
grab citizen who is quietly passing along
the street. violating law hustle him city
limits in this manner?
you get this point in describing the deporta-
tons in Cripple Creek,
"If any of these criminals. in Gods let
criminals be punished, let not the innocent
Have you said this to your brother Frank while
pleading with him desst in his "imperiastc policy
deportation? Don't you know that at the very time you
talking to the ladies in Denver last week your
brother Frank deporng these citizens from Denver?
And please face the voters and tell them why
the authorities for the dePortatons in Teller