The daily sentinel., 1904-11-04
Peabody PrattIe.

Inc feaDOuy meeting last night al
the auditorium was largely attended
The house was we'll filled when the
speakers appeared on the stage.
Gov. Peabody was not the recipient
of wildly enthusiastic ovation when
he appeared on tho stage. The ap-
plause throughout the meeting was
rather mild. There was no prolonged
cheering at any time. The men on
the platform, J. Fl Ramey. Edwin
Price, Walter Mulkey. George Smith
and Horace 7. DeLong. initiated the
greater part of the cheering at every
point in the meeting and that which
came from the rear of the house
sounded like an echo.
Horace 7. DeLong presided over the
meeting. He introduced Peabody.
commanding him in the highest terms
The governor spoke for less than
twenty minutes. He diseased the
state issues in rather general way.
lie made weak attempt to defend
his deportation policy and it conld
easily be seen that the greater part of
his audience was not with him when
hs discussed this question. He was
strong in his denunciation of the dem
ocratic party, the democratic press
and the democratic candidates.
In closing his appeal to the audi
euce for support. he said that if they
wanted the anarchists aud tough ele-
ment to rule Colorado to vote for Alva
Adams on Tuesday next, hut if they
wanted civil government to continue
in force and wanted a man who had
and would maintain it. then vote for
the speaker on Tuesday. No egotism
about this remark was there?
Gov. Peabodys address may have
made decided impression on repub-
licans but the impr. ssion did not ex-
tend to the audience. He told of
many bloodthirsty threats made
against him in his attempt to create
sympathy. He declared that he would
still use the militia as he saw fit, if
reelected. His remarks about depor-
tation and the deported men were re-
sented by half of the crowd Accord.
ing to his saying nearly every man
deported was depraved criminal.
When the Governors speach was
concluded there was no wild outburst
of applause; the men on the platform
did three fouIths of the cheering. 1t
was n cold meeting as far as general
enthusiasm was concerned.
Peabody declared that he has caused
only anarchists or criminals to be de-
ported. He declared that there had
been no violence at Cripple Greek
since he withdrew the militia. He
said he had no apologies to make for
anything he had done and proposed to
stand pat. He was very careful not
to mention Sherman Bell. He asked if
the audience did not believe he had
obeyed the law in following
his deportation policies. There we're
more cries of mo" than of Yes.
Many who heard the speech declared
it to be very weak one. The re-
marks of the Governor were very
scattered and he seemed to be in
hurry to get through. He spent
great part of his time telling what
bad men forty four of those deported
out of a total of 12S were. but he
failed to say anything about the other
500 men that were deported. The
address of the Governor was the
poorest republican speech heard here
this campaign.
When the Peabody special arrived |
at the depot not twenty people were
down TO greet the Governor. The |
reception was very cold indeed in
face of the talk of the great ovation
to be given the governor.
Following Peabody. Kernel X.
Bahbitt of Colorado Springs. whom
Senator DeLong introduced as life
long democrat addressed the au-
dience. His address was far superior
to Peabody's Two other speakers
followed Babbitt and the meeting
came to a close
The picture show and the band
were responsible for the presence of
a great many OF the audience, curl
osity to SEE Peabody drew scores of
others who had no sympathy for the
governors policy.
The republicans have no cause for
citation over the meeting.
Charles E. ParcOr is tho ssEittv''