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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-17
PluraIitieS in the
Five Big Doubtful
States in The Last
Seven Elections.
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I'm the mines the union under new
management turned 10 new point OF
attack and demanded that the mine
owners cease employing uOn-uniOn
men. This was Ion violation of the eX-
listing open shop contract Meyer and
Haywood, Socialists whose extreme
lawless ideas had divided the Western
Federation of Miners from the AmcrI-
can Federation Of Labor In assuming
control Of the miners organizations
had relegated 60 themselves the sole
right TO call a strike. They forced the
Cripple Creek unions against their own
wish-for while they were anxious TO
increase their own membership In any
possible way from among the miners
they were not willing TO go 10 the eX-
IRENE of strike against their employ
ers-to 90 upon a strike. No demand
was made upon the mine owners for
either shorter hours or more pay Tho
wages and hours were the best paid In
any camp in the United States The
lowest wage was and Is SO for eight
hours work the scale had been In ex-
istence for nine years and rs In force
today when nearly as many men aiu
working as were before the strike an
under the same wages and hours but all
pon-union. The union leaders had
hoped to gain only the complete union-
i2ing OF the mines they effected the
complete de.uniolhzing Of them.
The Cripple Creek mine owners knew
the Western Federation OF Miners to
be dangerous organization. lts
avowed Socialism, its disregard Of all
property rights, It's well-knOwn plan
to destroy whatever il cannot control,
It's arbitrary control Of the men at the
within or greed Of two leaders Ike M0S.
err and Haywood, IT. disturbing meth-
DDS. made It an organization to he fear
ed II placed In fun authority over the
men. Besdesnearly half their old men
were non-union from choice their right
TO work was to be considered. The mine
owners organized to meet the demand
they said TO their workmen that they
were not willing 20 place their
properties I'm the control Of such arbi-
trary aud irresponsible Socialists as
Meyer and Haywood they advised their |
union men to get together In their !
unions. and renounce their allegiance !
10 the Western Federation OF Min |
ers. to retain their local unions but 10 |
withdraw them from the Federation
and so free themselves from the mas |
terry OF Meyer and HayWood-aliens TO |
the state and the cripple Greek district |
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of each 70 remain as citizen Of tho
! community.
This commission bad before 10 during
! lla aN weeks of sessions $50 men
| IL dismissed lgS9, many OF whom de-
| cINed they would rGuOunce their SUM
/ port of thr ou,IdWed organization aud
We're permitted To- romain 239 lbie de-
| CARED unit 90 live ln cripple Creek.
some of these last were ore thieves.
! petty uuculeiH saloon buns. Migrants
hdt the majority WAS formed OF FeIer-
HtIon minors The district was 20 be
| cleaned without these. The sentence of
punishment was given them. lforty-
Two against whom the criminal evil
uencc WAS strong the accumulation VI
the iInB era oft l1Wessness but stil
ht lesser criminals since the PRINCIPALS
hhd taken alarm and dpd after it be-
came manifest No. them that the people
were going tu assert themselves and
lU't their Immunity from arrest was
I'D De "a lhug of thn past Many of
tnrsr ~ mad fired from the union hau
uu The people who were holding ON I'd
vacant Tot opposite it "a mass meeting
to protest against the lndeuondence
outrage 't was lhe same assault uuon
the tribune of the people of which
Carlyle tells.
LlNCHlNG CONSIDERED.
What 10 do with those sentenced 10
bc huushoi was the question. IL WAS
20 vote Unit tne people should use mo-
violence they We're protecting moi
taking lfc But many were saving that
the most OIectuu way To- restore orda,.
and assert the might of the people
would lU tho DII tUnV az |i,, ..,t., a. ,...
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could terminate either contest The
people sawed WOOD"
There came a convention of the Fed
Grafton in Denver II was the annual
business meeting Delegates from afar
had seen The futity of the strike Nov
or and Haywood had called. There
was a committee sent TO Crlpple Creek
TO decide whether the strike had not
been lost and should not be called oil
even over the objection Of Meyer and
Haywood ana the local union leadrs.
Haywood and the local union leaders.
The committee visited Cripple Greek
ON saturday 1t found every mine rum
ming full-handed with non-union men
and not q union miner working I'm the
camp, The committee went back TO
Denver II would report TO the con-
ventIOn on Monday.
Sherman Parker the saloon keeping
president Of the Independence union.
remained IN the camp after the COM
mttee had gone He had insisted THAI
he would yet win the strike: that his
methods were the ones that would win
I'M the end he did not want the
strike called off Sunday afternoon
Parker left the town Of mdependepcp
for Denver to continue attendance at
the convention Ten hours after hts
departure ut $3.50 o'clock Monday
morning hours before the convention
would be called TO order in Denver the
Independence depot Of the Golden cir.
Gle railroad was blown up by am infer.
nal machine The platform was filed
with non-unon men waiting 10 take
the train 10 their homes az the close
Of work IS OF them were killed blown
10 blts-seven were so manned that
they VIII be but half-Workmen for the
remainder Of their lives.
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9 Onde1 19e La2O Of the People in Cripple C1eeh o \
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

s,.,a correspondence
ep, ,Inols creek colo, Sept l5'--Hay-
on,o said to it, officers these are
ps laws enforce them Tor u.s. may
Ou ,ommnity later say to the same
ls ".srs stand aside we viii enforce
onr laws ourselyes|
W. p,rtleularly may il not do SO when
A.. oNcers have been lax In enforcing
ihe laws'
Am laws being for the protection Of
,.. community may not that commune
~, make a new law for It's own gov
awning when It finds one needed to give
serlrlty Of person and property to the
vbole'
These are the questions the people of
Crpple creek PROFOUND to inquIrers
INTO the reason for the seeming extra
ordinary happenings In the Colorado
,old camp that grew out Of protract-
ed struggle between the Western Fed
syation OF Miners and the Cripple Creek
zinc owners
no the looker.on from afar things
boyo been done by the people that de-
,nand an explanation Men were taken
nIsoners herded into bull PEN for
tinc later 10 be taken TO the state
boundary and dismissed without legal
rial These were In most cases said
"a be union men and the suppositlon
grew that their deportation was be-
cause they were union men.
PLOT AGAINST UNIONS.
Word was passed to the outside with
much apparent indignation that the
people OF Cripple Creek, the Mine own
ers association, a certain Citizen AL
lance the governor OF the state, the
state militia and It's commander Cen
Bell were an united IN plot to stamp
out unionim. I'm an unproyoked assault
upon the right Of laborlng men to Or
elnize, and the world stood aghast at
the heartlessness thereof
Cripple Creek was too busy cleaning
house to talk Il Fas It's own affair
anyhow, II the leaders Of unions and
the politicians wanted TO make capital
out Of what they were doing, let them,
they were busy cleaning house.
For ten months the camp had en-
dured the activities Of an organization
that had been seeking through lawless
Intimidation and crimes TO force the
reversal OF a decision by the mine own
ers that they would never again take
into their employ members OF the
Western Federation OF Miners For
three years that body had been seeking |
10 force 1000 OF the 5000 miners work. |
Iug on the open shop" prin- |
ciple to join their organization The |
1000 had refused, They insisted upon |
their rights to remain unattached from |
the union They mlstrusted the union |
management. The union was resortlng |
to intimidation, taking individuals from |
their homes at night beating them up |
and In at least one case murdered n |
miner who had refused OF Join. The |
officers of the law were In sympathy |
With the union. There was never am |
arrest for such an offense. When com.
plant was made 10 peace officer that
such an o0ense had been committed
the officer would reply: Served him
right he ought to be beaten up for not
joining
THE UNIONS MISTAKE.
After three years Of this bushwhack-
ing warfare against the non-union men
VINO are working alongside the union
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While not five per cent of the local
union men wanted to strike, they could
not face the opposition 20 the parent
body such action would entail and "a
they reluctantly accepted the alterna-
tive. obeyed the order and ceased work.
When they did 30 they knew that they
had been driven from further working
In the best camp from miners stand
point In the United States that the
strike would be lost, Many of the more
conservative Went quietly away to
other camps and 10 work az $3.50 a
day for 10 hours where they had In
Cripple Creek received 50 for eight.
TEey made the sacrifice TO their unions.
Cthers-fully e-third-saeing the
hcpelessness and the folly Of the strike,
deserted their leaders aud their unions
and remained TO work MS n0n-unlon
miners In their old places,
SALOON-KEEPERS PART.
A fow. the irresponsible. the drift
the saloon supporting element Of the
unions forged TO the front In the fight
that was ON between mine owners and
the Western Federation The direct
ing officers I'm the union We're filled
from these The head Of the most ag-
grcssive Of the five local unions was
"a saloon keeper when chosen for the
position. He has been the real director
OF the strike,
Then ensued a period Of conflict with
the mine owners on the one side fight
ing to protect their properties from de-
strucuon, helping their non-union
miners to protect themselves and they
together working for independence Of
action, freedom from arbitrary dicta-
ton OF Federation leaders; on the other
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side was the layless remnant of the
unions using thrcatg. intimidation,
beating the workIugmen, numbering
using every known form of mtmida-
ton to drive the nou-uniou Workmen
from the camp and compel the mine
owners to rescind their ayowed de-
termination never again 90 accept "a
Western Federation supporter into
their employ ON the side of the union
men were the officers of the law aWed
into compacency to violation of laws
by union men by the fear Of union
votes ending their political careers.
The sheriff of the county was himself
a member Of the miners uniop. When
the governor Of the state was called
upon 20 supply I'm the state militia the
peace authority which the civil officers
would not exert, the union turned upon
The state authority, deQed II, bought
more guns and i'm secret armed against
H. II was organized and protected
laWlessness, armed rebellion against
the state
For months the people stood aside
Scarcely neutral leaDing rather toward
the unions as "A power lon trade and
politics to be feared yet taking neither
side waiting. II was q period like unto
that knitting one Dickens describes and
Carlyle as preceding he French revou-
ton. An American would say the
people We're saving wood They saw
crime after crime go unpublished, BUSH
ness depressed, the progress Of the
camp at q standstil.
While the state authority was locked
with the Federation iu contest be-
tween law and Hwlessness the mine
owners were locked in one over the
right 10 run the mines. neither side
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| II was c,idcu, the intent was to.
| with thIs culmnune yloloncr-A form
/ cr plot similarly prepared had mi-rar-
/ ried and only killed two where ID vas
/ reasonable tu expect no. would ho MUIR
| dgrcd-.wIu fhc strike for the Fedora.
ton They had Tine ciylI .uthorItIrt
/ with them lhc military had been re.
called. Bu, the plouors overshot the
mark Had the people remained pcu.
ual The crime might hay struck mnI-
N'nl terror INTO the n0n-ulIon men
and ihplr employers 90 have or,oo,-
pusled lng desired end; but the people
| "Wohc' Ih'y arose. As "a man thay
Uvl'iBeu lhc Western Federation with
we cime, There should be no more
iiNe Ii not member OF the otgau1l.
uoIl shpuld remain I'm camp to make
Sucn crimes possible That would
stamp 10 out as eitpcumlIy and ps ruth.
iessly as they would a den of snakes
40 know what happened then I'm
nullpple creek, read Carlylr's French
hetoluton eliminating the. gulloUnc
una make the motive Of the people not
revenge nut peace allow that they
were Americans whose first desire Is
lQor order for undisturbed conditions
tnol make for law and order the bus
ness property.
OFFICERS RESIGN
To officers who had wInRed al lav.
lessness they said "RcslgD-qlye
back the trust we imposed I'm Won.
Ihey said IL In a way Inc officers
could not dispute some held ropcs I'm
thelr hands when they said il. others
guns The officers resigned. new ones
we're chosen I'm their places. but for n
Time there were 10000 peace officers
busy ana Intent ON enforcing the rdIcts
OF the people themselves. The poopIo
Iuied supreme their efforts were onlv
eldas, not principals. IN enforcing u1e
laws Members of the tlhooed Foder,.
ilon VINO had not taken guilty dipbt An
hlnlng were taken where thew mipbt
be found The Victor public bgg
almofy. dancing academy ANA ls,.ls,
4IalaDle room combinod-thc han Inn
"nlch President Roosevelt was once
prevented from speaking by the clamag
OF many of these same riotous Fei.ra.
uon miners-Was improWsed "a uri..Y
ana INTO THIS the arrested Federation
lsls We're thrown and kept under rnlrl
uhlll military commission chosen
from AN ranks OF citizens and SITTING
hlgnt ana day as board of nou.ry
ooula emaNlne INTO the right or fitness
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NOMINEES ELECTED AND DEFEATED.

r. Received
1880 GARFIELD (R Received for
1884 CLEVELAND, CD Received Electoral
HARRISON
against
Received Eleoa
Received Eleo for
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THE SPRINGFIELD LYNCHING.

The Springfield. o., lynching and riot is
one OF the most disgraceful affairs OF the
kind that has ever occurred. The lynching
alone was bad enough and accompanied by
as many barbarous details as have ever
characterized any Southern lynching, out
the subsequent rioting and burning Of
houses showed a kind and degree of vim
dictiveness that has not appeared in the
South. The Southern people have often
wreaked swift vengeance on the perpetra-
tors of outrageous crimes. bat when the
criminal is punished they stop. They have
never followed up the crime of murder by
wholesale arson.
Such occurrences as this demonstrate
two facts, first that race and color
prejudice prevail to a considerable extent
I'm the North as we'll as in the South. and
second, that there is in all cities a class
OF people who can on pretty slight provo
cation be worked into fury OF lawless-
ness and crime. Perhaps this element ex-
lists in some degree even in small towns,
but IL requires numbers TO make 1t defiant
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Landscape Advertising.

The associated bposters Of the United States
and Canada now officially condemn the practice
OF painting signs upon rocks and other natural
objects in picturesque landscapes. although they
seem to offer no objection to putting board
ing for posters and paintings in front of the
natural object. The distinction is fine one.
but 1t means some gain Several railroads have
prohibited the erection of biboards their
own property, and although this scarcely dis
turbs the advertiser, who still use the
private property either side of the right OF
way, it shuts out possible extension Of the
abuse that has tremendous possibilities. In at
least one case, also. great railroad company
has taken to planting quickly growing trees at
such places TO hide the boardings erected
on adjacent land. The Boston & Albany road
has gained a like end in the suburbs of Boston
by planting screens of shrubs or hedge at
the top of the cut; and it has become no unusual
thing for railroad company, conscious of the
popular feeling, to exert its influence, as far
as it can upon the adjacent property owners
to induce them to refuse TO lease advertising
rights. But public opinion that very unani-
mously considers the extension of hospitality to
advertisements by a barn other outbuiding,
or even by field badge of the farmer S
poverty, is perhaps doing more than is any
thing else to remedy this abuse--Charles Null
ford Robinson, in March Atlantic.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The true name Of Korea is Chosen" meaning
land of the morning sun" 1t is by this name
that the country is designated in diplomatic
papers at the state Department at Washington
For dowry Herr Duckatscheck. of Dusseldorf
gave his daughter present Of her weight in
silver. At her wedding she solemnly
weighed in presence Of the company. She was
found to turn the scales at 40 pounds and TO be
worth $500
Charles Runner of Skagway has organized
an expedition TO investigate the report that a
ell-proserved body of a mammoth has been
found by Indians in glacier near his home
An effort will be made to exhibit the ind at
the St. Louis worlds fair.
Dinners of souls are the latest amusement Of
the smart set in Paris. at least that part of the
smart set which has intellectual pretensions.
The invited guests each impersonates some
celebrity, not by means of clothes other mas
querading follies, but by speech and manner.
by accent, tricks of voice attitude and by re-
peating celebrated speeches or parts of speeches
of the celebrities. providing the quotations are
apropos.
Admiral Stark, the Russian commander who
suffered severely at Port Arthur is of Scotch
descent, a fact which moves the London Chroni-
Gle to remark that the name Stark is pure
Scotch, though most OF those who made it ia
nous attained their celebrity IN England.
Possibly the Chronicle did not to recall
that John Stark won at least a certain kind
of celebrity at Bennington VT, in revolutionary
times.
In looking up arguments favorable to a bill
to expedite law business a member of the New
York Legislature finds that twenty-three London
justices disposed of nearly twice as many cases
in year forty-three New York judges.
Furthermore English justices are able TO try
their cases under their system so that only 10
per cent. of those tried appealed, while at
least 90 per cent. of the New York cases are
appealed.
The Kaiser's latest role is that of the Prophet
Daniel. Such, at least is the conclusion reached
by those who have examined the new sculptured
figure of Daniel on the facade of the cathedral
at Metz 1T didn't require more than two
glances" says the New York Sun, Ito enable
people TO see that the face presented as Daniel S
that of Emperor William. The unofficial
newspapers mentioned it, plain folks gossiped
about it privately and the foreign critics of the
Emperor seized upon the fact another in
| stance Of the absorbing egotism of the strenuous
ruler of Germany"
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and dangerous. Human nature is much
the same unGer all circumstances. and.
making due allowance for difference of
climate, temperament and environment,
perhaps Northern people are not much
more law-abiding than those of the South.
1t must be remembered that the proportion
Of colored people TO whites is vastly greater
in the South than in the North and the
crimes which appeal to the evil spirit much
more frequent
in the present case there was no justifi-
cation for an appeal TO mob law. The kill
ing OF a policeman by a white man is not
an uncommon occurrence, and the fact that
in this case the killing was done by ne
gro did not make the crime any more
heinous. The murderer was in Jail and
would doubtless have received merited
punishment by legal methods if the mob
had not murdered him. If he had been a
white man there would have been no
lynching and no subsequent burning OF
houses. The occurrence shows that among
a certain class of people race hatred is as
prevalent in the North as it is in the
South. In both sections it can only be
cured by time and education. The cure
may come slowly, but it will come.
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doom watchin' his chance of a job New York
Glofe.
Those Awful Names.

The man who was writing paused.
Say he queried. 10 you spell that Korean
name Wee Joo'-w-i-j-u?"
You spell it any way you please" was the
answer.
oh. come on What do you mean?'
Il mean just what l say. You can spell II
W-i-j-u, or E-u-i-j-u. or S-u-i D-j-o-u and
you'll be right in any case. The first ways the
Ame-iean the seconds according a English
method Of transliteration and the third is the
French contortion. Those French mapmakers
are beauties. They spell Fusan F-o-u-s-a-n'
and Kunsan K-o-u-n-s-a-n That's why the
often so unintelligible
Why the speaker continued those war
names are driving crazy There's always at
least three ways of spelling them. Even ANU
the English often spell A-n-c-h-y-u. or A-n-g-u.
Then there's Kiu-Shu, with the hyphen and
without 1t, and Kion-sion. There's Chemuipo,
Chemulpho and T-c-h-e-m-o- u-l-p-o-and Ia
Lien Wsn, Talienwan and fallen Guam Can
you beat that? Why, even plain little New
chang can be spelled N-e-w-c-h-w-a-n-g New
c-h-u-a-n-g or N-i-o-u-T-c-h-o-u-a-n-g.
The other day fellow told that the En-
peTor of Korea had been advised TO remove TO a
place that sounded like Chyun- ChyouA l got a
map Of Korea TO look up the place and within
about an inch of each other a large scale map
1 found Chyung-chyu. Chyong-chyu, Chyuk-
chyou, Chyou-Tung. Chin-chyou, Chyon-an
Chyong-an. Chyon-ew, Chyong-yang and Chyong-
san. Now after that. I'd about made up my
mind where the Emperor of Korea ought to 60,
but what 1 still want to find out is where he
actually did go, anyhow"
IF he didn't want to get lost" said the man
who had been writing, he'd better have stayed
in Seoul"-Philadephia Press.
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A Good Roads Appropriation.

Senator Latimer made journey out 10 Iowa
months ago. speaking in favor of good roads.
He appeared in the congressional district of Rep
resentative Hedge who seems TO take little stock
proposition. Mr. Hedge, however. is
friendly man. lie introduced the senator to a
large audience. at the same time explaining that
e would responsible for what the visitor
had TO say.
The glories of appropriation of $40, O0O, 900
by the federal government eloquently set
forth by the South Carolinian. The Iowa farmers
present were delighted. The district is one of
the largest in the State, has thousands of miles
of highways, and the residents from the country
greatly pleased with Mr.. Latimer's advo-
cacy Of federal appropriations.
But MIR. Hedge. who is very practical man.
had turn later. Proceeding on the assumption
that the government should appropriate $40 0O0 900
for good roads. to be distributed pro rata among
the States he figured out that his district would
receive as its quota enough money to build about
three miles of good highway.
'And now" said Mr.. Hedge. after he had ex-
planned how far the appropriation would go.
where do you want those three miles Of road
built?'
He declared that some Of those farmers are
still discussing which part of the district shall
have the benefit of the money.-Washington Post.