La Junta tribune., 1904-10-26
Open Letter to the
Democratic Candidate

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Democratic Candidate
TO The Hon. Alva Adams. Dear sir:
Will you kindly again stand up and
leok the people of Colorado in ths eye
while your attention-and theirs-is
Invited to
The Adams Dsportatiensf
You have literally deluged the state
/ with scalding Democratic tears over
the alleged injustice done the danger
Gus characters who were sent out OF
some OF the mining camps OF Colorado.
fou weep because OF the violation of
the constitution and because some OF
these desperadoes had families. Will
you please explain the difference in the
results to a man who is killed BY
desperate with family and one who
fs killed by an unmarried assassin!
He would be dead in either event,
would he not.
But these tears OF yours-have you
shed any in sympathy for the families
OF the men whom the Western Fedora
tion OF Miners have MANNED and mur-
dered in Colorado? II so. please tell
the people OF Colorado when and where
you did IL?
Ne all know that you are personally
kind and that your sympathy naturally
goes out TO the unfortunate. but we
also know that In this instance, owing
to your weak and vacillating tenden'
cies, political espedieEcy prevents you
from pioturing TO your hearers the dis
tress. miserF and suffering caused hon
est, iaw-abiding American workinxmen
by this vicious Western Federation OF
Miners. You dare not tell the people
Of Colorado the story OF the brutal.
heartless and inhuman crimes OF this
organization because you are running
on ticket and standing ON platform
side by side with two representatives
of the Western Federation Of Miners.
whose support you lack the moral cour-
age to sacrifice.
Now please stand still and look the
audience square in the eye and an
swer this question:
Don't you know In all times and In
oil ages extraordinary measures have
been required to meet extraordinary
emergencies?
There are times when human I'm
pulse prompts people to do extraor-
dinary things and 1t requires extraor-
dinary means to bring them back to
an orderly and ordinary course.
Did you ever stop to think. Gov
ernor. how Adam and Eve left the Gar
den OF Eden!
Their departure Is the first recorded
case OF deportation and you will also
remember that u cherubim guarded the
Garden OF Eden with flaming sword
to see that they did not come back"
Perhaps you may regard this extra
ordinary emergency" as too remote to
apply to q modern instance. II so, here
10 one that Ii quite recent:
know II is your policy to admit
nothing and claim verything. but still
you will not deny that your brother
Frank Adams is at the head OF the po-
lice department OF Denver.
Your brother Frank has deported
about 800 OF your fellow citizens since
the present administration came into
ONCE Inasmuch a. this Is all in the
family, you OF course will not paintain
that you do not know Of this outrage
GUS proceeding"
During the past week your brother
Frank has without any warrant OF law
gathered up and exiied about fifty OF
these down-trodden fellow citizens OF
yours, the most OF whom were harm
less and inofYensive. their only crime
being that they were poor and friend
less. There had been . number OF hold.
ups In the Capital City. Your brother
Frank and his policemen were unable
to locate the criminals; they therefore
arrested every one who in their opin-
lon looked suspicious: they arrested
them without warrant or the slightest
semblance Of authority OF law. They
made NO charges against them except
that they were suspicious" They
were thrown in jail and after time
given q certain number of hours to
leave the city under threats of impris-
onment
Your brother Frank reasons this
way: In this bunch are undoubtedly
the 'hold-ups' whom we are after. but
unable to Identity. I cannot tell the
innocent from the guilty. but DO
know that the people Of Denver are
entitled to protection from this tonga
element and I am going to deport the
whole bunch and be on the safe side.
A man cannot identity the hornet that
stung him. but this fact don't prevent
him from cleaning out the whole nest
Did you tell the ladies whom you ad-
dressed in Denver last week about this
outrageous violation Of the constitu
tional guarantees by your brother
Frank? Did you tell them that these
humble citizens, the majority of whom
we're innocent Of any crime. were
ruthlessly torn from the street corners
the alleys and dives Of Denver and
forcibly driven from the city by your
brother Frank? Did you explain to
them that this was done by him In VIC
lation Of the provision Of the constitu
tion which says that mo person shall
be deprived OF life. liberty or property
without due process Of law?"
Certainly not. You were busy de
nouncing Governor Peabody and the
authorities Of Teller county for doing
identically the same thing with the
dangerous and murderous element
which did not confine Itself to theft
hnt vhich murdered fifteen pon-uniou