The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-03

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arms, Just as the absolute 81 monarchs
did in mediavel times. h. Peabody was
defeated by plurality Of 1900. He
charges that there was, fraud i'll the
election, and yet his party had absolute
control Of the political machinery Of
the state.
Peabody has no regard for the will
Of the people. His record as Governor
of the state proves this. When the
people had declared for constitution
oil amendment for the eight hour day
he aided the mine owners to thwart
the will Of the people. He has been
engaged in this business ever since he
was elected Governor.
Now the people have repudiated him
at the ballot box. but he refuses TO ac-
cept the verdict, and will use every
instrument at his command to continue
himself in power. There appears to be
something more than the trouble of
the Western Federation Of Miners be-
hind the ambitions Of Peabody. He
is also DESTROYS of stealing the state
Senate which is safely Democratic.
The conspiracy Is scheme on the
part of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company, the Mine Owners associa-
ton, the railroad corporations, the
Denver Tramway and Water compa-
ny, and certain millionaire smelter
magnate, who has determined to climb
into the United States senate.
The frenzied effort by the Repub-
licans to capture the senate is due to
desire to secure two Republican SUI
preme court judges, whom the cor
porations will name, through Peabody.
The Denver Tramway company con-
tends that it's franchises are perpetual
and wants the supreme court to sus-
tain it's claim. The great mining cor
porations are contesting the new rev.
enue law, which changes the Old sys-
tenn, under which their property was
practically exempt. They want the
supreme court to take their view. The
Fuel and Iron company, the railroads
and mining companies, and the Den
yer corporations are opposed to the
taxation of franchise as property and
want the supreme court to declare it
Illegal. They want the supreme court
to declare an eight-hour law, If one
should be passed. unconstitutional.
The Mine Owners association will
demand that law be passed to tax
and collect from the people the $1,000,-
900 that the association advan ced to
pay for the national guard while they
were filling bull pens and deporting
men by hundreds With a Democratic
senate the tax scheme might fall
A more gigantic and outrageous
scheme Of election robbery has never
been concocted in America. But it is
typical Peabodyism throughout. Par
ryism is it's twin brother, because it
is Parry's citizens alliance that is re-
sponsible for all the political iniqulty
in the state
In referring te them Denver paper
says: Poor, miserable wretches who
stuff ballot boxes or herd repeaters
are angels of innocence compared with
the we'll dressed scoundrels who de-
liberately plan tn theft on an entire
state that they may shift taxation
from the wealth they control to the
farming and industrial masses; that
they may prevent law and justice
through a bench CARRIED in the servile
uniform that marks their millions:
that they may compel the people to
restore to them a million OF dollars
they expended to overturn free Repub-
lican institutions in the state; that
they may elect some one OF their Robin
Hood guild to represent Colorado in
the senate"