The Delta independent., 1904-10-28


deported the agitators and trouble
makers, the dynamiters and firebugs
and murderers of 1897.
Governor Orman sent a military COM
mission to Telluride, after peaceable
wage earners had been deported by
riotous mob. -
Police officers in every American city
deport criminals every day.
Governor Peabody had the constitu-
tional authority to hold suspicious per-
sons under arrest, in prison, until they
could be tried by the civil authorities
after the insurrection ceased, and in
stead of holding them in prison he had
them sent out of the county.
So much for Deportation.
"But Governor Peabody hired him
self and the state troops to the large
mine owners of the state"
Does this mean anything more than
that citizens of Colorado are entitled to
the full measure of protection of their
personal and property rights?
Did the mine owners of Cripple Creek
have right to demand the paesence of
the militia to prevent the destruction
of their property by fire or dynamite,
and to prevent the assault, deportation
or murder of peaceable and law abiding
residents of the district?
Did Governor Peabody have right
to refuse such demand?
Do the Colorado Democrats wish to
be understood as taking the position
that the state government seould re-
main impartial as between criminals
and their victims, as between rioters
and those wuo suffer from riot, as be-
tween properly owners and Those who
seek to destroy property?
And if Governor Peabody did any
thing for the mine owners of Colorado
that he was not compelled to do by the
laws of Colorado and his oath of office,
or anything that he ought not to have
done, why are the paid attorneys Of the
big mining companies touring the state
and making campaign speeches for the
| noroocrat capd;dato7
"But Governor Peabody's admins
tration cost the taxpayers more than
Governor Adams administration.
Juggled figures arrayed for cam
paign of sensationalism amount to little
in the face of such cold facts as these:
Every dollar spent by either Govel-
nor Adams or Governor Peabody, ex-
cept for military emergency, was
appropriated by the legislature for
particular purposes, and in the case of
Governor Peabody, tina appropriation
bills of Republican house were ap-
proved and end orsedby a Democratic
senate.
Governor Adams administration was
"hard times" administration, work.
| ing under an outgrown and insufficient
revenue law, and the strictest economy
failed to prevent a serious deficiency at
the end of Governor Adams term.
The charge of excessive expenditure in
Governor Peabody's term is in effect
criticism of the Democrats and Repub-
licans of the Fourteenth general assem-
bly, who directed these expenditures,
and it reflects seriously upon the polit.-
cal good Judgment of the Democratic
house and senate that passed and the
Democratic governor that signed the
present revenue bill. The amount
available for the state government in
Governor Adams term was in fact so
inadequate for the states needs that
Democratic governor called the Demo-
cratic house and senate in extra session
to pass the revenue bill that was a
plain necessity.
And if such figures were of any
value, Democrats should in fairness
compare the administration of Cover
nor Peabody with the administration of
his predecessor, Governor Orman, for
in these two administrations the condi-
tions were somewhat similar, and the
comparison would be to the advantage
of the Republican administration.
A reasonable consideration of these
/ matters must convince any fairminded
person that the Democrat campaign in
this state is one of trickery and evasion
and deceit; that it was designed pri-
marily to distract the attention of COL
orado voters from the manifest superb
ority of the Republican national
candidates and the antagonism of
national Democracy TO Colorado's in
tersets; and that the Democrat hope o
gain even partial success in the coming
election is based upon sensationalism,
hypocrisy and fraud.
Surely t. e people of Colorado, to
whose interests the continuance of the