Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-10-31


mo man can play with the fire with
out being burned"
He hoped this great state Of Colo
RADIO had had enough Of the criminal
of the Western Federation
Of Miners. "If they come into power
again, do you Democrats think you
ought to vote the Democratic ticket?
II you do. then when your neighbor
wants to work, get gun and pound
him on the head and beat him up. If
you are working in a mine and there
is a strike Of teamsters. you go out
to-. II our employer wants to put
other men at work. say to him: Put
them to work at your peril" II you
have a mine you some day find your
men beaten up; manager shot as he
sits by his fireside at night: your
foreman goes to town and Is never
seen again: a little boy sees the fore
man with the union men and the lit
tie boy too ,mysteriously disappears,
so he can never tell what he saw"
Details OF the horrible atrocities at
Telluride were gone into-about the
Western Federation having $50 stands
of arms and some thousands Of rounds
of ammunition; the surrounding and
capture Of the Smuggler-Union
mine by the union miners; Of riddling
the boarding house full OF holes; OF
killing, wounding and running over
the range the non-unlon men who had
been guilty Of working; men to the
number of SO had been deported, rob
bed Of everything even to the clothes
they wore, and terribly beaten; and
right here in Durango was one of those
SO. old Tom Ballard. with his limp
arm as evidence of the awful outrages
committed on that occasion. And then
after all this Senator Buckley, of Tel
luride. a Democrat. reported to Gov
ernor Orman that the miners were
in peaceable possession of the mines
and that settled 1t so far as the gov
ernor was concerned.
Adams says he believes the state
can be controlled by peaceful means
OF course it can If you keep the West
ern Federation out.
Now we can only Judge what
Adams will do in the future by what
he advised Governor Orman to do in
the past Alva Adams was more large
ly responsible than any other man for
Orman's nomination, and after his
election he was one of his closest ad-
visers.
I'VE belive that property at all times
should be in the possession of its
rightful owners, and from what |
have seen in going over the state
there is going to be a pile of votes
by both Republicans and Democrats
on that principle-in the language of
the Irishman, the pile won't "hold the
half or them"
AS the Democrats are still making
the Misrepresentation that "a Repubi-
can legislature failed to pass an eight
hour bill, and that was responsible for
the strike" Mr. Goudy went over the
history of that thing although it has
been gone over so much that every
body ought by this time to be familiar
with it. He showed conclusively that
the Legislature and the eighthour bill
had nothing whatever to do with the
strike, as the strike was inaugurated
the 14th of February and the legisla-
ature did not adjourn till the latter
part of the following March. There
was no controversy whatever between
the mine owners and the mine work
ers at the time, the men going out on
sympathetic strike at the command
of Meyer and Haywood
These men Mover and Haywood
they neither toll nor spin, yet they
live upon the fat Of the land and draw
from eight to God knows how much
more a day"
Conditions at Cripple Creek were
gone into detail and various outrages
were recalled from the beginning of the
reign of terror up to the climax OF
the Independence disaster. The crimes
were revolving in the extreme and the
man or woman whose blood the mere
recital of those horrible deeds would
not make boil has no right to be class
ed in the list Of humanity. These out
RACES could not be told In a few col
umns; 1t would take book to give
them. How any man or woman could
listen to these things, which are well
substantiated and the most Of which
have all along been common knowled-
ge, and then say they intend to vote
this criminal organization back into
power to resume its reign Of terror,
its reign Of cold-blooded murder. is be-
yond human comprehension.
The other day Mrs Ed. Minister, of
Cripple Creek had a statement in lhe
Denver News saying she was working
to support her children, and her hus-
band had been deported.
Ed. Minister deported himself"
said Mr.. Goudy. "He with four other
men went and took old man Stewart
out Of bed one night and nearyl beat
him to death with their revolverH and
left him for dead. Stewards crime
was in working Ed Minister was taken
to Jail. but before a warrant could be
got out he was released by the West
ern Federation sheriff and he got out
He deported himself, Just like St
John. The latter was indicted by the
grand jury at Telluride for completely
in the murder Of Arthur Collins. and
the Democratic district Judge quashed
the Indictment and he was let out and