The Springfield herald., 1904-10-07

rado Springs Telegraph recently published
has excited lively interest in political circles:
WILL THE ADAMS PLEASE STAND UP:
Dear sir-The undersigned addresses you thus pubic
because a public appealing publicly to TIN
voters to elect public office and because you hay
been general stating views that voters
not know where stand.
In speech accepting the nomination for soverno
from the delegates of the Democratic party and the West
ern Federation of Miners quoted by the Denve
News as saying. among other things:
There is something than money; it is principle
There is something higher than cash; it Is manhood
and womanhood."
If really principle is above money VIII!
do you not act the principle that you haye so ell"
hoods which msruided friend Of the Denver News
Times has been regard the state expen
dtures during last and during the term OF Gov
course. statement of these papers
that your expenditures limited to slSseeo is s
and stated for the of deceiving the public
Juggling Figures
You auditor, in his report
states that the disbursements of Were
S3.471,762S1. opportunity place principle
above by repudatng the statement Of your friend
the senator. your friend, the auditor
wise be ignorant of the small trick OF
friend the senator who deducs from your expend
extraordinary made necessary BY
legislation contingencies. but leaves them II
the total which he charges to the Peabody administrator"
Are I'm" this petty juggling?
And again. If you hold that there something hishe
than the blue vault of HEAVIER
with oratocal dollar marks in effort to divert the minds
of hearers from the vital principle of government IN
the vital principle which our gov
ernment founded, life liberty and property
the leadership of the Western Federation of Miners
You know that Governor Peabody has had the courage
resist this attack and to
maintain this principle Instead of supporting this faithful
public official you have Joined at
| tackled principle and now tieke
with two representatives of the Western Federation OF MN
ers. James f. Burns for eector and F. r. Wheeler foi
auditor ignoring the crimes of the western
suppressng them Such time as you give TO the Question o
law and order either indulge in gtering genera'es
dwell the alleged mistakes of Governor Peabody
which you think he made while endeavorins 10 maintain
the of the law.
This is unfortunate position for you governor and
1t would become you to make some 'aheoie anu sp O
Generaites will not do 1t w nota for to
say you people OF Colorado
have listened to your pleasing
as You have gone up and down of
tical They have heard you say that you be-
golden good thing. they know how
highly Commandments they know that
in general believe the law should be enforced
they have heard you say frequently during the last Two
fond of Thomas Jefferson and
that the idea of the freedom of speech freedom oil he
freedom generally meets with your approval
just Few simple Words
The people know what you preach and how pleasantly
pictures all been dazzled many is the
ative Democrats and the voters generally are not ookn
rhetorical hourshes they want just few plain
simple manly words from you
engaged political himhamming confidence
game you admit that friend Senator Patter-
spm Ty "Ts h rs of he state are not snmcent the
Jusgled Do you approve of this juggling
proposition do you repudate 1T?
a s7l.347. this is not
will doubtless take the first opportunity to inform
deficit left by administration
s16122o7l stated by your auditor on page of his re-
Orman admin
the Peabody admnistra-
Inasmuch familiar with state affairs you
mu the left hand s67,3144s
Here opportunity for you to place principle above the
dollar tell people the truth about this Item
n disbursements of the Orman
exceeded those the Peabody admnistra
100000, deducting the military debt Why
do you administration refer your
administration eight ago?
atinpe of the int have
turay in the eight owing to legis-
increase in the population wealth and busi-
the actual cost of operating the
departments is really
capita than under administration eight years
Unfair Criticism.
friend senator says Governor Peabody's
disbursements reached $427S5To including the war debt
for the sake of argument that these figures
this is chargeable to the oper-
Il the departments?
Surely s759OOO debt and the s67o.oOo
administration warrants drawn during
Ormans You would not charge as expenses
which this administration paid to banks
borrowed by former Democratic administrations?
paid the schools the $1690O0
paid bridges and roads amounting
paid the Colorado water
sui md would not consider
charge operating expenses of the
government would you And yet these extra
disbursements amount to s1.969,O0o
Do you agree friend the senator that it Is
Expenses of the Peabody
administration? stick to the truth?
Have you audiences that instead of
deficit the present administration now has on hand about
100000?
But as you have wisely
the present time than dol
lars 1t is this question of principle which you
THE ADAMS FAMILY POLITICAL elected to office tn
nor