The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1904-10-20
ALvA ADAMS BROTHER FRANK DEP0RTING
CITIZENS FROn DENVER EVERY DAY


city. why lie II right to deport them from county,
~ your brother Frank may judge who dangerous
characters In Denver, why not the authorities OF
Teller county Judge who dangerous characters in that
county,
You will lobserve that these direct and specific
questions Have you the time to reply to them? Show
your frends-owers and Patterson-that not as
weak and tmid they would have the people believe
and speak up SO all may hear you
Don't that the different because the de-
ported men from Denver had families or property
while some of the deported from Teller county had
BOTH for II you make this argument you Will take the
position that for American citizen to be
without family property. which, of course. would
be foolish thing do. The fact is that these poor
unfortunates accumulate neither il they to be
constantly hustled from town to another in this I'M
constitutional manner.
Perhaps you may regard instance deportation
as much too discuss the Adam and Eve in
stance remote attention invited to
the deportaons that occurred few weeks at the
opening of the Rose Bud indian lands
Several thousand people gathered, awaiting the
drawing of lots to land Among a
number Of offensive and dangerous characters whom it
was found impossible to control by ordinary The
people assembled there awabding respectable
and they concluded that extraordinary emergency"
had arisen you know the rest-they deported
away the undesirable characters.
viii you please tell us why you have not raised your
voice against this outrage? This know, is of
the questions dispose of with pleasant smile
You undoubtedly OF the appalling list of
crimes which civil authorities Teller county per-
mitted to unpunished while the Western Federation of
Miners in control of public Offices in that county.
You know that after the militia left Cripple Creek that
awlessness and wholesale assassination resorted
Ordinary having failed do not think that
extraordinary justified to this extraor
binary condition? Perhaps you regard
of fifteen extraordinary emergency"
At any rate don't overlook this question; it is really
quite important that answer it.
In order that may fully appreciate the point
trying to make clear will give another illustration
that
all emergencies. see
When great fire is raging in city it is the
practice. know. to blow surrounding buildings
to the spread Of the conagration you know
of any law constitution which permits the fire chief
destroy property in this manner?
You know that under such conditions
order out of your house tell that going
to destroy it. and that protests will be made in vain
He will tell that he is going to destroy it in the inter-
ests of the community to the spread of the FIRE
For time he rises superior to the law He tells
few to be made to suffer for the benefit of the many
that house must be sacrificed to the
of the people of your city.
If you fair, just as you would have
the people believe you will indeed an
extraordinary emergency" which is by appica-
ton OF the natural low of you
also admit that it is right to apply this law in this
gency
Now tell the people how you can maintain that it is
right to apply the higher law of sefpreservaon pro-
ect property in this wrong apply the
law protect a similar emergency"
Please
Another extraordinary emergency which called
extraordinary meet your candidacy
governorship. You and party regarded the
gency extraordinary that and they adopted
the extraordinary and humilating policy forming
alliance with the element which believes strike
justifable and that property is robbery.
Have you said done anything during this campaign
that would indicate in the remotest that your sym
pahies with the terrorzed people county
or with the who MANNED crippled by the
Western Federation of Miners camp with the
families the who the interests
of that organization?
up; why be afraid?
Just question. Have you heard of any dyna-
hitting any murders of union nonunion since
the bad characters of the mining camps,
where the disorders occurred?
Is 1t fact that every legitimate business
prise has resumed without fear of the dynamiter
that prosperity order followed disap-
pearance Western desperadoes from
camps ic suppression the Occur
dAlenes and at Leadville?
Deportation a remedy 1t is unfortunate that
lawess supporters of the Western Federation of
made apply It, but agree that
the remedy the desired result order pros
perity happiness have returned mining camps
of Colorado, have they not?
! 1t would be very becoming you to answer these
questions. you not. the voters very likely to
join riendsOwers the Judge and Patterson
aorn the opinion that afraid that you again
avoiding "the WEAKNESS and wounds encounter