Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-06-23
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Few political g.sser,n4. hsve t,sen
closer 10 the pespIe os Cs,sosasio than
the conference Of IAssaccra;s held
Monday of this week. Senators Tel
her aai Patterson. Governor G. :.
Thomas and Governor Alva Adams
ssgned the call which Included mem
bers af the state central committee,
chalrmen of desaocrafic coaniv ecu
trail commlstees. deRecrstic senators
and representatives aud democratic
editors. besides q number OF other
well known men The address which
they formulated aud which was
adopted wIthest a Dissenting vote is
gwen below
To the People Of Colorado:--
As the result Of the lawle~e ad-
ministrstlon Of James N Peabody he
was defeated for recollection 10 tine
office of governor by more than
1900 majority; this while Tbeo-
dore Roosevelt. with the aid Of
thousands Of democrats. dissatisfied
with the national ticket, carried the
state by more than 3O,Wp Not a
few democrats voted for Mr.. Pea
body, carried away with the preju-
dice, the dishonest literature, per
sistentlv distributed by the cabal
Of great corporations created. Many
thousand republicans voted for Alva
Adams great tribute 10 the intel
haent Independence and patriotism
OF the masses of the republican
party.
Until the result Of the election
Was known it was believed that the
heads of the corporation conspiracy
would submit to the will OF the peo-
pie, and that. with the election over,
good fellowship and normal bust
ne~s and social conditions would be
restored. II ives impossible to be-
lieve in advance that the conspiracy
of corporation magRates included the
lewIess overthrow Of the will Of the
psapas, shosA Il be rssosAsA aGsiass
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sqiracy weat 10 the eHtent Of trans
forming = democratic majority in the
seaste into a republican majority,
and to sweeping away the 1900
majority for Governor Adams and
placing a tool Of the corporations in
the place to which Governor Adams
had been elected, both crimes being
necessary prerequisites to the organ
ization of one of the courts with
membership of corporation choosing
CONSPIRACY OF CORPORATIONS
The conspiracy was carried out.
Hon. Charles b. Ward of Boulder
county and DIR. NJ Beshoar Of Las
Animas county, about whose cleo
tion to the senate the most partisan
republicans of their districts enter
tain no doubts, were deprived of
their seats, in open defiance of the
plain letter Of the statutes and of
every precedent in Legislative pro-
ceedings BY throwing out the votes
of precincts of the city and county
of Denver and refusing to give effect
to the votes of more than 5000 hon
est electors that were cast in them,
Hon s. W. Belford, Hon Theodore
Mcclure and Hon. ID. Delaney, dem
ocrats, were denied the certificates
of election TO the senate that the law
required the secretary of state to
issue The republicans, being able
to count a majority in the senate
through these Infamous proceedings,
completed their shameless work by
arbitrarily expelling Hon. Daniel
Healy and Hon. r. NJ Born without
. contest, the fling of a charge or
the pretext of an investigation
Never in all the Legislative annals OF
the United States has such a wanton
use of power been known. Nor
would the outrages have occurred
had not the band of corporation con-
spirators insisted upon their perpe-
tration.
But all of this was not accom-
plished without rebellious protests
from republican Legislators. While
the few who exerted some Of their
manhood could not defeat any mate
rial part of the conspiracy, they new
ertheless compelled an abandonment
Of a part of the program change
that amounted to a public admission
by the conspirators that Governor
Adams had in fact been elected and
should in law and conscience serve
out his term as governor. SO over
whelming was the proof that Gov,