Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-06-23
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lieutenant goS.rD1r fh1- cssapscs
~as ss,seaaaiv enseEed anio befwcen
Wllilsm q Evans. representing tbs
Denver lrasn~ay CON pars and ttr
lAsnveT Maier cuapsny. ty frasA
J taarpe and CASE tterrsn3ton. rep
re-eutlaS the Coloraao Fuel aid
Iron Company, by fraaklln Gssses-
nsan. representing >snsou GS8sen-
se8m and the snseiier tru-s. bv J
NJ Herbert. representing the Colo
Fado aud Southern Railway cosa-
Pauy. and lteios a thaPp~ll. rcpse
seniins the Victor Fp.s company
The bargain. with Peabodys re-sg
nation. vas reduced ~ wrstsnr and
placed IN the keeping Of W. c.
Boyuton Of Colorado Springs. Who
firs1 made his solemn oath thai the
Resignation would he filed with the
secretary Of state within twenty-foar
hours after Governor Adams should
he deposed and Peabody seated.
81 HnEp saIvE oS THEIR Co>scIEScss
Thus a man was 30 be made gov
ern1r who had never even been
nominated for the place and for
whom not single vote bad been cast
The republican Legislators who sd-
mItjed that the testimony IN the
contest made II clear that Governor
Adams had been elected. and VII
would not vote for Peabody should
be continue 20 lie. governor. salved
ther consciences by the fruits OF
tins most Infamous deal. They
claimed that Mcdonald had at least
been elected lieutenant governor and
that in Arranging TO make him gov
ernor, while they robbed Governor
adams Of the office. they did not
besiow II upon one who had been
defeated
Through ali these dangerous aud
trying times Governor Adams bore
himself with becoming dignity and
courage II was impossible to de-
ieat the conspiracy short Of plunein0
the state into civil war, and. though
icrces OF armed citizens were ten
dered TO Governor Adams 10 main
tam at any cost possession of the
governorshlp, he firmly refused to
imperil the peace of the state, reco9-
uizlng that ere long another election
must come, when the people would
record their verdict upon the crime.
The proceedings that led up TO
the lawless removal disclosed that
the conspiracy extends far beyond
the theft of the senate Of the Fit
teenth general assembly and the
present term Of the governorship
The representatives Of the Denver
Water and Trsmw~y companies. of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany, the Victor Fuel company, the
smelter trust and other coenate cor
poratlons have deliberately deter
mined, as the representatives of like
interests have before determined in
other states, that because they rep
resent vast property interests and
control scores of millions of dollars
and employ thousands of men. their
corporations should in fact rule the
state, quite regardless of what the
majority of its legal voters may de-
eide. To make certain of their rule
they have seized the entire state ma
chlnery of one political party, and at
strategic points have obtained the
control of the machinery of another
Their efforts in succeeding elections
viii be turned to nominating their
tools by both political parties if
possible.
If they fail with one, then their
forces will be used to elect the ticket
of the other. Whatever of fraud and
intimidation they can command will
be called into play to gain this end
but should that fail, then a repeti-
ton of their damnable deeds of last
winter and spring will be resorted
to. 1t is their purpose to rule Colo
RADIO as effectually as the corporation
barons rule Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey, Delaware and West Virginia
They hold this to be the divine right
of money. They intend to exercise
1T, that they may, through legisla
lures OF their own selection, more
arbitrarily control labor; that they
may shift the burden of taxes from
their own to the peoples shoulders 5;
that they may continue to make rail
road rates that will give them CON
troll of the product of every industry
increase the dividends on their wa
tered stocks and secure tried and
true corporation representatives in
both branches of the national con-