The Glenwood post., 1905-02-18

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| persistence and energy employed by
those who are exposing the frauds and
sending the Denver ballot crooks To
| jail almost daily, and the other is the
| defiant attitude of the Democratic
leaders who directed and directly prof.
| tied by the frauds.
The fact that the new Republican
district attorney has, during his first
month of Office, secured the trial and
| conviction of fourteen election crooks
in the Criminal Court, is an excellent
sign. 1t shows that at last the end OF
the long road of ballot corruption in
Denver is in sight. 1t is the first time
in the history of the state that so
until they received lawful punish
ment. Those who hope for better
things politically are fully justified in
rejoicing at the exposure and the con
victions which have followed it ana
which are yet to come.
A crime against the | lot is a crime
no matter which party commits it and
should be cut out without delay re
CARELESS of the pain. This is the atti-
tude of the Denver people and of the
entire people of the state.
The fight between civic righteous,
ness and civic rottenness is being
waged relentlessly and the people are
winning in the struggle.
The fact that a few Insurgent Re
publicans have Joined the Democratic
corruptionists in attacking the gov
ernor and the party who have made
this fight, and made it win. is of little
moment. No Republican with proper
motive can array himself on the side
of those who are defending election
crimes and doing their utmost to cover
them up.
The Republicans who claim that
their Conscience" drives them over
to the enemy's camp to assist him in
defending election crimes and making
them successful, has a peculiar con
science, one that is of little service to
the public. And the public will not
be slow to ascribe other motives. In
the main the public will hit upon the
right motive for such open disloyalty
to the cause of civic decency.
The other phase that has astonished
many is the utter lack OF remorse, the
brazen audacity of the men behind the
election crooks in Denver. They
fight every move made to get evidence
against them or to punish them. They
punish so far as lies in their power
those who testify against the Big Mitt
crooks. They carry on a most out
rageously bare-faced conspiracy of de
ception in their press. The distortion
of the contest news by the principal
Democratic daiies is one of the most
fragrant abuses of the power of the
press ever resorted to in this state.
A sample statement is in the Rocky
Mountain News of Sunday last in
which it is stated in bold headlines
that over five thousand alleged fraud
ulent votes are shown to be legal by
voters themselves. At that time
147 witnesses had testified on the Ad.
ans side and not 100 of them had
identified their ballots.
These are cold facts taken from the
official printed story of the proceed
ings.
The suffers themselves, that is, the
small fry, are growing restless as they
are being sent up from day to day, and
many of them have plead guilty to Sc
cure lighter sentences Among them
/ is the infamous suffer, Detective Billy
Green. who should long since have had
a berth in the penitentiary. When this
man was sentenced by the Supreme
Court the chief of police and other
| leaders of the Adams machine did
their utmost to secure his release on
| the ground that he was not guilty.
| They approached prominent Republi-
can leaders and officials to use their
| influence with the court to have his
sentence suspended. Now he has
plead guilty in the Criminal Court
and been sentenced to three months
more.
One confession has already been
made by a member of a ballot-writing
gang from the Seventh ward-Shep-
| person. He gave the whole thing away
as to how such large numbers of bal
lots in the handwriting of one man
were found in the boxes. They We're
written up the night before election
from the registration lists and mum.
bered. When the opportunity offered
they We're placed in the box and the