The Elbert County tribune., 1906-09-20

have Deen IOlloWtu Ny SiihhCo III tIe
Legislature. The same Democratic
election outrages which sent Shafroth
to Congress and returned him to Colo
RADIO were used by the Democratic lead
ers and Legislators to send Henry NJ.
Teller to the United States Senate. In
order to make this crime effevctive two
Republican senators. Mcdonald and
Dick, were arbitrarily, without con-
test or hearing. thrown out OF the state
Senate with the full approval of Sena-
tors Teller and Patterson, Alva Adams
and other Democratic leaders who
were present in the Senate when the
crime was committed.
'Tn 1899 the Democratic majority in
the State Assembly arbitrarily threw
out five Republican representatives
and a senator from Pueblo county.
These men were honestly elected and
were rejected for partisan reasons
without the slightest consideration of
Justice or right In 1901 the Demo
cratic Legislature again fraudulently
and Illegally unseated Republican
members who were honestly elected.
"The people of the whole state,
Democrats as well as Republicans, are
to be congratulated upon the suppress
sion of the stupendous election frauds
in Denver. In the last election, in
1904 as was conclusively proved By
the legislative investigation that en-
sued, every effort was made by every
possible method to count in the Demo
cratic candidate for governor. No
less than twenty-one different kinds OF
fraud were disclosed by the investiga-
tion.
False and fictitious registration, the
appointment of alleged Republicans as
Judges of election who were active par
tisans of Adams, repeating on
wholesale scale, and worst of all. the
substitution of thousands of fictitious
ballots prepared in advance by some
Jim the Penman for the real ballots
cast by the voters-these were some of
the methods that swelled the fraudu-
lent vote of Alva Adams for governor,
some $4,000 votes beyond those hon
estly cast for him, and gave him an al
legged majority on the face of the re-
turns to which he was not entitled. This
was only the elimination of long Sc
ries of outrages. AS was recently said
by a prominent Democratic leader,
The offices the Democratic party has
stolen from the Republican party have
been of infinitely more Importance
than the governorship.'
Traitors to SOOd government.
"The action of the Supreme Court,
in sending some fifty of these ballo.
box suffers to Jail for contempt, the
action of the Legislature in throwing
out the precincts in which fraud was
so apparent that no discrimination was
possible between the votes fraudu
lently cast and the votes properly cast,
and the action of the district attorney.
in indicting and convicting some of
those who were guilty of the crimes
against the franchise, are hereby COM
mended and indorsed. The enact
ment of a new registration law by the
last legislature. after the just punish
ment of the offenders against the law
in the last election, has given assur
ance to the voters of the state that
hereafter their votes will count, and
will not be overbalanced by ficti
tious Democratic majority concocted
in the slums of Denver.
I'VE condemn the outrageous and
scandalous attacks made for political
purposes upon the judiciary of the
state and especially the supreme court,
by the Democratic organs and in Dem
ocratic platforms. Reverence for the
law and respect for the courts are in
In the nature of things. it must some
times be more difficult for the average
layman to understand fully the reasons
for judicial decisions than for those
learned in the law. 1t is this fact
that enables the indecent demagogue
to play upon the feelings and preju-
dices of The masses.
1--WE denounce the person who seeks
| tp undermine the confidence Of the
people in their courts as traitor to
good government and an enemy to So
| ciety. We call with satisfaction that
the supreme court of the state has
maintained its dignity by bringing to
/ its bar and Furnishing a contemnor, in
| the person of a Democratic United
/ States Senator We express the hope
| that the precedent thus established by
| the supreme court may be followed by
all courts as to such persons. We call "a.
tention to the fact that the natural Dem
ocratic contempt for courts and the
| determination OF the Democratic party
to have for judges only such as will
be subservient tools. has been demon
strated by their sacrifice of Judge God
dard because of his decision in the
eight-hour law case, by their rejection
of Judge Gunter because of his decis
ion in the Patterson contempt case
and By their brutal attacks upon the
supreme court. because of decisions
which had forever ended wholesale
election robbery in the city and county
of Denver, and restored to the citizens
thereof their political independence
| Many Reforms Favored.
"The Republican party's past per
formance is the best guaranty It Its
present promises The Democratic
party may try to fight over old battles
if it will. but we are facing the future
The Republican party has not only
given the state faithful and efficient
administration of public affairs, but il
suggests and will put into effect meas
ures still further to improve the pub