The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-20
shall not escape the consequences of
their crimes
Threats bv DebS


Threats by Debs.
Debs compared these vile official
creatures with Paul Corcoran, who
vas found guilty of murder in the
Occur D'AIones and whom Debs called
an honest WorkiEgman, standing mag
nificent in the strength of his right
eousness. In conclusion Debs wrote:
Know We Steunenberg and others,
that we have an account to settle with
YOU
Senator Borah also read from the is
sue of the magazine of February,
1900, and an editorial entitled An
other Outrage" and dealing with the
alleged circulation of petition by
Governor Steunenberg for a contin-
uance of the federal troops in the min
ing districts of Idaho. The editorial
declared that Steunenberg was being
well paid for prosecuting the Miners
union, denounced him as a Hessian
and as an "unscrupulous person never
known to speak the truth
The next exhibit was a long extract
from a speech by Ed Boyce, president
of the federation At the time, delivered
on miners day at Butte, Mont, in
1902, Boyce devoted himself mainly to
a denunciation of the Standard Oil
company in connection with its inva-
sion of the copper field. Boyce refer
red to Governor Steun enberg as the
hireling of the ''oil trust
Under the heading Eight Hour
Law Senator Borah read an editorial
calling upon the miners of Colorado to
defeat Judge Goddard at the polls,
upsetting the short day for working
men.
Another article read from the
magazine included a resolution adopt
ed by the Western Federation of Min
ers and signed by Haywood and others
denouncing Governor Steunenberg for
requiring all persons seeking work in
the Coeur D'AleneS to renounce af-
fliation with any union.
We condemn such action, the res
olution read ''as action worthy of tyr
ants in the middle ages"
Steunenberg Condemned.
The resolution also condemned the
unjust and inhuman administration of
Steunenberg.
From the issue of June 1900, Senator
Borah read a comment upon the speech
by Mr.. Sovereign at the convention of
the Western Federation of Miners. The
article declared that Mr.. Sovereign
spoke of the "perjurer Steunenberg-
TIE inhuman prosecutor of working
men"
From time to time Senator Borah
offered in evidence the list of officers
of the federation as published in the
magazine. In the first issue quoted,
the officers included Ed Boyce, presi-
dent; James Mayer, secretary and
treasurer and William D. Haywood and
Charles H. Meyer as members of the
executive board.
In the July issue of 1900, was an ar
ticle sig aed by Ed Boyce urging all
to support Eugene V.
Debs and Joseph Hartman for pres1-
dent and vice president respectively,
and denouncing Mckinley and Roose-
vclt and Bryan and Stevenson as rep
resentativcs of the capitalist1c classes.
The Democratic party was assa1led
as the more inconsistent of the two
old parties in that it claimed to be
from the wealthy class,
but was not. The article cited the
case of Governor Steunenberg, who
sold himself to the Standard Oil com /
pany to plunder, rob and murder the
men who elected him to Office"
In an editorial in the Miners maga- |
zine for January 1901, entitled THE |
Passing of Steunenberg" epithets are
applied without stint to Steunenberg,
who is charged with getting rich on
the greasy dollars of the Standard Oil |
company and of the mine owners |
whose servant he always has BEEN
Condemnipg Steunenberg as a vile |
thing deserving only contempt, hatred |
and political death, the article bids |
farewell to Steunenberg as a creature |
over whose political tombstone !
should be inscribed the words, Here |
les a hirelfng and a traitor.
The article also referred to Steun-
enberg as Hessian, a villain and
nine owners lacky, whose name
should be uttered with loathing by
every honest man..