Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-19
HELPED IN BATTLE
AGAINST Miners

Members and friends Of organized
Labor doubtless recall that dark
chapter In the history Of the country
commonly known as Telluride strike
and which resulted in the prosecu-
ton of Messrs. Meyer, Pettibone and
Haywood for the murder OF Gov.
Steunenberg. The scene of this
succession Of outrages was laid in
Colorado and Idaho. At the point
of bayonets in the hands of United
States troops and state constabulary
the wholesale deportation Of unfor-
tunate working men from their
homes and beyond the borders OF
their state was forced, contrary to
the rights guaranteed to them in
and by the federal constitution. as
American freeman; and the right OF
personal liberty was taken from them
without due process Of law.
These are matters which must be
comparatively fresh in the minds OF
organized labor in theyOhio Valley.
Senator Ssott's Connection With the
Telluride Strike.
AS the result Of this most illegal
and unprecedented procedure on the
part Of the corporation owned old
Gals of the state Of Colorado toward
these working men whose only crime
was in being union men, resolution
was introduced in the senate of the
United States calling for an investi-
CATION by the proper federal author
ity into the various transactions
which led to the apprehension or at
rest of these miners. That resolu-
ton, if the writer remembers right
fully, was introduced by Senator Gull
bertson of Texas. and was referred
to the judiciary committee OF the
Senate for report.
Senator N. B. Scott. now a candi-
date for reelection to the United
States Senate, was then and still is
largely iterested.- intact has the
bulk of his fortune tied up-tn min
ing properties and mines in the Tellu-
ride region, and therefore he came
and was largely interested in defeat
ing the Culbertson resolution for an
Investigation, and while he did not
go on record as voting for or against
that resolution because 1t was killed
in committee and never reported back
to the Senate he did become siren
uously active in his efforts to pre-
vent it from reaching stage where
it could be voted upon, and made
very bitter speech against the reso- .
luton and it's author in which ne
announced the miners composing the
Western Federation of Miners as
thugs and murderers, and as utterly
unworthy Of the protection Of the
law. ~4
This portion of Senator SCOTS rec
ord illustrates two things very clear
ly: First, the falsity of his conten-
lions, in this present campaign, that
he is the friend Of labor" and again
that where his personal interests are
at stake he is the friend of no man
but himself. and can be depended up
on to use his vote as Senator and his
influence In that position, first in his
own interests, and second in the in
terests of those who are af1liated
with him in business (Which means
the same thing) and under no imagi-
nable circumstances~or conditions
can Senator Scott be depended upoA
to use his vote or iauence, If elected
to the United States Senate, in the
interests of the working men of this
country, that great body upon whom
the welfare and prosperity Of the
country depends, the producers Of its
wealth.
This Observation-Disclosures case
is echoing now in the federal courts
or Kansas in the prosecution Of Fred
D. Warren, editor Of the Appeal to
Reason, on the charge Of sending "se-
ditious, etc." matter through the
mails. Editor Warren, desiring to
call the attention of the country to
the eAormity Of the crime commit
ted by the western mine owners Plum
derbund against the working people,
offered q reward OF $1,000 for any
one who would kidnap former Cover
nor Taylor Of Kentucky and return
him to that state where he Wac
charged with the murder Of Cover
nor Goebel, he being at that time a
fugitive from justice and protected
by the governor OF Indiana. War
ren's idea was to show that the courts
would put different interpretatio
upon the kidnapping of q capitals
politician than they had upon the
kidnapping of Meyer, Pettibone and
Haywood, and who would undoubted-
ly~ have been legally murdered had
It not been for the publicity given