The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-09
HAND IN HAND
TYRANNICAL NINE OWNERS AND
REPUBLICAN BOSSES IN COLO
RADIO ARE POLITICAL TWINS

VINO nave SuueT6Q lot more Indu a
year because of the coal strike and
the consequent reign of anarchy fur
thered by the mine owners, are
awaiting anxiously the decision of
the operators as to whether they will
accept President Wilson's PROPOSE
ton for three year truce and, If
they refuse, what action the chief ex-
ecutive will take.
1t is said that the operators are
trying 10 postpone their final reply |
until after election. It is known that |
they have provided practically all Of
the slush fund for the republican
party. George Carlson, candidate for
governor on that ticket, is an avow-
ed hater of union labor and has
made all of his despicable reputation
as district attorney OF Boulder coun- |
ty where he has never hesitated to
do anything in his power to perse-
cute the striking miners of that dis
trict.
1t is said that Carlson has promis-
ed to send the state militia back to
the field and deport every .'undesir-
able" which in the language of the
coal operators is every man who dar-
es to strike for his constitutional
rights in Colorado.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany, the Victor American and 9TH
ers of the law1breaking coal corpo-
rations are out of politics. They
said they were all during the Con-
gressiona1 investigation of the coal
strike. They say it now. You don't
believe it? Very we'll Bear in mind
that JEFF FAIR, republican sheriff of
Heurfano county, is chief of all the
imported gunner in that county and
then glance over the vote cast at the
recent primary election at c. F. & j.
mines,
Waasen Mines: republicans 139,
democrats 2; Rouse: republicans
139, democrats 2; Cameron: repub-
licans 20, democrats o.; Ideal: re-
Ipublicans 80, democrats 8; Midway ::
republicans so, democrats /.
Doesn't the vote show that Rookie
Teller has got out of Colorado poll
tics?
The Victor American Company
own but one precinct in this county.
1t has 50 registered voters. Not
. wanting the people of the state to
think they were mixing in politics,
/ the Victor American Company gave
all these 80 votes to the republicans.
Rumor has it that the C. f. & l.,
jeff Farr and others of the gang are
planning to have a special grand
jury called to investigate" the
trouble during April when the gum
men and militia tried to wipe out the
strikers with machine guns and high
powered rifles. The plan, as rumor-
ed, is to indict 13i5 leading demo-
Gratis of the county, including all of
the candidates for Office, and lodge
them all in jail until after the cleo
ton.
The fact that other grand juries
of the state have indicted none but
union miners and refused to investi-
gate the slaughter of 81 miners has
created such a wave of Indignation
against the political corruption of
the coal companies that public senti-
ment may prevent this strong arm
method of trying to defeat justice of
anything is possible and may be ex-
4 pected in Colorado's coal strike zone.
According to stories printed in the
Trinidad publication of the United
Mine Workers, hundreds of thugs
and gunner are daily being brought
into the strike district. One report
says that last Sunday JEFF Farr held
meeting with all the coal company
guards in Huerfano county and laid
out campaign against the strikers
to be put into effect as soon as the
federal troops are withdrawn
Nothing is being left undone to
throw discredit on the strikers.
This week the prostituted sheet of
the mine owners in Trinidad printed
a sensational story about the strikers
of Ludlow tent colony attacking two
men near the colony The paper
went on to say that the federal au-
thorities were making rigid invest
igation. 1t developed that no report
had been made to the federal COM
manders, that no men had been seen