The chronicle=news., 1914-06-24

and coerce and persuade persons. moi
members of the said United Mine
Workers of America, and all person.
any capacity to work. in said mines
SO that said mines, on account ol
such requests, coercion and persuas-
ion, could not be operated, or any
coal be obtained therefrom, to arm
themselves and to equip themselves
with and make display of rifles. re-
volvers, guns and dangerous weap-
ons, and thereby to make all persons
afraid of them. afraid to refuse to
harken unto and obey their demands,
requests. coercion and persuasion,
afraid to work in said mines, and
afraid to refuse to stay away from
said mines and not to work therein
when requested to refuse to do so,
to assault and shoot at persons con-
nected with the operation or attempt
to operate any of said mines or carry
on any of said trade and commerce
among the several states, to attack
and shoot at. to commit great bodily
violence, and threaten to attack,
shoot at and commit great bodily
violence upon persons working in
said mines, to attack, destroy, and
attempt to destroy, valuable proper
ty about the mines, to write and de-
liver, and cause to be written and de-
livered threatening and intimidating
letters to persons working in or at
tempting, intending or desiring to
work in said mines for the purpose OF
making such persons afraid to work
therein. to stop the progress OF rail-
way cars or railroads containing coal
in transit. trade or commerce from
Colorado to said other states OF the
United States and each of them and
at and around such mines condt-
tion of fear and terror on account of
which all persons would be afraid to
work in or around said mines and Of
ficers Of the law would be afraid and
unable to discharge their official du-
ties in keeping the peace"
Since the adjournment of the
grand jury both these men have gone
even further than charged in the in
dictments at that time. Mr.. Lawson
signed his name to printed letter
which was mailed broadcast over
Colorado asking all union men to
form military companies to go to
Trinidad and fight the regular con-
stituted militia of the state. He
further urged that where men could
not join such military companies
they send arms and ammunition to
help the strikers at Trinidad kill
members of the militia of the state
of Colorado. Frank j. Hayes and
John r. Lawson have been the two
most prominent men In causing viO-
lence and b1oodshed in the southern
strike zone. In the tent marked
found large quantity of ammuni-
tion. Mr.. Lawson was on the firing
line at the battle of Ludlow an in
the ranks of the strikers. He did
nothing to prevent that battle-on
the contrary he encouraged the strif.
ers to follow 1t up by the killings al
Forbes and Walsenburg. Mr.. Hayes
is not resident of Colorado but Mr.
Lawson is. And as a citizen OF this
state instead of attempting to sto;
rioting he has encouraged 1t by hi.
actions. He does not stand for Law
and order in Colorado-in fact hi
stands for just the opposite. 1t i.
because of the activity of Mr.. Hayes
a resident of Indiana, and Mr.. Law
son. resident OF Colorado. thai
there is now a general uprising ir
this state demanding that the mex
governor be man who will enforce
the laws and all the laws.
"And now" continued the same
Democrat when discussing the Candi'
dacy of Tom Patterson. "since we
know Just who the friends of Mr.
Patterson are, who have urged him
| into this race, we also know the
character of the support he has been
promised, and If there is man in
the state who wants law and order
| who will vote for Patterson | would
like to see the color of his hair. Il
the Democrats nominate him, and i
looks to me as though the element
back of him today dominates tha
party. one thing is a cinch. | will
vote for Republican. and | believe
there are thousands in the state whit
feel as do about 1t.
with Mr.. Patterson's name on /;
public document as first friends Il