The Delta independent., 1914-06-05
rhi. and other General Assemblies

The General Assembly in it's extra
session enacted three laws in relation
to the strike and adopted a resolution
providing for a committee on investi-
cation and mediation, and adjourned.
The most important law provides
penses of maintaining the troops in
the field OF the amount seven hund-
red thousand dollars is for expenses
already incurred and three hundred
thousand is for expenses which may
be incurred should it become neces-
sary to return the troops to the
fields should the Federal troops be
taken away. Another law gives the
governor the rigth to close saloons in
strike-affected districts, or where
there is riot and disorder. The other
law gives the governor the right to
control the sale. af fire arms under
all circumstances. The resolution
creates committee of three members
of the House and three members of
the Senate, and clothes it with power
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strike and also to investigate fully
and make such recommendations to
the Twentieth General Assembly as
in its judgment may be necessary.
Each and evelJ law carried the emer-
gency clause and also the safety
clutch Governor Ammons signed
them before the Assembly adjourned
and they are now part of the Statute of
Colorado.
Senator Tierney announced while on
his way here from Washington. that he
intended TO try to impeach Governor
Ammons. Senator Tferney was fresh
from the Councils of Senator Shat
roth. His every act on the floor of
the Senate was in opposition to law
and order and was in support of those
who fought Governor Ammons. The
general belief is that Senator Shat.
roth dictated the policy which Sena-
tor Tierney followed
Those who are trying to support law
and order in this state should remem-
ber that to Senator Shafroth should
be charged the trouble that now ex-
lists. During his entire four years
as governor the strike was on in Nor
thern Colorado. Murder. arson and
general opposition to constitutional
law was the rule and not the eNcep-
tion. and Shafroth as governor. never
raised an official finger to put a stop
to the outrages Instead he used every
dollar In the state treasury to elect
himself to the United States senate.
and went out of office leaving the
state bankrupt and in a state of insur-
rection and rebellion. Had he sup
pressed the lawlessness at it's incep-
tion in Boulder county. the troubles
of today would never have occurred
Whatever may be our condition. II is
directly chargeable to the official
records of Shafroths.s governor.
Lest we forget-The Shafroth ad-
ministration cost more than the COM
bined cost of the Buchtei and Melon
aid administrations Again. one thous-
and men in the field seven months
under Governor Amons cost as much
as three thousand men in the field
eighteen months under Peabody.
Colorado citizens should realize that
Democratic management of state af-
fairs spells financial mismanagement,
The one set of men whose records
are absolutely clean so far as the eN-
ira session is concerned. is the Regu.
lar Republicans. Coming to the ses-
sion political opponents to the ad-
minstretion they laid aaide their
politics and did everything in
their power to help Governor Ammons.
Not one of them introduced n CRITICS.
ing resolution. Not one OF them ever
way embarrass single department
in the state government Not one of
them uttered a sentence that could be
taken as n foundation for political
capital in the campaign that is to be
made this fall Had It not been for
them. the forces that were trying to
impeach Governor Ammons would
have secured the enactment of the
charges in the House and would have
embarrassed him very much in the
Senate. The entire opposition to the
governor came from the members of
his own party. and from the radical
wing of the Progressive party. When
the history OF the extra session shall
have been written the story will show
that the reguar Republicans to a unit
stood for law and order. forgetful of
any political advantage they might