La Junta tribune., 1914-01-03

These bushwhackers were M q.
listed soldiers OF the Southern Cos.
federacy. but their highest amhitior
Was TO shoot = Yankee. They f6unx
this pastime was attended with or
ious difficulties and when caugh
they were shown no mercy. They
like those striking miners. wAo kill
ed the four guards Ia the autono
bile In the strike zone Koms week,
ago. were all towards. never wllllni
to take even chances In fair flght
and never shoot except vixen the,
think their own worthless lives ar,
safe.
Governor Ammons. call your II
tention to Just one more utterancs o
this miners convention. II reads a
follows:
THE convention expresses to
Messrs White. Hayes. Green,
Lawson. McIennan. boyle. and
United Mine Workers OF Am.
erica, their unbounded conf
denee in the work they are do
Ing to support the striking min.
ers and returns thanks To Al
mighty God that there are such
men In the ranks OF the work
Ing people. The convention
bids them to remember that
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sum-
ner. John Brown and many 9TH
er men to whom the American
people ar. now building monu-
ments. were. in their day aud
time. classed AS undesirable
"agitators."
The only wonder Is that this re-
markable convention did not includ,
In the above list such men M Samue
Gompers, also the Mcnamara boys
who killed twenty -one persons In Lo
Angeles. Calf. whom they foun,
working at night. trying to make al
honest living These boys are now II
the penitentiary. Also Clarence Dar
row. who vas tried for jury bribing
and the forty-fiye dynamiters con
yict.d at Indianapolis. Ind. and sen
10 the Leayenworth peni,entiary. ans
then declare before Almighty Cos
that each and every one OF these Ia
Dor workers were greater and bet
ter men than Abraham Lincoln. o.
old Grant, as the boys in blue us.t
TO affectionately call him as he use,
to pass among Us In var days dress
ed In the rarb OF private soldier
uniform.
why 70 half way why not go III
limitg The only difference b.tweei
the men they named and the men
have referred to Is that tho formc
have not yet been caught
The Idea OF comparing such me-
with Wendell phillips and Charlc
sumner. patriots. Who never hxrms,
anybody. Is enough to make = ~-,
man yomii.
Thcs. labor leaders seem 10 b
very bitter toward the soldier boy,
and that fact. to my mind. is prim
facia evidence of their gull, o
: guilty intentions.
I Lieutenant Governor Fitxe,rAld
IN "A recent speech or Interview. sai
that he was convinced that some o
the soldier boys had made fool @
Themselves. hence | viii remark tha
none of them have mad. such arran
fools of themselves a. he and Audito
kenehan have since the strike Wa
called. and n the people of Colors
do have a. much sense and 10y
as think they have they will r.,ir
thes. men to private life.
Those erratic resolutions passed b
this convention ought To be- sent I
samuel Gomp.rs as punishment
II would mortify him eSceedin Il
to find men In Colorado as defiau
of Law and as disloyal to this govern
ment a. he f..
Tom Patterson ,ther.. nov. stop,
expresses the hope through the Nov
that the labor unions will not 4,
tempt 10 recall the governor. 80 ] n
express hope that they will 4
tempt II, Governor Ammons tHe
would be the worst whipped eros
of niueompoops that ever went dow
the pike Perhaps that's why Nj
Patterson didn't want them 10 tr
it | believe you would get ten vote
to their one.