The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-07-27

tion of the ballot" was resorted to al
the last election by the Republican
organization of the Colorado coal
fields on behalf of John D. Rookie
feller's Colorado Fuel & Iron Com
pany. This is the latest charge
brought against the men who put
over" Governor George Carlson,
Sheriff Jeff Farr, and the other Law
and Order" candidates who succeed
ed in the last election.
Who charges it?
Frank p. Walsh?
Guess again.
The Supreme Court of the State of
Colorado!
In a decision that confirms all
Walsh said about the corrupt meth
DDS of the Rockefeller company, the
highest court in the State orders Sher-
iff Jeff Farr and all his coal company
crew to step down and out and turn
over their stolen offices to their Dem
ocratic opponents.
The same Infamous and fraudu-
lent prostitution of the ballot" that
gave Farr his bogus election also
swelled the plurality of Carlson, the
coal-company Governor now in Of
fee But because the case at bar con
cerned only the result in Huerfano
county, Carlson is left undisturbed.
The decision and opinion just hand
ed down by the Colorado Supreme
Court constitutes an amazing expose
of high-handed intimidation, coercion
and corruption practised by the Coal
Company and the Republican party.
The court finds that the coal company
was the Republican pnrty, and that
party's candidates merely the service
tools used by the company to rivet
the chains of industrial tyranny on its
employees.
There can be-, says the court, re-
ferring to conditions proved to exist
in the Colorado fields, mo free, open
and fair electl as contemplated by
the constitution, where private in
dustrial corporations so throttle pub
lie opinion deny the free exercise of
choice by sovereign electors, dictate
and control all election officers, pro-
hibit public discussion of public ques-
tions. and imperially command what
citizens may and what citizens may
not, peacefully and for lawful pur-
poses, enter upon election, or public
territory"
Every act of corruption described
by the Supreme Court was committed
late in the year 1914, after the date
when Rockefeller's agents had sworn
that political activity had ceased, and
after John D. Rockefeller had practic-
ally assumed personal charge by send
ing Mackenzie King to Colorado and
had formulated his much advertised
Colorado plan.
They were committed, says the
court. long after all disorder has ceas-
ed, and when the federal troops were
in charge of the district
To corroborate its findings, the Su-
preme Court quotes the admissions of
f. H. Weitzel, highest field officer for
Rockefeller, who personally ordered
the Democratic candidates kept out
of the eight precincts on the grounS
that they were agitatorsl
The whole case is summed up by
the court as follows:
1--WE are unable to find a precedent
where like, or similar conditions, have
been considered as in this case, where
in private corporations have assumed
to deny the public character of an
election and TO arbitrarily take charge
of and conduct the same as If it were
the sole private business of the cor
poration.
"These companies plainly connived
with certain county officers to secure
the creation of election precincts,
bounded so as to include their private
property only. and with lines mark
ed by their own fences. or guarded by
their own armed men. and within
which were only their own employees
"They excluded the public from en-
trance TO such election precincts, lab
eled the same private property, and
warned the public that entrance there
on constituted trespass. They denied
the right of free public assemblage |