Denver labor bulletin., 1916-04-08
GAMBLE IN CHARGE
OF STATE MILITIA
General Chase Resigns After
Service of Seven Years
New Adiutant General Was Former
Judge Of Boulder District Court;
Try to Revive State Guard

Adjutant General John Chase retired
from office last Saturday and is no long
er the military head of the Colorado
National Guard. He will resume his pro-
fession as a sore eye doctor. No regrets
on part OF the plain people were ex-
pressed, tho il is believed the coal oper-
ators felt some real sorrow at the pass
ing of their plant tool from official life
out OF the range of possibility to act as
their chief instrument in depressing the
coal miners. Chase had held the job for
seven years, or since April l6, 1909.
Judge Harry p. Gamble of Boulder is
the new adjutant general of Colorado. by
appointment of Governor Carlson. Es-
corted by the governor, he went before
Chief Justice W. II. Gabbert of the State
Supreem Court and took the oath OF Of
flee at 2:30 O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
At the same time the new officer filed
a 5000 bond with the secretary of
state A federal bond for a similar
amount will be filed by him in the near
agent in Colorado for government funds
and supplies.
VIII Gust Chase's Cabinet.
1t is understood those Officers who
have constituted the cabinet" of Cen
eral Chase viii be asked for their resig-
nations, and an effort be made to reor-
ganize the state troops, which are now
in a sorry condition, both as to mem
bers and equipment. No doubt General
Gamble will profit by the disastrou.
policy pursued by his predecessor and
the odium it brought upon the militia
and the state. The first movement es-
sential to reorganization is the regaiuir
of public confidence in the state militia
and an assurance that il will not be used
to break peaceful strikes or otherwise
oppress peaoeable working people who
are insisting upon their rights
DIR. Chase retires after over twenty
years active service as an officer in the
state troops. He first formed the "Cfti-
zens" company in 1925, and was pror-
nent in fighting the working people in
every large labor strike in Colorado since
that time. He took leading role dur
ing the strike of metalliferous miners in
the Cripple Creek district. and assisted
in dcporting Meyer. Haywood and Petit.
bone to Idaho, and loading hundreds of
other miners into freight cars, to be
later dumped out on the open prairies
of western Kansas.
Responsible for Ludlow Massacre.
His record during the recent Colorado
coal strike, when the used the state
troops to subjugate the strikers. is well
known. He was responsible for the Lud-
low massacre, and authorized the enlist
ment of mine guards and imported gun
men into the state militia. He was
charged by the federal war department
with gross misconduct in the use of gov
eminent funds, and the sale to Mexican
bandits of arms and munitions.
He was finally driven from the south
ern Colorado strike zone when President
Wilson sent federal troops to protect the
strikers and citizens from further mis-
treatment at the hands of Chase and his
outlaw soldiers.
II was the refusal of the federal war
department to give further aid or recog.
milton to the Colorado National Guard so
long as Chase was at its head that forced
Governor Carlson to oust him and ap-
point new adiutant geenral over the
protest of the Colorado Fuel & Iron com
pany and its allies.
General Gamble has not had very wide