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X5ho Nebraska. Independent
MARCH 23, 1905
ferred was marketed at 110 and under,
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and the common stock was thrown in
as a makeweight without any charge
for it.
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' Anarchy
The dictionary defines anarchy as
meaning, "without law or order," "law
lessness." The republican party- has a
record for anarchy that is unequalled
by any political party in the history of
the United StatesI It was by anarchy
lawlessness that the republican
party 'seated Rutherford B. Hayes
president and defeated the will of the
people who had rightfully elected Sam-
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lawlessness that the republicans with
the co-operation of the republican end
of the democratic party, defeated the
will of the people in Nebraska who
had elected "John H. Powers governor.
It is by anarchy lawlessness by the
republican party in Colorado that they
have defeated the will of the people
who had rightfully elected Alva Adams
governor. Unable to secure a majority
in the legislature of their own party
men sufficiently brutal and corrupt to
unseat Adams and give the office to
the notorious Peabody, the ingenuity
of the republican leaders devised a
method that for trickery and dishon
esty has no parallel in recent times.
In order to accomplish their purpose
they were compelled to seat Peabody.
They made him governor for ONE
DAY, having previously required him
to write out and sign a resignation to
be filed after he had been seated as
governor. By their refusal to declare
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they had admitted his defeat. The
legislature had no more right morally
to make Peabody governor lor one day
than they had to make him governor
for two years. If he was not elected
governor it was as much anarchy to
declare him elected governor for a
day as it would have been to declare
him governor for the entire term. It
was lawlessness anarchy nothing
less. " '' .
. Peabody's resignation was filed and
he was succeeded as governor by Lieutenant-Governor
McDonald, a repub
lican. We reproduce in this issue a
cartoon from the Denver News of
March 19. In the same issue, the edi
tor of that paper says:
"To say that the temple of justice
has been destroyed is hardly an over
statement. If it has not been de
stroyed it has been violated and de
faced. To repair these damages and
restore the sacred edifice to. its pris
tine splendor is . the task before the
people. And it is a task which the
News believes they will take up in
deadly earnest and at which they will
not cease to labor until it has been
completed.
... "As the political situation stands,
both in Denver and In the state, half
dozen great and greedy corporations
are in. control. . They have gained their
power by fraud, coercion and corrup
tion unparalleled. They have struck
Denver News.
down the constitution and defied the
haws.
"Those of them which confine their
operations to Denver and vicinity are
making and expect to make tens of
millions from public franchises. Those
of them which operate throughout the
state are making and expect to make
many tens of millions by exploiting
the natural resources at the minimum
of cost to themselves.
"The Denver Tramway company last
year earned a surplus of $508,000 over
and above all cost of operating ex
penses, interest' and taxes. The "sum
is equal to more than 10 per cent
upon a stock capitalization of $5,000,
000, which does not in fact represent
one dollar of investment. The com
pany now makes the public claim that
it has a franchise unlimited as to time
and that it may continue to earn 10 per
cent, or 20 per cent, or 50 per cent, as
the city grows, upon this watered
stock for all time to come so long as
there is a Denver. It relies upon its
political power to maintain its claim
to a perpetual franchise. :
"The water company has just paid
a dividend of 5 per cent upon a stock
capitalization of $7,500,000, not one dol
lar of which stands for an Investment
of actual cash, and its earnings are
said to be sufficient to pay much more
than that sum every year.
"The tramway and the water com
panies being closely allied, we have
the spectacle of this single interest
taking a profit of $1,000,000 a year out
of the people of Denver, solely as a
result of monopoly and franchise grab
bing, to be disbursed as dividends
upon stock that was manufactured
with no other cost than that of paper
and ink. '
'The Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany, the smelter trust and the Victor
Fuel company are the three companies
operating over a large extent of ter
ritory which are seeking to monopolize
every form of metallic and non-metal
lic mineral production and treatment
Their methods are notorious. So far
as they can do so the ballot is made
worse than a mockery. Armed thugs
control the elections in the coal camps,
and returns are made with no refer
ence to the wishes of voters. Hardly a
section of the corrupt practices act is
not violated by them at every election,
yet because they own the machinery
of pretended law in the counties in
volved they escape, scot free.
"The profit reaped by such preda
tory concerns, when the people per
mit themselves to be robbed, may be
judged from the quotations on smelter
stock on the exchange yesterday. Pre
ferred stock was quoted at 122 and
common stock at 102. The amount of
each kind of stock is $50,000,000, mak
ing the market value of the stock over
and above bonds, $112,000,000. When
the stock was originally issued the pre
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. "During the time which has elapsed
since election day the political com
plexion of the legislature and the per
son of the governor have been charged
by agencies other than the will of the
people as expressed at the ballot box.
The first great change was wrought by
the supreme court, which, in a con
tempt proceeding, declared that It pos
sessed the authority to throw out en
tire precincts when a showing that
some fraud had been committed was
made in the precincts. The court did
not unseal the numbers on the ballots,
nor did it attempt to summon the vot
ers and distinguish between good bal
lots and those alleged to be bad. It
held that because the proceeding was
not a contest it could not, under the
law, unseal the ballots and thus reveal
who cast them. It could not violate
the secrecy of the ballot. The same
law which provides that the ballots
shall not be unsealed except in case
of a contest, also provides that the
ballot boxes shall not be opened except
in case of contest. The court however
opened the boxes and permitted the
ballots to be scrutinized by pretended
writing experts who gave testimony as
wild, as foolish and as worthless as
that which they gave later in the con
test proceedings. It may be assumed
that this expert testimony, since prov
en to be wholly without value, had
weight with the court In ordering the
summary exclusion of a number of pre
cincts from the count and the disfran
chisement of every honest voter in
those precincts.
"The exclusion of these precincts
had the effect of electing the three
republican senators and the fifteen
representatives' who had been candi
dates for the legislature from Denver
and the counties floated with it.
"Next came the jobbery executed
under the order of the corporation
bosses. A strange change in the re
turns from a Pueblo precinct, which
change was received without question
by the Peabody canvassing board com
posed of members of the late state
administration, defeated Senator Mar
tin, a democrat, and elected Senator
McCarthy, a republican.
"Next the same Peabody canvassing
board deliberately stole the seats of
Senators Ward of Boulder and Beshoar
of Las Animas and gave them to Mil
lard and Barela.
"Next the senate itself illegally ex
pelled Senators Born and Healy on the
pretext that the senate two years ago
had unseated in a perfectly legal
manner two republicans, pushing
aside .the fact that the house two years
ago had first unseated six 'democratic
members in the effort to create a ma
jority to elect a republican United
States senator.
"Having thus established a strong
partisan majority in the legislature the
Peabodyites lodged a contest against
Governor Alva Adams. The evidence
which was submitted during the hear
ing of the contest clearly proved that
Peabody had no ' case and never
thought he had a case, but relied solely
on the partisan majority to seat him.
It proved that Governor Adams, under
an honest count had a larger instead
of a smaller plurality than he received
on the face of the returns.
"Yet after a long struggle the cor
poration influence, the influence of par
ty bosses and of boodle, whipped
enough members into line to steal the
governorship for Peabody by a vote of
55 to 41 ten honest republicans vin
dicating their manhood by voting for
Mr. Adams on the final ballot. :
"Next came the working out of the
disgraceful deal by which Peabody, the
recipient of the stolen office, passed it
along to Lieutenant Governor McDon
old and retired . repudiated and dis
credited. "Everything that has taken place
since the convening of the legislature
illustrates the extraordinary and dead
ly power which the corporation bosses
have gathered into their hands. They
have grown so arrogant and daring
that they feel they can defy public
opinion and override the laws. They
have not only stolen the governorship,
but they have throttled every worthy
measure presented in either house and
will not permit any one of them to be
passed.
"The political atmosphere in the
state has been cleared by these events.
Nothing remains to obscure the great
issue which includes all lesser issues,
and that issue is whether Colorado
shall be run by its people for their
benefit, or by the group of banded cor
porations for their benefit. The next
two years will determine whether Col
orado shall be placed lit the class of
states whejre the people have no voice.
or be a free American commonwealth."
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Washington, D.C., says i ...
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that complaint"
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with a population of 20,000, has been
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