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Show ANARCHY IN COLORADO. "Presidents come and presidents go, but tho great republic freighted with the hopes of the human hu-man race for liberty goes on forever." So spake Champ Clark, addressing the Democratic nominee for president at Esopus on Wednesday. The sentiment, senti-ment, sounds well. It would bo applauded every-Avhere every-Avhere but in one state of the great republic. That state is Colorado. To prove it, we have only to review the events of the past week or two. Governor Pcabody withdrew, with-drew, tho slate troops from the disturbed zone. In a proclamation announcing the restoration of law and Order, in which self-adulation and apology were strongly mixed with deceit, he pretended to turn over to the sheriffs and courts the machinery of government, gov-ernment, so conspicuously maladministcrcd by his grand vizier, Adjutant General Bell. Of course, denunciation, oi the Yves tern icderation ot Miners sweetened the proclamation to the palate of the citizens' alliances and mine owners' associations. Of course, too, the chiefs of the federation came out in equally bitter denunciation of the governor. But paper bullets are of little consequence. Facts count. Did Governor Peabody really restore law and order and leave both to the administration of tho civil arm of the government? He pretended to do so, and said he had done so. But we find the law and order he restored in Cripple Creek and Victor to bc not the kind established by the state and federal constitutions, not the kind administered through courts and court officers, but the kind set up by the Citizcns't Alliance, the Mine Owners' association and thcjwhite cappers. At first blush, this looks liko a strange, incongruous combination of law makers and law breakers. Ordinarily, when citizens como together, they represent the respectability ,the morality mor-ality of the town. Ordinarily, when mine owners come together, it is for purposes other than defiance of law or to wreak vengeance. Nowhere else will yiu find such a combination like this Colorado combination, com-bination, else Champ Clark would not utter that sentiment in his speech at Esopus. And Governor Pcabody is in active sympathy with this combination, combina-tion, and has been all along. Let him crack his whip. Wo defy him to deny it. Here are a few instances of the restoration of law and order in Cripple Creek which we pick from the daily press: W. J. Donnelley, one of the leading business men of Victor, and who at one time was mayor of that city, spent most of the day in Cripple Creek. Wher-ever Wher-ever he went, deputy sheriffs were with him so that no violence might be offered. On yesterday afternoon he was ordered to leave the district by a number of citizens and thjs he intends to do at a later date. ' For some weeks past he has been arranging his business busi-ness with"T;hat end in view. The employes on the Dillon mine, some thirty-seven thirty-seven in number, who were ordere'd to take out cards with the Mine Owners' association or leave the district, dis-trict, have not decided what course they will pursue. It is known that a number of them prefer moving rather than surrender their W. F. M. cards Several, however, wiil acquiesce in the demand that has been made from them. - Think of a former mayor and substantial business busi-ness man ordered put of town like a common vagrant, va-grant, because he sympathized with organized labor struggling fo shorter hours in the bowels of the earth! Think of miners compelled to surrender their union cards to the mine owners upon pain of discharge; not only dismissal, but deportation "from ihe district..-'. Of all theawless acts committed by union strikers and boyedtJkicts condemned by the honest and fair-minded everywhere, none exceed in-atrocity, in ingenuity of blacklisting, those of the Mine Owners' association of Cripple Creek. I But the worst is to come. Read these dispatches i from Victor and Denver: Victor, Colo.. Aug. 10. John Harper, former manager man-ager of the Miners' Union store here, who was escorted es-corted out of town last night by eleven white cappers, telephoned his family today that he was at Canon City, to which place he had been compelled to walk after being beaten and robbed of $10. Exactly eleven masked men have been concerned in three recent white-capping episodes here. It is charged that one of the men who took Mr. Harper out of his home last night struck Mrs. Harper as she attempted to kiss her husband. Denver. Colo., Aug. 10. Information was received today at the headquarters of the Western Federation of Miners that bondsmen for the men charged with crime in connec tion with the Victor riot of June, who have been released on bail, have been notified by a committee representing the Citizns' Alliance and Minn Owners' association that unless they withdraw from the bonds of the accused men they would be deported. All the bondsmen except one accordingly have called at the office of the district attorney and asked to be relieved of their responsibility. Their request was granted in the cases of men who are in Cripple Creek and could be immediately rearrested. Several of the accused, however, have left the district and their bonds will stand until they are again taken into custody cus-tody and returned to Cripple Creek It is charced. hv tlir ctinmniniu .if tlm Vi,ilirilt- policy that the Western Federation of Minors is saturated with socialism. We do not know that all the miners arc Socialists. We think many arc not. But, granted that all are believers in the cult., it is no proof of the vulnerabilty of the strike; neither is it justification for deporting and imprisoning the strikers and their sympathizers. Every citizen has the right of opinion, the right of choice in the selection selec-tion of political parties. Socialism has developed into a political party. Just such abuses us that carried out in Colorado promote the growth of Socialism. So-cialism. Its followers know less about the philosophy philos-ophy of the cult than a cat knows about the problems prob-lems of Euclid. They join the party as a protest against labor oppression; that is allv Just as President Pres-ident Donnelly, head of the Meat Cutters' union, announced the other day in Chicago: "This strike has done, more to make Socialists of workingmen than anything else that could happen." |