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Show COMPROMISE GOVERNOR- The Gubernatorial contest in our neighboring state is now sottled legally it may be, but fairly, certainly not. The people have the right to choose their executive; the Constitution provides the way it shall be done. When the voice of the people is hushed, and their political rights denied by rejecting reject-ing their votes, free government is at a standstill. A compromise court, which robs a man of his rights, is not legal nor ju?t. The real Governor of Colorado for the next two years is either Alva Adams, or Peabody not the present incumbent. Is it beyond the power of the great state of Colorado to decide who was elected i If so, a free government govern-ment by a free people is null 'and void. But the people are all right. They vote, as they have a right to do, for their choice of an executive. But the choice of the majority is not the choice of the minority, whose power, wealth and influence outweighs out-weighs the numerical strength of the minority. The powerful and influential minority dislike defeat. It may be all right for the horny sons of toil to yield to the inevitable, but not so with the purse-proud who claim the earth. The election in Colorado exemplifies all this. For two years the peace of the state had been disturbed. dis-turbed. The people wanted certain legal enactments. enact-ments. Their representatives promised faithfully that their wishes would be attended. They werts elected only to betray the trust imposed upon them. Capital did the work. The people became angry because they were betrayed. Then came the contest between capital and labor which lasted up to the 1 '-t election. The people, i. e., the common people. Hi. A: "We will settle this business for all time at the polls. We will elect a man who will be equally just to all." They did so. The old contest was resumed, re-sumed, and the only charge that could be made was the cry "fraud." Fraud, no doubt, there was, but it was not confined to one political party. Xo sane man could be convinced that it was confined to one party. Then cam5 the contest, and next. followed the compromise which placed in the Gubernatorial chair a man who was never a candidate, and who doubtless says deep down in his soul: "I am not Governor of Colorado, it is beyond doubt that the real governor is Alva Adams." The legislative body,, that decided as it did, placed a usurper on the throne, and as the usurpation was so flagrant and glaring, by the a priori decision of the court, he resigned to give legal coloring to the present occupant. oc-cupant. Compromise, in a free country, and this enlightened age, is poor policy. It should never be used to annul the voice of a free people. |