Pray for dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday November 10, 1904
Cripple District, Colorado - Chris Miller and Isaac Leabo Murdered on Election Day
Mrs. Emma F. Langdon reports that Chris Miller and Ike Liebo (Leabo), who were working as Democratic election judges, were shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Warford at about 10:30 on morning of November 8th. Both men had received letters the night before warning them to leave the district. They were, nevertheless, determined to perform their duties to ensure fair elections in Teller county.
Mrs. Langdon further reports:
Mr. Miller was a staunch worker in the cause of unionism and had for that reason been persecuted by the opponents. He was absolutely fearless.
From the November 8th edition of the Kansas
Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor:
KILL THE JUDGES
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Judges order Deputy Sheriff out of Polling Place and he Turns and
Shoots Two of Them
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Cripple Creek, Colo., Nov. 8.-Two democratic election judges were killed in this district today, a Peabody deputy sheriff was mortally wounded and a number of democratic judges were beaten and thrown in jail. Ike Liopold [Isaac T. Leabo] and Chris Miller, judges at Goldfield, were shot down by one of Sheriff Bell's deputies. They had ordered the deputy out of the polling place. He refused to go and turning upon the judges shot and killed them. At Midway, Ed Doyle, deputy sheriff assaulted Mrs. Kennedy, the democratic judge and in the struggle that ensued tore her dress and slapped her. Ed O'Leary, democratic watcher, interfered and shot Doyle, fatally wounding him. O'Leary was arrested.
James Warford is the deputy who killed two election officers in Goldfield. He was a secret service man during the military rule in the district. Miller and Liopold [Leabo] were union men.
ELECTION RESUTS FROM COLORADO
From the Kansas Topeka Daily Capital of November 9th:
COLORADO
Alva Adams
Denver. Colo., Nov. 8-Estimates at midnight from scattering and incomplete returns indicate a plurality of over 10,000 for Roosevelt in Colorado. The result as to congressmen and state officers is in doubt owing to the large number of scratched ballots that have not been counted. In 130 precincts outside Denver, Peabody received 10,068 votes and Adams 10,035, with 9,168 scratched ballots uncounted. The scratched ballots in the entire state are estimated at over 40,000. Scratched ballots in Denver will have been counted run in favor of Adams in the ration of about two to one. On this basis the Democrats claim that Adams is elected Governor by 7,000 to 8,000 plurality with a probability that the remainder of the Democratic state ticket is also elected. Democratic chairman Milton Smith will not concede that Roosevelt has carried the state and said:
Adams plurality will be not less than 15,000.
Republican Chairman Farley said:
Colorado has gone Republican, electing a majority of the electors, three Congressmen and the entire state ticket.
At midnight the entire vote had been counted in only two Denver precincts.
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[photograph added]
From today's Kansas Wichita Daily Eagle:
IN COLORADO
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James Peabody
Denver, Colo., Nov. 9-Roosevelt's plurality in Colorado has been increased over the earlier estimate by later returns and may run above 15,000. Republicans and Democrats claim the election of governor and congressman-at-large and the Republicans threaten to contest the state election on the ground of alleged frauds in Denver. On the face of nearly complete returns Adams has carried Denver county by 4,500 plurality and he appears to have a safe lead over Peabody without this county. According to the returns in the Times. Adams plurality in the state is a little over 10,000. The Times concedes that the result is a little in doubt as to the other state officers, but claims the legislature to be Democratic in both branches.
The Post says:
Late returns this afternoon indicate clearly that the Republican ticket in Colorado-national, state and county-has been elected by pluralities ranging from two thousand to ten thousand. A conservative estimate places Governor Peabody's plurality at 5,000. He will carry Denver by from 1,500 to 2,000.
Democratic Chairman Milton Smith made the following statement this evening:
Alva Adams is elected by from 10,000 to 15,000. All the state ticket goes in with him, according to our best information.
Republican Chairman D. B. Fairley makes the following claim:
Peabody will be elected by somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000. The state ticket will run even higher than that. The three congressmen are elected by pluralities above 10,000. I expect to bring Peabody to Denver with a plurality ranging from 7,000 to 10,000. This is large enough to offset any frauds the Democrats might attempt in Denver. We will control both houses of the legislature by good majorities.
Chairman Milton Smith, of the democratic state committee, tonight stands pat on his claim that Adams, Democratic candidate for governor, has been elected by a plurality in the neighborhood of 10,000. He is also of the opinion that the rest of the state ticket has been successful, but has nothing like complete returns on which to base an estimate of the vote. He concedes, however, that Maupin, Democratic candidate for congress from the Second district, has been defeated by Hogg, the present Republican incumbent, but says the result as to congressman-at-large and congressman from the First district is still uncertain.
Returns from all of the 204 precincts in the city, with the exception of about 28, give Adams a plurality of nearly 7,000. The precincts yet to be heard from are admittedly Republican and it is generally thought that when they report Adams' plurality will be reduced to about 4,000 in Denver.
Chairman Fairley of the Republican state committee had nothing to add to the statement already made by him.
[photograph added]
SOURCES
The Cripple Creek Strike
A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5
-by Emma F Langdon
"Being a Complete and Concise
History of the Efforts of
Organized Capital
to Crush Unionism"
The Great Western Publishing Co.
Denver,Colorado, 1905.
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Note: Langdon spells Ike/Isaac's last name as "Liebo."
Fort Scott Daily Tribune and Fort Scott Daily Monitor
(Fort Scott, Kansas)
-Nov 8, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Topeka Daily Capital
(Topeka, Kansas)
-Nov 9, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Wichita Daily Eagle
(Wichita, Kansas)
-Nov 10, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Note: for name as "Isaac T. Leabo":
Colorado Reports, Volume 41
Colorado Supreme Court
Banks & Brothers, 1908
(search with Isaac T Leabo)
http://books.google.com/...
IMAGES
Western Federation of Miners Button
http://www.nps.gov/...
Alva Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
James Peabody
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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The Red Flag - Socialist Victory Choir
The people's flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we'll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the red flag flying here.
-Jim Connell, 1889
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