You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Tuesday January 3, 1905
Denver, Colorado - Gunthug-Detective, K. C. Sterling, Appointed Custodian of Senate
By Ryan Walker, Appeal to Reason, August 13, 1904
Although it now appears that Governor-elect Alva Adams will be sworn in next week, the plot to unseat him thickens. The rule of Czar Peabody will, thereby, be continued.
Republicans now have complete control of the both houses of the Colorado legislature, and they can credit that victory to rulings of the Supreme Court and the two Peabodyite judges, owned heart and soul by the Mine Owners' Association. Republicans have chosen W. H. Dickson as speaker of the house. In the senate, the mine owners' detective, Gunthug K. C. Sterling, has been appointed custodian of the senate.
The scheme to unseat Adams and overthrow the will of the people of Colorado will now be advanced in the state legislature. The Mine Owners' Association now controls, not only the judicial branch of the government of the state of Colorado, but the legislative branch also. They will not be satisfied, however, until the executive branch is under their control as well.
CAUCUS VICTORY WON BY PEABODY.
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Name Former Chicagoan
for Speaker of Colorado House.
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Republicans Ask What of His
Pledge Not to Accept a Fraud-Tainted Seat.
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Denver, Colo., Jan. 2,-[Special.]-After an extended caucus, during which Frank R. Frewen, a Wolcott lieutenant, was an insurgent, W. H. Dickson, a former Chicagoan, who began practicing law in Denver three years ago today was chosen for speaker of the house by the republicans. Dickson is comparatively unknown, but enjoys the favor of the big corporations. Frewen's action leads the democrats to hope Wolcott has decided to oppose Peabody, but they have no definite proof of that.
K. C. Stirling [Sterling], a gun fighter and mine owners' detective, who was at the head of sleuths who deported many Western Federation of Miners members from Cripple Creek, has been appointed custodian of the senate, and is surrounding himself with other members of the mine owners' detective band.
Union Miners Deported from Strike Zone
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Written Evidence of Frauds.
Written evidence to prove that there were 18,000 fraudulent votes cast for Alva Adams in Denver at the late election has been prepared for presentation to the president of the senate Wednesday afternoon by Attorneys John M. Waldron and James H. Brown. The written confessions of repeaters and those who hired them are a material part of this evidence.
Since election day Brown has had a large corps of assistants working on a recanvass of every precinct of the city. He asserts that there were 20,000 dishonest ballots cast. The affidavits he will file, with the records of the new canvass, will form the basis of the sworn assertion that fully 18,000 spurious votes were cast for the democratic candidate for governor.
To Swear Adams In.
Alva Adams
Alva Adams, according to the program arranged by the democrats, will be sworn in by Justice Robert Steele of the Supreme court. Steele is a democrat. The other two judges, Gabbert and Campbell, are Peabodyites.
The republicans, however, will ask Adams to live up to his statement made when he asked that all the ballot boxes in the city and county of Denver be opened. Adams at that time said incidentally he would not accept a seat if it were tainted with fraud, and when the written confessions showing 18,000 spurious votes are shown, Adams will be asked to say whether he considers that amounts to tainting his seat with fraud.
The republicans will ask that all the ballot boxes in Conejos county, be opened. There is a contest on foot in the legislature, and this is one of the counties where democrats have alleged gross frauds were committed by republicans
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Will Try to Convert Denver
With violence possible in Denver at any time as a result of the gubernatorial contest, J. Wilbur Chapman, the Presbyterian evangelist, will inaugurate a three weeks' series of evangelistic meetings there tomorrow night.
The Colorado legislature will convene tomorrow, and the day is expected to be a crucial one in the election controversy. Dr. Chapman and nine other evangelists left last night for Denver.
The meetings to be conducted will be by districts, each of which will be supervised by a subevangelist, as was done last spring in Chicago.
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[photographs added]
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SOURCE
Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
Jan 3, 1905
http://www.newspapers.com/...
For more on the infamous K. C. Sterling, see also:
The Labor History of the Cripple Creek District:
A Study in Industrial Evolution
-by Benjamin McKie Rastall
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1908
(search: Serling)
http://books.google.com/...
Search: "K. C. Sterling"
https://www.google.com/...
Search: "K. C. Sterling" + Rebel Graphics
https://www.google.com/...
IMAGES
Laws to the Highest Bidder by Ryan Walker,
Appeal to Reason of Aug 13, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Cripple Creek Deportations June 1904
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/...
Alva Adams, 5th, 10th & 14th Governor of Colorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
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More on Gunthug-Detective K. C. Sterling from Clarence Darrow:
Darrow Connects K. C. Sterling to Attempted Train Wrecking
Was there any trouble about arresting the man that beat up old man Stewart [in the Cripple Creek Strike Zone]? Do you suppose if it had been Bill Easterly that was beaten up the governor would have called out the troops? Not in a thousand years. And do you believe if their thugs and assassins had killed every union man in the district that Peabody would have raised his hand? Not in a thousand years. But when something befell old man Stewart, although the authorities of the law were in full authority and were all powerful to apprehend the man if they could find him, this furnished an excuse for sending in the militia and turning loose in the Cripple Creek district every thug and plug and criminal which the contemptible members of the Mine Owners' Association could hire. I take it there can be no doubt about the evidence in this case upon that point.
Then what happened? They must have some trouble, and so they planned a railroad wreck—a railroad wreck to swear on to the Western Federation of Miners. Gentlemen, is there any doubt about who is responsible for that railroad wreck—that never happened? Why, they have not dared to bring evidence in this case to show it. They have not dared to dispute it. A couple of detectives went to the engineer and asked him where would be a good place to wreck a train. Think of it. Mr. Scott, the special detective of the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad, and Mr. Sterling, his running mate, the detective of the Mine Owners' Association, go to Rush, the engineer, and say to him: "Where would be a good place for us to wreck a train?" and he tells them, and they ride on the train down to this good place, and these two detectives get off and the train goes on about its business. It comes back in two or three hours, and Scott and Sterling stand on the track, and they tell the engineer it is all over—the train has been wrecked, or will be unless he stops it.
Think of it, gentle men. They have pulled out eleven spikes, out of forty in one rail, where no harm could possibly be done, and then they signal the engineer to stop the train. Then they charge it broadcast throughout the United States that the wicked Western Federation of Miners tried to plunge four or five hundred men over the precipice into eternity. Now, gentlemen, this story is not even disputed; and Scott was here, and Sterling was here, and the resources were here—unless the money has all been spent— and it has not been disputed, and they tell you in these last days that they don't claim anything on account of it. Well, we do. We claim it was the first act in the Cripple Creek district to bring discredit and infamy upon this organization, that was being fought to its death by the mine owners, who wanted to destroy it then as they want to destroy it now; that they have fought it every day and every night from then until today, and now they are pleading to this jury through the man with the iron will to have you complete the job by hanging the officers by the neck until dead.
[photograph added]
Darrow Connects K. C. Sterling to Independence Depot Explosion
Independence Depot Explosion, San Francisco Call of June 7, 1904
We have brought a railroad man here, Aller, who Mr. Hawley, of course, says is a liar because he swore against Orchard. He swore that he saw Scott and Orchard together three different times; that the last time was about two weeks before the Independence depot was blown up, and at that time, on a Sunday evening, they were in Scott's office, Scott, Sterling and Orchard—and were there two or three hours; that Scott was going to take his dinner with him, but he was detained so long by Orchard that he could not get it. Now, is that story true? Let us see about it, gentlemen. They have been pretty free with Mr. Aller's name—let it be said to their everlasting shame—but is there any reason why you should disbelieve him? What reason? He swore that Scott was with this man three times. What does Scott say? He says he was with him seven times—certainly six, and probably seven. That is what Scott says, and yet Aller is a liar. What else does he say? He says that on one evening—a Sunday evening—he stayed at least an hour, and that on another evening he had an engagement with Aller, but could not keep it; and yet they say that Aller is a liar. Do you?
What else? I will tell you what else. Aller says that Scott and Sterling and Orchard were there. What is the matter with Sterling denying it? Why doesn't he pipe up in this case? He must be the prosecuting attorney of Canyon county, by the profound silence he keeps, while everybody else is working. If Scott and Sterling and Orchard were not together for an hour or two on that Sunday evening, pray tell me why has not Sterling's voice been heard denying it? Why, gentlemen, it is the merest child's play. The idea that a lawyer would tell this jury that Aller, a railroad man, in no way interested in this case, came here to commit perjury, and he did not swear to half as much as Scott! Do you suppose it makes any difference whether he was there in April, or May, or the first of June? There might be some desire on our part to get the time as near the Independence depot explosion as we could, but it was before that time, and that is enough for any practical purpose, and it is enough for us, and here we have this man swearing that he met him those three times; we have Scott admitting seven times, and we have proved in this case that the first time Orchard ever saw these defendants he went there with Scott's money....
SOURCE
Darrow's speech in the Haywood case;
God and the good man: a fable
-Clarence Darrow, E. B. Suthers
Wayland, 1907
(search: Sterling, & choose pp. 48 & 57)
https://books.google.com/...
see also
"The Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone case" by Louis Adamic
https://libcom.org/...
Spikes+Train+ JayRaye
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Independence Depot+JayRaye
http://www.dailykos.com/...
IMAGES
Clarence Darrow, Trial of Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
Independence Station Explosion
from San Francisco Call of June 7, 1904
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
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Which Side Are You On? - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Across this great old nation
Tell me whatcha gonna do
When there's one law for the rulers
And one law for the ruled?
-Florence Reese/Tom Morello
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