OWNERS for the phrase "gang of loafers"; the words GOVERNOR PEABODY for the words
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"burly policeman"; and the phrase COLORADO SUPREME COURT for the phrase "unthinking and heartless judge/* and you have before you in a nutshell a mildly-worded history of the labor troubles in Colorado for the last four years.
Governor Peabody knew well that the mob at Telluride was composed of members of the Mine Owners' Association and members of the Citizens' Alliance. He knew as well as everyone else in the State that Manager Bulkley Wells of the Smuggler Union Mine was the life and soul of this mob, which he personally commanded. Yet Governor Peabody, with the brazen style of the policeman in the anecdote, charged the poor, deported miners with the crime of treason, and in order to prevent these outraged men from returning to their wives and children declared martial law, sent troops down to Telluride at an immense expense to the State, and named Bulkley Wells, the avowed leader of the insurrectionary mob, as the commander of the State militia in this district.
The military had absolutely nothing to do in Telluride, except to watch incoming trains for the purpose of preventing union miners from entering the city. As this kind of work was tedious, the mUitary soon tired of it, and began to look for trouble.
They quickly found what they were looking for in the person of Charles H. Moyer, president of the Western Federation of Miners.
The military discovered that Mr. Moyer was in Ouray, the county seat of Ouray County, where he was going over the situation with the officers of