citizens of Colorado, including himself and all the officials of the Agency in Denver, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE WAS SCARCELY ONE AMONG THEM (the citizens and Pinkertons) BUT KNEW THAT MANY OF THE ACTS OF GOVERNOR
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PEABODY WERE IN VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND COLORADO.
Governor Peabody, Judge Gabbert, Bishop Matz, C. C. Hamlin, General Sherman Bell, Manager Bulkley Wells, and other prominent citizens of Colorado might have felt strongly inclined to denounce our opinion of their doings and decisions as the opinion of an "Anarchist."
But, surely, James McParland of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, the fountain-head of conservatism, the pitiless destroyer of the Molly Maguires, the faithful servant of the corporations, the arch enemy of the Western Federation of Miners, and the sole hope of the prosecution in the famous MoyerHaywood-Pettibone conspiracy and murder case in Idaho, cannot in all fairness be likewise denounced as an "Anarchist," and yet his opinion of Governor Peabody's actions is as little complimentary to the latter as is our own.
We do not wish to dwell long on Manager McParland's opinion. We know well enough, without him, that we are right. The only value of Mr. McParland's confession is that it corroborates what we have already said; namely, that the great and the rich are willing to inaugurate and uphold even a despotic form of government, when it subserves their selfish interests, and that they would force the people to believe that such a government is a republic, although in their heart of hearts they know that such a government is a tyranny, and can exist only in gross violation of the Constitution of the State and Nation.