SHALL THE SPECIAL INTERESTS RULE?
Kittle, William
Shall the Special Interests Rule? By WILLIAM KITTLE vii. the lawlessness and violence of government by public utility companies. By Judge Ben B. Lindsey in 8 articles in everybody's from October,...
...Chancellor Buchtel of the Denver University, corrupt tool as governor of Colorado and with pious smirk on the lecture platform...
...The Denver Union Water Company...
...Most people see only the Jungle...
...The mass of the people see only the shifting dummies...
...The Cannons and Aldriches, great and small, may come and go, but the menace of privilege goes on unbroken...
...The Denver Telephone Company...
...It can buy newspapers and subsidize business men...
...Corruption of Government by the Beast WITH this setting of the "Beast" and the "Jungle," the curtain rises...
...The actors on the political stage of Colorado for the past ten years have been as follows: 1. The Public Utility Companies of Denver...
...The President of that Board has also been president of the ice trust which sells ice to the breweries, saloons, wine rooms and gambling houses...
...The Fire and Police Board has control of the vice districts of Denver...
...Such a combination has money and it has votes...
...These great utility companies could not afford to oppose the vice district which always carried for them the elections...
...and during a period of one year and four months, had paid a Denver firm $40,000 "more than the supplies were worth...
...President, E. B, Field...
...President, Frank Adams...
...You know the people aren't fit to govern themselves...
...Frank Adams, President for a period of the Police Board...
...Cass Herrington, attorney of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company...
...The "Beast...
...The Railroads and Smelter Trust of Colorado...
...Public opinion is only beginning to face squarely the greatest danger that ever confronted a government of, by and for the people...
...But they do not count...
...By Judge Ben B. Lindsey in 8 articles in everybody's from October, 1909, to May, 1910, inclusive...
...The really important thing to see in this case, is that back of the public officials, is the powerful special interest which must have dishonest men in office in order to secure for the special interest dishonest privileges and profits...
...Can such a company really afford the luxury of having honest men in public office...
...President, W. S. Cheesman...
...The "Beast" consists of the powerful Special Interests of the public utility companies, railroad corporations and industrial combinations of capital...
...I believe these defendants to be honorable gentlemen...
...W. G. Smith, Republican, once Speaker of the House in the legislature, known as Tramway Bill and now the tax-agent in the tramway's office, i George Graham, Republican Boss and handy-man for the Denver utility companies...
...Judge Lindsey found that these great special interests had formed a direct alliance with vice for mutual profit...
...We rule, and we're going to continue to...
...But here again, the real power is Big Business which hires the politicians, pays the campaign expenses of the candidates for office and controls the government...
...Pointing to some workmen in the street, he added, "Do you think we are going to be ruled by a lot of cattle like that...
...That cause is the control of politics and government by Big Business for the "Profit of Privilege...
...President of the Company, W. G. Evans, alias Bill Evans...
...President, H. L. Doherty...
...IN THESE articles on "The Beast and the Jungle," Judge Lindsey of the famous Juvenile Court of Denver has laid bare the real cause of corruption in city, state and national government...
...The president of the Denver Union Water Company said to Judge Lindsey: "You have been long enough in politics to know the people have nothing to do with nominations and elections...
...It was a fact...
...Bill Davoren with "small head broadly based on pink jowls...
...The Ice Trust...
...No sir...
...This is not a theory...
...Public indignation at the officials falls far short of the real criminals...
...On the package was a bill which read: "To 1,000 sheets of paper, $280...
...Robert W. Speer, alias Bob Speer, alias Boss Speer, Democrat, President of the Fire and Police Board and later Mayor of Denver...
...The utility companies of Denver, the railroad corporations of Colorado, and the Smelter Trust of the far West have deeply corrupted the state government...
...The Commissioners were given a fake trial and a "friendly jury found them guilty of a misdemeanor to save them from a worse fate...
...The corporation judge at the close of the sham trial said: "In passing sentence, this statute does not brand these gentlemen as criminals...
...This Board is all powerful in getting out the fraudulent vote of floaters, repeaters, gamblers and criminals...
...He also discovered that the County Commissioners had reduced the assessment of the Denver Union Water Company from $1,000,-000 to $300,000, although this company itself has since valued its plant at $14,400,000...
...Big Steve, politician and attorney of the street car company, "heavy-jowled," heavy-waisted, red faced hulk...
...The stage is Colorado...
...They have directly placed their creatures in the Supreme Court of the State...
...When one time-server or servitor has become unpopular, a new one is pushed forward...
...Charles J. Hughes, a Democrat and an attorney of the Denver City Tramway Company, and Simon Guggenheim of the Smelter Trust, a Republican, represent in the United States Senate the Special Interests of Colorado, the worst governed State in the Union...
...One morning in 1902, Judge Lindsey came across a package of ledger sheets in the office of the clerk of the court...
...Senator Billy Adams, brother of Frank Adams and leader of the corporation interests in the legislature...
...These special interests care little for the public indignation which is directed towards the public officials...
...They have carried the elections by fraud, by utter lawlessness and by violence...
...Soapy Smith, leader of a gang of election thieves...
...He investigated and found that letter paper cost $36 a thousand sheets...
...Another corporation lobbyist said to Lindsey: "Now be honest...
...The "Jungle" is made up of politicians, and groups of vice, crime and lawlessness...
...When Judge Lindsey attacked the wine rooms and saloons for debauching the boys and girls of Denver, he was opposed by the president of the tramway company and also by the president of the water company...
...2. The "Jungle" of Politicians: Charles J. Hughes, Democrat, now United States Senator, and for many years attorney and henchman of the Tramway Company...
...It is connected with every city utility company...
...Judge Lindsey sees through it the real rulers and masters of America...
...The Denver Gas and Electric Company...
...The Denver City Tramway Company...
...The audience is the people of that State...
...The County Commissioners had been allowing these bills...
...They have set up a dummy governor whose corrupt pliability is only equaled by hie pious smirk of hypocrisy...
Vol. 2 • July 1910 • No. 28
