Hellraisers Journal: Socialist Party of Colorado Nominates Idaho Prisoner, William D. Haywood, for Governor

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday July 8, 1906
Denver, Colorado – Socialist Party Nominates State Ticket

From The Topeka Daily Capital of July 7, 1906:

Haywood, Darrow Collection


COLORADO REDS NOMINATE
HAYWOOD FOR EXECUTIVE
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If Elected and Release From Caldwell Jail
Is Refused, Would March to Idaho in Force.
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SNATCH HIM FROM TEETH OF
DOGS OF CAPITALISM
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Denver, July 6.-It has just transpired that the Socialist party of Colorado held a convention in this city on the Forth of July and nominated a full state ticket, headed by William D. Haywood, secretary-treasure for the Western Federation of Miners, now in prison in Idaho, for Governor…
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