Haywood’s Jailhouse Governor Campaign
A candidate for governor in one state writing to his supporters from a county jail in a distant state, is one of the strange things that confront us in these last days. William D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, now the Socialist candidate for governor of Colorado, is in jail in Boise City, Idaho, on a charge of being accessory to the murder of Governor Steunenburg. Haywood was in Colorado at the time of the murder, but because the murderer claims to have done the deed under the auspices of the Federation, the president and secretary were arrested as accomplices and held for trial. It is claimed by the Socialists that Haywood was kidnapped in Colorado and illegally taken to Idaho, and this claim was probably the basis of his nomination for governor. It is said that there is great enthusiasm among the Socialists of Colorado in support of their candidate, and he writes very hopefully from his headquarters in the jail at Boise, Idaho. This political campaign is certainly unique in the political history of the great American republic. The Colorado election will be held on the 6th of November.