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in other states they use legislatures and governors. The brewers own the saloons, and brewing is an interest. It “contributes” to both parties. The brewers and the dive interests got out a writ en- joining the Police Board from enforcing the law.

Judge Lindsey says the Police Board got out the writ against itself, and there was some ground for this suspicion. In the first place, the attorney for the brew T ers was the Democratic State Chair- man. In the second place, Frank Adams, who is a member of the Adams family, famous in Colorado politics, was the “iceman” in Denver. There were other icemen, but the saloons generally bought of him. So he may have been doing his customers a favour, on the side. But certainly the brewers were interested, for they warned Lindsey that if he went on making trouble for them, they would defeat him for reelection. No matter about that, however. Judge Peter L. Palmer — of whom it has been said that he would “enjoin the birds of the air from flying and the fishes of the sea from swimming” —- Peter L. Palmer held that since, under the con- stitution of Colorado, women had the same rights as men, the law forbidding them the wine-rooms was unconstitutional. Wherefore he enjoined the Folice Board, and the Police Board obeyed his order. Judge Lindsey didn t. He fined a dive-