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[edit] Dubious article

This article seems to consist almost entirely of personal opinion and dubious speculation. But it is a worthwhile topic. DaveApter 09:24, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

The Rocky Mountain News uses the term as early as October of 1892, when Ed Chase, Soapy Smith and others were accused of providing slanderous comments to be circulated prior to the November election.

"The executive committee at its meeting last Saturday, of which an illustration was published Sunday's NEWS, received reports from the subcommittees appointed to blackmail the gamblers, to bulldoze the saloonkeepers by the issuance of capiases, to pack the boarding houses with fraudulent voters, to consider the falsification of returns, to arrange with county clerks for the throwing out of silver tickets, to crowd the court house with heelers and boosters for the prevention of honest registration, to hire thugs and repeaters for use at the polls, to supply slanders and falsehoods to the goldbug organs, and upon the other detals of the great moral movement supervised by Ed Chase, A. M. Stevenson, Bill Hamill, Willy Griffith, Soapy Smith, Willy Evans, Joe Smith, Jack Devine, "Robber Seventh" Eddy and the rest of them." (Rocky Mountain News, October 18, 1892) Digidak 22:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)