 The Citizens' Alliance responded by issuing National Guard rifles to attendees at their meeting.The meeting was adjourned and the armed vigilantes immediately rounded up seventy-eight of the union men and sympathizers, expelling them again.p.70 A Telluride merchant, Harry Floaten, had been deported for his union sympathies.He, along with others, tried for three days to meet with Governor Peabody about their treatment at the hands of an anti-union mob, but Peabody refused to see them.p.139 Floaten penned a bitter parody that, according to Peter Carlson, "channeled the miners' frustrations.”