A century ago, Denver newsmen helped unearth nation’s biggest political scandal

The Colorado Sun: Media manipulation. Piratical politics. Corruption, contempt and crushed credibility in courtrooms.

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A hundred years ago today, in the nation’s biggest political scandal up to that time, a U.S. cabinet secretary was indicted — thanks to the scheming of a Denver publisher, the doggedness of his immigrant reporter, and the courage of a muckraking editor.

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