The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-01-28

b. f. IRVINE
Editor and Proprietor.
agreeing upon a.candidate, a. he will
contest the seat with Mr.. Teller.
The secretary of state today re-
cognized the democratic senate as reg
ular by sending it bill for printing.
Republican senators and a commit
tee of five each from the Wolcott
and anti-WoIcott factions in the
House met in secret conf renee this
afternoon. in the supreme court
chamber. it.zs = &tS3 sH
The republican senators demand
| ed recognition of their organization,
by the House. The members of
the House com mittee said they had
no power to bind the House in this
matter, but agreed to bring the
question before the House at its ses-s
sion Monday morning. The con-
ference adjourned until 4 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Several democratic members of
the legislature declared today that
overtures on the part of the anti
Wolcott republicans for a change
in the situation which would de-
prive the democrats of the majority,
they now hold in the joint aseem-
bly, by unseating one more demo-
erat have been rejected. ..ss.ra* ~
"We have bare majority and
we propose to keep it,, said Presi-
dent pro tenn. Adams, of the senate.
f"We started out with a majority of.
10, and when the House threw out
some of our members, we secured
bare majority by unseating menu
bers here. jsas sf.5f.t!.zii
! Denver, Jan. 25.-The climax in
the senatorial fight in Colorado
came tonight, when ex-senator E.
w. Wolcott, the candidate Of the
so.called "stalwart'' wing Of the re-
publican party, announced his prac-
{ tical withdrawal from any further
contest and urged the people of Col
orado to accept the situation as it
stands by the election yesterday of
Senator Harry M. Teller to succeed
himself by the joint session Of the
democratic senators and representa-
tives. The announcement was
made in signed statement in
which Mr.. Wolcott charges certain
republican leaders associated with
the anti. Wolcott forces in the re-
publican ranks with treachery, de-
ibefate and continuous, although
he disposes of others of the anti
Wolcott crowd by characterizing
them as 'sdupes". of the main con-
spirators. He refers to the refusal
of the anti Wolco:.t members of the
House to unseat the democratio
members of Arapahoe county and
calls it "a crime against the repub-
|lican party and justice"
Mr.. Wolcott declares that Lieu,
tenant Governor Haggott, when he
withdrew from the senate chamber
and with less than dozen senator's,
whose seats were undisputed, organ
lied another senate, was assured Of
support by his associates in the
state government, which support
"fell away from him, however. .sgl
Continuing, Mr.. Wolcott says:
s..There were three joint sessions
of the general assembly. AT the
last one 81 democrats voted for
Teller. No other joint session had
been held. and no republicans had
voted in joint session. The cleo
ton of Mr.. Teller was tinctured
with fraud; first, in the trickery Of
adjournment by the democrats Of
tthe House; second, in the arbitrary
and fraudulent expulsion of two le-
gally elected senators. There is,
however, now no other legally con-
stituted senate, as might have been,
but for this conspiracy {reierring
to the alleged combination between
democrats and anti-Wolcott repub-.
licans), and it is now too late to
undo the wrong, and by unseating
the fraudulently elected members
from Arapahoe county insure
the valid election of a republican
senator. s
"Wicked and unforgivable as is
the wrong done the repu blican par
| ty, yet from the point of view of the
highest citizenship there is but one
thing to be done and that is for the
people to accept the deplorable sit
uation and the Governor of the state
to issue certificate of election to-
Mr.. Teller"
Speaking of Mr.. Teller, the ex-
senator says that in no sense was