The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-26
Plans to Discount the Plurality
Of Adams
FRAUDULENT VOTE CHARGED
Republican Managers Claim That
With Fraudulent Vote of Denver
Thrown out Peabody Will
Have 1000 Plurality.

Denver. Colo. December Psf the flf-
teenth general assembly of Colorado,
which is to meet on Wednesday Jsnaary
>. shall efreetsate the plans formulated
by the managers of the republican post
election campaign. Governor PeaDody
may serve as chief executive of this state
for two years more, despite the fact that
Alva Adams stil has nearly Zoo plural
ity, since the votes of five Denver pre-
cincts were thrown out bodily by order
of the supreme court in consequence OF
frauds exposed in contempt proceedings
against election officials.
There win be a republican majority
of thirty or more in the general assem-
bly,, which will canvass the vote for
state officers. 1t is proposed tc have the
general assembly appoint special con-
test committee of nine to twelve members
to VIII will be submitted the evidence
of wholesale election frauds in Denver
and possibly other counties. which evi-
dence the republican committees have
been collecting ever since the election.
Claim Plurality.
The republican managers maintain that
with the fraudulent vote of Denver
eliminated. Governor Peabody will have
at least seven thousand plurality in this
county. and of 2OoO in the state. These
politicians do not intend that the legal
votes shall be separated from the IL
legals, and will ask the legislature to
revoke the entire count of Denver county,
and this Will accomplish their purpose to
re-seat Peabody, but they also propose
that 100 democratic precincts shall be
thrown out on the ground Of alleged
frauds, and that the vote Of the republi-
can precincts shall be counted. They as
sert that the supreme court has estab-
lished precedent for a precudre.
This radical programme is opposed by
some conservative republican leaders, in
cluding Judge n. Walton Dixon of Pueblo.
and DIR. John Grass of Trinidad, and until
the legislature meets and takes action 1t
cannot be known certainly whether Pea
body or Adams will be governor for the
next two years. The democratic leaders
are preparing to contest vigorously the
attempt to re-seat Peabody.
League Will Take Part.
The Liberty league a political organ
ization Of Union working men, IS also
efforts that will be made to defeat eis
attempt to continue Governor Peabody
in office
The democratic managers declare there
is monstrous conspiracy behind the dis
closures Of fraud shown in ntempt
proceedings before the supreme court
They say that the lunches of spurious
ballots, all In one handwriting found in
the boxes from different precincts. could
not have been placed In these boxes on
election day without having been ohserv-
ed by the watchers. and charge that
the boxes have been tampered with since
election, legal votes being abstracted and
spurious ballots substituted therefor
No proof in support Of these assertions
has been presented, but 1t is pointed out
that the boxes were left Unmatched for
two days after being delivered TO the
election commission, and that for another
day they were in charge Of only two re-
publican watchers.