Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
REPUBLICAN PLANS.
Managers Confident Of Favorable Leg
islative Action-Situation Defined.

Announcements of the managers of the
republican post-election campaign indicate
their confidence that the legislature, in
which at the outset on joint ballot there
will be sixty-six republicans to thirty-three
democrats, will throw out enough demo-
cratic precincts of Denver to overcome
Alva Adams 10000 plurality for governor
and declare Governor James H. Peabody
reelected
These republican leaders justify such &C
ton on the claim that in all the demo-
cratic precincts frauds were perpetrated
and that these frauds were as extensive
as those shown in the five precincts of
which the supreme court ordered the bal
lot boxes opened This is denied by the
democratic leaders, who assert that the
ballot boxes opened in court may have
been stuffed since the election in support
of corporation conspiracy to steal the
governorship and senate and pack the su-
preme court, which is to be increased from
three justices to seven on April 4 next.
On the day after election, according to
the returns, the incoming senate consisted
OF twenty-one democrats and fourteen re-
publicans. Soon thereafter Senator Buck
ley died, reducing the number of demo-
cratic members to twenty.
Peabody's Neglect.
Gov. Peabody has neglected to call a
special election to fill the vacancy caused
by Senator Buckley's death. although the
constitution contains a mandatory pro-
vision for such action. Through subse-
quent decisions of the supreme court the
state board of canvessers the standing of
the parties in the senate has been changed
until IL now consists of nineteen republi-
cans and fifteen democrats with one va
cancy.
The republicans gained two senators in
this city by the rejection of the entire vote
of five precincts in which frauds were
shown under order of the supreme court,
no attempt being made to sift and count
the legal ballots.
In Pueblo the official canvass showed a
change In the reported vote in one pre-
cinct by which Mccarthy republican, OBJ
tanned a majority of four votes over Mar
tin (democraD, who had been reported
elected. Finally, contests were made before
the state canvassng board against Senator
elect Ward of Boulder county and Senator
elect Beshoar of Las Animas county, and
the board threw out sufficient returns to
overcome the majorsties for these candi-
dates and award the certificates of election
to the republican contestants.
Supreme Court Action.
The supreme court refused to issue
mandamus requiring the board to accept
the returns as received, and forbade the
lower courts to take any action in the
matter. Now the republican managers an
nOunce that the senate probably will I'M
seat six more democratic members includ-
ing two seated by the democratic majority
two years ago in reprisai for the unseating
of democratic representatives by the re-
publican majority in the house in a futile
endeavor to obtain a majority on joint
ballot and defeat the election of United
States Senator Teller.
1t is said the three democratic senators
elected in this county two years ago will be
expelled on the ground that their election
was accomplished by means of the same
frauds the exposure of which in the con-
gressional contest induced Congressman
John f. Shafroth to resign in favor of Rob-
ert w. Bonynge. The last senator to be
unseated, it is said, will be A H. Adams of
Alamosa county, brother of Governor
elect Adams. Senator Adams plurality was
about 1900, or three times the total vote of
his opponent.
To Adopt Memorial.
One of the first acts of the Legislature, it
is reported, may be the adoption of a me-
mortal to the United States Senate asking
for the expulsion of Senator Teller on the
ground that his election was accomplished
by means of gross frauds at the polls in
this city two years ago.
Senator Teller is now en- route to Wash
ington. carrying with him the record of
the contempt ca-es before the Supreme
Court here, also the necessary papers to
sue out a writ of error and apply for a
supersedeas before the United States Su-
preme Court in behalf of the imprisoned
election officers who were convicted of con-
tempt by the state supreme court An ap-
plication for a writ of habeas corpus will
also be made in behalf of the prisoners
Warrants have been issued from the su-
preme court for eight more persons in
election contempt cases. 1t Is understood
that these arrests. when made, will bring
at least three more such cases before the
supreme court. The affidayits filed with
the court upon which the new cases are to
be brought contain in general the same
charges as made In cases hitherto prose-
cuted.
general violation of the courts injunc-
ton through bailot-box stuffing. repeating
and intimidation upon the part of the DEM
ocratic officials Is CHARGED.
The hearing of the contempt cases will
be resumed next Tuesday.