Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-12-12
THE DENVER BALLOT
BOX SUFFERS.

THE DENVER BALLOT
BOX SUFFERS.
At last the mills of justice are
grinding and The Herald trusts they
will continue TO grind until the last
election crook of Denver and other
parts of the state are in the pen or
fugitives from justice for all time to
come. The revelations of the past
week are simply startling and no won
der the Denver News of Sunday morn
ing came out and said ii was knocked
silly by what had been brought to
light. The News and other Democratic
sheets have used every effort to de-
cry the investigation now under head
way, trying to make II appear II was
an effort to seat Peabody and steal
the senate. And the News OF Monday
SAYS, "let the crooks be sentenced
that the people should not be disfran-
chised." According 20 the experts,
both for the prosecution and defense.
the Illegal returns in one precinct
gave an excess majority of 1877 for
Adams. There are over 200 election
precincts In the city of Denver and the
same ratio of frauds would defeat
Adams by over 10000. II is not likely
the ratio was maintained but The
Herald honestly believes that II the
ballot boxes are opened even larger
discrepancies will be discovered and
that fraud in Denver alone will seat
Peabody All The Herald desires is
justice. If Adams receives an honest
majority of one he is entitled to be
governor of this great state Let the
lime light he thrown on the returns
from every Denver precinct. No hon
est person can object to the result OF
such investigation. And then let tho
the large centers be investigated and
the crooked election officers punished
In Trinidad, Denver tactics were out
done by one precinct in that city re
turning 200 more votes than were
registered. No one doubts for mo
ment that thousands of Illegal votes
were cast throughout the state wher
ever election judges could be corrupt
ed
Great stress has been laid on the
fact that Peabody ran SO far behind
his ticket. The Denver investigation
makes this plain. especially in that
city. To say nothing of the thousands
of fraudulent votes cast, possibly
enough 10 give Mr. Adams his major
ity, plenty of sworn testimony has
been introduced to show that when
voters were given ballots they found
them crossed in favor of Gov. Adams
Thus, with a Republican voting a
the names on the ticket except Pea
body II has come to light that a pre-
arranged steal of this kind was plan
ned before election and to this end
election Judges were provided with
rubber stamps to facilitate the check
ing. It is possible thousands of bal.
lots were thus marked. Careful exam
iUation would reveal the ballots thus
marked from the ones marked by pen.
As before stated IL Mr. Adams was
elected by an honest vote the writer
of this will be found standing on his
side insisting on him serving as gov
ernor And II he was not elected hon
estly then he should not be permit
ted to serve the people We trust
that Gov. Peabody will announce at
once that he does not want and will
mol accept the governorship by the
Acknowledgement of honest voters
and that he only wants honesty to
prevail. And it seems rather queer
that Alva Adams does not come to
the front and say Gentlemen, ! de
mand a full and complete investiga.
tion as under no circumstances will
| accept office by false manipulation
of election officials or through the aid
of repeaters," Let honesty prevail on
both sides.
Coming down to the state senate,
sufficient fraudulent votes have al
ready been discovered in the ballot
boxes opened TO elect the entire Re-
publican senatorial delegation in Den
yer, This will give the Republicans
control of the senate as it is quite
evident Barela was elected, notwith-
standing the frauds in Trinidad. And
1t Will be no more than right to re-
seat Dick Of Huerfano. who was
thrown otu of the senate although
he received over 5000 majority. And
the present lieutenant governor was
also voted out of the senate when he
was honestly elected by over 400 ma
jority.
The time has come for a full and
complete investigation and the pun
ishment OF the guilty ones.
The Herald wishes n were noss;