The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-17
PEABODY
HAS GAINED
1000 VOTES
COuRT-SziN OUTLYING DISTRICTS
sssssH oWS8 GROSS AND GRAVE
lRREGULARITl
ADAMS AND THIS CAUSES
M UGH HaUNEASINESS.
HUNDREDS sOF#AFEIDavlTs HAVE
l# BEEN FlLEDzO DzONILLEGAL VoT-
ING BY BOTH SIDES

DENVER, Col, Nov. 7.-While, Cor
arade IS the centre of commercial
financial unrest the citizens and
oliticians assert the talk is all on
tSfffhe e9surface and means nothing. AnN-
Sssfety$in business and social circles is
sS5i intensified by the uncertainty as to
Who$wiH fill the governors chair 1t
54s is generally believed that Alva Asl-
90 ms Democrat, elected on the face Of
1.-THE returns by more than 10000
Votes, VIII be seated, but the election
contest st5started by the Republicans in
tt he Interest of Governor Peabody is
zSleveloplng surprise. Peabody has so
Ssf farS gained 1000 votes on the count
7sdns outlying precincts. Governor-elect
ssAIVa Adams public statement that he
yuviH stand for law and order regardless
.Ssof who is affected, cane in time to
allayssome local apprehension but it
3is not altogether convincing to bust
mess men There is still. the fear thai
dams, elected largely by tie labor
vote, viii be subject to the influence
sof# United Labor and this feeling ad-
mittedfy is on the upward tendency
Both sfactons. are trying to outshout
ahes other IN the cry Of election frauds
The result of the contest in this city
VIII depend largely OF, the decision
sasto5 legality of watchers appoint
eddy the Supreme Court on the Elect
HON Commission.
Both parties have hundreds of afl:
daYits on the 8illegalvoting.
n The Republican are said to con
3rol the Supreme Court on the election
contest and through that bo,ly, if it
is decided to have Jurisdiction, the
canvassing board. The canvassins
board in Denver until a decision is
reached, is idle and this creates much
Meanwhile the Democrats are col
Iecting amdavits of fraud and prepar-
ing to submit them to a special grand
jury of the West Denver Court which
they control. Adams and Peabody
are both standing pat backed by their
friends.
s GoYernor-e1ect Adams said: ..It is t
all @foolishness to think that would d
lake sides with labor against capital t
Governor am bound TO my oath b
% see that all Interests are projected V
Fl do not care to criticise the IS W
nonths$of b1oodshed and strife that I
Colorado has undergone but | hone b
With the assistance of the people 10 Il
,ring about5a a better ere of things; d.
s@Govern or Peabody said that he was a
lots bothering much over the election tt
ontesfs 1t is in the Gterest Of good M
.overnment that the contest ever the
should be Conducted, he ne
asid. as te
Williams, Cairnan of the ci
republican City Committee, said that bo
2 average of 2O4 votes lad been dis ye
ranchised in each of the wards of the
itys by having their names. from the N
ten by having their names or
etoed by election judges and ten ne
Y$having a cross. placed traudulently tn
pposites the name of Adams. es
The Democrats charge that the Re- ch
1blicans bought registration clerks
i'd fraud du1ently registered between
M thousand and fifteen thousand
ames on. Capital Hill and that they da
1teda between 5000 and 5000 names los
Democrats also allege to
;penditure of Thousands of dollars L.
j timidation of voters, and coer-
on of$yoters employed by the State u
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