The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-27
TO GUST TELLER.
Colorado Republicans Map Out
Elaborate Programme.
Plan to Seat Peabody and Undo
Senatorial Election.
TROUBLE LOOKED FOR.
Political Riots and BlOodshed
Likely to Follow.
Democrats Are Determined to
Maintain Their Rights.

ion labor violence and bIoodshed are
predicted for Colorado as a result of a
programme outlined for the reseating
of James H. Peabody in the governor S
chair and for the unseating of United
States Senator Teller. The programme
was mapped out by the Republican
leaders 1t was no sooner announced
than Democratic and union labor lead
ers made threats of resorting to force,
if necessary, to prevent the consumma-
tion of the plan.
In a word, the Republican programme
consists of an appeal to the legislature
to reseat Governor Peabody through
throwing out ballots cast at the Novem-
Der election that are declared to be
fraudulent. The assembly is Republi-
can in both branches, this by reason of
the supreme courts action in ruling on
| election cases that have already come
before it.
To seat Governor Peabody it will be
necessary for the assembly to reject
over 10000 votes, for that is the plural1-
ty accredited to Alva Adams, the Dem
since the supreme court threw out the
vote of five Denver precinctE because
of wholesale proceedings against DEM
ocratic election officials.
The assembly will meet January 4.
The Republican majority is at least 80
and the Republicans will act as one
man, it is asserted, when the assembly
canvasses the vote for governor.
Claim Plurality for Peabody.
1t is proposed to have the general as
sembly appoint a special contest COM
mittee of nine to twelve members, to
which will be submitted the evidence of
wholesale election frauds in Denver and
possibly some other counties The Re
publican managers maintain that with
the fraudulent vote of Denver elimina-
ted Governor Peabody will have at least
1000 plurality in this county and OF
1000 in the state.
These politicians do not intend that
the legal votes shall be sifted from the
illegal and then counted, or that the
legislature shall reject the entire vote
of Denver county, because to do this
would not accomplish their purpose TO
reseat Governor Peabody. but they pur-
pose that about 800 Democratic pre-
cincts shall be thrown out on the ground
of fraud and that the vote of the Re
publican precincts shall be counted
They assert that the supreme court has
established a precedent for such pro-
cedure.
This programme is opposed by some
conservative Republican leaders, in
Guiding Judge n. Walter Dixon OF Pu-
eblO.
Democrats Map Out Their Fight.
The Democratic leaders are preparing
to contest vigorously the attempt to re-
seat Peabody. Mass meetings are to be
held in Denver, Pueblo and other cities
to protest against the line OF actlon
mapped out for the legislature by the
Republican leaders. The Liberty leasue'
a political organization of union work
ingrnen, is also preparing to take an
active part in the efforts that VIII be
made to defeat the attempt to continue
Governor Peabody in office
The Democratic managers declare
there is a monstrous conspiracy behlno
the disclosures of fraud shown IN con-
tempt proceedings before the supreme
court.
They say that the punches of. spurious
ballots all in one handwriting, found
in the boxes from different preclnctS'
could not have been placed in the poX-
es on election day without having I oeen s.e.a
observed by the watchers, and charSe
that the boxes have been tampereo
with since the election. legal Xotes pc
ing a abstra cted and spurious ballotS SUP
stituted therefor ..
+ions has been presented, but the
Democrats point out that the poAes
were left unmatched for two Gays
comnnission. and that for another day
tbev were in charge of only two Re-
publican watchers.
Troops May Guard Assembly.
Governor Peabody, it is expected,
will hold his office while the contest is
in progress in the legislature; ne as mas
frequently announced that he would
nreserve the peace at all hazards ana
If is thought he will have the militia
on guard at the capital. He made SO
many enemies among the lapor unions
of the state through his vigorous
repressive measures during the min
ers' strike that it is believed hordes
of union men will invade the capltoI
grounds in their effort to sway leg1s-
lators against his cause either py afgu-
ment or intimidation.
Governor Peabody will brook no
such interference; he believes his
cause is Just and that the assembly
will so decide if not intimidated.
IF is because of the determined
n1an of the Democrats to fight the
Peabody programme to the last d1tch
and because of the known hostility of
the labor unions to Governor Peabody
that riots and bloodshed are reared.
ON more than one occasion the nre-
brands among the union leaders have
hoasted since Governor Peabody an
nounced his purpose to contest the
election of Adams that PEABODY would
never be allowed to remain IN the eX-
acutive chair for another term.
What purpose they have in mind is
nrohlematicaI, but whatever it is it is
certain the state authorities have pre-
nared to provide against all emergen-
cies and obtain a fair contest in the
assembly
seek to Unseat Senator Teller.
Frauds unearthed when Congress-
man Bonynge made such showing
that John Shaforth resigned his seat
in congress may be the basis for a
memorial from the Colorado legiSla-
ture to the United States senate asking
for the unseating of Senator Henry
NJ. Teller. The frauds made public by
Bonynge were so patent that Shaforth
acknowledged he could make no de-
fense. Those same frauds caused the
election of a majority of the state leg
isIators who elected Teller.
The Republicans, in handbillS which