The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1905-01-10
ADAMS TO BE
INAUCURATED
LEGISLATURE DECLARES HIM
ELECTED GOVERNOR.
PEABODY MAY CONTEST
Question of Appointment of Supreme
Court Judges of Greater Ac-
count Than Governorship.

Denver, Colo, Jan. 8.-Alva Adam
was last night declared by the legisla
ture to be the duly elected governor o
Colorado. the returns showed: Ad
ans, 123,078; Peabody, 113,304; plu
rality for Adams, 9,7i4. A chez
greeted the announcement of the re
suit of the election when made b,
Lieutenant Governor Haggott
The republican candidates to all the
other state offices were declared elect
ed. Under the terms of the agreemen
reached ystrday by tn various factions
in the legislature no notice of contes
can be filed by Governor Peabody un
til after the Inauguration of Mr.. Ad
ans, which is set for 10 o'clock Tues
day morning. 1t has not yet been def
nitely decided by Governor Peabody
whether or not he will make contest
Looking for Dove.
When the legislature convened yes
terday morning Representative vii
liam Griffith of Cripple Creek asked
for a recess until 4 o'clock in the at.
ternoon, giving as his reason for the
request that ''the winged dove OF
peace is about to light on the dome OF
the capitol"
1t was nine long hours before the
dove came down and many and de
vious had been her flights before she
alighted. 1t was a DAY given over to
secret caueases, to conference, to pro.
positions and counter propositions. 1t
was finally agreed at o'clock in the
! afternoon that the vote should be can
vassed, that Alva Adams should be
declared governor and that no contest
should be made for any office until
after his inauguration at 10 O'Clock
next Tuesday morning.
Questions AS to Judges.
Throughout the entire struggle for
the governorship the chief aim OF
both democrats and republicans has
been to secure the appointment OF the
two new judges to the supreme court.
The question of whether Peabody or
Adams sat in the governors office was
secondary matter. The WoIcott re-
publicans were insistent in their de-
mand that they be recognized in the
appointment of the judges and it was
finally agreed that the appointees
should be George w Bailey of Fort
Collins and l.. NJ Goddard OF Denver.
The Wolcott men made a strong
fight for Judge M. q. Lewiss of Colo
RADIO Springs, whom they preferred TO
Goddard, but they finally gave way.
When the other republican leaders
called upon Governor Peabody to in
form him of the conclusions they had
reached and 10 tell him that his only
hope of second term lay through a
contest in the republican legislature,
they were met by wrathful and in
dignant man.
Peabody Is Firm.
He refused to accede to their wishes
and for four hours his friends labored
with him. 1t was only the personal
pleadings of some of his closest
friends that finally induced him to
agree to the plan proposed and to send
the names OF Bailey and Goddard to
the senate for confirmation.
Representative Griffith's dove OF
peace was mantling badly about one
hour after he announced her pres
ence. The Peabody men were firm in
their stand of Friday and we're deter |
mined to go ahead with their investl, |
cation by the committee OF Is. The
republicans N the senate ana |
the democrats threatened to unite and |
depose three republican senators, Bar
ella, Mccarthy and Willard, seat Aa-
ans and allow him to name the two
coveted justices of the supreme court
and Mr.. Adams had agreed to name
men who were agreeable to the VOL
colt republicans, as well as to the
democrats.
Agree to Compromise.
The Peabody men refused to give
way until the supreme court yesterday
Afternoon refused to ueclare legal the
proceedings of Friday. 1t would not
declare them illegal, simply declining