The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-03-24
REPUBLICANS UNHOLY
PACT IN COLORADO.

iSlature. in joint session. on
Thursday, March 16. uuSeated
Alva Adams aud gave the office
of Governor to James II. Pea
body.
He was at once sworn in with
the distinct understanding that
at the end of 24 hours he would
resign, when Lieutenant Gov
ernor Jesse Mcdonald. a Repuh
lican, would be installed for the
remaining two years term.
This unholy pact was carried
out to the letter, and now the
Lieutenant-Governor reigns as
the executive of a State and a
people, to which place he has as
much right as a Laplander has to
he President Of the United
States.
Governor Adams. although he
received hundreds of kilograms
advising him to resist removal,
was not Influenced by them and
marched out with a protest
The same night the Republican
Legislators aud their friends. as
the guests of Chairman Williams,
of the Republican Campaign
Con mittee, celebrated their vic
tory in a banquet and all around
blow out.
The change in the Governor
ship came after two months of
bitter contest, characterized by
chicanery and conspiracy that
surpassed anything ever before
known in the history of the Re-
publican party management in
that State. The final vote was
taken that afternoon, when after
a day of argument, the Legisla-
tnre rejected the Adams and
/ accepted the Peabody report.
The Democratic contention all
through the debate was that the
very fact that Peabody had agreed
with the insurgent Republicans
to resign in "a hours, before he
could secure enough votes to put
the deal through, was proof to
the world that he was not legally
elected.
After Peabody was sworn in
he made few remarks in which
he decided that the principles of
law and order, and that any man,
non union or union, could work
when he pleased had been vindi
Gated. He also expressed graft
ticatiOn that the corrupt cleo
tiou gang in Denver had been
rebuked."
Jesse F. Mcdonald, who is
slated TO become Governor was
born in Ashtabula in 1858. He
came to Colorado i'm 1879 and
has extensive mining interests in
Leadville and elsew here, He ran
with Peabody on the Republican
ticket aud was elected Lieutenant.
Governor on the face of the
returns, while Peabody was de-
feated on the vote as first
returned.
HISTORY OF THE CONTEST.
Alva Adams was inaugurated
Governor of Colorado on Janu-
airy 10, the canvass of the cleo
ton returns by the General Az
sembly having shown a plurality
of 9,774 votes for him. Two days
later James Ii. Peabody filed a
co test for the office, which he
had reluctantly surrendered. On
January 18th, the General AS
Sembly, authorized committee
of Is Republicans and 9 Demo
Gratis to hear evidence. Its re
ports were submitted to the joint
convention on March 3.
Fourteen Republican members
of the committee found a majority
of 2,2S0 for Peabody by rejecting
the entire vote of 104 election
precincts in Denver aud % pre-
cincts in other counties, on the
charge of fraud and conspiracy
on the part of the Democrats.
The nine Democratic committee
men declared that Peabody had
failed to prove his election and
recommended the dismissal of his
contest. The Chairman of the
Contest Committee, and three
other Republican members re-
ported tibet there was much fraud
shown in AZ precincts of Denver,
but that the allegations of fraud
in the 56 other precincts, which
Peabody had asked to have
thrown out, had been disproved
and recommended that the con.
lest be dismissed.
The result of the Legislatures
action is too we'll known, and by
all honest men everywhere is con-
demned. Ten Republicans went
so far as to vote for Adams.
The citizens of Baltimore will soon
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