Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-01-12
ADAMS To Be
|NAUCURATED
viii Be Declared Elected Gov
ernor On FACE of the
Returns.
1T is THEN UP TO PEABODY
Can Only Obtain Seat BY lnstituting
Contest-Legislature Finally Reach
es Agreement and Enters Upon
Canvass Of the State Vote.

Denver, Colo, Jan. 9.-Alva Adams
was on Friday night declared by the
legislature to be duly elected govern
or of Colorado. The returns show
ed: Adams, 123,07S; Peabody, 113.30S
plurality for Adams, 9.T4.
A cheer greeted The announcement
| Of the result of the election, when
made by Lieutenant Governor Hag-
| gott.
The republican candidates to all
| the other state Offices were declared
| elected. Under the terms Of the agree
nent reached by the various factions
IN the legislature. no notice of contest
can be filed by G<Jernor Peabody un.
| Ill after the inauguration of Mr..
| Adams, which is set for 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning. 1t has not yet been
| definitely decided by Governor Pea.
| cody whether or not he will make a
contest.
When the legislature convened Sat.
urday morning, Representative Will
liam Griffith Of Cripple Creek asked
for a recess until o'clock in the af-
ternoon, giving his reasons for the re.
quest that the white-winged dove Of
peace is about to light on the dome of
the capitol"
It was finally agreed at o'clock in
the afternoon that the vote should be
canvassed. that Alva Adams should be
| declared governor, and that no con-
test should be made for any office un.
| til after his Inauguration at 10 o'clock
neXt Tuesday morning.
Throughout the entire struggle for
| the governorsnIp the chief aim Of
| Doth democrats and republicans has
Deen to secure the appointment OF
| two new judges to the supreme court.
| The question of whether feabody or
Adams sat in the governors Office
was secondary matter The VOL
colt republicans were inSiStent in
their demand that they be recognized
in the appointment of the judges, and
It was finally agreed that the appoint
ees should be George w Bailey of
Fort Collins and l.. NJ. Goddard OF
Denver. The Wolcott men made
strong fight for Judge M. f. Leads
Of Colorado Springs, whom they pre-
ferred to Goddard, but they finally
gave way. When the republican lead
ers called upon Governor Peabody to
inform him of the conclusions they
had reached, and to tell him that his
only hope of second term lay
through a contest in the republican
legislature, they were met by a wrath.
full and indignant man. He refused to
accede to their wishes, and for four
hours his friends labored with him.
II was only the personal pleadings of
some of his closest friends that finally
induced him to agree to the plan pro-
fn 10 ~
Bailey and Goddard to the senate for
confirmation.
The Peabody men were firm in their
stand Of Friday, and were determined
to go ahead with their investigation
by the committee of fifteen. The
Wolcott republicans in the senate and
the democrats threatened to unite
and depose three republican senators,
Barela, Mccarthy and Willard, seat
| Adams 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
Wolcott republicans as well as to the
| democrats.
The Peabody men refused to give
way until the supreme court refused
| to declare legal the proceedings Of
| Friday. 1t would not declare them
illegal, simply declining to pass on
the matter at all. With the joint SEES
sion not declared legal, all things that
came from it were in the same posi-.
ton and the Peabody men then
| agreed to compromise. 1t took but a
| short time to reach an agreement,
both sides being fairly disposed, and
in conciliatory frame Of mind. The
republican leaders departed to con-
! fer with Governor Peabody, and the
house and senate sat down to wait.
At o'clock all things were settled,
even to the fact that Lieutenant-Gov.
ernor Haggott should preside over
the joint session except while the
canvass was in progress, when he
would give way to speaker Dickson.
Denver, Jan. 9.-It is Governor
Peabody's present intention to contest
the election of Alva Adams. Under the
law he cannot file notice of contest
before the fifth day of the session
which is TODAY He has several DAYS
in which to file his notice of contest
however and he NAV not do so unit
| after the inaupura fiOp 0f Adams