Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-02-09
DENVER LETTER.
Denver, Colo, Feb. 4, 1905.

Denver, Colo, Feb. 4, 1903.
The testimony in the Peabody
Adams contest was continued before
the committee from the two houses
Today. The Adams attorneys contin-
ued their previous line of defense, in
Producing a few witnesses from one
or two precincts, to indemnity their
ballots, apparently expecting TO show
in this way that all the ballots classed
as doubtful by the experts were really
genuine. In all, tifty-one witnesses
have been examined for Adams up to
date. OF these. about thirty have iden-
tilted ballots as having been written
by them when picked out and shown
to them by Mr. Rush Fifteen or more
rave verified the finding of the ex-
perts by stating that the Judges wrote
have been found to be in the same pie
as the ones written by judge in ques-
ton. Several have been pretty doubt
ful as to the identity of their own
handwriting. and some have identi-
fed more than one ballot as their
own handwriting, although swearing
to have written only one. The rest of
the witnesses have not testified in re
gard t. their own ballots, but have
been watchers, clerks. judges. etc,
who have testified that all was clear
sailing ON election day and that in
their opinion no fraud was INDUCED
in .-
Since the disastrous results of We'd
nesday. when the Elyria precinct was
examined, and Witnesses verified the
finding of the experts. the Adams
side have carefully kept to the pre-
cincts where small majorities were
given for their candidate, in the wards
which are more distinctively known
as residence districts" This was the
case today. when witnesses from the
fourth precinct oi the twelfth ward.
the seventh precinct of the sixth, and
the third OF the fifth, were called to
the stand The testimony brought out
was very similar to that of the pre-
vious lays. All declared that in their
judgment fair election took place.
The Democrats were fortunate in
having as witness Republican cleo
ion officials from two of the precincts
to testify in their behalf.
The first witness of the morning
session was 81 Kays, who on being
shown two ballots from ward twelve
precinct four. identified them, saying
one had been written by himself and
one by his wife On being told that
Expert Smith had said that they were
probably written by the same person,
he remarl ed, We'll, we're both from
Missouri, but we don't write the same
handwriting He remembered the
number of his ballot because it was
an even number
The best witnesses of the day from
the standpoint of the Democrats. was
B. j. NJ. Robinson, a judge of elec-
ton in ward seven. precinct seven.
He testified that on election day it
had been his duty to seal the corners
Of the ballots, and tnat in doing so.
he had written his initials on the cor.
ner of every ballot He was shown
pile of forty Republican ballots that
had been classei as probably written
by the same person, and found that
after being unsealed all of them show
ed his initials, or those of another
Judge. who took his place. He also tes-
tilted that he and a Democratic clerk
had taken the box to the court house
on the morning following the election.
He also testified that although he was
appointed as a Republican judge and
the only Republican. that he received
no election supplies of any kind on
election day.
George l.. Crawford was a witness.
who also seemed TO be regarded as an
expert by MIR Rush. He testified that
there We're similarities in the hand
writing on some of the ballots that
had been classified as having been
written by one person in all probabil,
ity, among them his own Another in
teresting witness was Mrs, NJ C,
Miller, who was evidently very much
worked up over the iniquities of the
Republicans when she came upon the
stand. Her eyes fairly, flashed fire
whenever they turned toward the Re
publican attorneys She answered the
Democratic lawyers questions before
he had fairly got them out of his
and Identified her ballot al
distance Of six feet. and before 1t had
really been pulled out of the pile. On
she cooled off lit !
tie, and couldn't remember whether
she spelled Democratic or Democrat,