New-York tribune., 1905-01-08
COLORADO CRISIS ENDS.
ADAMS TO BE GOVERNOR.
Peabody VIII Contest after the
Inauguration.
IBr rELraRApH TO THE rRrBrxE.I


Denver, Jan. THE legislature tonight in
joint session canvassed the returns OF the State
election and declared AIva Adams elected Gov
ernor. He will be duly inaugurated next Tues
day, and Governor Peabody will at enter
contest, which his friends declare will result in
his favor. This decision was not reached until
after day of contention, which at times reached
an acute stage. The conservative Republicans
finally prevailed. the radicals securing one of
their chief demands This was that Adams will
not appoint Supreme Court justices until the
contest to be instituted by Peabody has been
decided, and that if Adams wins he will appoint
the men named by the Republicans.
While there is a possibility of this programme
being changed there is probability of it. anu
Republican leaders tonight announce the con-
troversy as settled. 1t was the plan of the Re-
publicans to secure control OF the legislature,
have Peabody appoint Supreme Court justices,
and after thet. cor.. nation by the Senate, can
vass the vote and declare Adams Governor,
leaving PEABODY - lake his fight alone But
the Governor 5fs.e tsiis scheme. and his
friends insisted that he get the chair by the
throwing out of the vote of Denver. The point
was raised that nothing could be done by the
legislature until after the canvass OF the vote,
and abody men then demanded that the leglS-
lature take action which eminent attorneys of
both parties declared illegal or unconstitutional
This was what caused the row in the legislature
yesterday, when the Lieutenant Governor and
the Speaker fought for the chairmanship Of the
Joint session. To-day the cooler heads got con-
troi and the plan of the radicals was finally
abandoned.
The new arrangement Will hit RepubllcanS
who bet on Peabody, all bets will be paid on
the seating of a Governor, regardless of the re-
suit OF the contest. During the legislative pro-
ceedings, and especially after it became known
that Adams was to be seat ted. Governor Peabody
restlessly paced the corridors of the Capitol.
giving way TO frequent Outbursts Of vigorous
calculations.
Throughout the entire struggle for the Gov
ernorship the chief aim of both Democrats and
Republicans has been to secure the appointment
of two new judges to the Supreme Court. The
question of whether Peabody or Adams sat in
the Governors office a secondary matter.
The Wocott Republicans were fnsistent IN their
demand that they be recognized in the appoint
ment 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 WOcott men made a strong fight for Judge
H. +. Leads of Colorado Springs, whom they
preferred to Goddard, but they finally gave way
When the Republican leaders called on Governor
Pea body to inform him of the conclusions they
had reached and to tell him that his only hope
of a. second term lay through contest in the
Republican legislature, they were met by a
wrathful and indignant man. He refused to ac-
cede to their wishes. and for four hours his
friends labored with him. II was only the per-
sonal pleadings of some of his closest friends
that finally induced him 10 agree to the plan
proposed and to send the names of Bailey and
Goddard to the Senate for confirmation. The
Peabody men refused to give way until the Su-
preme Court this afternoon refused TO declare
legal the proceedings of yesterday. 1t would
not declare them illegal, simply declining to pass
on the question.