The daily sentinel., 1905-02-01
TO BE TESTED
Expert Evidence Will Get
a Black Eve.

Denver, Feb. 1.-The first move
of the attorneys for Governor Ad-
ans. when they begin his defense to
the Peabody contest. will be de-
mand for the unsealing of every bal
/ lot declared fraudulent by the hand
writing experts. Then the original
voter will be brought into court to
show the genuineness of the ballot
and the fallacy of believing in ex-
pert evidence.
That Peabody will use every hour
of his allotted time is the belief of
| the democratic attorneys The
showing that he has made so far
would not of itself give him an ap-
parent majority, even should Cover
nor Adams make no defense. The
Peabody attorneys must do some en-
ergetio work between now and to
night at - o'clock, when their time
expires, to make their own case good.
All day yesterday Governor Ad-
ans attorneys were busy planning
his defense. They were still in con
ference late last night. and while
they had notdefinitely decided on the
entire plan they had generally out
lined it,
Our first move will be to demand
the unsealing of every ballot the ex-
perts have declared fraudulent"
said one of them. IF we had the
time we would bring in every voter
to show that the ballot was genuine.
but we will be unable to do that We
lutely destroy the value of these
handwriting experts evidence.
In self-defense we Will be com
PEELED 10 do this, although we would
like to give the time to the gross
frauds that existed in the outside
counties. In Las Animas, Teller and
Pueblo we will show thousands of
fraudulent votes. and it won't be by
4 handwriting experts either. We may
put experts on to examine few box
es, but most of our proof will be
from eye-witnesses.
THE lack of time is our one great
hardship. The republicans were
planning this contest for weeks. They
had all of their evidence in hand
when they began. We had nothing
even thought of. and we have had to
do all of this work in two weeks.
Then again, the republicans have
been proving their fraudulent votes
in lump lunches of a hundred or
so, by handwriting experts We have
to prove the genuineness of each
ballot by a witness You can cal
culate the difference in time it takes
TO show the same thing. For that
reason we will probably take up all
OF the time at our disposal, though
if everything goes right we may have
given such overwhelming, convincing
proof before then that we will be
content to rest"
Today the republicans will proba-
bly, introduce as evidence their re
checks on the votes. As soon as the
election was over, they say. they Sc
cured copies of the poll books and
made a house-to-house canvass OF
the voters. According TO the stories
o fthese canvassers they found sew
eral thousand names of voters who
were unknown at the place of regis
tration.
The republicans will endeavor to
have this total added to the number
of fraudulent votes. The democratic
attorneys point out that even if this
full number were illegally registered
which appears extremely doubtful. il
does not follow that they voted the
democratic ticket. and even If that
followed, it is yet to be proven that
they are not the same votes declared
fraudulent by the handwriting ex-
perts. They will strenuously object
to this counting of an alleged fraud
ulent vote twice, or counting a vote
democratic because It may have been
fraudulent.