Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-01-06
CRISIS IN THE ELECTION
FRAUD SENSATION

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Teller owes his seat directly to the
election crooks OF the red light dis.
trict OF Denver.
The frauds In twenty-four precincts
are briefly told in addition to the nina
which had at that time been investi.
gated by the Supreme Court. and he
states that columns could have been
filled with similar records OF frauds.
The statement contains little or ne
comment by the chairman. but II Is
nevertheless a most convincing one.
Abandoned Hope.
Senator Patterson has utterly aban-
doned all hope OF making the fraudu.
lent Denver votes count for Mr..
Adams. He has reached the 'foiied
villain" stage. where he stands and
foams and fumes and demands
blood
1t In . foreGone conclusion that re-
gardless Of the action Of the Supreme
Court the Legislature will Investigate
the frauds and be guided by sane and
Just judgment in deciding tho matter.
Agents OF the BigE MItt In Denver.
who had for years superintended the
election frauds In that city. and who
were familiar with the various tricks
and devices to defeat tho will OF the
voter at the ballot boz. were sent to
many OF the counties In the state.
A Smooth Scheme.
They did not succeed In making any
such n haul Of votes as they did In
Denver. but their mission was never
thelcss successful. II was not their
plan to do what Ii known ax ~raw
work" In the smaller country pre-
cincts. such work was reserved for
Las Animas. Pueblo and ono or two
other places. The plan was &c have q
little fraud committed In each precinct
In the state where tho influence OF
the machine reached the local elcc-
ton ofiiciais. An average Of ten fraud
ulcnt votes In every precinct In the
state would mean total OF 5000.
An average OF but three bosus votes
In each precinct meant $500. and these
frauds would naturally be 30 wide
spread and Individually so small that
they would be very likely overlooked
and ignored by the Republicans. To
register an unnaturalircd person here
and there to get . vote that was In
any form Illegal or TO prevent by any
trick or device. legal OF illegal. . Re.
publican from voting. was tho scheme.
II was gum shoe" campaign this.
greater extent than is generally be-
iicvcd.
An Instance.
Tho very small plurality received on
the face Of the returns by Mr.. Ward.
Democratic candidate. for senator from
BOULDER. disclosed ono of these In.
stances OF Democratic fraud In Re.
publican county. which many Rcpub.
| iicans have heretofore believed impos-
sibic.
Investigation developed the fact tina,
the Lafayette precinct was ono OF the
outside places where tn. gum shoe
artists from Denver had gotten In their
work. Afiidavi,s from well known pcsp
pie furnished the names Of eighty .hsc
Democratic voters who were either ttn.
naturaiiscd or who did not live IN the
precinct. IL was also charged tha, the
Democratic judges tof which there
were two instead Of one as there
should have been In q Republican
county prccincD opened the ballot boz
after Il had been scaled for some pur.
pose and that they did Il while the
third judge tRcpubiican) vas absent
| The discovery Of this fraud was the
means Of preventing Senator Miilard
from being robbed OF his seat.
| In Trinidad naturalization frauds
were committed and precinct No. IL
was coioniscd with Italians and other
foreigners and the vote almost dou.
bicd illegally. II was because Of such
frauds as these that Senator Barcla
was given his scat over his Democratic
opponent.
| Questions for Adams
Mr.. Adams has been the recipient os
another open letter which he no doubt
wishes had not been written. Among
| the questions asked by his public cor.
respondent arc the following:
who was IL that tried to prevent
the occurrence Of Democratic election
frauds at the recent clcctionf
The Republican organization. was
II not!
who opposed this action os the Re
publican organization and Its efforts
to get the fictitious names stricken
from the registration booksI
who was IL that opposed the issue
Of the Supreme Court Injunction. com.
manding election crooks To obey the
iaw1
who was IL tha, opposed the ap
poin,mcnt Of Supreme Court watchers.
whose duty IL was TO observe and re
por, TO the Supreme Court the work OF
the Democratic 'Big Mi,r a. the polls
Il appreciate that this is an annoy
ing question. for you now want the
boxes opened In fact, IL is really en-
barrassinE. but
Was Il not the Democratic orenni'
,ation opposed every effort made by
the Republican organization to pro.
vide means of detecting these fraudsl
This question is really deserving OF