Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-03-09
whole county ought to be thrown
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al ess1s*t grafton, which brough
inS --applause. He anIarxet
on The Intelligence and integrity oi
the Legislature. and intlmated tha,
MIR. Waldron, in telling them that II
was political and not judicial duty
they We're performing, nad said what
was an insult 10 the intelligence the
integrity and the honor of this body
He claimed tha' when the face of the
returns showed that Adams mad been
elected, there was general ac-
quescence in> the result. He took
for granted throughout that there was
an undoubted majority for Adams,
and that the contest was merely an
effort to make the Republican iegis-
lators seize the goyernorsnip because
they had the power and the legal
though not the moral right
Mr.. Belford also went over some
Of the evidence from Denver. and un-
dertook to show. and TO his own salts.
faction undoubtedly did so, tnat there
was no fraud in this city at all One
OF his proofs was that as he said. ten
Ier cent of the Republicans in the
outside counties had voted against
'eabody and only seven per cent Of
ne Republicans in Denver
pe attacked the validity OF the re.
check on which Mr.. Waldron laii
some stress. and claimed II was
worthless. He alleged that the so
called police wards Of ID .nyAr we're
The very places where the Republican
vote showed the largest increase-in
Ward 4, for instance, he claimed the
Republican increase over tnc previous
election was So per cent.
The expert testimony was then AT.
tackled and declared TO be proved
worthless because r13 witnesses had
Identified their ballots. He denied
that there was any evidence of any
substitution whatever. and claimed
that the judges initials ON the cor
ners of the unsealed ballots was an
absolute proof tnat there mad been
no such substitution. He closed with
4 rhetorical appeal for patriotism and
against partisanship.
In the afternoon Mr.. Rush took up
he Denver case. and made a further
attack upon the recheck lists and the
experts. He declared both TO be be-
neatn contempt as evidence, and that
II would be as great crime to throw
Out precincts from the canvass on
such evidence as TO pad a registration
list or stun a ballot box.
As to the persons who had done
he canvassing, ne said they were non.
residents, that they had made tneir
alleged recanvass by the city direc-
,ory. by telephone, by asking at
houses half a mile from the one they
were supposed to be investigating
hat they had never been at all to
ine precincts they were sent to look
into, but mad simply put the money
Of the Republican committee in their
pockets and sat down in some nearby
handy place and fixed the lists to
suit themselves. He read large
number of names which ne said had
been found on these dead lists watch
were those OF well known citizens
true, most of them were spelled
wrong, or had wrong addresses, but
the canvassers of their chiefs should
have found that out. He claimed that
; .s43 names out of $3.50 on these dead
lists mad been proved TO be all right
by affidavit.
AS for the experts, Mr. Rush claim
ed that they had been hired to md
Just enough spurious ballots to elect
Peabody. and then quit. 1t was q
race between them TO see woo could
not find enough in the first box he
opened had been at once discharged.
The rest had earned their money, II
ever men did. They bad done the
most reckless swearing OF any men
he had ever heard of in his life. On
sucn evidence. IL would be a crime to
the honest citizens OF
half of Denver.
MIR. Orr and Ex-Governor Thomas
viii close for the Democratic side.
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