Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-08
DECLARE ADAMS IS
ELECTED. GOVERNOR
FORMAL ACTION TAKEN BY
COLORADO LEGISLATURE
PEABODY MAY NOT CONTEST
Republican Executive Under Agree
ment Reached by Factions Can
Not Do So Until After the
Inauguration

BY Associated Press.
DENVER, Jan. 7.-Alva Adams was
tonight declared by the legislature to
be the duly elected governor of Colo
rado. The returns showed Adams,
12S,07S; Peabody, 113,3O4. Plurality for
Adams, 9,774.
A cheer greeted the announcement OF
the election when made by Lieutenant
Governor Haggott.
The Republican candidates to all the
ether state offices We're declared elect
ed Under the terms of the agreement
reached today by the various factions
in the legislature, no notice of contest
can be filed by Governor Peabody until
after the inauguration of Mr.. Adams
which is set for 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning.
1t has not yet been definitely decided
by Governor Peabody whether or not
he will make contest
Will Declare Adams Governor
When the legislature convened this
morning Representative William Grif-
fifth of Cripple Creek asked for a re-
cess until o'clock in the afternoon,
giving as his reason for the request
that "the white winged dove of peace
is about to light on the dome of the
capitol"
1t was nine long hours before the
dove came down and many and devious
had been her flights before she lit. 1t
was day given over to secret eau
cuses, to conferences, to propositions
and counter propositions 1t was final
ly agreed at o'clock in the afternoon
that the vote should be canvassed, that
Alva Adams should be declared gov
crnor and that no contest should be
made for any office until after his
inauguration at 10 o'clock next Tues
day morning.
Throughout the entire struggle for
the governship the chief aim of both
Democrats and Republicans has been
to secure the appointment of the two
new judges to the supreme court. The
question of whether Peabody or Adams
sat in the governors office was a sec
ondary matter.
WoIcott Force Victorious
The Wolcott Republicans were insist
ent in their demand that they be rec
ognized in the appointment of the
judges and it was finally agreed that
the appointees should be George w.
Bailey of Fort Collins and L. M. God
dard of Denver. The Wolcott men
made a strong fight for Judge M. e.
Lewis of Colorado Springs, whom they
preferred to Goddard, but they finally
gave way.
When the republican leaders called
upon Governor Peabody to inform him
of the conclusions they had reached and
to tell him that his only hope of a
second term lay through a contest in
the republican Legislature they were
met by wrathful and indignant man.
He refused to accede to their wishes
and for four hours his friends labored
with him. 1t was only the personal
pleadings of some of his closest friends
that finally induced him to agree to
the plan proposed and to send the
names of Bailey and Goddard to the
senate for confirmation.
Differences Are Adjusted
The Peabody men would not give way
until the supreme court this afternoon
refused to declare legal the proceedings
of yesterday. 1t would not declare
them illegal, simply declining to pass
on the matter at all. At o'clock all
things were settled even to the fact
that Lieutenant Governor Haggott
should preside over the joint session,
gress when he would give way to
Speaker Dickson.
The senators filed into the house with
Lieutenant Governor Haggott leading. |
The lieuteant governor mounted the
speakers rostrum, where Speaker Dick
son was awaiting him. The men eye1
each other for a second and then Hag-
gott,. with a laugh extended his hand
and it was cordially grasped. The
speaker stepped back and the lieutenant |
governor called the session to order. |
He announced the purpose of the joint |
session to be the canvassing of the vote
and then gave way to the speaker.
Representative Griffith moved a re-
consideration of the action taken yes
terday, the resolution creating the com
mittee of fifteen, was laid on the table
and that body passed out of existence
The canvass of the vote then COM
menced and continued until midnight
Scene in Court Room
The election commissioners of Den
yer late last night refused to turn over
to the legislative committee of fifteen
appointed yesterday any of the ballot
boxes in their possession.
This morning Attorney John M. Wal
dron, representing the committee, APP
piled to the supreme court for an order
on the commissioners directing them 60
surrender to the committee certain bal
lot boxes. Senator II. M. Patterson,
appearing for the commissioners, re-
quested until 10 o'clock Monday morn