The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-23
PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN SOUNDS
A WARNING NOTE
Corporations Determined to Steal
Governorship for James d.
Peabody - What
May be Done

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thieves and corporationists, who are
determined to arbitrarily seat Pea
body as governor, that has been
printed in this state in years.
In tile strongest terms 1t denounces
the farce of an investigation being
made by the joint committee OF y
members of the House and Senate.
Further it says
"Now is the time for strong, con-
servative men to make themselves
heard against this proposed crlme'
and every business man OF the state
that wishes to save himself great
loss during the next two years-every
laboring man that wishes to have
steady employment, should bring
pressure to bear upon every member
of the legislature to stand by the
decree of the people at the polls.
1.-The Chieftain speaks thus strongly
for the time has arrived for strong
speech and strong action.
''If this crime is not prevented
Colorado will be ruined as a business
and residence state during this gen
Grafton least.
There is no question about the
determined plan to steal the govern
orship by certain of the corporations
of the state.
For thirty-three days the COM
mittee has been taking testimony and
the following is all accurate sum
mary of such testimony.
when the supreme court threw
out the five precincts in Denver they
deprived Adams of l, ls2 of his ma
jority over Peabody, and thus cut
his majority from 10, 956 to 9,774, and
his majority in Denver from 5,2s3 to
4, ,lOl-thus giving him 4, 1Ol majority
in Denver and 5,673 in the other
counties of the state, outside OF Den
yer.
"Outside of Denver Adams car
ried 81 counties and Peabody carried
26 counties.
so Adams came to the city OF
Denver with 5,673 majority.
Therefore, it became necessary
to overcome not only the 1, lO1 major
ity in Denver, but the 5,673 net
majority in the other counties of the
state.
ITO do this Peabody challenged
the vote in 1O4 Denver precincts and
asked to have ssh ballots thrown
out-or half of the entire vote of the
city of Denver. This besides the
LIPS votes thrown out by the su-
preme court. OF this %, 571 votes
Adams received 10, 54l votes and Pea
body 5000, or Adams received a ma
iority over Peabody in those l04
precincts of l0,5l1.
For Peabody to win the election
in the state it was necessary to dis
franchise all of these %, 57l voters and
to leave every precinct in Denver
that Peabody carried, intact as certi
fed by the judges of election. The
testimony on which Peabody thought
to disfranchise these $4,000 voters
was solely the testimony of hand
writing experts consisting of
bank clerks and eX-bank clerks, some
nine of whom testified that total
of 9,039 ballots in these l04 precincts
were written by five or six people.
''Of the 9,039 ballots 1891 were
cast for Adams and l, l4s were cast
for Peabody, thus leaving 6, 743 as d
net loss to Adams, if the expert"
testimony should be taken as true
and the ballots excluded, and this
would leave 3,03l majority for
Adams, which no attempt was made
to overcome.
But the testimony of hand writ
ing experts was riddled by 5000
voters who appeared and testified
! they cast the ballots declared bogus
by the experts and even the
experts admitted that they did
no take much stock in their own
opinions and that they would not
act on any important affair of life on
such opinions.
IF Colorado is to be saved from
the blighting curse of this guber-
material theft the honest people of
the state must make themselves
heard in the legislative halls this
week.
Send Committees, write letters,
hold public meetings and give the
senators and representatives from
your section of the state to under
stand that if they vote to seat Pea
body they need never expest the as
sociation or recognition of honest
people; that even the dogs on the