The Glenwood post., 1906-11-03
GubernatOriaI Contest as
Seen by a Member of
Contest Committee
FACTS BY NORTON ALEXANDER

luGTe are Ii SIchl uChOtldto
even to this day who. after reading
for the past two years the cheap clap
trap of the Rocky News and other
democratic papers, pretend to believe
that Alva Adams was elected governor
of Colorado in 1904, and was cheated
out of the office.
There are also some republicans
who have an honest lurking suspicion
that perhaps Adams might have been
elected and that he should have been
seated and permitted to serve as gov
ernor. Certainly he should If elected,
but upon what are these suspicious
founded and what are the real facts2
We believe the facts are what hon
est people are looking for and the Post
said nearly two years ago that we
did not believe that any man on earth.
or any combination of men, actually
knew which was really elected gov
ernor, Adams or Peabody.
The following article by Senator
Morton Alexander member of the
contest committee, shows that the men
whose business it was to investigate
the matter were unable to agree, and
if these men after all their work were
honestly in doubt, how can Alva Ad-
ans or anyone else for him say that
the office was stolen from him2 1t
has always seemed to the Post that
Mr.. Peabody could raise the cry of a
stolen office with much better grace
and much more reason than could Mi.
Adams 1t will pay you to read care
fully the article of Mr.. Alexander
which is as follows;
To revert to the campaign between
Peabody and Adams. it should be re-
meIhbered that it was the most bitter.
ly contested election in the history of
this, or perhaps any other state. So
wrought up did the people become
that ordinary party lines were almost
obliterated, and thousands of demo-
Gratis suppoI ted Peabody, while other
thousands of republicans voted for
Adams So intense did partisan feel
ing become that frauds were fragrant
ly committed where opportunity Of
fered, and in the city of Denver, with
its odious reputation for election
crimes, this election for governor be-
came worse than farce. and the
thousands of honest voters were
swallowed up and submerged in sea
of corruption, repeating, ballot box
stufIlng, intimidation and fraud such
as never before disgraced an American
city. Right here be it remembered
that Mr.. Frank Adams, brother of
the democratic candidate for governor.
was then the president of the Denver
Fire and Police Board and in COM
plete control of the election machinery
of that city, and it is needless to state
that Brother Frank ''went the limit ,
in his efforts to elect Brother Alva.
The returns of the election showed
that Roosevelt and the entire Iepub-
lican ticket, excepting governor, had
swept the state; the governor was
Swallowed in doubt. Loud cries of
fraud arose. In Denver the supreme
court opened number of ballot boxes
disclosing the rankest frauds, and
sent many democratic election officials
to Jail for openly violating the cleo
tion laws. Upon the assembling OF
the Legislature, Gov. Peabody began
contest proceedings for the governor
ship, and in accordance with law a
legislative investigating committee
was appointed consisting of nine SEN
ators and eighteen representatives
one third democratic and thirds
republican. being the ratio in which
the two parties were represented in
the legislature. The writer hereof
was a member of that committee.
For thirty days the committee sat as
iury and examined the evidence
brought before it, heard the testimony
of all sorts of witnesses, opened more
than 100 ballot boxes and examined
about 30, 900 ballots cast in the city
of Denver, one-third of which bore
iudjsputable evidence of being wholly
fraudulent. The committee listened
to the most shameful stories OF cleo
tion debauchery that ever fell upon
the ears of American citizens. Sc
convincing and irrefutable was much
of the testi mony given regarding the
Denver election that many reputable
citizens who came to hear the contest
proceedings left the court room
sbamed, confused and humiliated be-
yond expression at the disgusting anc
.r,;1,,at conditions which