Show mm legislature TAKE HAND IN ELECTION CONTEST plane formulated which I 1 carried out will result in the defeat of adams and the selection of peabody to the governorship according to advices from denver if the fifteenth general assembly ol 01 colorado which Is to meet on wed january 4 snail effectuate th plans formulated by the managers ol 01 the republican post election campaign governor james H peabody mai serve as chief executive of Co lorade or two years more despite the fact that alva adams still has nearly 10 plurality since the votes of five den ver precincts were thrown out bodily by order of the supreme court in con ae quence of frauds exposed in con tempt proceedings against election of there will be a republican majority of thirty or more in the general as combly which will canvass the vote or state offices it is proposed to have the general assembly appoint a caal contest committee of nine to twelve members to which will be submitted the evidence of wholesale election frauds in denver and possibly some other counties which the alcan committees have been collecting ever sinco the election the republican managers maintain that with the fraudulent vote of den ver eliminated governor peabody will have at least plurality in county and 2 in the state anese politicians do not intend that the lega votes shall be sifted from the illegal and then counted or that the legisla ture shall reject the entire vote ol 01 denver county because to do this would not accomplish their purpose to reseat governor peabody but they propose that about democratic precincts shall be thrown out on the ground of alleged frauds and that th vote of the republican precincts shall be counted they assert that the su preme court has established a precedent tor such a procedure the radical pro gramme Is opposed by some bonsen arlve republican lead era including judge N walter dixon of pueblo and dr john grass of trini dad and until the legislature meets and takes action it cannot be known certainly whether peabody or adams will be governor for the next two years the democratic leaders are ing to contest vigorously the attempt to reseat peabody bl partisan mass meetings are to be held in denver pueblo and other cities to protest against the line of action mapped out for the legislature by the republican leaders |