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Show MAY THROW OUT VOTE Supreme Court Takes Denver Den-ver Election Case Under Un-der Advisement. t DENVER, Colo., Dec.' 16. The Supreme Su-preme court has taken under consideration considera-tion the motion of attorneys for the Republican Re-publican party to eliminate from the official count the entire vote of four Denver precincts in which frauds have been shown in the trial of election officials offi-cials for contempt of court. These precincts, pre-cincts, with the one whose vote has already al-ready been ordered thrown out, -returned 1453 Democratic and 276 Republican Repub-lican votes. If these votes are all rejected re-jected the Republicans will gain three members of the State Senate from the city and county of Denver, the leading Democratic candidate having only $94 majority on the face of the returns. . If no other changes be made, the Senate Sen-ate will then be a tie, the Lieutenant-Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, a Republican, having the casting of the deciding vote. The Republicans Re-publicans propose if they obtain control of the Senate to unseat two Democrats who were seated on contests two years ago. No election contempt case was tried by the Supreme court today, and the decision of the court in the case from precinct 2, ward 7, has been postponed until Monday. There were originally seven defendants in this case, but three of them. Police Captain Frank W. Lee, Constable Michael Gary- and John . P. Kendrick, have been discharged for lack of evidence implicating them in the charges. |