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Show Siga of lUtixrmiag Rt tson. Colorado, after cavorting and snorting and threatening to break out into civil war, finally came to her senses and concluded to do the right thing by allowing Alva Adams to take his seat as Governor. Gov-ernor. A grievous mistake It would have been to have taken the office away from him, as was pro-jwsed pro-jwsed by Peabody and his friends, without even the form of law. Adams may have been elected by fraud Colorado, and Denver in particular, is full of election frauds, if we may. believe the testimony of her own citizens but the plan proposed of keeping, keep-ing, the defeated Peabody in hs sea4:, merely by force of a brutal majority in the Legislature, was infinitely in-finitely worse than all the frauds that may have been vr-mniitted by Adam.. Colorado has statutes which provide how con-tMls con-tMls -ver elections shall be tried. II Peabody was defrauded of his rights. tb? statutes provide, bow he nicy 'Msin ledress. Testimony before u commis-Kion commis-Kion proKi'ly created am conducted under the fr::.s of law would show whether or not his claims iii-j worthy of considei.i; ion.' Witl a majority of i he membership of th-: Legislature . predisposed in his favor, if he bad a sluuiow of groui 1 for his contest, con-test, lie :u;ed have no f?a- of the result. Peabeuy was defeated, whether honestly or not, in the pre tent light, c:iu only be a luilrer of opinion. opin-ion. The circumstances aie against hni. lie was the culy eandidaie on hi.s ticket who did not get a plurality of votes on the fare of the returns. If the wboles'iie frauds char?':-! were -committed, why 'were not other candidates on the Repblicaii ticket drfraleel also? However, the Legislature has seen fit to declare Adams elected, and therefore he will tnkc his siat as Governor, subject to such contest as Peabody - may institute. The law at least is upheld, and Colorado Colo-rado is saved from a most serious blunder. Let us hope that the Centennial State may return fully to her sense, pass a decent election law that will serve to stop frauds, by whatever party perpetrated-Let perpetrated-Let the sovereign people of the State say, ''A plague o' both your houses!' In other words, let reason and decency prevail. |