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Show the people cf Cclirao tLit' Adi:;3 tlozli lo Gov-errcr Gov-errcr cf the Stata. Net cnoh irzzlzlzzt lallots were cast to hare elected reahody. Yet the Bu-rreine Bu-rreine court is apparently detemized to Eet asiia the verdict cf the people acd return to cf'ce a niaa the people voted out. - ' We repeat that such things are dangerous. They arouse hatred that lead to bloodshed and opeii revolt re-volt against the law.' .They cause people to lose faith in the conrts. , It would Been Colorado hag had lessons enough to have learned something. It may be that Bhe needs another, however. ' m ,saaSJMSSSSMSSlSSSSSSSS ' I A Dinger on i Reform. v We fear that the reform movement in Colorado will be worse in the end than the evils it was started . to abolish. Theaction of the Supreme court of that State in throwing out the entire vote of wards and precincts in which, some fraudulent ballots were cast is dangerous. dan-gerous. The guilty men should be punished and the illegal ille-gal votes should be thrown out, but the innocent should not be made to suffer as well as the guilty. One of the Justices of the Supreme court dis-' dis-' tented from the opinion of the court. He argued that it was unjust to throw out the ballots that had been legitimately cast. He was right. It is going too far. If, as is claimed, Gov. Peabody is again to be placed in the executive chair, there is trouble ahead for Colorado!' lie will revenge hynself. The old strife will be stirred up afresh and with added bit-Hroess, bit-Hroess, and the State will suffer. ... w. . . . v It was undoubtedly the will of the majority of |