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Show WOLCOTT ASKS COLORADO REPUBLICANS , TO UNSEAT SEVENTEEN DEMOCRATS IN LEGISLATURE; CONTEST COMES MONDAY "The threatened Importation into the Senate by Democrats of the bloody methods which have forever blackened the good name of the State of Kentucky, Ken-tucky, must not swerve us. The patriotic pa-triotic Republicans in the State Senate are loyal to their party, and they are able, backed by a Republican Governor, to take care of. themselves." Many of the seventeen Republican members of the House who are opposed to Wolcott's election are pledged not to vote for him under any circumstances circum-stances and will not join in any caucus for the purpose of selecting a Senatorial candidate. If the Republican factions fail to get together Senator Tellei- will be re-elected or a deadlock will result which may prevent an election of Senator at this session. The House Committee on Elections will make its report on the contested seats next Monday and it Is the Intention Inten-tion on the Republicans to have It acted act-ed upon by the House on that day, as the first ballot for Senator will be taken next Tuesday, - -DENVER, Colo., Jan. 17. Former United States Senator Edward O. Wol-cott, Wol-cott, who Is a candidate for electionas successor to Henry M. Teller, has issued an appeal to. the Republican members of the House to unite and expel seventeen seven-teen Democratic members whose seats are contested. Otherwise, he declares, a Democrat' will be elected Senator. A majority of the seventeen members of the House who are supporting Wolcott have signed an agreement that they 'will vote first, last and all the time for him for United States Senator, and will not cast a vote for any other candidate. ' Representative Frewen, the Wolcott leader in the House, has served an oral peremptory notice on Chairman Breck-enridge Breck-enridge of the House Committee on Privileges and Elections, to the effect that unless the committee report In favor fa-vor of arbitrarily unseating; all the Democratic members from Arapahoe county, and unless the vote on unseating unseat-ing the fifteen men be made jointly instead in-stead of separately, the Wolcott men will not vote to seat a single Republican. Republi-can. . j All the Democratic Senators but one have pledged themselves to "unseat a Republican Senator for every Democratic Demo-cratic member of the House unseated," man for man, so long as Republican Senators remain upon whom retaliation can be had.. K . . ' Concerning this proposed policy of retaliation re-taliation Mr. Wolcott, In his address to the' Republicans, says: ''.'. |