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Show COMBINATION IS MADE AGAINST Wt)LC0TT IN COLORADO LEGISLATURE DENVER, Colo., Jan. 7. The fourteenth General Assembly of the State of Colorado, which is to elect a successor to United States Senator Henry M. Teller, met at noon today. The Republicans have i l majority of three in the House, but only seventeen of the thirty-four Republican members attended the caucus this forenoon, those opposed to Edward O. Wolc ott for Senator refusing to Join In a caucus. It is understood that a deal has been mi.de between the antl-Wolcott Republicans Repub-licans and the Democrats which will prevent the election of Wolcott The Democrats Dem-ocrats have a majority of thirteen in the Senate and of ten on Joint ballot, but the Republican leaders had planned to urjseat seventeen or more Democratic members of the House, thus securing a majority on Joint ballot. It is said that the anti-Wolcott Republicans have now agreed'to unseat only six members, and while this will give the Republicans an apparent majority of two on Joint ballot, the result of the Senatorial election will still be in doubt, as two members who have been counted as Republicans were nominated by the Democrats as well as the Republicans, and it is uncertain whom they will support sup-port for Senator. With Wolcott out of the race, the leading Republican candidate candi-date is Frank C. Goudy. |