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Show CONSPIRACY TO SEAT PEABODY .. Denver, Dec. ' 25. The precise plan which th,e corporations behind Gov. Peabody have determined to carry through, under the direction of William G. Evans, became known yesterday. The original plan has been somewhat changed. It was proposed to have the legislature throw out the entire vote of Denver, thus depriving Adams of 5,000 plurality, and to follow it up by throwing out the entire vote of Otero, Fremont. Chaffee. Gilpin, San-. Juan. Ouray, Pueblo and other counties, thus overcoming the remaining 6,000 of Mr. , Ac'ams' plurality. The intention now is to throw out I bedily nearly 100 precincts of Denver which Adams carried, thns doing all the dirty work in this city. The change was made because the leaders were advised that there would be serious seri-ous disturbance if the v te of the other counties were tampered with. The first act of the play is the present pres-ent proceeding before the canvassing board. Every possible pressure is being be-ing brought to bear on the members of the board to help along the job of counting Peabody in by unseating Beshoar or Ward, or both, with a. view to having the senate then unseat other' Democratic senators so as to secure for the Pe&bodyites a clear majority of both houses on joint ballot. This accomplished, the next step will : be to choose in the house immediately after it meets a speaker already selected se-lected by the corporations. It is usual to have a lieutenant-governor preside over the joint session, but the gangsters gang-sters don't intend to trust Lieutenant-Governor Lieutenant-Governor Haggott. They fear he would not be a party to a scheme to steal the governorship for Peabody. N Having elected a speaker of their choice the next step will be to choose I him as presiding officer of the joint session. He will then name a special committee, commit-tee, previously selected, to inquire in-i in-i to alleged "gross- frauds" in the city of Denver. . The resolution authorizing the appointment of the committee is already outlined. It sets forth the dis-coverles dis-coverles in the precincts which the su-'prerae su-'prerae court has inquired into, dnd goes on to declare that similar frauds were committed in some ninety other precincts which the supreme court did not have lime, to Inquire into, it will lay A-tress'tipon the -point.-that the supreme su-preme court, instead of trying to icp- 4 arate the good votes from the bad ones thi-ew out the entire vote of the precincts. pre-cincts. The committee will then go into session ses-sion and wtli be handed at once bundles bun-dles of ex parte affidavits already prepared, pre-pared, making all kinds of charges of fraud all over the city. A few ballot boxes, which are believed to be "ripe" whether by procurement of the corporations cor-porations on election day or not i3 a question will be opened and the committee com-mittee will report that fraud has been determined to exist in all the more than ninety precincts in which the su preme court watchers were present, . and that the entire vote of these pre-j pre-j cincts should be thrown out and the : vote of the remaining precincts alone be counted. Nine of the sixteen ward.i of Denver gave Adams a plurality of about 11.000, the other seven wards giving a plurality plur-ality against him. Under the report of the committee the vote of practically the entire nine wards which Adams carried will be thrown out and the vote of the other seven wards will be counted. count-ed. Such is the bold plan which Peabody snd.hls corporation backers have determined de-termined to put through if they can command enough votes in the joint (session of house and senate to do it. That is why they are so anxious to have the state canvassing board give them a majority in the senate, so that they can unseat some more democrats and replace them with more Peabody men to overcome the votes of those republican who still decline to go into in-to the plot. The details here given were learned from a man who has precise information informa-tion of the arrangement, which was reached at a conference last Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon. The information is positively exact, and the plan as here told will be carried out to the letter If the conspirators are successful. ( |