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Show THE PEABODY TROUBLE. Anticipations of trouble in Colorado to follow the overthrow of the people's verdict are aroused by recent acts of the state supreme court. Statements State-ments abound such as:-"Colorado is on the verge of civil war over the governorship, with both sides .arming;' or, "Governor Peabody intends to succeed suc-ceed himself as governor even if he. has to. hold the statehouse by the use of troops." These reports, we are assured by the Colorado papers, are all baseless, base-less, and people who expect trouble over the. election elec-tion will be sadly disappointed. Affairs there appear ap-pear to be quiet save for the wordy war between the Denver papers as to which party is guilty of election frauds. -1 The Denver Xcws and the Times (Ind.) believe that Peabody has been beaten fairly. These papers say that powerful interests that are behind Pea-body Pea-body are endeavoring to throw out enough votes to keep him in office, or, failing in this, to control the Colorado senate. "On the face of the news," says the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.), "there is strong reason to believe that the courts in Colorado are to be used to override the will of the people;" but the two Denver papers just named think that the court will enforce the law fairly and impartially. impar-tially. "Everybody knows," declares the Times, "that Governor Peabody was beaten by an honest majority. ma-jority. There is not a single county in which he did not run away behind all his party ticket, even to the most insignificant constable." The Tews says: x "Here in Denver the Democratic executive committee com-mittee is securing a great mass of testimony which will be presented at the proper time in the supreme court and county court in connection with the reports re-ports of the supreme court watchers and the proposed pro-posed contests by Republican candidates for county offices. All of. this is perfectly legitimate and is a measure not only of self-defense, but in the interest inter-est of the public, which ought to be - protected against those who, while crying fraud, are themselves them-selves the chief offenders. "The main point, however, is to restrain Governor Gov-ernor Peabody from downright lawlessness in his crazy effort to keep himself in office, and it is to that end that the public opinion of the whole state ought to be brought to bear on him." The Denver Republican charges the Democrats with gross frauds. A |