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Show WOULD OPEN ALL BALLOT BOXES Adams Believes He Is Elected and Wishes No Tainted Seat. Attornoys Charles S. Thomas and Samuel W. Bclford filed a petition in tho supromo court In Denvor on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, on behalf of Alva Adams, gov-ernor-elect of Colorado, asking that cither the court or a commission nppolnted np-polnted by tho court shall open all ot the 204 ballot boxes used In Denvor at tho lato olectlon and ranko a thorough thor-ough examination of their contents. "I hnvo no question about my election elec-tion by substantially tho majority reported re-ported on tho face of tho returns," Bald Governor Adams. "I bollovo if . tho frauds In outsldo counties could W be unonrthed my honest majority would amount to 20,000. But I want I no tainted seat. It is of far greater I Importance that o.xtcnslvo election I frauds should bo ucnarthed and pun- 'r I lshcd than that I or any other partlcu I lar Individual should be sworn In as. P governor." I |