You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday November 13, 1904
Denver, Colorado - Governor Peabody Announces Intention to Probe Election Results
Governor Peabody
From today's
Leavenworth Times of Kansas:
PEABODY ANGRY.
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Intends to Probe Frauds in Colorado Election.
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Denver, Colo., Nov. 12-Governor Peabody today issued a statement to the people of Colorado to the effect that he was reliably informed that fraud had been committed in some outside counties as well as Denver. He proposed to probe the election in every county in the state, but adds "If it should prove that I am not reelected I will admit it promptly."
ELECTION RESULTS FOR GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
Alva Adams
Election results give Alva Adams a plurality of 9,338 over Peabody:
James H. Peabody - Republican Party----------113,754
Alva Adams - Democratic Party-----------------123,092
A. H. Floaten - Socialist Party--------------------- 2,593
I. A. Knight - Socialist Labor Party-------------------279
James D. Merwin - Populist Party---------------------325
Robert A. M. Wilson - Prohibition Party-------------3,023
Total vote------------------------------------------243,066
Adams’ plurality-------------------------------------9,338
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STATEMENT OF GOVERNOR PEABODY
To the People of Colorado:
From the most reliable information obtainable from the several counties of the state, I am now confident that I have been fairly and honestly elected governor of Colorado. Great outrages have been attempted in some outside counties, as well as in Denver.
Opposition to my election did not come mainly from labor unions.
They are as much in favor of law and order as other law-abiding citizens. Neither do threats or personal violence and public disturbance, nor the stirring up of strife come chiefly from them. I am now convinced that the fight came in a large degree from a set of reckless men, both in and outside of the Republican party, who aided the Democrats, egged them on to disorderly conduct, and supplied them with large sums of money in the hope of defeating me. We shall probe the facts about the recent election in every county of the state. If it should prove that I am not re-elected, I will admit it promptly.
I make this public statement because of an evident attempt on the part of some people, some politicians, and some newspapers, to bluff the public into believing that I am defeated, with the hope thereby of discouraging my friends and frightening me away from the contest.
I ask the assistance and support of all law-abiding citizens of Colorado in my attempt to honestly and fearlessly establish the facts in relation to the election of November 8, 1904.
(Signed)
JAMES H. PEABODY.
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SOURCES
The Leavenworth Times
(Leavenworth, Kansas)
-Nov 13, 1904
http://www.newspapers.com/...
State of Colorado Roster of Elected Officers
and Tabulated Statement of the Votes Cast for the Several Candidates
-State of Colorado
Smith-Brooks Printing Co., 1911
(source for names of candidates and vote count)
https://archive.org/...
The Tribune Almanac and Political Register
-Horace Greeley
Tribune Association, 1905
(source for political parties:
search with "1904 elections" & choose p.307)
http://books.google.com/...
IMAGES
James Peabody
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Alva Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/..._(governor)
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Which Side Are You On? - Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
Across this great old nation
Tell me whatcha gonna do
When there's one law for the rulers
And one law for the ruled?
-Florence Reese/Tom Morello
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