Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1905 — PEABODY-ADAMS CONTEST [ARTICLE]

PEABODY-ADAMS CONTEST

Five Republicans Refuse to Sign a Report Seating Peabody Two Reports for the Legislature. Denver. March 2. —After a long executive session of the gubernatorial contest committee yesterday afternoon thirteen of the eighteen Republican members signed a report in favor of seating James H. Pea laxly and the nine Democrats signed a report in favor of continuing Governor Alva Adams in the office. The other five Republican members, including Chairman William H. Griffith, refused to sign either report