Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-27
STICKING TO 1T.
Mr.. Phil. Thompson Insists that the
Democrats Have the Next House.
BUT OTHER DEMOCRATS ARE NOT 90 HOPEFUL
THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY N THE TENTH KEN.
TUcKY DIsTRIcT-rHE QUIET COUNT OF vIR-
arNIAs VOTE IN RICHMOND YESTERDAY.


THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY N THE TENTH KEN
TUcKY pIsTRIcT-rHE QUIET COUNT OF v1R-
aINIA's VOTE IN RICHMOND YESTERDAY.
Mr.. Phil Thompson, secretary of the demo-
cratic national committee, expressed the
opinion to STAR reporter to-day that the DEM
ocrats would have majority in the next
House. He said all the talk about the demo-
cratic committee stealing the House was nom
sense. They were doing nothing, he said, but
waiting the result of the legal returns. "Why, "
he said, 1--WE have no money-not a penny. You
couldn't steal a House without money"
The thing was not vet settled he said, but
ne was confident that the count would show
that the democrats had carried three districts
in West Virginia, and the doubtful districts in
Louisiana, in Maryland, in Tennessee, and
In North Carolina. This would give them the
House.
OTHER DEMOCRATS NOT so SURE.
1t is not known upon what this expectation
is based A large number of the democratic
members do not indulge in much hope. With
apparent republican majorities in all these
expect to overcome this.
THE ELECTION OF REPUBLICAN IN THE TENTH
KENTUCKY DISTRICT.
MIR. White, relative Of ex-Representative
White, who represented the tenth Kentucky
district before Mr.. Taulbee was elected, told a
STAR reporter to-day that he knew it was all a
mistake about Wilson, the republican candi-
date in that district having a majory in one
county larger than the numbea of voters in the
county. He lives in Clay county, the one in
question, and says that there are about 1900
voters in the county. This time he says the
democratic candidate got two hundred
more votes than usual and the republi-
can vote was unusually large. the majority
being 760. The vote throughout the district,
he says, was large. In some localities the
democrats got unheard Of majorities. He
showed THE STAR reporter q letter from Mr..
Wilson, in which he says that the democrats
undertook to count him out; that 10 Of his
ballots in Floyd county were thrown out,
and the same treatment was given to 140 in
Montgomery county, and there were frauds,
the letter said, in Clarke, Montgomery, Powell,
Estell, Floyd, and Knott counties, but in spite
of all this he has majority Of 476. The
writer says that his vote amounted to $1,000,
about 1900 more than any republican
ever before got in the district, and that the
Taulbees vote. He says he carried eleven out
of twenty-one counties-Knott by 861; Clay by
760; Leslie by 5S4; Perry by 40; Letcher by
20S; Harlan by 631; Beali by 6s3; Pike by II;
Estell by "a, and Lee by 79 majority.
THE QUIET COUNT IN VIRGINIA.
Representative O'Farrell came in from Rich
mond to-day. He says that the count was con-
Quoted quietly there without any protest. The
attorneys for the republicans we're hanging
about but said nothing. Eight democrats and
two republicans were given their certificates Of
election to the House without protest. His idea
was that the republicans did not expect to make
anything out of the courts but that they want
to collect testimony of benefit to them in the
contests in the House over two or three seats. He
said he feared that the republicans might have
a majority in the House, but was not prepared
to give it up. If the democrats had a right to
q majority, however small, he thought they
ought to stick up to it and organize the House.
He said he was not one Of those who thought
the tail had better go with the hide.
He had great respect for Mr.. Harri-
son. he said, and thought his disposition
would be to treat the south conservatively and
fairly, but he did not feel confident that the
President-elect could Withstand the pressure of
his party. There were many things they could
do to injure the south II they had absolute
power.