The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-07

since the beginning He has trifled with
his electors or he would have been elected
In conclusion, he warned the committee
that 1t was known to those interested that
both of the old parties had been coquetting
with the industrial party, both seeking its
votes Tor the next campaign, and the COM
mlttee could not afford to refuse to investi
gate the claims of this workingman (Mr.
Thoebe) in the face of the disclosures he had
made to the committee.
TH0EBE APPEARS.
The contestant, Mr.. Thoebe, was next
allowed to make ten minute statement to
the committee. He said he was born in the
same county with Speaker Carlisle As years
ago. After the election he had told Mr.
Wood that if he had not enough votes he
did not want the seat; that he would not
rely on technicaLties, and if Mr.. Car
Isle had one more vote than he had, he
ought to take the seat. Soon after the cleo
tIon inquiry was generally heard upon the
streets OF Covington, Cannot something
be done for Carlislep In one county the
witness was informed that he had received
thirty-five votes, but in few days,
when Mr.. Wood went down there,
he was Informed that no votes
had been cast for him. 1t was some time
IN July when Mr.. Wood, referring to the
witness case, said: 81 don't know what
can be done about it." This, TO the witness
mind, "loOked as if he wanted to let me
down easy; to let me know my case was
gone" Mr.. Wood also told him on several
occasions that money could be made out of
the case Other persons had told him the
same thing.
HINTS OF HUSH MONEY.
Two Democratic workers, one of them
the witness brOther-in-law, had called upon
him and had remarked that if he would not
push the case he could make money out of
it, and that thousand dollars was good
thing to have. If the case were re-opened,
it would be fonnd that he was elected by
600 majority. When he had left the fac
tory on Wednesday, of 800 employees, there
had not been a man who had not said that
he knew he (Mr. Thoebe) was elected, but
that it was no good; that the Democrats
were in the majority in the House and would
not give him the seat as against
such a man as Mr. Carlisle He
(Mr, Thoebel had been a strong Democrat,
but for the last three or four years he had
been an independent. If the committee re-
fused to reopen the case the wOrkingmen
would say: Had Thoebe been a Demo
crat, or had he been a lawyer, they would
have listened to him." Let the committee
show the toiling millions either that Thoebe
was elected or not elected. That was all
they asked.
THOEBES > THREAT.
They wanted fair play. If the case was
decided against him. he would go back to
his factory and work, but significantly he
would not quit voting.
Mr.. Cooper-If things are as you say,
what is the use of voting!
Mr.. Thoebe-That is what l say.
The committee at this point took recess
for half an hour
After the recess Mr.. Thoebe's counsel
cited precedents to justify the committee in
re-opening the case. They presented reso-
luton that the papers in the case be printed
and referred to n select committee of seven
members to be charged with an investiga-
tion of the conduct of the late Congressional
election in the Sixth District of Kentucky.
The committee then went into secret ses-
sion. In the secret session the proceedings
were confined to the reading of several of
the affidavits and without an attempt to
come to an agreement upon the PROPOSE
tion submitted by Mr.. Thoebes counsel, the
committee adjourned until tomorrow,
when some action is likely.
TAKEN AT THEIR WORTH.
The argumentative statements made by
Mr. ThOebe and MS counsel about Speaker
Carlisles election were taken at their real
worth by the committee. They made no
permanent impression upon either Demo
Gratis or Republicans. The vagueness,
coupled with the fact that they rested only
on hearsay evidence, and even this did not
touch Mr. Carlisle, rendered them irrele-
want to the minds of the committee. The
committee will probably decide tomorrow
unanimously in Mr.. Carlisle's favor Upon
the record as made up and submitted to the
Committee on Elections there could be no
other decision.