The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13


| extra session at once Governor Jones says
that the constitution requires the returns
to be opened during the first week OF the
session of the legislature to when tne re-
| turns shall be made, and the statute re-
quires these returns to be made to the reg"-
lar session of the general assembly. mus
| until such declaration is made, OF course
there could not be any contest, even II lhere
was law providing for contest. Could
contest be commenced now, owing 10 tne
| large number of witnesses ana preclncts
to be examined into, it would be impossible
to get the evidence and have a hearing
before the regular session of the legislature.
If it was decided against Mr.. kolb, as the
governor feels certain it would be, ne says
| Mr.. Kolb would simply assert the decision
to be another evidence OF the rule OF the
| machine.
."rhe evident purpose of the leaders is
to demand the impossible, as they do not
want conciliation."
| Kolb Talks.
Mr.. Kolb asserts with emphasis that he
| was elected governor and Is going to be
| governor.
although of the IT'S newspapers In the
state but six of them were for me" said
Mr.. Kolb today, II carried the state by
$4,000 majority and received $4,000 ma lori
| ty of the white vote The Jones faction
simply controlled the machinery, stuffed
the ballot boxes and counted me out. Take
| the fourteen black belt counties. 1 car
ried them by 25,OOO majority. Yet they
have been counted as giving Jones 10000
majority. | carried this county by 1900
jority-more votes than were poled 1t
was the same way all over the state, and
tell you our people are not going to sub
| init to it.
What will you do?"
am going to be governor. I will con-
test before the legislature and / think it
| will decide that | was elected but if not
there Is another way to get it. The
people Of Alabama elected me governor
ana they are determined not to be defrauded
going to be governor of Alabama
VIII Mr.. Cleveland carry the state?"
No-hot unless Mr.. Jones comedies my
election and allows me to take the Office.
ne does not seem inclined to do that |
believe Mr.. Cleveland will lose the state
by more than fifty thousand majority
| against him. The Kob democrats OF the
state Will not vote for him, and we src the
democrats, Mr.. Cleveland has alhci him
ssiI VIII the Jones wing: Did he not trle-
friends who have cheated US out of the GOV
ernorshp and the democrats who we're for
me- e., are determined to rebuke them
who Will they vote for!'
Tor the Weaver electors"
But there is no chance of Viewers
| election
-, Perhaps not, but our people say Mr..
cleveland is no more their friend on the
financial question than Mr.. Harrison, and
they are not to be frightened by the force
PHI scarecrow. Many of them say n force
bill will not be rs bad as the way the
machine democrats are treating them AS
TO myself, don't say what l am going to
90, put l don't See any chance of Mr..
Cleveland carrying Alabama. The people
| Will not submit to the cheating and frauds
that have been pcrpetrated upon them by
| the men who are running his campaign
here They would not vote for him even
~nl,., 4. Il
| posed entirely of Kolb democrats
will you put out an electoral ticket at
your convention on the 15th?'
. No. The peoples party already has
ticket out That convention is to nomi
nate candidates for congress in every dis
trict. The Jeffersonian democrats and
peoples party will fuse on that, and will
carry nearly, every congressional district
| in the state
But will not some m, of your supporters
VERY few of them. You must remem-
| Der that Jones poled large republican
vote. which will not so to Cleveland. I
don't know what the republicans are going
| TO do about ali electoral ticket. But it is
! certain they will not vote for the Cleve-
| land electors. No. Cleveland cannot carry
the state. He will lose it by at least
| 10000 votes"
the Kolb democratic state committee.
said: Il nm for Cleveland myself But
unless the machine democrats give Kolb
the governorship there is no way of pla-
eating his followers. Cleveland will lose
the state by $4,000 votes.'
| Colonel Oates Is Alarmed.
Congressman Oates was here tonight
Il am afraid our situation is critical"
said he. '"ro carry Alabama for Clcye-
land is going to take hard work and lots
of money. have not been home very
long, but l find many democrats leaving
| Something ha
once. Still l have confidence that we can
arrange matters before November"
The only absolutely confident democrat
| have been able to find in Alabama i. Mi
| Frank Z. Glass, the editor of The Mont
gomery Advertiser, which paper has led
| the fight against the alliance since It's first
organization.
Il have" said he, mo doubt whatever
that Cleveland will carry Alabama. All
| the conditions are more favorable to him
than to the state ticket in the recent cleo
ton. Then hundreds of sincere democrats
were misguided into voting for Kolb in the
belief that he was either the regular nonli-
nee or as much SO az Jones. There is no
possibility of any such misunderstanding of
| the national contest. AS a matter of fact
there have been declarations of allegiance to
the national democratic ticket by scores of
prominent Kolb supporters in many OF the
counties carried by him Furthermore in
the recent election every Office in
the state from beat constable upward was
elected. 1nis affords unlimited opportuni-
ii r. for swapping votes which were made use
of by the kolb men. This feature will not
! be in the November contest, and every man
will vote his real preference. These diff
ferences in the situation are in Cleveland's
favor. If Kolb, with all these aids. and
with the cooperation of the republican
organization was beaten in August, it would
be impossible for the same aggregation TO
defeat Cleveland in November Besides
the August contest as revealed to the
democratic organization every loop hole in
their ranks. and no precaution will be left
unused The only argument the kob
leaders are using is one of revenge They
| call upon their followers to vote against
Cleveland because kolb was cheated. This
| is an irrational argument. There is no
sense Or justice in their asking that the
party outside of the state be punished for
tho alleged sins of a small part of it In
the state. Hence it will not influence a
large proportion of the real democrats who
voted for Eolb. | am satisfied Cleveland
will carry the state by between thirty and
forty thousand" Il. w. B.
STREET FIGHT
In Which Captain Kolb Figured-A Lively
Scene In Montgomery.