The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-08
STOLE THEM BLIND
KOlb Claims He Was Elected by
1900, Anyhow.
Democrats Claim Larger Major
tiles Than TIE Total Votes.
TO AVOID SUSPICION.
They Changed Their Tactics
Somewhat He Says.
POpulist Leaders Will Meet to
Form Plan of Action.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 8.-Captain
Kolb furnished the following interview
last night over his signatures:
4 have deferred making any state
ment TO the public as to the result or the
election until the total returns had been
received. Up to. this hour 10 p. M
sufficient returns are IN to show 1 have
carried forty out of fifty-one white
counties and that I have been elected
with the entire white ticket BY ma
jOr ty of not less than IS, JUU. This ma
jOrity 1 claim, after giving to the oppo-
sItiOn every state county which they
have carried, without reference TO fraud
ulent methods in the nature of intimida-
tiOn and bulldozing in the absence of in-
spectors Or tixers for our side.
"sAny citizen Of Alabama Of ordinary
Intelligence who will take the trouble TO
examine the figures as reported by the
Associated Press and claimed by the OPP
position can at once see tnat it viii be a
physical impossI bility for the ticket
headed by Col Odte5 to be declared
elected except by claiming a majority
of over II UUO from seven black belt
counties having white voting popula-
tiou not exceeding 12,O0O.
'.The frauds Of this year are more no
tOrIOu5 and shameful tnan those of 1892
For the purpose OF deceiving the public,
they have 10 some extent been shifted.
Inc returns aS E6DOElcQ from lIOWuQE5
county lndic..te frauds exceeding any
thing ever before known IN the states
history. In Montgomery and Bullock
the frauds are hardly less aggravated
The opposition claim Madison county by
a majority of lab Our strength in
Madison county this year is much more
strongly developed than in 1892, when
we carried the county by about 40 ma
joriiy.
Furthermore, it is known some seven
or eight negroes were appointed as in
speclors in Madison county, several Of
whom could neither read write. Il
IS d serious fact that in the city of Mont
gomery at 4.40 p. IN, only thirty minutes
before the polls were closed not exceed
ing 1,340 white voters and "A colOred
voters had cast their ballots by actual
count Notwithstanding this fact, it
gives a majority of 2,4OO for
Oates At Bessemer more than 4OO
of our voters we're denied an op-
portunity of casting their ballots on ac-
count of the opposition leaders providing
the polling plac s, materially aided by
officers of the law III blocking the poll
ing places.
In view of this condition Of affairs, 1
cannot escape the responsibility Of pre-
sensIng the issue, not only to the sup
porI ers of our ticket, bat to all inteIli-
gent, honorable aud law "a biding citizens
of this state.
"a conference of the candidates of our
ticket as we'll as the members of our
committee has been called to meet in
this city tomorrow, and at that confer
ence line Of policy viii be determined
upon and the people of this state will be
gwen an opportunity, definitely and
qulc Aly, TO determine whether or not
the law shall be master Of Us alp aud
our government be maintained in purity
according to the viii of the people"