The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-29
Breckenridge Scorches His Enc
mics in a Long Letter.
OWENS DECLARED NOMINEE
The Colonel thinks He Was Elected, But
Rather Ethan Make a Contest He
Gracefully Submits.

sional district committee were here to-
day, and a meeting was held at noon
to canvass the returns. w. @. Owens
was heIe with a big delegation of
friends. Colonel Breckinridge's inter-
ests were looked after by his law part
ner, Colonel John T. Shelby, and
large delegation of prominent men.
The following communication from
Breckenridge was received, read and
ordered filed:
The Colonel Gives 1t Up.
ITO the democratic committee of the
Seventh congressional district: Under
the statutes of Kentucky and the order
of this committee, you are duly author
lied and constituted the governing
authority empowered to count the
votes received by candidates in the
primary election of September Is and
to declare the candidate receiving the
highest number of votes the nominee
OF the democratic party of this district,
and you alone have the pc wer to de
termfne upon the form and manner of
the proceedings you will take to dis
charge this duty. In case of a contest
you and you alone have the power to
hear and determine such a con test and
decide who shall be entitled to the
nomination, and you owe it TO the
democratic party of the district and to
your sense of right that the duties inn
posed upon you shall not be performed
by any one else nor shall they be en-
croached upon.
Protests Just the same.
"Yuu and you alone have the power
to prescribe what political qualifica-
lions shall be possessed by such legal
voters as reside within the district and
desire to participate in that primary,
and you have the right to determine
whether the rules laid down by you
and on which were necessarily incor-
porated the provisions of the state have
been complied with. L deem it the
duty / owe to the democratic party of
the district, to my friends and to my
self, to state these principles and protest
against any action of any Judge. county
committee or any county or private in
dividual which encroaches upon your
exclusive Jurisdiction, so that what
ever has been done in the primary may
not be held to be a precedent to be
used hereafter for want of an open and
formal protest against it.
II formally protest against the action
of the Judge of the Fourteenth judicial
district in the issue of the extraordi-
nary order in the case of w. e. Sims
and others versus Others This COM
mittee met September and adopted
certain measures. The plaintiffs
waited until the afternoon of Friday,
the l4th, having had ample time 10
take such steps as they deemed neces.
sary and to give proper notice TO me or
20 the nominal defendants so that a
hearing might have been held. This
delay was known to that Judge and
was of itself cause for refusal to issue
any restraining order. But, /, as well
as the nominal defendants, lived near
enough for notice to have been given
of application for the restraining order
so that the judge might pass upon
it after hearing and with an
opportunity afforded to present reasons
against it, and the Issue Ofthe so-called
temporary injunction, which under
the circumstances was equivalent 10 a
anal and permanent one, and setting
of the hearing of any application for
its dissolution or modification for a
date six days after election, when it
would already have accomplished it's
purpose, is such an extraordinary
abuse of the discretion lodged in d
judicial officer that it ought not to pass
without attracting universal attention
and receive unanimous condemnation,
aud when it is remembered that this
Judge has been for many years my bit
ter personal enemy, permitting and
participating in malignant attacks
upon me in many parts Of the county,
and was also my heated political
enemy, his action becomes more extra
ordinary.
Thinks He Was Elected.
Fl also deem it my duty to solemnly
avow that / have not the shadow of
doubt that 1 have received as against
William 9. Owens. a majority of the
legal democratic votes of his district
and am legally entitled to he declared
the nominee of the / arty in this dis
trict But under all the circumstances,
L do not feel called upon to make a
formal contest or to oppose the decla-
ration of his nomination upon the face
of the returns. / accept the result in
this election rather than enter upon a
contest which in my judgment would
result in the election of a republican
In this district. No man can
estimate the importance OF each demo-
cratic vote in the next house of repre-
sentatiVes. / am not willing 10 en-
danger the supremacy of the demo-
cratic party in the next house. L
therefore, in anticipation of your
action, announce my submission to