The record-union., 1894-09-18
OWENS Wins THE FIGHT.
Kentucky's -Tongued Orator
Will Take a Back Seat.
BRECKINRIDGB'S FRIENDS GIVE UP
THE FIGHT.
Present Indications Are That Ex-Yice-
the Nominee of the Republicans for
Governor of New York, With Fran
els Hendricks for the Second Place
on the Ticket.

Governor of New York, With Fran
on the Ticket.
| Special to the RECORD-UNIoN.
LEXINGTON (Ky.), Sept. T.-Every-
| thing is quiet tonight. The nomination
of Owens is conceded. When the Owens
men claimed the nomination by decis-
i've plurality Saturday night, the Breck-
inridge men ''stood pat" Yesterday
they worked harder than ever. To-day it
became known that their representatives
had been dispatched into different parts
of the district to get evidence of any
Irregularities in voting and counting,
with view of contesting the election be-
fore the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, which meets at Frankfort next
Saturday, and which is the returning
board that makes the official count and
declares the nominee. The committee
was known to stand six for Breckenridge
and four against, and as this committee
has done everything in its power for
Breckenridge, the Owens men were
alarmed to-day on finding that the Breck-
inridge agents were at work with view
of presenting evidence for a contest.
They believed there was well-planned
purpose to throw out the vote OF certain
precincts and declare Breckenridge the
nominee. lt was promptly announced
that four members of the district COM
mittee would make minority report
Saturday and appeal to the Democrats.
| This meant that Owens and Breckin-
riHCrn wnnlH both hn panH I63tRE and tIDht
to a finish in November.
Meantime the Republicans. who hold
| their convention September 26th, began
TO record their unnamed nominee as the
faYorite and there was much excitement.
The tide was turned in the afternoon,
when b. j. Welch, the committeeman
from Breckinridge's home, and one of
his strongest supporters, announced that
he would never vote to go behind the re-
turns. AS this would leave the commit
tee five to five in any event, and as other
Breckenridge men on ehe committee de-
clare themselves the same as Welch, the
old guard of the silver-tongued orator
gave up the struggle. 1t is not likely
there will be any more agitation.
TALK OF CONTEST.
LEXINGTON, Sept 17.-Breckinridge
will contest the result of Saturdays pri-
maries, and has already sent letters to the
committeeman of the eight counties noti-
tying them of his purpose.
The breckenridge men have majority
of the district committees which is the
returning board and declares officially
who is the nominee.
Breckinridge'S forces are hurrying mes
sengerS TO all parts of Ashland District
to-day to secure evidence upon which TO
base the contest. Stress is laid on the fact
that in Scott County, which gave Owens
l 200 plurality, the vote shows an increase
nf I'll tla I1nmnnrafaa Of
and Franklin County, which Owens
| carried by 52l, shows an increase of 69I,
almost 335 per cent. in each county. The
other six counties show from 5 to 20 per
cent. increase. The Breckinridge men
say their advices give Owens only 169 on
| the face of the returns.
Desha Breckenridge, J. G. Rogers and
Judge Bullock have gone to Scott County
to investigate the report that two precinct
polls were kept open an hour longer than
the law allows.
The Owens men claim that great frauds
at Lexington will give abundant grounds
for retaliatory contest. They say that
scores of fraudulent breckenridge votes
were cast in this city by men who were
not registered last fall and who produced
| ready-made atfidavits that they were out
of the city on registration day.
Moses Kaufman, Breckidridge's closest
Lieutenant, said at noon to-day that Col.
hdN 4SSuSQ HlduIIOStO OF
| official notice OF contest, and was wait
| ing for the exact returns and information
! from all the counties before deciding on
| his course of action.
Kaufman added that some of Breckin-
ridges friends now figured Owens plu-
rallty on the face OF the returns to be rs,
| but the accepted figures were still l69
The impression is gaining ground here
| that the Ashland District Committee.
! which stands six to four for Breckin-
! ridge, will decide in favor of the Con-
| gresham.
! In such event the minority will report
! Owens as the nominee and both candi-
dates will fight to finish in November.
| The Republicans polled 8, ,433 votes at the
last election, considerably more than
either Owens or Breckenridge polled on
Saturday.
! b. j. Welch, Chairman of the Fayette
County Committee and a strong Breckin-
ridge follower, says that if owens has
won the nomination there is no danger of
his being deprived of it. Without Welch's
vote Breckenridge could not win. The
reports on the street are that the Breckin-
ridge men have practically given up the
fight.
EXCITEMENT INTENSE.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.-THE IilneS-iSta7.
Lexington, KY, special says: There is
intense excitement to-day over the rem
!
ayers are not preparing SO much for
contest as for the District Committee.
which meets at Frankfort next Saturday,
to declare Colonel Breckenridge the NOM
/ inee by throwing out certain precincts on
| the charge of frauds. The Breckenridge
men claim to have discovered numerous
clerical errors in their favor, reducing
Owens plurality TO less than eighty. In
! one precinct-Owens' home-they claim
| over eighty fraudulent votes were cast,
| or miscount to that extent. Desha
| Breckenridge teiegraphs from George
/ town that frauds at that place will more
/ than overcome even the estimated claims
] of the Owens men.
BRECKINRIDGE MAY MAKE FIGHT.
| CINCINNATI, Sept. IA Commercial
! Gazette's Lexington special says: Since
| midnight there seems no doubt about
| Colonel Breckinridge making fight be-
| fore the district committee, in which all
| possible pressure has been brought to-
night. Breckenridge gives out this state
| ment:
siThe Democratic Central Committee
alone has the power to declare who is the
nominee and until such declaration is
| made no one is the nominee of the partv
and when it is made L Will loyalty submit
| to the decision and support whoever is
declared the nominee. Under the law
and under the rules of the party l also
have the power to ascertain what votes
| have been cast, and what votes shall be
! counted, and what is to be declared
fraudulent. No court has power in its
action, and | would regret TO see any
| judicial methods introduced into Ken
| tucky politics, and plant Judges cor
ruptly giving the apparent sanction of
| the judicial proceedings to base methods.
"What is the legal vote of the eight coun-
/ ties of this Congressional District is a
question which has been decided by the