Mexico weekly ledger., 1894-09-20


district is as follows:
County. Owens. Breckenridge. Settle.
| Bourbon. .,.........1 $50 I,l5l IS
| Fayette. ,Si2 1875 $50
Franklin ..., --.--..l,ol6 s3 2es
Henry lbs So $50
Oldham -.....----.-.. 400 "a 25
owen .---..--......- ~ l,iB i,J63
Scott.-....--... ....l,Sg $50 liG
Woodford ....... .. SI GSS al
Total......-.... s,1g 1867 3,407
Owens plurality Ais.
The polls opened at each preinct
in the district at O'Clock this
morning. The day passed without
the expected amount OF trouble.
There were Il number of fights, but
so far as is known no n was
killed.
The Breckenridge men did not
enforce the "gag'' rule as strictly as
it was supposed they would do.
The fight was a bitter one all day,
and up TO a late hour tonight
Breckenridge claimed victory by 113
votes. The full returns, however,
showed that Owens was the winner
by AIS votes.
BRECKENRIDGE MAY CONTEST.
LEXINGTON, Ky, Sept. 1G.-This
morning Col. Breckenridge came
into town early from the home of
his kinswoman, Mrs. Rutherford
Douglass, where he and bis wife are
stopping. He spent all the early
hours of the day at his headquart-
ers, but this afternoon he went out
riding with friends.
He Was met by your correspond =
eat and asked as TO his future plans.
He said that at the present time he
did not wish to be interviewed on
any subject whatever. Your cor
respondent rendered him his sym
pathy for his defeat, and one of his
strong supporters from Scott County
remarked:
ave are much obliged for your
sympathy, but we do not consider
that we are defeated" The Col
onel made no reply to this remark,
which, in the face of the rumor that
he intends to contest the election, is
significant. Nor did he admit to
your correspondent that he thought
he was defeated. Instead of looking
downeast, he looked as bright and
full of life as ever. In reply to the
question, be said:
81 am sorry that l caunot talk for
publication, but under the existing
circumstances, | have nothing to say
as to my future plans, nor my future
prospects"
"a disinterested party said," re-
marked your correspondent to the
Colonel, ''that he believed you had
a bright future in store tor you;
that you had been punished enough,
both in the courts at Washington
and by the verdict of these people,
and that if you should continue to
fight the battles of the party in the
future as you have in the past, you
could easily be returned to Congress
two years hence"
The Colonel listened patiently,
and with one of his bland smiles,
replied:
"Two years Is a long way off, and
we don't know what may happen in
that time"
A gentleman who was present at
the Breckenridge headquarters says
that several of the Colonel's closest
friends have been busy all day fgur-
ing on the returns, and that they
have come to the conclusion that
Owens only had 1872 majority. State
ments to this effect are being sent to
the Breckenridge men in each coun-
ty in the district, who compose what
is known is Colonel Breckinridge's
Executive Committee, and they will
be instructed to thoroughly i~nvesti,
gate the vote in their respective
counties, 50 that before next Satur-
day, the day set for c~anvassing the
vote and declaring the nominee by
the District Committee, they may be
enabled to furnish sufficient facts to
warrant a contest being made.
According to the rules governing
the primary, wherever a contest is
sustained in a precinct the entire
vote OF the precinct is thrown out.
AS six of the ten district committee
men are friends of Breckenridge it
would seem that the Colonel would
have an excellent opportunity before
the committee to be declared the
nominee of the Democratic party if
a sufficient number of allegations of
fraud can be made and sustained.
Should the committee, however,
declare him to be the nominee a
howl would so up from the entire
Seventh District, and a Republican
would have a most excellent chance
oil being elected to Congress.
BREcKINRIDGE WILL CONTEST.
LEXINGTON, KY, September IT,
Breckenridge will contest the cleo.
ton of Mr., Owens in Saturdays
primary election.
A gentleman who taIked with
him las. night says he has written
letters to the Chairman of the Coun-
ty Committees to that effect.
Mr.. Owens himself is satisfied the
count will stand.
Late last night Capt. B. J. Tracy,
President Of the Owens Club, said:
"If the committees should take the
nomination away from Owens and
rive IL IN Rrnek;nridoa ,,o,, u;lI