The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-17
BRECKENRIDGE BEATEN
The Kentucky Congressman Falls
in the Fight of His Life.
ER. OVENS sMALL PLURALITY.
estfring feenes and Incidents In the NJ ost
Remarkable Personal and Poiitical
QaEapaign Gsr witnessed In = Con
ersssionAl District.

Remarkable Personal and Poiitical
srss,ional District.
frtIaeToN, Ky, Sept. 1T.-The victors
seek TO possess the entire field; the van
quisaed accept defeat manfully. Thi,
6snsluyiop 10 justified by outside appear
shcss here which began Co manifest them
selves sarly yesterday morning. One not
able ipdiuation was the dofiing of Breckin
ridge badges and donning Owens badge
BY nsost OF the ardent young bloods who
suPportsd Breckinridge throughout the
campaign with their money and their per
sonal services.
These men say they went to the election
Saturday believing that every voter at
She primaries was morally bound to sup
Bort tAs nominee. Now that their favor
Ito. fot whom they fought so valliantly,
seems 10 have suffered defeat, they feel in
honor bound to support his opponent.
They seam TO acquesce in th Q inevitable.
Thers was report that Owens, Settle and
BteckinridSo would each issue card to
tho public stating the case. This was on
tilo thsofy that Breckenridge was about
- coptsat the election. Breckinridge oh
aolutbly refuses to talk. The most thor
ough Investigation failed to find shadow
OF ground for the rumor.
Everybody is thoroughly tired of the
task that terminated in Saturdays pri-
mRries. To contest the election would be
70 prolona the struggle. The probabil-
tiles, therefore, seem to be against the
contest The best figures obtainable here
at this hour give totals for candidates as
follows; Owens, 1900; Breckinridge, 1910,
Settle, 8,d05; Owens plurality, 800.
A strong Brecklnridge man, a cashier in
ono Of the banks here, attributed the de
feat Of his candidate to the opposition OF
Judge Morton and Professor McGarvey
Of the Christian church. lie said "Thr
Christian church has very strong follow
ing hero, and while ordinarily we should
have thrown them 1000 plurality T.
Breckisr4dge, we carried Fayette count )
BY emily twe nty- Ave votes"
Colonel Johu Allen, county attorney
one Of Breckihrldgo's incessant support
srs, says that he intends to support
Owens, and, In fact, is wearing an Owen.
badge. PoyptE Nelson, of the state com
mittee, u very close friend to Breckiu
ridge, said that ho did not believe any o
ths rumore that BreoklnrIdge would con
tsst. The com mittee will meet In Frank
fort he said, to canvass the vote, and
anything strange ia discovered it will be-
riehted there
Owens men are very well satisfied.
few, however, complain that Breckinridg'
men had stack of affidavits at everl
polling place, aud voted every man they
could on these affidavits. A story wa
started that w. 3. McChesney, Jr., snt
anotnsr Breckinridge man took q carriag
and went to Scott county with 5000, In
tsnt on buying up officers of election. hui
arrived too late. Traced to its source I hi
story appears to have been founded OH tL
fact that McChcsney hired carriage at
livery stable to take Colonel BreckinridG
70 Trsvillia to the home Of Mrs. DouKla
where Broek kinridge and his wife are stay
lag.
Colonel T. Logan Hooker, the orgina
Owens man of Lexington, said AS vi,
tsrs, we can afford to b8 generous.
fought the colonel to the best of my abil
iiy, but now that he is beaten, have n
uakind words for him or for any of hi
good friends who worked for him"
Desha Breckenridge said last night b
was confident OF his fathers election
Said het II cannot give out statemen
by counties, but our latest reports reduc
Owens plurality to l4l. 1 am sure tha
the count will be given US by the dstric
committee when 1t meets. II it does not
/ am not prepared to say what wi II follow
AZ H.. "a .lIhOuf9, u
tectivs. has been sent to Henry county t
sss II he could not find grounds 70
charges of fraud against the officers q
enc precinct In tho county which CAV
Owns an overwhelming majority an
thereby throw the Owens vote out. NJ. A
Cassidy another detective, employed b
ths Breckenridge forces in Owen count,
IL on a similar mission. Breckinridg 2
leaders olaim that In Scott county Owen
received many fraudulent votes, ns sc
more Democrats voted in this county tha
at tho last eleotlon,
Az Midway Bert Hammond came an
confessed to the Judges that lie had cas-
Rp illegal vote aEd asked that one lie,
vote be counted for Owens. The judge
rstussd to do this aud Hammond WI
snUnoRsd to appear in court
At Paris Deacon Hsrnes Miller n
OAsns man, mud Deacon D. j. Butlel
whs held fog Bgcckinridgs were discus
ipa the election. Hot words passed, an
Deacon Butler larpooned Deacon Mile
IN tho ear with his umbrella, whereupo
DeaeoA Miller blaoksd Deacon Butler
ere. They were separated
A special from Paris says that at Ri
&ls's Mills, this county, Ben Duvall sht
4Ad fatally wounded Ed Faulk ner, aged ?
1he trouble originated over the formt
challenging the lattsr's vete Saturday
Out in the Haywood neigh hborhood, fl,
Milss northeast of Versailles, there was
pitched battle between eighteen or twent
RrecklnridGs and Owens men, and G. W
Gillespie. Il Breckenridge man, was stat bbr
twice With dirk and was dangersusl
wsuatsd Ii was impossibls to find OF
who did the cutting, The wounded ma
aaid he would go to Versailles to vote f.
BreokiEridge if it killed him, and he d
SO and still lives
In Lexington Desha Breckenridge W,
pashing Precinct D's voting place ut Be
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