The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-18
DEFEAT HURTS HIM.
Breckenridge Says He Was
Beaten by Fraud.
Claims There Were at Least 800
Illegal Votes Cast.
ISSUES A STATEMENT.
His Friends Do Not Favor His
Making a Fight.

LEXINGTON, XIV, Sept. 1s.-There
seems to be no doubt about Colonel
Breckenridge making a fight for the
nomination before the district com
mittee, on which all possible pressure
has been brought. Breckenridge last
night made a public statement IN
which he says he secured a majority
of the legal Democratic votes of the
district, and that fraud was practiced
against him in several counties. The
following is Breckinridge's statement;
None of the interviews printed in
the various papers purpOrting to have
been held with me were authorized
The Democratic committee of the dis
trict alone has power to declare who
is the nominee, and until that dec
laration is made no one is the noni-
nee of the party, and when it is made
I Will Loyalty submit to this decision
and support the person declared to be
the nominee. No court has any power
over its action, and l would regret to
see New York judicial methods intro
duced into Kentucky politics and
plant judges cOrruptlv giving the APP
parent auction of the judicial pro
ceedings to base methods.
THE extraordinary order of the
Judge of the Fourteenth judicial dis
trict obtained as it was by the friend
Of Mr.. Owens seems to decide that the
party had no right to require a voter
at the primary to be pledged to sup
port the nominee and this is tena bic
only upon the ground that under the
Carroll law a voter at the primary
election is not bound by the result 1
don't believe that such is the law, and
to use the mildest term possible con
corning it, 1 think 1t was IMPROVE
IDENTIFY given, and I for one repudiate
it both as a principle of law or of
morals
II have no doubt of my nomination
by the legal Democratic vote cast on
last Saturday, and that by many
votes. I had no doubt that fraud
would be practiced on me in Scott
county, and I am certain that has
been deliberately done. believe
that at least 300 Illegal votes have
been cast against me in the county
of Fayette, and perhaps nearly as
many IN Franklin But these are
matters to be decided by the consti-
tuted authorities Of the party at the
proper time and in the proper mode.
I shall make no frivolous contest,
shall raise no technical questions
nor enter into any contest about the
dOu otful points, but shall reserve
until next Saturday the right to have
such proceed ings taken before the
district committee as will accord
with my Judgment
81 regret certain incidents of the
the consent, If not approval, of the
faculty of Georgetown college stu
dents, who had no legal residence in
Georgetown, and some of whom are
under age. And the Owens political
meeting, under the guise Of a prayer
meeting, in which reputa BILE ministers
of the gospel, as well as mere ecclesi-
astical tricksters and shriekers Partic-
ipated for the purpose Of impressing
the people of the district that the Lord
approved the methods Of political cam
paign pursued by Mr.. Owens and his
frie nds, and thereby giving to us in
all our future elections the certainty
Of mendacity, vituperation, lavish
use Of money and everything which
degrades. cOrrupts and breeds VIC
lence. and that whatever of this kind
is INDUCED in hereafter will have
the sanction Of these preachers, and
viii be claimed to be consistent with
religion AS look back upon the can
vas 1 have no regrets for the utter
ances felt called upon to make, and
all of the statements made by me,
either in speeches or interviews, are
absolutely true in fact as moderate in
utterance and temperate in spirit,
and this will be more and more appre-
ciated by the district as the excite
ment passes away and the real facts
are understood"