The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23
The RETURNS CANVASSED.
Hon. ". c. Owens Declared the NOmi-
nee Of The Ashland District.

A Resolution Handioapping Mr..
Owens With a Charge of Fraud
Passed by the Committee - Owens
Declines the Nomination on Such
Terms - The Resolution Is Recon-
sidered and Substitute Passed.
Frankfort, KY, Sept 22.-All the mem
bers of the democratic congressional dis
trict committee have arrived and a meet
ing Will be held at noon at the Capitol
who is nominated.
The Hon w. c. Owens is here with a
big delegation of friends, and Col Breck-
his law partner, John B. Shelby, and
large number Of prominent men.
Among the prominent men in the city
are: Hon. Il. NJ. Dickson, John 7, Hin
ton and Charles E. Butler of Paris, Ed
itOr Baxter of the Lexington Transcript,
Hon. James L. Askew of Georgetown and
Editor Orr of the Owen News.
Large delegations arrived this morning
from each Of the counties in this congress
siOnal district to be presentat the count
ing Of the vote of the primaries. All the
members of the committee are here Col
Breckenridge and Desha Breckenridge
did not come down, and john Shelby, Col.
DItCh llIlukG'S dlLQIutN. Sdl1 LndL ne QlO
not think there would be any trouble over
the matter that Col. Breckinridge has all
along said he was willing to abide by the
decision of the district committee The
air is full of rumors, however, one to the
effect that if the committee go behind the
returns, an injunction will be Immediately
gotten out by the Owens men before Judge
Catrill, who is holding his circuit court
here now. Another is that the
Breckinridge men on the committee will
probably, if voted down by the majority,
issue protest to the people of the dis
trict with the view of producing disaf-
fection enough to defeat Owens in the
race between him and the republican
nominee. One of his best-known ad-
herents, however, denies that there
will be anything Of the kind done
Owens friends say that at the urgent APP
peal to the district committee by Breck-
inridge they found they could rely on
four, viz: Johnston of E'ayette, Welsh of
Lexington, Vincent of Oldham and
Gaines of Franklin, and that for this
reason they concluded to make no contest
to-day.
THE VOTE CANyAssED.
The democratic congressional district
committee mot in the ball room of the
Capitol hotel to day in the presence of $50
persons, with Mr.. Mcleod chairman
Mr.. Forman of Woodford filed protest
from Col. Breckinridge against the right
of Mcleod to vote as a member, and also
in proceedings heretofore taken by the
committee. This was followed by a
| speech from Chairman Carroll requesting
Mcleod to vote only in-uase of a tie Mr..
Welsh moved that the record of the past
stand, as no vote cast by MIR. Mcleod
affected the result. Mai. johnson of
! Fayette then read a protest, dated Lex
! ington, Sept. 20, from Col Breckinridge,
! in regard to the injunction granted by
! Judge Cantrill in the Bourbon case, as an
extraordinary abuse of his powers as a
| Judge. The protest asserts that Judge
! Cantrill was his bitter enemy. and that
Col. Breckenridge was satisfied he had
received a majority of votes over Owens,
and that the declaration of Owens nomi-
nation will be making the committee a
party to fraud. 1t concluded by saving
he would not make formal contest The
! committee then counted the vote as fol
lows: