St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-07
DEMOCRATS SUCCEED IN ELECT
ING THEIR CANDIDATE FOR
LIBRARIAN.
GIVES BLACKRIInM NEW HOPE.
THEY WILL TRY TODAY TO ENGI-
NEER A DEAL FOR THEIR
FAVORITE.
THE MILITIA TO BE CALLED OUT.
Republicans to Use Desperate Means
to Carry Cut Plans to I'm
seat Democrats.

FRANKFORT, KY, Feb. 8. - The
senatorial struggle today attracted
more attention than the annual Ken
lucky derby. Perhaps no event in the
political history Of the state has ever
attracted more attention or drawn
larger crowd Of noted Kentuckians to
the state capitol. By II o'clock, al
though the time to ballot for senator
was an hour later, the lobby. gallery
and rotunda Of the house were crowd
ed until every inch of available space
had been taken. The impression had
gone abroad that today would mark
the crucial struggle in the contest for
the United States senatorship, and
that an election, or perhaps turning
point would be reached. This drew
many people. Then again there were
many who expected an outburst Of per-
sonal violence, and this drew another
crowd of curious observers to the state
house. Those who were informed of
the inner political workings, however
believed that no election would take
place, and no change in the situation
would result. Another attempt was
made this morning to induce DR.. Hun
ter to withdraw from the senatorial
race. Several Republicans, including
the lieutenant governor, gave it as
their opinion that, as his prospects of
election were slow, he should get out
of the race. DR.. Hunter, in reply, said
that he was in the race to stay until
the end. The roll call of the senate
showed every member of that body
present for the first time during the
session. In the house, Furnish and
Hunton were paired, leaving 1876 pres
ent, 50 of which were necessary to a
choice. The ballot resulted: Hunter
67, Blackburn 62, Carlisle 2, Bate l, Nc
Creary 4.
The deadlock was broken in the joint
assembly after the vote for senator had
been taken, and Miss Guy was elected
state librarian over Mrs. Sheldon, the
Republican candidate. The Republicans
insisted on adjournment Immediately
after the senatorial vote. On vote be-
ing taken it was lost. Bronston then
moved to go into an election for state
librarian. Speaker Worthington ruled
the motion out of order, but an appeal
having been sustained, the vote was or
dered. Mrs. Sheldon's name was with
drawn. The Republicans, except Sen
ator Petri, abstained from voting. Pc
tri and the two Populists voted for Miss
Guy, and she was elected. This-break
gives renewed hope to the Democrats
that another break will be engineered
to elect Blackburn.
FRANKFORT, Feb. 6-The Republi-
cans tonight, at secret caucus in the
rooms of DR.. Godfrey Hunter, decided
to establish a military guard over the
joint sessions Of the legislature on the
election Of a United States senator.
There were present at the conference
tonight besides DR.. Hunter, Gov. Brad
ley and Adjt. Gen. Collier. The Hunter
managers announced to the governor
that something had to be done.
1t seemed certain that when Tomp-
kins and Kaufman were unseated, the
Democratic senate would retaliate in
stantly and would not permit the un-
seated Republicans to go into the joint
session. They also stated that quite
a number of Senator Blackburn's
friends were going to be sworn in as
deputies in order to help keep out the
unseated Republican senators. 1t is
said that nothing will be done until
Monday, as Lieut.. Gov. Worthington
will be out of the city until then.