The San Francisco call., 1896-02-12

railroad -wrecker for personal gain; Tor
what time was he wrecker? That he has
been one the Senator knows from the his
tory of the old Elizabethtown and Paducah
Railroad, which now forms part OF the
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern.
Three or four of the men who were alluded
to in Mr.. Huntington's letter TO the
Courier-Journal as assisting him in getting
the Southern Pacific charter were the
incorporators of that road, and it was not
long before it fell into Mr.. Huntington's
hands. 1t was well understood in Ken
lucky at the time that these incorporators
were dummies.
The Senator is under many obligations
to Huntington and Echols, and his
presence in the Senate at this time is
pretty good proof of the fact. The Sena-
tor was one of the incorporators of the
road from Eizabethtown to Hodginville.
which he and couple of associates
| turned over to Huntington as soon as fin
| ished for consideration.
| His frank admission that the opposi ton
! in the Senate is not strong enough to pre-
vent the passage of the bill shorld not for
a moment be allowed to deceive any one.
They will delay the bill in the Senate till
| they are ready for it in the House.
| The tstrong case" will be presented
there when they think they have enough
votes pledged to defeat it.
| Senator Hays has endeavored to get the
| influence of some of the old bosses in
Louisville by introducing bill to pension
the firemen of that city altar certain
term of service, and this would have
| been good trick for him but for the fact
that the Democratic Mayor, Mr.. Tyler,
died a short time ago and Republican
Mayor was elected in his place, and hav-
| ing the City Council almost solidly with
him has set about making wholesale
changes in the ranks of city officers and
employees, especially the fremen and po-
lice, and the majors plans have miscar-
ried. He and the others are, however,
trying to arrange matters on new basis,
| but it will be hard for them to control the
Louisville delegation in the House as they
are men who have never been in politics
before and don't owe their election to any
of the city bosses.
| The attendance of the members was
much more prompt and little fuller than
yesterday, as the vote shows. The joint
session met promptly at noon, with Sena-
| tor Goebel in the chair.
| The chamber of the House was packed
to suffocation. The same crowd that was
| present last week to see an election or a
fight was down agsin to-day, Louisville,
Lexington, Harrodsburg, Covington and
| other places contributing their quota of
politicians. big and little, and sensation
seekers. The session ended, however.
| without any sign of Scrap nothing
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tion, which don't kill directly, but some
times lead to killing in cases like these.
Nothing of the sort, however, has hap
pened in the Kentucky Legislature
since long before the war, and it is
Edevoutly to be wished that the sky viii
clear this time without any such lament
able occurrence.
1t can but be attended with disgrace and
disaster to the State. The situation is
very much strained, however, and it will
not take much to set the trouble afoot.
There was something very much like a
sigh of relief went up from the bosoms OF
most of the people present when the House
went into the joint session without any
move toward calling up the contest cases.
The crisis is only postponed, however,
for some action must be taken soon if an
election is to be had during this session by
either party.
If the Republicans drop Hunter and
| take up Wilson, they stand chance of
eiecting him at once. If they take ex-
Chief Justice Holt they have the same
chance. "Tony" Carroll, the only Demo-
cratic representative from Louisville, and
who has been voting for scattering from
the first married Judge Holt's daughter,
and, of course. he would vote for his father
in-law but DR.. Hunter persists in staying
on the track. though be sees that he can
not be elected unless Kaufman from Lex
ington and Tompkins from Owensboro are
unseated and replaced with their Repub-
lican contestants.
This the Republicans say they have a
legal right to do, as they have had formal
Investigations and reports. There were
no contests in the Senate and there have
been no committees of investigation ap-
pointed, yet the Democrats announce
that when the unseating game begins they
are prepared to "see the ante" and Ego it
two better" and play the game to the end
and wide open and without any limit.
Any collision is to be avoided if possible,
for one could not occur without good
many people getting hurt. Blackburn has
strong and devoted following of brave
men at his side, and Hunter is looked after
very closely by such men as Captain Jack
Chinn, Captain Jim Williams and others
of that ilk.'
The ballot to-day made the SEVENTEEN
| taken since the Blackburn Hunter contest
opened and yet it continues to draw good
crowd of local and foreign spectators.
More would be present but that they fear
being caught in a row. This particular
kind of fight is n ew in Frankfort, a Re-
publican running against Democrat for
Senator in the Kentucky Legislature-and
leading the race, too.
/ Indeed, the spectacle seems to draw
nearly as we'll as circus, and last week as
the news spread around in the country
parties of chill billiesn came in one after
another to see the untoward sight. They
did not seem much edited, however, as
they saw no difference, as far as they could
judge, between the Republicans and Demo
Gratis, and as they did not understand what
was going on they soon Withdrew.
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