The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-04-11
NEEDS ONE
MORE Vote.
Hunter is Again Near an Election
at Frankfort.
BALDWIN PROMISES TO AID HIM
AND HIS IAIPAsSIoNED SPEECH
IN THE ASSEMBLY CAUSES MUCH
EXCITEMENT = SIEGE ALSO
PROMISES TO VOTE FOR HUNTER
IF ANOTHER VOTE CAN BE Sc
D-BLACKBURN MEN PULL
ING WIRES.

Frankfort, Ky, April 10.-The return
of Baldwin, "ne of the boiling Republi-
cans, to Hunter in to days exciting Sena-
torial ballot, has served to raise the
spirits CT the Republican Senatorial
nominee; to more securely bind to him
those followers; to determine that no new
nominee shall take his place and to put
every Hunter man to work ms they have
not worked before in weeks. The occur.
renee makes remote any possibility of
hunters withdrawal, even ii there should
be no election for weeks. With Hunter
now lacking only two votes of IN election,
it is confidently claimed that Senator
Siege, another Republican bolter, will
return to him whenever his vote will
elect, and that one other needed vote will
he secured somewhere no matter what
pressure it takes to get it.
With Hager, the newly elected Demo-
GRAFT, expected to arrive tonight, and
without Senator Ogilvie, the sick Demo
crat, away, there are with all present
only sixty seven Hunter votes to the sew
enty anti-Hunter people, made up of
three factions, that cannot unite on any
man of their own for the reason that some
one Of the three factions would lie certain
to lose one or more men to Hunter in
case of stamp ede. But these seventy
can break Il quorum if they will unite on
that plan to prevent Hunters election
Then he wouldss lack three votes of an
election, for, while he has siXty-seven of
the sixty nine that will elect. it takes
seventy to make the quorum that must
be present and voting before any cleo
ton San occur. 1t is reported tonight
that the gold Democrats who will not vote
for Hunter, but who want some one elect
ed, and have therefore voted when the
Ram hi iouna did tO nl,n a..
forcing the Blackburn men to votes are
now bad enough scared to agree with the
blackburn Democrats and the boiling Re.
publicanS not to vote any more Or allow
quorum until all danger of Hunters
election is passed, and they themselves
can agree upon II imam to elect in his
stead.
The Blackburn people know that no
such combination can be niade that. as
long as they can get help and break n
quorum, and keep the encouraged Repub.
lican nominee on the track, they can pre-
vent an election. This ''no election plan"
is the one therefore upon which their I'm.
divided strength is, and has been from
the first, conferred, and the plan is backed
up by the shrewdest politicians and ma.
neuvreS ever seen in even Kentucky
political tournament The Hunter Deo-
pie do not believe the sound money Dem
ocrits, who have said there must be cleo
ton, will go permanently into the quo
rum breaking business, and trusting to
them TO make the quorum, they have
gone Zealously to work to get Siege back
and to get that other needed Hunter vote
hunters chances are brighter than they
have ever been before. 1t is almost GER
tain that no quorum will vote Monday
and that the final struggle will not come
till next week.
The Blackburn people again attern pied
to break a quorum to-day, but were un-
successful. The .twenty-ninth ballot re-
suited as follows: Hunter, 90; Blackburn,
40; Boyle, Z; Martin, 13; Stone, /. Pres.
ent, l2S; necessary to II choice 60. On a
motion to adjourn the vote stood GA to
"a, and Speaker Worthington cast the lie
Gliding vote in favor of another ballot.
On the second ballot Representative
Baldwin, one of the Republican .bolters,
made IN impassioned speech and cast his
vote for Hunter. This caused the assem-
bly, to go wild, and for a time it looked as
If Hunter would be elected without diff
Guilty. The ballot resulted Fun .er. 63:
Blackburn, %; Martin, IL: Boyle, g.;
Stone, [.
The general assembly refused to adj
lourn by vote of "a to 81, and the third
ballot was ordered. Senator Siege, who
boltrd Hunter several days ago, stated
that If Hunter got another vote he would
also vote for him, thus electing him. The
Republicans received the announcement
with cheers, and Hunter was within one
vote of the United States Senatorship
After the continuous balloting, the
Joint session adjourned ut 2:55 D. H.,
without result.
HEI.M'S MIIJIN ERY
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