The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-29
The New SOIOn Showered with Con-
gratuIatiOns and Besieged with APP
pIicants for Federal Offices.
HIS CERTIFICATE MADE OUT
AND HE WILL TAKE HIS SEAT IN
CONGRESS NEXT MONDAY.
Republicans Now Have FOrty-FOur
but Are Not Likely to Reorganixe.


Bradley has written out the certificate of
election for Hon. w. j. Deboe. of Critten-
den county, the junior senator from
Kentucky, to succeed Hon. j. c. s. Black
burn, whose term expired March 4. Sena-
tor Deboe will be- IN his seat in the Sen
ate Monday next.
Senator Deboe has suffered slight strokes
of political lightning before. The end of
the famous struggle which has extended
over two legislative sessions will go into
history the most memorable ever Ken
lucky has known. Dr. Hunter came here
six weeks ago with Republican majority
in the Legislature, with clean majority
Of these Republicans stanchly for him and
the additional backing of the national and
state party organizations, but circum-
stances were against him, and the lightning
to-day struck Deboe on the one-hundred-
and-twelfth ballot.
Republican caucuses, informal, irregular
and impromptu, were held from o'clock
yesterday afternoon till after daylight this
morning The Hunter devotees were work.
ing like beavers for Deboe and work was
also done by Bradley and his lieutenants.
The arrival of John W. Yerkes, national
committeeman for kentucky, last night
and who has stood off long as it was a
factional fight emphasized the report that
it was at last a party fight From last
night the Republicans announced that there
was not the faintest possibility of Deboe's
election being delayed longer than to-day,
but their appearance and the zeal with
which they worked showed that they were
not as certain as they appeared, and We're
afraid of the schemes of the Blackburn peo-
pie, who never quit working. They watched
every train with the eagerness of a sail
or's wife looking seaward They had tele-
grams announcing that their four absent
members would surely be here, but they
We're afraid of accidents. They were told
that Lieberth and two others had been in
| conference with Governor Bradley and
Senator Deboe, and had finally declared
themselves in line.
When the last train was in the Repub-
lican leaders announced that all of the sew
enty-one Republicans were on hand; that
Deboe would be absent, and that he was
sure to be elected by seventy-one votes 1t
looked this way to the nearly despairing
Blackburn Democrats and to the gold Dem
ocrats. Not only was Yerkes here but
State Chairman Roberts had come back
and was working hard to keep all in line
No such crowd that which gathered be-
fore the joint session was over was ever
seen in the old Statehouse before
All the Republicans in the Senate, except
Deboe, answered present So did all the
| gold Democrats except Park Smith. The
| gold Democrats in the House also answered
| present with but one exception. There
were no missing Republicans in the House
The clerk announced eighty-one present
and ordered the roll call for the sixtieth
| ballot of the session and the one-hundred-
| aEd-twelfth of the struggle. The gold Dem
| ocrats voted for Martin. with but few ex-
| ceptions. There were 135 members present
| and sixty-eight would elect. There was ap-
plause when Lieberth voted for the nom
| inee. Norman also voted for Deboe. When
the sixty-eighth vote was passed the pres
| ident could not quell the wild cheers The
Blackburn men asked for a call Of the alb
sentees, and they voted solidly for their
| man.. Henry Martin voted. too. The ballot
stood Deboe. Il; Blackburn, so; Martin, 13;
| Stone. l. Lykins was not present, nor was
| Ogilvie.
| Governor Bradley listened to the roll call.
| The wild scenes that followed could not be
| quieted. There was no chance to ask the
| victor to come forward and make a speech
| The cheering and demonstrations were
ended only by the president putting a mo-
| ton and declaring the Assembly adjourned
| sine die
| Deboe can never be charged with using
| money in his brief, victorious race. He and
his friends are too poor to give banquet
He has received hundreds of kilograms of
| congratulaton this afternoon and tonight.
| and is besieged by men for federal posi-
| tions in Kentucky.
The silver campaign of 1900 by Democrats
| OF Kentucky began tonight with a Black
| burn jubilee. Blackburn wants TO succeed
Senator William Lindsay, the gold Demo-
| crat whose successor must be elected by
| the Assembly OF January, 1900. In his
| speech tonight Blackburn said that the
| silver cause was bound to triumph in the
| end. He referred to the gold Democrats as
| Political nondescripts and caricatures on
| humanity. playing their role OF assassins by
| stabbing friends in the back