The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-03-02
Senator Bronston and Morgan
Chinn Have a Lively Set-to
Over the Book Bill.
The Political Pot Is Boiling and Sem
sations The Order Of }
The Day.
ALL LATEST NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL.

FRANKF yRT, KY, Feb. 20 The Geo
bel election bill has passed the House
in spite Of the commendable efforts Of
the opposition to scotch 1t. This does
MT mean, however, that the bill will
bt come a law. Not by a long sight. 1t
may, but it still has some rough shoals
to get oyer before il sails out into clear
and placid waters in the legislative
stream. l told the readers of the News
in my last letter what thought OF the
Revolutionary and unDemocratic meas
ure and 4 shall never have cause to
change my opinion or that honest esti-
mate of it. The Legislators up here do
not realize what a storm is gathering
because of the way the leaders in the
Assembly have trampled upon the rights
Of the Democratic party. Tue bill will
20 to she Senate alter being vetoed
here it will meet its one formidable
stumbling block to success. Senator
BRONSON, and everybody who knows
anythii g of this L. gislature knows how
hard he fights, has sworn that he will
q ay here till the crack OF doom If needs
b-, to DE- feat the unheard of act against
tile peoples rights. he is putting him
a, II IN training Tor a test Of endurance,
and will speak for six weeks, his friends
say, but what he will Danish the Goebel
IN asure 10 the shelves Of solitude and
obliyion. hope he will be successful,
though do not often favor obstruction
or finDustering methods in public bodies.
Many of the best men in the party, out
in the state, have written letters here
and have sent petitions, begging in
legislators, or their friends to modify the
bill so as to make it Democratic and less
Rsed-like in its tenor, but the wishes OF
the people have had small weight with
the majority. / do not mean that all
the g ,od men are opposed TO the bill
Some Of the best aud most honest men
In our party favor it, but l believe 1t is
in many instances because they trust
the LADDERS aud trainers of it and have
not taken the time to properly analJ 70
tbs measure. l know Jew good mel
who think reforms necessary, but 1
think the present plan OF conducting
state elt ctions by 8, crtt ballot, is abso-
lutely fair and cannot be improved on
Tue Governor will Of COURSE, veto the
Goebel bill, and will take the full ten
days allowed To consider the disposition
OF it. This will make 1t late in the SEES
sion aud when it gets 10 the Senate l
faithfully believe Senator Bronston can
deal the death bloT TO it. l, Of course
hope so, for do not want TO See another
split in the ID, mocIatic party, and l
know it will follow as naturally as sun
shine follows rain. From seventy Ken
lucky newspapers that have seen the
past week, i clipped editorial expressions
in opposition to the Goebel bill from
forty That means something and
ought TO substantiate the position OF the
opposition.
Said an old Democrat from Davi, IS
county yesterday: IL heard that Dave
Murray is trying TO funk on the BRRcK-
ESRIDaE NEws anu am surprised. The
News has been one OF the best Demo
c,atic papers | ever read and by jlngo II
always supported DaYe. 1 said the Other
day 10 one OF my friends that believed
Dave Murray would be the Congressman
tiom the fourth district to succeed Smith
alter another term, and that was will
ing to bet fifty Genus to ginger cake
that John Babbsge would do as much az
any oLhes Two men to elect Dave"
The local option till, which has been
living breathing nightmare to the loy
ers OF irumenti, has been psssd and II il
is not sids-tracked in some way will
haunt the Y s,eereis sleeping and wax
ing. while they dwell in this vale Of
tears. This bill will make dry number
OF counties which are now Ell iying the
the irrigating privileg' which are assur'
ed only in localities where the saloon
law is in force. But It is claimed the bill
will be held up and mayhap pigeon
holed till Il no longer has vitality sufh
ciert to withstand the deadly pull O
the opposition.
One Of the sensational episodes OF ths
past week was the spirited verbal set-t'
between Senator Brouston and youns
Morgan CHM, Of the House, who, b,
the way, Is chip of the old block ane
as aggressive as we'll fed ratiler. Thu
spat came up over the Chinn school booI
bill. which Bronston has been opposinl
stsrnly. Chinn on Friday made som'
cutting remarks about the Fayeite eoun
~ Senator. and ON Saturday the ropre