Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-07
Blackburn Tires of Playing Second
Fiddle to Goebel.
KEEPS ON SHf SICK LIST
Candidate for Governor Not a
Popular campaigner.
ROW OVER HEADQUARTERS
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
LOUISVILLE, KY, September 8, 1899.
There are evidences that ex-senator
Blackburn is preparing to bolt the twin
ship with Candidate Goebei that the task
of keeping up one end of the so-called po-
litical hippodrome is too trying upon his
nerves, and that his future safety depends
upon the persistency with which he can re-
main too sick for further campaigning"
Hence the arrangement just announced for
Capt Jim Blackburn, a brother of Joe's, to
tour eastern kentucky with Goebel
In speaking of this fact a pioneer demo-
crat who has been in nearly every town
in which Mr.. Goebel has spoken on his
present canvass, said to your correspon-
dent: 1.-The cold stare, the clammy grasp,
the frigid demeanor of the man from Ken
ton county demands that he have a 'jollier'
in the aggregation. He could no more make
a popular trip around the state alone and
fail to lose followers by the score than he
could refrain from bilingsgate when press
ed to his corner by an antagonist. Goekel
knows this; therefore he insists upon a
running mate with the qualities known as
the glad handshake' and the laughing eye,
and when he and Joe Blackburn are en-
deavoring to please the populace Joe is
compelled to spend one-haif his time telling
his old friends how about GoebeP and his
Indifferent way, and the other half making
pleasant replies for William as he returns
in his own peculiar style the cordial greet
ing of an admirer."
GOebel Harps on Fraud.
Mr.. Goebel never mentions his pet cleo
ton bill that he does not harangue the au-
dience about frauds in the eleventh con-
gressional district the republican strong
hold of the state.
what about these frauds in the noun
tain countless and what effect will the
Goebel election bill have in that section"
leading lawyer from eastern Kentucky
was asked by your correspondent.
Talk of fraud and the necessity of the
Goebel law in the mountains is all rot"
he said. I'VE don't need such restrictions
there. and Mr.. Goebel and his followers
know it. He knows it is with such a law
as this that the grossest frauds can be per-
petrated in the crowded cities such as
would be impossible in the mountain coun-
ties. You go up in my county and
there you find that the officers of the cleo
ton know the voters personally and can
come pretty near telling when evening
falls how every man in the precinct has
voted. In the cixes it is different The
voters are unknown practically, and #
those with the authority to do so make up
their minds to beat the election they SIM
ply appoint two shrewd partisans of their
own stamp and some, iliterate individual
of the opposite side, and the rest is easy.
NO, Sir, you neeG not worry ABOUT FRAUDS
in the eleventh this fall What you want
to do is to keep your eye on Louisville,
Covington, Newport and other large cities
in the state" =
Breach in GoebeI's Ranks.
That there has been a breach in the ranks
Of the Goebelites the gossipers insist. 1t
was announced by the local organ of the
Goebe men a few days ago that State
Chairman Allie Young had decided to re-
move the Gobel campaign headquarters
from Frankfort to Louisville. 1t was fur
Their stated that the change would be made
within day or two and other papers later
announced that the Gait House had been
selected for the headquarters in this city.
When week elapsed and the change was
not made rumors became current of a
breach. 1t is announced definitely this
week that the headquarters will not be
moved to this city, but will remain to the
end of the campaign at the capital city OF
the state. 1t is reported that Mr.. Goebel
Immediately sat down upon the pro-
posed change and assured Mr.. Allie Young
that no such move would be made.
For this reason the political gossipers
are telling 1t that a GOODNESS has suddenly
sprung up between Messrs. Goebel and
Young, and that Mr.. Young may soon de-
eide to resign his newly won position as
assistant boss of the state machine" If
this Is true, it is only another evidence Of
the statement made early in Mr.. Goebers
political life that what he runs he runs.