Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-12-08
CERTIFICATE TODAY
The Decision Close at Hand and
Eagerly Waited.
Not Later Than Tomorrow and
the New Governor Will Go
Into Office Tuesday.

Frankfort, KY Dec. THE
State Election Commissioners de-
voted yesterday to hearing argu-
ments from attorneys representing
both sides, who desired to enlight-
en- the board as to it's powers under
the law. Speeches were made for
the Democratic side by r.. F. Peake
and Louis McQuown, and for the
Republican side by d. w. Fairleigh,
A. e. Wilson and Alex. p. Hum
phrey. The argument was closed
this morning by Judge Thomas f.
Hargis, for the the Democratic side.
| The speech of Judge Humphrey was
the closing and principal argument
for the Republican side and Judge
Hargis made the leading speech for
the Democrats.
The arguments were carried on
during the day in the greatest pos
sible harmony.
The Senate chamber was jammed
to suffocation by an interested
throng of listeners. There was
not policeman anywhere around
the building, nor was there the
slightest need of one. A more or
derby, quiet audience was never
gathered in a church. Commission
err Ellis did all the talking from the
bench.
Beginning on Monday the Board
accepted and tabulated up to Tues
day night 108 counties. Before the
argument was opened the Republi-
cans withdrew objections to Green
and Harrison and these were tabu-
lated, leaving uine counties con-
tested, viz: Christian, Johnson,
Knox, Magoffin, Pike, Jefferson,
Fleming, Hopkins and Lewis.
The Republicans objected to
Christian, Fleming and Lewis in
which the county boards threw out
precincts. The Democrats filed
objections to five countes-Knox,
Johnson, Magoffin, Pike and Jeffer-
son. The grounds on which they
asked that the entire vote in these
be thrown out are as follows:
KnoX-Thin ballots and coercion
of commissioners by Circuit Judge
Brown.
Magoffin-Thin ballots.
Johnson-Thin ballots.
Pike-Thin ballots.
Jefferson--l. Intimidation by the |
military. ?. Void and unjust or
ders by Judge Toney. 3, The pres
ence of United States deputy mar
shals. 4. Duress and coercion of
election officers by Judge Toney.
5. Substitution of precinct returns
filled out by unauthorized parties.
9. That the counts were not based
on the real vote in these precincts.
In Hopkins county fraud was
charged but no votes were thrown
out, At the conclusion of Judge
Hargis argument, the Board took
the cases under adyisement, and
began the preparation of their
opinion, which will be of considera-
bic length. 1t will be made public
either this afternoon or Saturday
morning, and certificates of election
thereupon will be ISSUED either to
the entire Republican ticket or the
entire Democratic ticket.
If the defeated candidates for of
fees other than Governor or Lieu
tenant Governor wish to contest,
they will file notices at once, though
the contests cannot be tried until
eight weeks after notice is given.
Therefore, the candidates that
receive the original certificates will
go into office next Tuesday and .
serve as long as they are not mo- {
Tested by any action of the Board
of Contest.
One of the most interesting state
ments made by Judge Humphrey
for Taylor was that the candidate
who got the certificate would be in
augurated Governor without him
drance or molestation, as the de-
cision of the State Board would be
accepted as final.
On Tuesday the Commissioners