Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-11-11
THE ELECTION.

pdlBu III heutuCky ulStVlyy anu
no matter what the result, the State
has been benefited thereby. Taylor
and Goebel both claim the election;
the former by 5000, the latter by
less than 1000. The most COM,
plete returns verify Taylor's claims.
The reports of the -Goebel pa
pers are published in the usual way,
by precincts, wards, towns, coun-
ties and districts, specified as Off
cial or estimated; the vote of the
respective candidates are given, the
totals added up and the final result
shown. 1t is not so in the Goebel
papers. There is an air of mystery
about their reports; they are Jumped
by wards, counties and districts,
with undesignated precincts miss
ing" and on this is based Goebels
claim, the Jumped reports often dis
agreeing with dispatches published
in the same papers. The Courier
Journal has never published a re-
port by precincts of the result in
this city, Covington, Lexington or
Newport, or, indeed, from any
county in the State. On the morn
ing after the election it claimed
Goebels election by 1000, with
over 80 precincts missing" II of
which were in Louisville, but with
out designating the missing" pre-
cincts; finally on Friday morning it
claims Goebeps election by less
than 900, with IS precincts miss
ing" S of which are in Louisville.
None of these missing" precincts
are named. On this basis Taylor's
plurality in this county is 600 less,
and in the State 5000 less than
given in the full returns published
in other papers. The Courier-Jour
nal received full returns just as the
other newspapers did, and has with
held them from the public. This
fact is well knewn, in newspaper
dom, if not by the public. In this
age of rapid transit, telephones and
telegraph no city daily paper failed
to receive within a few hours full
reports from every precinct in
cities and towns and nearly
full reports from all but the
mountain counties of the State,
and by Friday they had received
practically correct reports from
these, but the Courier Journal
states Friday morning that there
are still thirty-fve precincts miss
ing" FIVE of which are in Louisville;
in Fayette county nine Republican
precincts are omitted and the
county claimed for Goebel by 900;
in Kenton county the Goebel cleo
ton officers, except in few pre-
cincts, counted the votes alone, no
reports of the vote are given, but
the county is claimed for Goebel by
400; in Campbell county the same
tactics were followed and the
county claimed for Goebel by less
than 100. On these manifestly
incomplete reports are based the
Goebe1 claim of less than 1000
plurality.
We simply give the result as it
appears from the different reports
as we go to press Friday morning
previous to the canvass of the vote
by the County Election Boards
throughout the State. Everywhere
is excitement and meetings have
been held to arrange for prosecut-
ing violators of the election law and
insist on affair count of the vote.
Arrests have been made and more
will be of parties charged with
violating the law and disobeying
court mandamus in this city, Gov
ington and Newport, and by United
States Marshals of parties charged
with preventing negroes from vot-
ing.