Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-03
PREDICTS TAYLOR'S SUCCESS
Solicitor Thomas Says That Kentucky
is Republican by 10000.
Says There is No Doubt of Hand
some Republican Ma
jOrity.

Judge George NJ. Thomas, the solicitor of
internal revenue, may properly be described
as the nestor of the republican party in
Kentucky He was one of four members
of the Kentucky legislature of 1861 who
voted in favor of coercion. He has ever
since been a leading republican, six years
a circuit judge, afterward commonwealth
attorney and representative in Congress-
and has attended most of the national con-
ventions of his party. Representative Sam
uel J. Pugh of the ninth Kentucky district
Is his son-in-law. Solicitor Thomas is nat
urally much interested in this years contest
in Kentucky, and explains the situation
there to a representative of The Star as
follows:
There can be no doubt that Kentucky
will give Taylor our candidate for COVER
nor, a handsome majOrity-nOt less than
2G,G00. This the GOebelites realize. They
hope, however, to count themselves IN; that
is the only question that remains unsettled
[ have no fears as to how the people will
vote. | only fear the way some OF them
may count. We learn that the democratic
mayor of Louisville is going to have a
large number of extra policemen sworn in
for service on election day. There can be
no good motive for this. They know this
city will give a large republican majority,
which, if they could keep out of the count,
might save the state for them. Mckinley
carried the city by 12,0OO, and | predict
that Taylor will carry it by loco. An
Honest Mans League has been organized
there to secure a fair vote, but whether it
will overcome the plotting of the demo-
Gratis remains to be seen. In the country
districts l think the vote will be fairly
counted. Up In my part of the state
which is an agricultural section, L know
everybody and the democratic supervisors
are all pretty fair men. There Will be an
honest count there, and the negroes Will be
allowed to vote in nearly all parts OF the
state.
Negroes viii Stand by the Party.
Speaking of the negroes, Goebel has
bought up a few of them whom he has
paraded around the state in his behalf. But
this will not amount to anything. The
negro vote will be republican, as it always
is We have a separate coach law on the
statute books which the democrats enact
ed, and Goebel is i'll favor of its remaining
there. Taylor has announced himself as in
favor of It's repeal.
The senatorship is in doubt The repub-
licans cannot carry the legislature on joint
ballot. The most they can hope TO do is, by
combining with the Lindsay democrats, TO
re-elect Lindsay to the Senate. This they
Will do If they can. If the Goebelites get
the legislature they will return Senator
Blackburn. The result, therefore, hinges
upon whether Mr.. Lindsay's followers are
able to elect enough anti-GOebel legislators
to hold the balance of power. The reasons
We cannot carry the legislature are two:
We are handicapped by a hOldover demo-
cratic majority in the senate. the holdOvers
being seventeen democrats to two repub
licans, and the state has been beslueS out
rageously gerrymandered. Boyd and Law
renee counties, both republican, for exam
pie, have 5000 voters, and yet they were
allowed only one Representative. Gallatin.
a democratic county, with 1900 voters, is
also allowed one representative. You see,
have no chance in such gerrymander-
ing. There is one congressional district in
the state into which a 5000 republican
majority has been piled If we could only
get the legislature once we would upset
this. and | am not without hope that we
may accomplish this two years hence. es-
pecialiy If we elect half of the senators to
be chosen this year. and that is what
think We shall do