The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-14

tl4dl the GONSTDOT lntenuS TO de- =
clare martial law in the event that +
4 Knox and Johnson counties are !
= thrown out and that he will refuse \
TO recognize Goebel as Governor y
under such conditions. This rumor +
r of martial law is not generally +
credited, though there is almost +
+ certain to be a serious clash be- \
= tween Governor Bradley and the \
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LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 13.-The tangle
growing out of last weeks election grows
worse with each day. This was the third
! day of the official count but the work of
the county boards of canvassers disclosed
| little information TO clear the situation.
| Chairman Long Of the Republican cam
paign committee to-day repeated his claim
OF a plurality of Bill for Taylor based on
official returns from 10 counties and un-
official returns from the remaining nine
The Democratic papers and leaders here
nave ceased to give figures, but specials
from Frankfort quote Candidate Goebel
and other party leaders as saying they
are confident OF the success of the Kenton
| County man.
The completion of the returns to be pre-
sented to the State Board of Election
! Commissioners when it meets at Frank
fort next month still depends upon the
| determination of the contests which are
being raised in several parts of the State,
notably the strongly Republican counties
of the Eleventh District, where the Demo-
Gratis claim tissue. ballots were used
These contests have aroused much feeling
in the localities involved. One of them in
wolves the vote of Knox County which
gave Taylor 1898 plurality. To-day Bar
louisville, the county seat, was visited by
hundreds OF persons interested in the re-
suit, their avowed purpose being to see
that justice is done.
Counsel for Candidate Taylor began ac-
ton in the Knox County District Court to
compel the county election officers to Ger
tify the vote TO the State Board of Elec-
ton Commissioners. The contention is
over ~ ballots from the First Precinct,
but the petition filed by Taylor's counsel
asserts that the election officers purpose
to throw out the county. Judge Brown
granted a temporary injunction against
such action. Johnson and Lewis counties
are affected by the Democratic charges of
Irregularities and regal complications are
likely to arise.
AT Hopkinsville a contest of a precinct
which gave Taylor plurality of IS is de-
laying the official return of the vote of
Christian County, which gave Taylor a
plurality of $50
Slow progress was made in the count
of Louisville and Jefferson counties to-
day, the Commissioners being at work on /
the Third Ward when they adjourned (
until tomorrow. Both sides are fighting I
every inch of the ground.
A number of precincts are in contro- !
versy on the ground of alleged irregulari- |
ties. In one case-the Seventh Precinct |
of the First Ward-the anti-Goebel people /
to-day secured an offer from Judge Toney |
TO compel the precinct officers to sign the /
tally sheets. The Goebel people, however,
claim the ballot-boX had been opened be- /
fore it reached the county election Off
GERS. The vote, so far as canvassed, shows !
little change from the unofficial figures
The Federal Grand Jury, which was
adjourned over the election, reconvened /
this morning and was charged by Judge /
Evans regarding election violations, par
ticularly with reference to the intimida-
ton of colored voters. He recited the
charges which had reached the ears of /
the court, described in detail the offenses /
upon which indictments should be found |
and continued:
"Conspiracies may be hard to prove. but
1t is by no means impossible to prove
them, both by direct and circumstantial
evidence; and if you should find the evil /
dence and indict those who engage in /
these conspiracies you would get at a |
class of men most likely of higher or at !
least more pretentious grade than their |
tools. This class is far more dangerous
TO the community, and their punishment |
much more desirable in every way than
the others. However, both classes should !
be indicted. The highest duty is imposed !
upon you to vindicate the law. and you !
Will the more efficiently and commend |
ably discharge that duty If you shall !
probe matters to the bottom and without
fear or favor indict every man. however
prominent or however obscure, who has !
IN
the wrongs denounced by the statute
THE court also suggests to you that |
1t is by no means impossible for officials |
OF high or low degree to engage in such |
schemes, and where that is the case the |
demand for punishment is all the more |
imperative, because an example should be !
set in the. case Of those who are charged |
with the enforcement of the law who |
make themselves the instrument Of It's
violation
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio Nov 1S.-This
was an exciting day at Vancebury, Ky,
county seat of Lewis County. twenty |
miles below here. An effort was made to
throw out the entire vote Of the county
which gave Taylor a plurality of 600, on
a technicality. 1t being claimed that the
was too thin. On this ground the election /
board. last week threw out the vote of
Mowers and Burtonville precincts, which |
gave ga Taylor 299 plurality, and adjourned
the county and to-day about 200 citizens
Hooked INTO Vanceburg and gathered
around the Courthouse when the election
board met at 10 a. M
News reached the crowd that the com
missioners were about to throw out the
vote or another precinct, and there was
an angry demonstration. Trouble seemed
Imminent, when It was announced that
the election board had reconsidered its
action by which the vote of certain pre-
cIiGts hao been thrown out and that the
entire vote OF the county would be
counted MS cast. An impromptu recep-
ton was at once arranged by the crowd
SALTER SURRENDERS.