The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-09-12
Routed Goebelites in a Demo
cratic Stronghold.
WHEN BRYAN CONES TOKENTUCKY
of Nebraskan on the Stump
Looked Forward to with Mingled Feel
ings of Interest and Auxiety-The Fight
Is Being Carried on with Accelerated
Vim and vigor-speakers Who Deal in
Personal Abuse Have Gained Down.


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excitement in the Kentucky campaign
have not abated in the least degree.
While there is some surcease from so
much personal abuse on the part of the
warning factions Of Democrats. the situa-
tion is still critical Last week was full of
oratory, the Goebelites alone holding
meetings in as many as forty places
daily. Goebcl and Blackburn have stopped
abusing Owens. Breckenridge. and Hal
lam and are conducting their canvass a
little more decorously. The ex-senator
soon found out that TO keep up TRADE of
abuse on men who had been his friends
would absolutely destroy his chance of
being reelected to the United States SEN
ate.
The first straw In the wind in this cam
paign was observed al Paducah. a Demo-
cratic stronghold, last week, where a pri
mary election was held to select nominees
for city ticket There was a Goebel and
an anti-Goebel slate, and the slate of the
kenton County boss was smashed. The
anti-Goebel ticket was elected by an over
whelming majority. The Brown Demo-
Gratis and Republicans are rejoicing over
this victory, contending that it shows
what the result of the gubernatorial race
will be-
In the past few days the battle cry has
changed from the Goebel election law and
the Louisville and Nashville TO the killing
OF John ID. Sanford. The explanation
made by Col. Jack Chinn in a New York
interview is characterized as incorrect in
every respect by the leaders of the bolt
ers. The killing of Sandford is undoubt-
edly hurting GoebeI
Interest in Bryan's Visit.
Mr. Bryan is TO begin his speech-mak-
ing tour in Kentucky on October . and a
great deal of interest and anxiety is be-
Ing felt in the nature of the speeches he
Is to make i'm the interest of the Goebel
ticket In his book, "The First Battle"
he Justifies bolting, and argues that there
are times when Democrats should bolt.
and the anti-Goebel papers have been
quoting the Nebraskan on this subject.
Ii is contended that the only argument
that Mr.. Bryan will be able to make will
be that the Democratic ticket should h..
elected here this year in order to preserve
the supremacy of the party in this State
and save Senator Blackburn. Every anti
Goebel Democrat in Kentucky was for
Mr.. blackburn for the Senate prior to the
Louisville convention, but they are now
lndiiferent to his success, if not actually
opposed TO it,
Attorney General Taylor, the Republican
nominee for governor, who was In Louis
vile yesterday, said that he had no doubt
he would be elected by a handsome pIu-
rality. They cannot steal enough votes
to elect Goebei,' declared Mr.. Taylor.
speaking of the men in charge of the
Ccebel machine. THE Republican State
ticket will win, and the legislature will be
arti-Goebel and anti-Blackburn. The peo-
pie of Kentucky will stand no chicanery
in this contest"
George W. Long, chairman of the Re
publican campaign committee, is the hap
piest looking man i'm politics in Kentucky
this year. He admits that the Republi-
cans may have some trouble securing a
fair count, but they are ready for trouble
now. Why" said the Republican chair
man, don't you see what those fellows
up in the mountains said the other day.
They said they'd lynch the first man
caught stealing votes. Well, they meant
it; and the people feel that way all over
the State. The Goebelites are not going
TO try to steal Kentucky this year"
No Outside Hep Necessary
Mr.. Long said that for the present no
speakers from other States would be ask
ed TO come to Kentucky, although the
best campaign orators in the Republican
party had rendered their services
I'VE have had offers from party lead
ers in New York. Illinois, Pennsylvania.
Indiana, Massachusetts. Michigan, and
several other States to come here TO speak
for the Republican nominees, but so far
We feel that these men are needed worse
elsewhere. They've got to give US a
square DEAL
A. W. Young. the chairman Of the GOe-
bel campaign committee, declared that the
Brown boom was dying out and that the
argument that the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad was the great power that
was fighting Goebel was turning many
farmers and workingmen to G0ebel who
had at first been opposed to him.
Maj. p. =. Johnston. of Lexington. the
rominee of the anti-GoebeI Democrats for
lieutenant governor and chairman of the
Brown campaign committee. is still a sick
man. and has not yet been able to take
an active part in the campaign. Capt
w H. Sweeney, chairman Of the State
central and executive committees of the
Brown men, has stumped the State from
one end to the other. and he says that
Goebel will not be able to poll many more
than half OF the Democratic votes of the
State
on all sides it is reported that the p-o
pie are stirred up. and that the vote will
be the largest ever pGlled in Kentucky
Attorney General Taylor has just com
pleted a tour of the Little Sandy Valley.
v here he made about twenty speeches.
and he says he never saw so much inter
est i'm an election. He will begin his trip
through Western Kentucky week after
next. Gen. Taylor says he will carry
more than half the big Democratic coun-
ties of Western Kentucky IF he Is given
anything like a fair deal Eastern Ken
lucky is naturally Republican.