The representative., 1899-11-16
DEAD SHOT REMEDY co.. Boston Block Minneapolis Minnesota

Frankfort, who had been appointed an
election commissioner for that county
| He asked Mr.. Thompson to decline the
appointment, and among other things
! said:
Our county is all right, safely Demo
ocratic, but the city election cannot be
won by fair count, and you know that
as we'll as l do. Incompetent, unreli-
able Republican judges will have to be
appointed; the right of Republicans to
indicate who shall represent them as
judges will have to be ignored, and the
election commissioners will have to do
this or receive the i'll will of the city
Democrats. l could not conscientiously
do this, and know that you would not:
therefore, l advise you to refuse to act.
l had a talk with Judge Prior on the
subject, and he said for you to refuse
to act; that If you would do so he would
appoint anyone whom we might indi-
cate, which would be Ben Marshall
you know Ben; he is so partisan that
he thinks that anything that helps the
Democrats is all right l do not know
how many commissioners have seen
Judge Prior, as Mr.. Trimble saw him,
but if we are to believe reports from
Fayette, Christian and other counties.
we must conclude that Judge Prior has
been seen early and often.''
many counties in the state where the
line of procedure marked out by Trim
bic has been followed "Incompetent.
unreliable judges" have been appointed
in many counties, while in Scott,
Graves and several other counties, out
spoken Goebelites have been chosen to
represent the Republican party. Under
this law the Populists do not get an Of
f1cer Of election in the whole state, nor
do the Prohibitionists, Socialists or
Brown Democrats
Under this remarkable law, which
Bryan wants to fasten upon Kentucky
and Kentuckians, in the event of sus-
pected fraud and contest, the contest is
tried before the same partisan COM
The criminals sitting as Judges
and jury upon their crime! And the
law makes their decision final and con-
elusive
Is it any wonder that the Courier
Journal, at the time of it's passage. de-
clared of this law that:
"The people may we'll stand aghast
before the revolutionary election bill,
which has, like some dread monster,
emerged from the fastness of
passion and error, through which the
legislature has been threading it's tor
Luous way. 1t is safe to say that the |
annals of free government will be !
sought in vain for anything approach
ing it in shameless effrontery and un-
deformity. The records of re-
construction furnish nothing to COM
pare with it. The Brownlow despotism
n Tennessee was considered tolerably
reckless and tOlerably thorough in it's
lay, but the Brownlow despotism, at
is worst, ventured upon nothing so
boldly wholly bad as this"
And that
I'm one word, and at one fell swoop,
kentucky is to become the subject of a
riumvirate, which is to decide who is
o hold office and who shall not"
Is it any wonder that that journal
.dvocates public meetings of protest to
end delegates to Frankfort to denounce
this monstrous usurpation of power
# few unscrupulous and designing
men," And that the passage of this bill
which Mr.. Bryan Endorsed, by his pres
nee In Kentucky, in behalf OF it's au-
hor and platform indorsing it with
ut qualification, meant free elections
nd free government at an end in Ken
ucky and the state is given in to the
eeping of clique of self-appointed
arty managers, not to be recovered by
be people short of a political revolu-
ion.'
With this machinery of law in his
ands,' continued the Courier-Journal,
Mr.. Goebel becomes as completely
laster of the situation in Kentucky as
'iaz in Mexica or Meneley in Abyssin-
l." This is not only usurpation
power. 1t is radical despotism. 1t
every voter in the state
HON the triumvirate at Frankfort or
1eir satraps in the counties see fit or
nd 1t needful to disfranchise At one :
Ill swoop it abolishes free elections in
.entucky. II any man doubt this,
lere is the bill before his eyes. If he
lspute it he proclaims himself equally
conspirator and falsifler. Nothing
orse than tnls-moFo shameless. bare