Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-05
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Conferences With Secretary Root
and Mr.. Hill,
SENATOR BURROWS CAMPAIGN PLANS
Outlook in Kentucky Encourages
Republicans.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR RECEIVED

| The President had conferences today with
Assistant Secretary Hill and Secretary
| Root, each at a different time. Mr.. Hill
| said that there were no important COM
| munications in the diplomatic field at this
| time, and that his conference with the
| President did not relate to the Russian
propositions alleged to have been received
| from the European nations.
Representative Ray and Mr. Curtis of
New York saw the President on official
matters. New York will give Mckinley
100000 majority for President" said Mr..
| Ray land will elect Odell governor and all
| the other republicans running with him.
| We will also elect six additional republican
| members Of the House of Representatives.
| The republicans We're never more harmoni-
| Gus. Every disgruntled man is in line and
| pulling to the same end. The democrats are
| cutting each other in great shape. and II is
| simply question of which can get knife
| under the others ribs first"
Senator Burrows Talks.
Senator Burrows of Michigan had a talk
| with President Mckinley this morning
| Senator Burrows several days ago came
| back from Maine, where he has been max
| ing speeches. Tomorrow he goes to New
| Jersey to talk to the republicans in state
Wheeling, w Va, and next week will be
| spent in Indiana. Through the remainder
| of September Senator Burrows will speak
| In different parts of the west. He VIII
spend October in Michigan, and will make
as many speeches as are considered neces-
| sary.
| But Michigan is safely republican" he
said. I'VE will carry the state easily by
5000 majority. There Is not much OF .
| fight, and the republicans are as we'll pre-
| pared for the fray they have ever been.
In fnnf tha fnr t1alf fnov,
| is bright everywhere. l consider the YER
mont election indicative Of republican sue
| cess. The republican majority there is
| sufficiently large to satisfy everybody. In
| the Maine election next week the republi-
| can majority will be 250O0 10000. Tho
republican majority four years ago was
much greater than this, but in that year
| everybody was out of business and em-
ployment and had nothing to do besides
| talk politics and yote.a This year the neor
pie are all busy. They think everything ID
safe and they won't bother about going to
| the polls. This confidence will cut down
| the republican majority Of four years ago."
knights TempIar Received.
The President gave reception in the
| east room this morning to a commandery
of visiting knights Templar from Charles
town. Mass. There were over 100 MEM
| bers Of the party. The President also re-
ceived several hundred excursionists from
Newark N j., headed by Lincoln 'ost, No.
| IL. G. A. r.
Kentucky Republicans ENCOURAGED.
Judge George NJ Thomas solicitor Of in
ternal revenue, has returned from Ken
lucky after a visit of ten days in that
state and called at the White House today.
He says that the republicans have COM
menced the campaign in the state and are
very much encouraged with the prospect.
John w. Yerkes. the republican candidate
for governor is fine lawyer and splen-
n aknr nd wi NAL % Sna1phpS
| of the congressional districts of the state,
| he said. He made his first speech last
Monday at Bowling Green, in Warren coun-
| ty, to an immense audience composed OF
| Brown democrats, anti-Goebel democrats
and republicans Warren county gave Tay-
| lor 16O majority last fall and Brown over
| 700 votes. The Brown vote, with few ex-
ceptions, will be cast for Yerkes and Presi-
dent Mckinley. Brown, as the anti-Goebel
candidate for governor last fall, received
1900 votes. Taylor had a majority OF
2,400, certified by the returning board.
after excluding several thousand legal votes
cast for him. Yerkes will receive a larger
| vote than Taylor, and. with the Brown vote
added, his majority in the state will be be-
tween 10000 and 10000. In that event
President Mckinley will receive the vote oi
the state.
president Mckinley is very popular, and
Will receive the entire republican vote of
the state and the votes of the gold demo-
Gratis and the Brown democrats and the
votes of many Independent democrats.
II,
in the seventh appellate district, judge of
the court of appeals, and in that event the
republicans will have four members of the
court and the democrats three members.
The court now constituted is composed
of four democrats and three republicans.
THE republicans will elect four members
Of Congress in the state, and the chances
are that they will elect six In the second
and third congressional districts the repub-
licans nominated Brown democrats, who
will receive the entire republican vote and
the votes of all the Brown democrats OF
the two districts.
Campaign on State Issues.
Mr.. Yerkes will make his campaign prin-
cipally upon state issues. AT the state elec-
ton in 1899 democratic officers controlled
every election precinct in the state and all
the county boards and the state returning
board. The democratic officers received the
ballots. counted the vote and made the re-
turns, and the state board certified the cleo
ton of all the republican candidates for
state offices upon the face of the returns.
The democratic candidates contested the
election of the republicans. and the contest
ing board decided against the republicans
and turned them all out of office on ac-
count Of fraud practiced by the republicans
when the democratic officers had complete
control of the election machinery in the
state and received and counted the vote.
Colonel Bryan is talking about impe-
rialsm. We have Imperialism pure and
simple In Kentucky. The republicans elect
ed all the state officers, who received their
certificates of election and were sworn into
office; but candidates who were rejected by
the people contested the election and were
awarded the offices in defiance of the law
and the expressed will of the people.
IF majority as expressed at the ballot
box cannot rule in the state. then Kentucky
does not have republican form of govern.
ment. Civil liberty will be the issue of the
campaign, and upon that issue the republi-
cans are sanguine of carrying the state by
so large majority that the democrats will
not dare to make another contest to turn
o1t officers elected by a vote of the people"