Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-30
THINKS HE WILL WIN
John W. Yerkes, Republican Candi-
date for Governor
is 50 CONFIDENT THAT HE RESIGNS
Believes Mr.. Mckinley VIII Have
the Electoral Vote.
DEN FOR HIM

John W. Yerkes. republican candidate for
governor of Kentucky, is in Washington.
He is collector of internal revenue of the
eighth Kentucky district. but has rendered
his resignation to take effect November 1.
He went to see Commissioner Wilson at
the Treasury Department today. Mr..
Yerkes is absolutely sanguine of repub-
lican success in Kentucky November
6. He expresses this opinion both in
public and private. He hasn't two opinions
one for the newspapers and one for his
friends. He declares that he does not be-
lieve the democrats will be able to count
out enough votes to defeat him and the re-
publican electors.
Mr.. Yerkes says there is nothing in the
law to cause him TO resign. He is so SAN
guine of election as governor, however, he
is willing to give up his federal office
Mr. Yerkes is going back to Kentucky to-
day. On Thursday and Friday he will make
speeches in Louisville, on Saturday in Lex
irgton and Georgetown, and will probably
be on the stump even on Monday. Talking
of the situation today, he said to repre-
sentative of The Star:
Election Under the GOebel Law.
THE election will be held this year under
the Goebel election law, without any modl-
fication of that vicious measure The DEM
ocratic legislature, in called session last
week, passed a election law, which
eliminated to some extent the worst fea-
lures of the Goebel law, but refused to
make this law effective this year so as to
apply to the coming election. The demo-
cratic party in Kentucky thereby gave evi-
dence of its willingness to be politically
honest in 1901, but declines to be politically
honest in 1900 This results not only from
political fear. but desire to hold every
advantage that an unfair law can give
Notwithstanding this, 1 feel absolutely con-
fident that both the state and national re-
publican tickets will win out next week in
my state. 1 do not think there will be any
material difference between the vote to be
given for the republican electoral ticket and
the vote which will be received by me- the
only state officer on the republican ticket
Believes Republicans Will Win.
''I believe We will win, because the re-
publicans of Kentucky We're never SO
aroused, enthusiastic and determined. We
have never had a better or more thorough
ly effective organization. The populists had
no electoral ticket in the last presidential
campaign; they gave their support solidly
to Mr.. Bryan. This year they have an
electoral ticket and are giving it cheerful
support in many portions of the state.
while some of the democrats who sup
ported Mckinley in 1896 are now support
ing Bryan, all through Kentucky you will
find many clear-headed business men and
farmers who supported Bryan in 1896 who
are now for Mckinley, and openly say so.
They are perfectly satisfied with the con-
dtions that exist today and have existed
since March, 1897. So far the state race
is concerned, and this is partly true Of the
national race many of the od-time leaders
of the democratic party are standing with
US in Kentucky. 1t is very high compii-
ment to the attitude and status of the re-
publican party in Kentucky with regard to
state issues when such od-time democratic
leaders as eX-Govs. Buckner and Brown,
Senator Lindsay, eX-RepreSentatives Stone,
Breckenridge, owens and Dicke-son, Gen.
Basil Duke, Col. Dick Morgan, brother of
John Morgan; Capt. Ed. HIND and many
others who might be named are supporting
me with the same forcefulness, ability and
vigor that they formerly gave the demo-
cratic nominees. The truth is the new, or
machine democracy Capt. Phil b.
Thompson, sr., styles it, is almost without
a head, and We're it not for the appeal to
passion and prejudice by reason of the as
SasSination of Senator Goebel they would
be without an issue and without leaders"