Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-02
REPUBLICAN, HOPES
The Leaven Has Been Working in
Kentucky for Years.
MAY ULTIMATELY ACCOMPLISH MUCH
Probability of Yerkes' Election as
Governor Increasing.
w ILL K E EP UP FIG HT
AY ULTIMATELY ACCOMPLISH MUCH
W ILL K E EP UP FIG HT
Special From STAFF Correspondent.

heaven Ol TepuDuCanlSm mas Deen working
in Kentucky gradually for several years,
| but the end is not yet in sight. 1t began
| to be effective when Bradley was elected
| governor of the state republican was
| sent to the United States Senate and sew
| eral republican representatives in Congress
| chosen. Then came setback in which the
| democrats regained the mastery But the
old leaven was still there, the party
strength was increasing, and last Novem-
ber, despite untoward conditions of the
most fragrant character, interposed by the
opposition, a republican governor was
again elected.
Everybody knows how the legislature
was recast, and he was turned out of Of
fee, so that the democrats are again
in full control and will send Bryan DEM
ocrat to the Senate But the old leaven of
| republican principles is again at work and
may ultimately accomplish something.
The First DisintcgratiOn.
The first disintegration of the old party
| came with the advent of the free silver
propaganda and as a result in a small
degree of the evil effects of the German
Wilson tariff act. Nowhere in the Union
was the free silver heresy more bitterly
controverted than in the business and in
dustrlal regions of kentucky. There was
| an immediate breaking of party lines, and
the gold gemocrats voted with the repub-
icans.
In 1896 they went for Mckinley, sound
money and a protective tarff, and their
vote carried the state.
Then came the state issues to further di-
vide the democrats. The wavering forces
of the Bryanites We're rallied by a MASTER
full young leader. GOebel into a compact
organization. An election law was passed
which permitted the use of corrupt meth
DDS at the polls by dishonest men when
ever necessary to an end and the r.en
could be found
This sloughed off another bunch Of old
line democrats. Some of them went half
way to republicanism in form and all the
way in effect The unsavory memory of
earlier republican history prevented them
from openly espousng the cause, and it is
not safe to assume that they will ever to
any great extent come bodily into the re-
publican party, although they will lend it
their aid and interest as long as the per-
petuation of principles in which they are
mutually concerned shall demand. For the
present common necessity binds them to
the republican party, but if the democracy
is rehabilitated, if an honest election law
and conservative state administra ton eft
fected and free silver abandoned the old
Bourbons will probably be found in the
saddle again. AS that consummation is so
remote as to be almost unima ginable, for
the present the republican party will con-
tnue to receive the invaluable aid Of the
best men of the old democratic party in
Kentucky.
Strong GOebeI Sentiment
In Covington the Goebel sentiment is
probably stronger than anywhere in the
state, for this is his home. A few demo-
Gratis, it s said, will vote for the repub-
ltcan candidate for governor, but even
those will cut the rest of the ticket and
vote for Bryan and for the democratic can
didate for Congress, Mr.. Gooch. This dis
trict, the sixth, Is now represented in the
House by Mr.. Berry. He showed signs last
spring of dissa tisfaction with the Goebel
tad
Mr.. Berry Is not sulking, however but Is
out on the stump for the regular ticket.
The democratic candidate will doubtless be
elected. as the normal democratic majority
is large.
AS far as can be observed the original
Goebel faction is still dominant in the party
and working with determination to keep
its organization intact. There Is great bit
terness between them and the Brown dem
ocrats and gold democrats, the latter being
regarded republicans. The result IS to
ca use personal arrangements and breaking
up of old relations. similar, it is said, to
the division among the people at the out
break of the war Of the rebellion.
While the campaign in Kentucky is more
bitter, it is not so animated in Indiana,
where the contest, while pushed to the ut
termost, seems more friendly and upon ma
tional issues. For one thing the kentucky
ians have more at stake and their civil and
property rights are in the balance, many
OF them think.
The Indiana voters who sell their ballots
abide by the result and accept with cheer
fulness whatever government Is placed
upon them, taking it as part of the bar
gain. There does not seem to be so much
evidence of bargain and sale in Kentucky.
Under the peculiar election methods now
prevalent 1t is not necessary. as the pos
session Of the election machinery does the
work.
Probably n Republican Governor.
The probability of the election of re-
publican governor Is increased by the ap-
parent Indifference Of the republicans to
Kentucky's presidential vote. The impress
sion seems to prevail that McKnley's ma
jority in the electoral college will be large
enough without Kentucky. The result of
this feeling is that when democrat talks
OF voting for the republican governor on
state issues, but expresses desire to stick
to the regular national ticket he is not dis
couraged, and a feeling of fellowship is es-
tabliShed.
If the republicans should not win this
fall 1t will mean prolongation of the I'M
happy strife during the interim and a re-
newal and increase Of effort at the next
election. In such event there is no doubt
that the alliance between anti-Goebel DEM
ocrats and anti-silver and the republicans
would become stronger.
This tendency Is manifested in the drift
of politics within the year. Last November
there was regular Brown ticket in the
field, with good organization. This year
the ticket is abandoned and greater freedom |
Is given the Brown men to vote for the
republican ticket instead of an Independent
ticket.
Determination of Business Interests. |
One thing is in evidence. The business
interests Of Kentucky. irrespective Of past |
party Affiliations, are determined to wrest
the control of the state from the faction
which now possesses it. All the weight |
and influence of the great Industrial mer-
camille and FINANCIAL interests are massed |
in opposition to group of politicians who |
at this time have a following with the |
people sufficient to give them supremacy.
If they don't win this time it means an |
other season of unsettled politics and dis
turbed business conditions until they do |
succeed, for the result is inevitable, even If |
delayed. N. o. NJ.
General Resumption of Mining.
HAZLETON, Pa, November 2.-Every
colliery in the Hazleton region is in opera
tion today. Crawford & Dugan's stripping, |