Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-30
Give Bryan Her Electoral Vote and
Elect Yerkes.
THE RESULT IS VERY DOUBTFUL
Both Parties Are Making Strong
Efforts at Close.
TALK Of CROOKED WORK


| special Correspondence OF The Evening Star
LOUISVILLE. KY, October %, 1900.
A week before the election finds both par
1 ties better organized perhaps than ever be-
| fore in the history of state politics, and
| the rank and file of both bending every
| energy to win in next Tuesdays struggle
| at the polls.
| Though there has been an absence of
the extreme bitterness which marked the
| contest of last year, interest in the result
| Is second only in intensity to that ex-
| hibited in 80. Each side talks so conf
| IDENTIFY that one would be led to believe that
| both tickets would be elected If this were
not an impossibility.
Each party claims the state by from 5000
| to 1000 majority. One prominent demo-
crat predicts that Yerkes will be elected
| governor, while the Bryan electors will get
| a majority vote.
The republicans have grave fears of the
uses to which the democratic machine may
| put the Goebel election law 1t is said that
| In the city of Louisville the democrats will
| on the night before the election remove all
OF the election officers and substitute new
| list of men who are friendly to BRYAN and
| Beckham This was done last year and
| created widespread dissatisfaction and cana
| very near causing several personal difficult
| ties and bloodshed. Last year several men
were appointed republicans who were
| not republicans and some of the few re-
| publican officers who were named didn't
give satisfaction to the party leaders
| 1t Is from this partisan source that the
republicans expect the most trouble this
| year. They say the people are wrought
| up however, ard are determined on fair
| election law and a fair count. There is no
doubt that all the popular indignation
| against the Goebel party last year was
| provoked by the unfair tactics resorted to
! in many places under the cloak of the Goe-
be. law Though the feeling is not so in
tense at this stage of the contest one hears
expressions daily which indicate that the
| lion Is only slumbering and may be awak-
| ened any moment by the use of fraudulent
methods on the part Of the party in control
OF the machine.
Democrats Will Use Their Advantage.
The democrats say they are going to use
their advantage. but that they have no in
tention Of being unfair. However, one
democratic leader made the assertion one
night recently while in a heated argument
with a republican that I'VE can beat you
one way or another. But all the same we
will beat YOU This, some other leaders say
was only the expression of one man who
| lost his head.
| There is every reason for believing that
election day will witness some scenes quite
as stirring as those of last year, when
nerves were wrought up to such pitch a
| few notches more of tension would have
| snapped them.
I
| pOrtance to the governorship contest is the
race for appellate judge in the seventh APP
| pelate district. Judge Ed ORear is the
| republican candidate and Judge Hall is
| the democratic nominee. On the result in
| this district hinges the political majority of
| the appellate bench. At present the demo-
| Gratis have a majority of one. but Chief
| Justice HaZellrigg, democrat, retires in No
| vember, and If the republicans elect O'Rear
| they Will have a majority. This is the
! reason for the battle royal which is being
waged in the seventh, and which is at
| tracing attention in all parts of the state.
| The district now arranged, having been
| gerrymandered since Judge Hazellriggs
| election, is republican, but the democrats
| are said to be arranging to use the Goebel
| law for all it is worth in the district, and
are putting forth desperate efforts on the
| stump and in the ranks of the voters to
| prevent the success of Judge ORear.
| The political Importance of this particu-
| lar race may be seen when it is known that
| the appellate court will, after November
| be called upon to decide whether Caleb
| Powers, Jim Howard and Henry foutsey,
! convicted as accomplces in the murder of
| Senator Goebel, shall have new trials or
| not.
The last week Of the campaign is being
| devoted by both parties to a whirlwind of
speechmakng. Saturday the democrats
| held rallies in forty-one counties and the
| republicans had barbecues or demonstra-
| tons in thirty-nine counties. rms week =, is
valuable time and will be used to the full
| est. In Louisville the republicans will have
| afternoon speakings in various parts OF the
| city and at night will carry five or six
| spellbnders on the brilliantly illuminated
electric car Allegro making stops every
! ten or twelve squares, when speeches will
| be made.
| Interest in the Campaigning.
| The democrats, not to be outdone, are
| campaigning over the city at night in band
wagons with music and oratory to attract
crowds to the stopping places. And 1t is
but lust to both to say that the greatest
| interest is being taken in this rather novel
| style Of campaigning. In several OF the
| counties the republicans and democrats are
adopting the band-Wagon style OF canvass
| for the last week of the fight.
Louisville will be the hottest battle
ground until the night before the election,
both parties sending their best speakers
here for special addresses at the largest
| halls obtainabe. The republicans expect
| to make their finale stirring one by BRING
| ing Mr. Yerkes here for six speeches on
| November and B. He has not yet spoken
| here and as the people are anxious to near
| him it may be guessed in advance that he
| will attract large audiences
The democrats will bring MIR. Beckham
| here for two speeches on the night of No
| vember s. and expect to counteract the Ell
! fects of Mr.. Yerkes' speeches.
The democrats have adopted the ocean
| to-ocean campaign idea for the WiTd-up
| and are having speakings simultaneously
| in thirty or forty counties each day.
| The republicans will try to induce SEN
| ator Hanna to speak in this city on Thurs-
! day night of this week, if he can POSSIBLY
arrange to do so. He will probably make
| two or three speeches in Indiana during the
| day, reach Louisville early in the evening
and speak here at night.
Travelling SaIesman's Forecast.
| One of the most reliable forecasts the
| writer has yet secured was that made by a
| travelling salesman yesterday. This gentle
| man had visited fifty-siX counties out of
| 10 in the state and he had spent at least