Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-15
Kentucky's Republican Candidate for
Governor Calls.
TALKS OF THE RECENT CAMPAIGN
Delegates of the National Grange
Are Received.
9TH Err CALLERS TODAY

| man. and Edward Orear. the republican
| jurist who has been elected to a seat the
| berch of the highest court of Kentucky,
called on President Mckinley at the White
| House today. Mr.. Orear will give the
publcans majority on the court of ap-
| peals, and enable them, they say to appeal
| With some hope of success from what they
| have heretofore characterized as the par
| tisan decisions of the courts.
| Mr.. Combs said to a representative Of
| The Star that he had not fully decided
| whether contest will be made for the
electoral vote of Kentucky. THE contest
would have to be made before the Goebel
| board of commissioners he said with
| shrug Of his shoulders.
| Mr.. Yerkes resigned his position as COL
| lector of internal revenue of one of the
kentucky districts just prior to the elCc-
| ton His place has not been filled, and ne
| will probably be reappointed. In June last
| Mr.. Combs resigned his place as pension
| agent at Louisville. 1t is understood he
| will be reappointed to the position
| MIR. ierkes His Campaign.
| To a Star reporter who asked him about
| the result of the election in Kentucky Mr..
Yerkes said:
| chairman Combs of the state campaign
committee tells me that on the face of
! the returns Mr.. Beckham's majority for
| governor will be in the neighDorhood Of
| $500 votes. The election was held under
| the famous. or rather Infamous, Goebel
| election law. The election ma chnery was
| in the absolute control of the democratic
party. This machinery was used to It's
| fullest capacity, and while / see no special
| good in defeated candidate complaining,
| yet from the information given me by the
| committee and from facts known personally
| to myself l am confident that by the deft
ma nj on Of tna no
| can national and state tickets were de-
| fIauded of from 12,000 to $4,000 votes. l
am informed by Mr.. Combs that l received
| more votes than any republican candidate
| was ever given before in Kentucky.
mo, have no regrets about having made
| the race. The nomination came unsolicited
| and was unanimous. l received the absO-
| lutely solid support of the republican
ganiZation in Kentucky, and backed
| by the old-time leadership Of the honest
| democrats of my state. Yet even this COM
| bination could not stand before the ma
chine. One of the most pleasant and re-
markable features of the canvas was the
| splendid sup lort given the republican ma
| tional and state tickets by the eX-confed-
| crates of my state. These gentlemen rep
| resent leadership. social, business, moral
| and political. The broad liberal nolicy of
| the President at the opening of the Spanish
| war IN recognizing eX-confederateS and ap-
| pointing them to positions of high military
| rank was a lea ling factor in securing the
| good will Of these gentlemen. Then they
stand for honesty in politics, for legal and
| political equality in Kentucky. Among
| some of the ex-confederates who were hon
| est and sincere in giving us their support
! were Generals Buckner and Duke, Co.onel
| Morgan, Bishop Dudley and others OF broad
| influence in their respective localities.
| Results of the Race.
"You ask as to results of the race, and
| kindly suggest that 1 made a strong fight.
| One of the old-time lawyers In my state
| do hpf a h
| in ten minutes after the jury retired to
| consider it's verdict 1t returned a YER
dict against the Old lawyers client. a min
ute afterward a gentleman stepped up and
said to him: Your speech was the great
est ever made in this court house His
response was: I judge speeches by their
results, and, therefore, in my Judgment, l
made a very poor argument
| Under this rule | made very poor race,
| as | was defeated, but one result of the
contest is that we have forced the parts IN
| democratic legislature Of Kentucky to pass
| a bill repeating in part the vicious pro-
visions of the Goebel law. The legislature
! refused to make this new law effective this
| year 1t admitted thereby that, while
| the democratic party proposed to be par
| TALLY honest in 1901, it reserved the right
| to be dishonest in 1900. Under the new
| law, while cannot hope for absolutely
| fair elections, we have made mar
! vicious stride toward regaining po-
| litical equality and civil liberty. The fight
| was hard on the democracy and Gov
| ernOr Reckham this year that the egsla-
| ture few days before the elections amend
| ed the law in order to satisfy right-thilking
| men, hoping that this would bring support
to the state democratic ticket. although the
| election required this year to be held
under the Goebel law. Again, | believe that
| some of the allies who have come to us
| and who stood shoulder to shoulder with
US in this campaign. and who represen; the
| very best elements Of Kentucky citizenship
| are with US permanently, that | am
! looking forward. and not backward hoping
| for the best, and believing that the repub-
| iican party, If it pursues the same wise,
| liberal and conservative policies nationally
which have marked the present adminstcL-
| tlon, Will carry Kentucky in 1904
| Gransers Received.
| President Mckinley gave reception in
| the east room this morning to the delegates
attending the meeting in this city Of the
| National Grange of the Patrons of Hus-
| bandry. Assistant Secretary Brigham of
! the Department of Agriculture accompa-
| MED the delegates. In shaking hands with
| the President many of the delegates toak
| occasion to congratulate him and to assure
| MIN that the country was with him in his
| conduct of public affairs.
| Representative Wise May Contest.
| Representative R. a. Wise of the second
| Virginia district was one of the Presidents
contest the election of his democratic op-
| ponent, he said: Il have not decided wheth-
| er will make a contest. Our people will
| meet on Monday next to consider the re-
ports Of the election and go over the situa-
| ton. After that i will decide on what
| course l will pursue"
| Henry p. Cheatham recorder of deeds
who did such good work for the republican
! party to receive President Mct.inley's
| personal commendation, was at the White
| House.
| Other Callers Today.
Among the other visitors were Judge
Gray of Delaware and Gen. Hawkins, AS
sociate Justice Brewer, Postmaster General
Smith and Representative-eect Hoffecker
Of Delaware. Mr.. Hoffecker says that the
two factions of Delaware republicans will,
probably get together in the election of
! two senator's Each faction will caucus
and select q nominee, 1t is thought, and
| then both factions will combine on these
nominees for the two senatorships.