Evening star., 1900-10-02
GOEBELISM AN ISSUE
It May Cause Defeat Of Democrats
in Kentucky.
REPUBLICANS CLAIM TIE STATE
From Now on the Fight Will Be a
Hot One.
CAMPAIGN OF ORATORY.
special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
LOUISVILLE, KY, October /, 1900.
Over one hundred speeches are scheduled
for this week by the campaign managers OF
the republican, democratic and Brown DEM
ocratic parties. These take in nearly every
county In the state, and will start the ball
rolling in those counties where there was
any suggestion of apathy heretofore.
The Brown democrats, who stood as the
great breakwater between the two old par
ties last year. are again the one dangerous
quantity which the regular democrats
have to fear The Brown democrats were
slow to open their campaign against Beck
ham, the legatee of Goebel and the demo-
cratic nominee for governor but did so with
a vim when they started their opening rally
at the Auditorium here Friday night being
one of the most enthusiastic and best-at-
tended political meetings held here In four
years. The Independent democrats insisted
that the legislature which has been called
in extra session. had spent over one month
without attempting to pass fair election
law to take the place OF the GoeDel law,
which has proved so unpopular with ma
jority of the voters of the state. They said
they could hope for no relief from the Goe-
bel democrats, who have claimed the con-
troll of the legislative majority, and have
promised a non-partisan election law to take
the place of the Goebel measure. Hence,
their determination to oppose with all their
vim and vigor the election of Gov. Beck
ham. They have announced speaking APP
pointments for all the well-known orators
who took part in their campaign last year,
and whose work contributed so much to-
| ward the defeat of Mr.. Goebel and his
ticket.
Republicans Well Organized.
The republicans were never better organ
lied. and they are thoroughly aroused as to
l the main isSne of the npaiqn which Mr..
! Yerkes their standard-bearer, terms civil
| liberty" The mountain republicans claim
| that they have been slandered terribly by
| the democrats since the assassination Of
| Mr.. Goebel having been called assassins,
| red-handed mountain murderers and cut
| throats, to say nothing of other harsh epl-
| thets. They say they deserve such
odium because of the crime of one man, and
that they will put the seal of condemnation
| on the public men in the saddle who
| are slandering the mountain people. The
| eleventh district which gives about 1900
| republican majority, WILL the republican
| leaders of the district now claim, give from
| 5000 to 10000 majority this year. This.
| they assert a rebuke to Goebelism and
| its train Of other 'iSms.
| The democrats have thoroughly organ
| lied throughout the state, starting this
work earlier than the republicans. They
| opened their campaign in the 119 counties
| of the state on the same day, the first
| Monday in August, and have let no grass
! speakers on the stump In every part of
| Kentucky. and on Mondays they fire a
! regular broadside of oratory at the people
| from all the county seats where it is pos
! sible to get local speaker to send one
/ They are letting no grass grow under their
feet and If they are defeated they will be
most completely surprised.
| Claims of the Democrats.
| The democratic leaders say their reports
are the most encouraging they ever re-
ceived early in a campaign, and that
they have nothing discouraging to depress
them in the last month of the contest. One
Of the leaders of that party said the re-
ports accompanying the poll showed that
the disgruntled, anti-Goebel democrats,
have nearly all returned to their old haunts,
and that many republicans are dissatisfied
| with Mckinley's imperialism policy and
with the Taylor administration at Frank
fort last winter. They claim that the ac-
| cessions from the republican ranks will
more than counterbalance the losses of the
Independents, whom the regulars term
| as "Mckinleyites."
| conservative republican, when asked
yesterday for his estimates on the election
this year, said he had been in every district
| in the state but one. and had made some
figures recently which he felt reason
ably certain of relying.
These figures give Beckham a majority of
1900 in the first district, 1900 in the sec
ond 900 in the fourth, $500 in the sixth
and 1900 in the seventh.
He gives the republicans majorities in the
| following districts: Third 1,500; fifth. $500.
eighth, 100; NINTH 1000; tenth, 700, elev-
enth, $4,000
This gives the republicans a majority Of
nearly 5000 in the state, and this is a con-
servative claim from a republican stand
point, as many of the leaders are claiming
that Yerkes will be elected by not less than
10000.
On the other hand the Beckham follow
ers are insisting that their figures which
trey are banking on, and which some
of the more enthusiastic are betting, give
their favorite a majority of not less than
5000, and they believe 10000 or an old
time democratic ma jority, may be counted
upon If democratic chances improve during
the next five weeks as they have during the
past month.
The Fights for Congress.