The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-16
KENTUCKY
ELECTION
CONTEST
Nov in Full Swing at the Capital Of
the,B Blue Grass
State.
GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES
In Attendance and Proceedings Con-
dst of Legal Battles
Of Counsel,


contest boards in the governor and
lieutenant governorship cases, which
were to begin their sessions al 9
O'Clock to-day, were late in getting to-
gether Trains from the east brought
several hundred witnesses, most Of
whom were from Lexington.
1t was exactly 10 o'clock when Chair
man Hickman, Of the Goebel-Taylor
committee. raped for order. Every
member of both boards answered to roll
call. Alonzo Walker and John P. Cas-
sldy we're sworn as stenographers.
Chairman Hickman announced the
hours OF meetings. which, after to-
morrow, will be from 2 to in the af-
ternoon and from to . in the evening.
A morning session viii be held
tomorrow. but no afternoon ses-
sion. The attorneys occupying
seats on the Taylor Marshall
side were Ex-Governor Bradley, Judge
w. Fl. Yost, It. L. EdeIman and Col. w.
c. p. Breckenridge; those on the Goe-
bel side, Louis McQuown, zack Phelps,
Aaron Kahn and James Andrew Scott.
Senator Coleman, chairman of the
contest board in the case Of the lieu
tenant governor. announced that the
sittings of that board would be the
same as those of the committee trying
the governors case. The two boards
will sit together. Taylor's attorneys
filed protest against the boards sit
ting in the case. The protest is based
on the ground that the charges filed by
Taylor several days ago. alleging that
several members are disqualified for
serving, were overruled without inves-
tIgation; that the charges, II investi-
gated, would relieve these members
from serving, and that the committee
would then be without quorum. Ex-
ceptions were also filed as to many i'm
portunt parts of Goebers and Beck
hams notices of contest. Many Louis
Vile witnesses were called and directed
to appear before the board at o'clock.
A recess was then taken until o'clock.
The Louisville election win probably be
the first matter OF investigation before
the committee. Among the witnesses
are Mayor Weaver. Chief OF Police ia
cob Hanger, General John B. Castle
man. and many other prominent men of
both political parties.
Dense crowds packed the Hobbies and
galleries in both legislative branches. In
the senate. Senator Howard Republi-
cau), introduced resolution that n
COMMITTEES be appointed to investigate
the charges of Governor Taylor as to
Senator's Frazier, Crenshaw and Allen,
the senate members of the contest COM
mittee.
The resolution was referred to the
judiciary committee with instructions
to report tomorrow at noon. a similar
resolution as to the lieutenant COVER
nor contest was similarly disposed Of.
Judge Yost offered objections to
Member Sharp, of the lieutenant COVER
nor's contest board, charging him with
having stated that his mind was made
up for the contestants. Goebers attor-
ney asked until tomorrow to respond
to the objection. Chairman Coleman
granted the time. and Tnylor's attor-
neys objected. Kohn, of Goebel's coun-
sci, filed the afIidavIts of all members
of the contest board who are under
challenge. and also the afFldavits OF
the clerks OF both house of the legls-
lature. These deny the allegations in
the Taylor protest and in the afiidavIts
submitted at the morning session.
Judge Yost asked that Governor Tay-
lor's attorneys be given until to-mor-
row morning to contruvert the afiduv-
its, filed by Mr.. Kohn for the members
of the contest boards in response to
Taytor's motion that they vacate Mr..
Kohn objected. and insisted that the
trial be proceeded with. The response
of Member Sharp was also filed, and
the objection of Taylor's counsel on all
OF these matters was overruled. At
torney Edelman then proceeded to argue
the exceptions filed to the notices of
contest. The notices, he held. were in
sufficient and defective, In that they
arrogated to the contest board judicial
powers not conferred upon that body
by law; that In the allegation that
several thousand voters were kept
away from the polls by the militia in
Louisville, there was no allegation that
those persons kept away from the polls
would have voted for Goebel In any
event; that the allegation regarding al
legged unlawful mandatory injunctlons
issued by Judge Toney, in Louisville.
failed to show that the alleged unuu-
thorized persons who entered the polls
did anything that affected the result OF
the election; that the charge Of intimI-
datlon of railroad employees by rnilroad
officials should be supported in the no.
tlce, by giving names of persons
charged with such intimidation. Sew
eral other paragraphs were challenged
on the ground OF Indennlteness, He
moved to strike out section 0 OF the
notice, which relates to alleged lntlml-
dation of the Jefferson county board of
election commissioners. Mr.. Phelps re-
spondcd for the Goebel side, claiming
that none Of the objections cited by
counsel on the other side were really In
the way,
There viii be several Republican as
pirants from the west,