The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-10-08
KENTUCKY SAFE FOR BRYAN.
Democrats Will Have No Trouble in
CARVING the State.

louisville KY. October 5.-(Special.)-
If confidence is q forerunner of victory
there is little doubt about the result IN
Kentucky, for at democratic state heau-
quarters II is looked upon as certainty
that Bryan and Beckham VIII carry the
state and the former by a majority Oh
$1,000 votes. The condition of affairs in
certain sections Of the state have under
gone a change for the better from a
democratic standpoint. and no doubt has
been supplanted by certainty In the dis
tricts over which the democratic man
ayers were at first apprehensive.
The poll of the state, now being taken
by the campaign committee. is being
turned in and the result Is proving est
gratifying.
Secretary Gus Richardson. who has
charge of the poll, believes the state SAFE
" democratic by $1,000. This prediction
is based upon authentic figures ana IN
formation received as result OF the roll
already taken and from the reports re-
ceived from party workers in the various
congressional districts of the state.
While Secretary Richardson is certain
that the majority will go as high as 25,0OO.
he mas reduced his figures TO districts
and as he says, with extreme conserV-
atism. places the majorities in the seVerai
districts as follows: First. 14,OOO; second
1000: third, /. 900; fourth, $500: sixth. 5'Vv'
seventh. $780, eighth. $50; NINTH 80;
tenth. 14OO: all democratic. while he con-
codes the eleventh TO the repuohcahs py
II 900 and the fifth by 1900.
This figures out a democratic majority
in the state of 1920. In the first. fourth
ana sixth districts he expects larger
democratic majority and the conditions in
the fifth. and especially in the eleventh
districts are such to Indicate more
favorable returns to the democratic cam
didates. The fifth district gave Mckinley
over 1900 majority over Bryan In 1896
and Taylor over 5000 more votes than
Goebel in 1899. but the opposition of those
two years has been reduced almost to a
minimum, and while the republicans are
counting on a majority of 10000. Chair
man Bell, of the congressional commit
tee. saws the democrats will carry it.
Peculiar conditions prevail in the eleventh
district AS is generally known it is made
up almost exclusively of mountain coun-
ties and a large percentage or the resi-
dents have never seen a railroad. 1t IS
the district of feuds and the men charged
with the assassination of Goebel have
been conspicuous in these family troubles.
Howard the man now under sentence OF
death for Governor GoebePs murder, was
a leader of the Howard faction, and he is
credited with having killed four men.
When he was tried. men from his own
section of the state, ana OF lHe same DO
litIcal faith. testified against him. and it
was upon their testimony that he was
convicted. This feeling has been carried
into the political fight in that district and
so bitter is the enmity against the re-
publican candidates as an outgrowth of
the recent disturbance in the state, that
the republican majority of the eleventh
district will be materially reduced.
Prominent republicans of that section
are fighting the republican nominees.
some openly and many secretly, because
of the association of the Howards and
others with the mountain feuds. Their
enemies are numerous and there will be
at least five counties affected by this feel
ing of enmity. The five counties gave
Mckinley about 5000 majority and an
cx-republican congressman of the state
is quoted as saying that they will be re-
duced one-half.