El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-04
Political News
Told In Brief
Written for the HERALD.


Taylor of Kentucky has carried his
case 70 the supreme court at Washing
ton. The brief filed by his lawyers
goes over the case of the election con-
test for the officers of governor and
lieutenant governor and closes with
these words:
1--WE feel that In this case is IN
vclved the question OF whether we are
political freemen or political serfs:
whether we have in Kentucky a repub-
lie or an oligarchy: whether we vote
by right secured by the lay or by the
grace Of few men. 1t matters not tn at
these men may themselves have been
elected. They were given no commits
sion by the people to select COVER
nor for them: and, as said by Mr..
Jefferson, in speaking FOR himself and
his com patriots: An elective despotism
was not the government we fought
for We have been denied republic
auism: the principle has failed in its
duty, and we call on guarantor to m AXE
good its guaranty. We ask for the pro-
tection o! liberty and property against
the arbitrary exercise of the powers
OF the government
1t ia not certain that the supreme
court will take jurisdiction of the case
but an opinion will be announced May
mean time Taylor has returned to Ken
lucky aud the democrats have not yet
made public the Indictment against
him. The Indictment charges him
with being an accessory before the
fact, to the murder of William Goe-
bel It is rumored that II Taylor tries
to return to Washington the demo-
orats will serve q warrant for his ar
rest Il is also said that Judge Can
- oil Ia naf al
graph companies to disclose kilograms
of over 100 prominent republican poll
ticians, officials and others, sent dur
Ing the governors contest, for the
purpose. 1t is said. of proving tina. the
militia were ordered out before the as
sassination. Altogether the contest
promises to prove bitter and oompli-
Taylor assert that if he loses he
will leave Kentucky politics for
ever.
A delegation of Canadians called up
on Dewey in Chicago and presented
him witha formal Invitation to be pres
emit alta reception to honor him at
Port Stanley, Ontario. The invitation
was signed by many prominent Cana
and Sir Charles Upper. Dewey was
unable to say whether it would be pos
sible for him to accept, but ia his
thanks he said to the Canadians:
''Of all the evidences of good will
shown me since my arrival in New
York last October, none has touched
me more deeply than this. We are of
difference between us and I want to say
that the one man who stood at my
back during those trying days at Ma
Mia was an Engltshman. But for his
support aud the moral courage he in
spired me with [ do not know what
would have happened. 1 refer to Sir
Charles Seymour"
The Comanche Visitor prints an in.
terview with candidate for political
honors as to the cost of his campaign,
that may prove successful warning to
the multitude Of Office seekers of these
days. He reports the sums total of the
cost being: Lost four months and
twenty-five days canvassiog, 1910
hours thinking about the election, five
scrss OF cotton, twenty-five acres of
corn, whole sweet potato crop, four
sheep, four sEoats and one beef given
to barbecue, two front teeth and
considerable amount of hair in a per-
sonal skfrmish: ave ninety-seven plugs
OF tobacco, nine Sunday school books,
Two pairs of suspenders. four calico
dresses. seven dolls and thirteen rat
tlers, told 1850 lies, talked enough to
have in print 1000 large volumes size
Of patent Office reports, kissed 125 ba-
bies. kindled IA kitchen fires, cut three |
cords of wood, pulled 4S4 bundles of
fodder, picked 848 pounds of cotton,
helped to pull loads of corn, dug IA |
bushels Of potatoes, toted 81 buckets of :
water, put up stoves, was dogbit
lines, wasoh broken by baby, which |
.ost 50 to have repaired, loaned out 3 |
OF -four, 20 bushels of meal. $50 |