The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-31
The Plot to steal kentucky.

On several occasions we have forewarn-
ed our readers of a deliberate intention
on the part of the trust campaign man
ayers to steal or throw out the electoral
vote of Kentucky. in case the election
should prove close enough to make one
or the other course necessary to seat Mr..
Mckinley. The scheme decided upon and
organized TO carry this intention into eff
feet has now been exposed Il is bold
and desperate enough to astonish citizens
who do not realize as yet the utterly law
less character of the men who are seek
ing to override the popular voice, and TO
defraud the American people of their
right to elect their own President and
Representatives.
We are not in the least surprised Par
tisan leaders who honor and protect the
murderers of Governor Goebel who openly
boast that while the popular vote Of IN
diana and Illinois is against them, they
will secure majorities IN both and other
States by intimidation, bribery and falsf-
ication of returns, need not be expected
to stop at anything calculated to advance
their purposes.
Information was received in New York
yesterday to the effect that Judge Walter
Evans, of the Federal Court in Louisville.
had decided to authorize the United States
Marshal for Kentucky to appoint deputy
marshals to guard the polls election
day. His power to take such action being
questioned, an opinion as to it's legality
was at once asked Of the Hon. John G.
Carlisle than whom there is no higher
authority ON Federal law in the country
The gentleman making the request was
Col. 0. O. SteaIey, Washington correspond
ent OF the Louisville Courier Journal"
To him Mr. Carlisle replied as follows:
'In response to your enquiry of today you are
advised that sections 20G5 and all the succeeding
sections in chapter %, Revised Statutes OF the
United States which provide for the appointment
of supervisors of election by the United States
courts and which authorize the appointment of
deputy maTshals TO attend at the voting places
and guard the election, have been repealed, ard
all such supervisors and deputy marshals have
been abolished by act of Congress approved
February g. 1894. The repeating act Will be found
page III, volume u F, supplement to the Re
Yised Statutes of the United States. No count
has authority TO appoint supervisors and no 1lJr-
shall now has authority to appoint deputies TO
attend elections.
To people who have followed the course
of the Republican party in Ken
lucky during the past year. the story tells
itself, 1t is highly improbable that even
a purely political appointee to the bench
like Representative Evans. could be ig-
norant of the fact that the Federal courts
have no longer power to determine the re-
suits of national elections by authorizing
the use of force at the polls; or that, as
Mr.. Carlisle states, mo court row has au-
therity to appoint supervisors and TO mar
shall now has authority to appoint deputies
to attend elections
Considerations OF this kind, however,
will hardly affect the retainers of the
trust combination in Kentucky They
and the campaign managers behind them.
are looking solely to the end. If it can
not be reached without open and fragrant
defiance of the law, the law Will not stop
them What do they care whether or not
the old statute, under which Federal
elections in the South were farcical, has
been repealed They will resort to it
just the same; because they think it viii
furnish an excuse for flooding che Sta;e
with armed bandits and murderers from
the mountains, who, as deputy marshals,
may he counted upon to do any vile or
bloody work which may be required Of
them. VI course that mode OF procedure
would result in a general fight through
out the Commonwealth. The decent peo-
pie OF Kentucky would not tolerate so
clear an outrage upon their rights and
liberties. ard the aim of the Hannaites
would be accomplished, What they want
is riot and bloodshed, to furnish ground
upon which they can claim that no legal
election has been held in the State, and
SO procure the rejection of its electoral
vote when the count is made.
The expo his plot is significant
Of the despsl--- z..asts in which the trust
campaign managers find themselves. While
they claim everything. advertise fake
bets. and shower their thirty million dol
lars of corruption money where they think
It viii do the NEST good. their contem-