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cratic to Republican and Webster
has grown close. Deboe repre-
sented the second when he was
elected United States Senator. 1t
was only by combining with the
Populists and accepting q Popu.
list nominee that the Democrats
kept it from going Republican
last election. The selection of a
Republican to succeed Mcconnell
is practically assured.
Exactly the same may be said
of the Sixth, which is made up Of
Christian and Hopkins. The
Democrats and Populists fused
and elected a Populist (Cren-
shawl before. Today Christian
is Republican by we'll over a
thousand votes. Hopkins, for
merly Democratic by nearly 800,
went Republican in 1899, and was
close in 1900. Orenshaw. who
has become an out-and-out Goe-
bel Democrat, is sure to be sue
ceeded by a Republican.
The Eighth is Democratic, the
Tenth, Republican, the Twelfth
and Fourteenth Democratic, and
the Sixteenth, Republican. Barr
ing a political revolution, none of
these will change complexion be-
tween this time and November.
The Eighteenth is as sure to be
Republican as if the votes had
already been counted, although
George Farris, Goebel Demo-
crat, represents it. The district
is composed of Boyle, Lincoln,
Garrard and Casey. All four are
now nominally Republican. Casey
goes Republican regularly by 600
or 700.
The Twentieth is Democratic,
and will send a Democrat to sue
ceed Carter. The Twenty-seco I'D
represented by Welch, is grow
ing closer, but may still be
counted upon as Democratic, un-
less Campbell Cantrill gets the
nomination. A Brown Demo-
crat, with the Republican vote
added, could beat Cantrill with
out much trouble.
Kenton county comprises the.
Twenty-fourth. 1t, too, is reli-.
ably Democratic under ordinary
conditions, but the Covington
split-up has cut down the strength
of the dominant party. Still, it
would be a far-fetched conclu-
sion to call it doubtful. The
Twenty sixth will continue Dem
ocratic, as will the Twenty-eigh
The Thirtieth is represented by
Gillispie, a Brown Democrat.
The chances are that a Goebel
partisan will succeed him, as the
district is heavily Democratic.
Senator johnson represents
Boyd, Lawrence, Greenup and
Elliot, composing the Thirty
second. He is a Democrat, but
three out of four of his counties
are ordinarily Republican. 1t is
well nigh assured that a Republi-
can will warm Johnson's seat next
year.
The Thirty-fourth is made up
of Magoffin and Owsley, Republi-
can counties, and Breathitt, Nor
gan and Wolfe, Democratic coun-
ties. Its member is the Rev. A.
d. Roberts, q Brown Democrat.
Under any other than the Goe-
bel law, Breathitt's Democratic
majority would be reduced 800,
and the Goebel law will not gov
ern next fall. The Republicans
and Brown Democrats propose to
nominate Mr.. Roberts to succeed
himself, and he is very apt to
do so.
The Thirty-sixth and Thirty
eighth lie in Jefferson county and
the city of Louisville. Both are
represented by Brown Demo
Gratis - Hays and Alexander.
Hays is announced to succeed
himself, and Alexander will like
ly do the same thing. Either
they will be elected, or tive Re-
publicans will. No Goebel parti-
san has a ghost of a show here.
This finishes the review of the
Senatorial races. Now for the
recapitulation.
1t takes nine votes TO tie the
Senate and twenty to control it.
Starting with twelve holdovers,
the civil liberty forces are cer-
tain to gain members from the
Fourth, Sixth and Eighteenth
districts. This makes fifteen.
The Tenth, Sixteenth, Thirty
sixth and Thirty eighth are al
ready safely Republican. This
swells the vote to nineteen. John
sons district (the Thirty-second)
10 Dractinollv cartoin fn OO Re-