The bee., 1901-01-17
Comparisons Of Legislative Dis
tricts Show Chances for
Republicans.
BOTH HOUSES CAN BE WON.
Control OF Senate Seems Assured, While
Hall Of Representatives Nay Also
Be Claimed
MANY CANDIDATES soBslNG UP.
From the Louisville Post.

From the Louisville Post.
The first General Assembly of
the new century will be the most
important that has sat in Ken
tucky's crumbling capital since
the day of the" Long Parliament. "
1t will elect United States Sen
ator and two Prison Commission
ers. 1t will also redistrict the
Legislative, Senatorial and Judic-
ial boundaries of the State. Its
members will be chosen at the
polls this November, and it will
convene at Frankfort in January,
1902.
1t is Of the supremest import
ance that the State shall be fairly
redistricted, and that the over
whelming evil of the gerry
mander shall be done away with.
Besides this reform the selection
Of Senator and of the two
smaller officers become matters
of minor interest.
1t is gratifying just ut this
time, when the need for reason
able, honest, non-partisan legis-
lation is greatest, to know that
the Goebel ring will certainly
lose control of the ono and almost
certainly lose control of the other
branch of the Legislature at the
coming election. For the first
time in the political history OF
the Commonwealth the Republi.
cans and anti-ring Democrats
have favorable prospects of car.
rying both Houses of the Genera
Assembly.
This is due first to the defec
tions of old-line Democrats from
the present organization, as man
aged by the Goebels; second, tC
the growth of the Independent
vote in the cities of the State, all
of which was Democratic, and
third, to the increases in the Re.
publican party, under wise and
conservative leadership.
The proper employment of hard
sense and hard work is all that il
needed to insure the biggest vic.
tory that the forces of civil lib.
erty have yet won.
An unvarnished and uncolored
recital of political conditions,
showing the situation as it exists,
proves the truth of the foregoing,
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate there are eighteen
members who hold over and
eighteen who retire and whose
successors are to be chosen.
The eighteen holdovers are Il:
follows: Watson, Utley, Wat.
kins, Puryear, Coleman, Tolir
and Allen, Goebel Democrats
Harrel, independent Democrat
Howard, Huntsman, Dye, Dyer,
Whitehead, White, Burnam, Cox
Kirk, Huff and Barrett, Republi
cans. Counting Harrell with the
Republicans, they number twelve
to seven Democrats, giving the
conservative forces a lead of five
votes to start with.
New members are to be elected
from the Second, Fourth, Sixth,
Eighth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Six
teenth, Eighteenth, Twentieth,
Twenty-second, Twenty-fourth,
Twenty sixth, Twenty eighth,
Thirtieth, Thirty-second, Thirty
fourth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty
eighth districts.
The Second is now represented
by acknowledgement, of Pa
ducah. Either he will succeed
himself or some other Goebel
Democrat will.
The member from the Fourth
is Mcconnell, Il Populist- Demo
crat. His district is made up Of
of Crittenden, Caldwell and Web
ster counties. Formerly this dis
trict was safely Democratic, but
now Crittenden has increased its
big Republican majority, Cald-