The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS
ELECT REPUBLICAN SENATOR
Ex-GoV. Bradley Chosen by Votes
of Four Opposed to Beckham.
VOTERS REFUSE COMPROMISE
Deadlock That Began January 1,
When Legislature Convened, and
Which Bryan Tried to Break,
Ends in Defeat of Majority Party.

Which Bryan Tried to Break,
Ends in Defeat of Majority Party.
Frankfort, Ky.-Amid wild excite
ment, Ex-Governor William OConnell
Bradley, Republican, was elected Uni
ted States Senator to succeed James
B. McCreary. Bradley's term of six
years will begin March A, 1909. He
received sixty-four votes, four OF
which were cast by Democrats OPP
posed to Ex-Governor Beckham, lead
ing Democratic Senator, who was in
dorsed at the State primaries.
Senators H. S. McNutt, Albert
Charlton and Representative Chris
Mueller, of Louisville, and Represen-
tative e. w. Lillard of Boyle County,
were the Democrats who voted for
Bradley. Until then they had voted
for various Democrats for Senator,
but after voting for Bradley they re-
fused to recall their votes and unite
with Beckhams supporters on some
Democrat other than Beckham AS
there were 1875 members of the two
houses voting in the joint session, the
Speaker finally declared Bradley
elected, having a majority OF those
present.
The completion of the first roll call
in joint session showed: Bradley, "a:
Beckham, co. Blackburn, 1, and
James, /.
Before the Speaker could an
nounce the result the Democrats OBJ
tanned a recapitulation and attempted
to break the quorum by leaving the
hall, but they soon came back, accom-
panied by Beckham, who authorized
the withdrawal of his name and re-
leased the Democrats from the prl-
mary nomination pledge to him IN
hope that some other Democrat could
be elected If the four boiling Demo-
Gratis could be persuaded to change
their votes.
These four men were surrounded
by party friends and urged to with
draw their support from Bradley and
re-elect Senator James B. McCreary,
or any Democrat they might name,
but the four men declared that the
proposal came too late. The Demo
cratic leaders even promised caucus
to select a candidate, to which the
name of Beckham would not be pre-
VI
capitulation by steadily refusing all
offers. The ballot was then recast,
with the following result: Bradley,
ga; Beckham, IS; James, Is, Nc
Creary, 10; Mayo, 5; Allen, 2; Smith,
q Peak, Q; Newman, l Hunt 1; Ell
liston, / Stanley, /; Blackburn, l;
Cantrill, 1 Ellis, / Cammack, 1;
Sullivan, l, and McElroy, 1.
In a speech accepting his election
Bradley promised to use every effort
as Senator to obtain the repeal of the
six-cent tax on tobacco.
Senator-elect Bradley has been
Governor during the history of the
State, was Endorsed as the Kentucky
candidate for the Presidential NOM
ination in 1896, and has been many
times delegate to National conven-
lions.
He was long the Kentucky member
of the Republican National Commit
tee He is a native Kentuckian, near
ly sixty-one years old, a lawyer, who
was admitted to the bar in 1855 by
special act of the Legislature, being
under twenty-one years of age at the
time. His home is in Louisville.
One element of weakness in ex-
Governor Beckham's candidacy was
his advocacy of prohibition. His wife
is an ardent prohibition advocate,
though it has been denied that Beck
ham is total abstainer when at
functions not purely domestic.