The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-10-27
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Democrats Will Have Fine
Working Force
IN BOTH BRANCHES OF HOUSE
The List as to Districts and
How the Different Dis
tricts Stand.

At the election on Novembr one
hundred Representatives and twenty
State Senators will be chosen, cleo
tons being held in each Of the one
hundred Representative districts and
one more than half of the senatorial
districts.
Every two years elections for State
Senator are held in half of the thir-
ty-eight districts, and at the coming
session of the Legislature the ~Sena-
tors from the odd-numbered districts
hold over and new Senator'S will come
from the even-numbered districts
There is one exception, however, that
being in the twenty-fifth district, com
posed of Campbell county, where an
election is made necessary to select
a successor to George Wilhelm, Repub
lican, who resigned to become post
master at Newport.
In order to control the next State
Senate theDemocrats must carry thir-
teen of the twenty districts, which
on the "dope" they have every reason
to expect they will. What always re-
bounds to the advantage Of the DEM
ocrats in off years, when members
of the Legislature are elected, is that
county officers are also chosen. IN each
county. and this fact tends to bring
out the full Democratic vote, which,
whenever it Is cast, sounds the doom
of the Republicans. OF the eighteen
holdoverSenators seven are Democrats
and eleven Republicans. The list fol-
lows:
Democrats-E. NJ. Taylor, Fulton;
Conn Linn, Murray; j. j. watkins
Sturgis; G. T. Wyatt, Olmstead; j.
A. Donaldson, Carrollton; r. b.
Brown. Warsaw; T. A. Combs, Lex
ington.
republicans. w. Wright, Central
City; A. j. oliver, Spottsville; G. A..
Taylor. Hodgenville; G. T. JARVIS
Campbellsyille; ]. F. Bosworth, Mid
dlesboro; J.. p. Smith, Dry Fork; A..
R. Burnam, Richmond; B. c. Grigs-
by. TolesDoro; H. H. Smith, Hind
man; j. T. Vice, Owingsville; n. C.
Cureton, Louisville.
The Democrats are absolutely GER
tain of eight seats, having no oppose
ton in the Second, Eighth, Tweiftn'
Fourteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-second
Twenty-eight and Thirtieth districts.
The Democrats are also reasonably
certain of carrying the Twenty-fourth'
Twenty-sixth and Thirty-sixth dis
tricts. making eleven in all and leav-
ing only two more to be captured 10
give them the necessary majority in
the upper branch Of the Legislature.
OF the remaining senatorial districts
the Fourth gave Bryan 2S2 over TAFT
and conservative estimates put 1t In
the Democratic column by an In
creased majority. Democrats are also
confident of carrying the Sixth, Tenth
Eighteenth, Twenty-fifth and Thirty
eighth districts, which would give
them a handsome working control OF
the Senate. Reports from the Thirty
second and Thirty fourth districts say
that the Democrats are making a most
aggressive fight, and they confidently
expect to break even at the worst.
In the sixteenth there is much dis
satisfaction among the Republicans
over the settlement of the disputed
nomination, and 1t wouldsnot be at all
surprising il Bertram, the Democrat,
defeated his opponent. At the last
minute, l.. n. Neat, who was given
the Republican nomination by the
State Central Committee over Lilburn
Phelps, of Russell county, withdrew
from the race, claiming he had dis
covered that he was ineligible, but the
knowing ones say that he resigned
the nomination to in a measure ap-
pease the wrath Of the friends OF
Phelps. DR.. l.. c. Nell, of Adair coun-
ty. was selected to take Meats place
on the ticket. He served in the last
Senate.
Conservative estimates on the COM
pIexion Of the next House Of Repre-
sentatives give the Democrats sixty
six, Republicans 2S and six districts
in doubt. OF the latter, the Demo-
Gratis are reasonably sure of capturing
two, which bears out the claim OF
many leading. Democrats that the