The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-11-11
De NJ OCRATIC
Ian DSLIDE
Hit the State of Kentucky and
Congressman Reelected.
REPUBLICAN JUDGE is ELECTED
Caleb Powers Won Spectacular Race
in Eleventh District-Byrd
May Be Defeated.

Frankfort, Ky-The tailend Of the
Democratic landslide struck Kentucky
| as the returns indicate that the Demo-
Gratis were able to redeem but one
congressional district that has been
i Republican for number of years, and
/ may have lost an appellate judge. The
lineup of the Kentucky delegation in
congress at the next session will be:
Second District-H. o. Stanley,
DEM. Henderson.
Third District-R. Y. Thomas,
| Dem, Elkton.
Fourth District-Ben Johnson, Dem,
Bardstown
Fifth District-Swager Shirley,
Dem, Louisville, Ky.
Sixth District-A. B. Rouse, DEM,
Burlington.
Seventh District-J. C.. Cantrill,
DEM, Georgetown.
Eighth District-Harvey Helm,
DEM, Stanford
Ninth District-W. ]. Field, DEM,
| Grayson.
Tenth District-John Langley, Rep,
Prestonburg
Eleventh District-Caleb Powers,
Rep, Barboursville.
The Democrats refuse to concede
the election Of Langley, claiming that
complete returns will show the cleo
ton of Floyd Byrd, DEM, Winchester.
In the appellate judge. race in the
Fourth district between Shackelford
Miller, Dem, and R. w. Bingham, Flu
sion, is close, both sides claiming vic
tory. 1t may require the official count
to decide the contest.
! Judge Warren E. Settle, Jr., Dem,
Bowling Green, is reelected appellate
Judge in the Second district by 1000.
Judge J. T. Mum, DEM, Marion, is
reelected in the First, without opposi
ton.
The returns from the Sixth appellate
district assures the reelection of
Judge John E. Lassing, Dem, New
port.
There was a woeful lack of interest
taken in the election and the smallest
vote in years seems to have been cast
The win for Judge Settle is taken as
a victory for the "non-partisan bench
| idea, as many Republicans advised
against opposition to him, as he had
never considered politics on the bench.
He reversed the Judgment in the Ca
leb Powers cases, giving him re-trials.
Democratic Machine.
If Judge Miller wins out in the
Fourth district it will mean a victory
! for the regular Democratic machine.
as former Mayor Bingham was the in
dependent candidate.
| There was never any doubt about
| Congressman Shirley's reelection, as
| he is regarded the leader of the Ken
lucky delegation and is very popular
personally.
The serious charges made against
| Congressman Campbell Cantrill in the
! Seventh District and the bitter oppo-
| sition to him by the Burley Tobacco
organization gave the independent
voters hope that NJ. C. Rankin, the
! Republican candidate, would win. In
the closing days of the campaign the
Republicans deserted Rankin because
! he put no enthusiasm into the cam
| paign and did not take the stump.
Rankin may have something to say
later about the conduct of his cam
Cd thron counties
in the district-something wonderful
Cantrill only polled about 60 per
cent of the Democrat vote and Rankin
Is per cent of the Republican vote.
III With Typhoid.
Nominee Fields in the Ninth dis.
trict was i'll with typhoid fever during
the greater part of the campaign, but
there was widespread opposition to
the incumbent and Fields won.
Langley probably wins because of
his splendid organization. He kept
in touch with every man in his dis
trict.
The vote in the Eleventh district
shows that Senator Bertram> will GER
tainly figure in the makeup of the
| next Democratic state ticket, as will
Congressman Ben Johnson, who car
ried every county in the Fourth dis
! trict.
There is marked evidence that both
parties stood pat in practically all of
] the districts.
Where local issues predominated
the independents won and where ma
tsonal issues were paramount the
| Democrats were victorious.
There is a report here tonight that
if the House is Democratic an effort
will be made to prevent Caleb Powers
from taking his seat