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The Georgia Record.
VOL I.
THE MUDDLE IN KENTUCKY
BOTH GOEBEL A/NO TAILOR STILL
CLAIM THE VICTORg.
■II MBS Mil
The Result Is Yet a Matter of Great
Uncertainty—Trouble Threatened.
A Louisville special soys: The tan
gle growing out of last week’s election
grows worse with each day. This was
the third day of the official count, but
the work of the county boards of can
vassers disclosed little information to
clear the situation. Chairman Long,
of the Republican campaign commit
tee, today repeated his claim of a plu
rality of 3,111 for Taylor, based on
official returns from 110 and unofficial
returns from the remaining nine. The
Democratic papers and papers here
have ceased to give figures, but spe
cials from Frankfort quote Candidate
Goebel and other party leaders as
saying they are confident of the suc
cess of the Kenton county man.
The complexion of the returns to be
presented to the state board of elec
tion commissioners when it meets in
Frankfort next month still depends
upon the determination of the contests
which are being raised in several parts
tne state, notably the strongly Re
publican counties of the eleventh dis
trict, where the Democrats claim tis
sue ballots were used.
Much Bad Feeling Engendered.
These contests have aroused much
feeling in the localities affected. One
of them involves the vote of Knox
county, which gave .Taylor 1,39 8
plurality. Monday Barbourville, the
county seat, was visited by hundreds
of people interested in the result,
their avowed purpose being to see
that justice is done.
Counsel for Candidate Taylor began
action in the Knox county circuit
court to compel the county election
officers to certify the vote to the state
board of election commissioners. The
contention is over forty-two ballets
from the first precinct, but the petition
filed by Taylor’s counsel asserts that
the election officers’ purpose is to
throw out the entire county. Judge
Brown granted a temporary injunction
against such action. Johnson and
Lewis counties are affected by the
Democratic charges of irregularities,
and there, too, legal complications are
likely to arise.
At Hopkinsville a contest over a pre
cinct which gave Taylor a plurality of
95 is delaying the official returns of
the vote of Christian county, which
gave Taylor a plurality of 750.
Slow progress was made in the count
of Louisville and Jefferson county
Monday, the commissioners being at
work on the third ward when they
adjourned until Tuesday. Both sides
are fighting every inch of the ground.
A number of precincts are in con
troversy on the ground of alleged
irregularities. In one such case, the
seventh precinct of the first ward, the
anti-Goebel people secured an order
from Judge Toney Monday to compel
the precinct officers to sign the tally
sheets. The Goebel people, however,
claim the ballot box had been opened
before it reached the county election
officials. The vote so far as canvassed
shows little change from the unofficial
figures.
The federal grand jury, which was
adjourned over the election, reconven
ed this morning and was charged by
Judge Evans regarding election vio
lations, particularly with reference to
intimidation of colored voters. He
recited ihe charges which had reached
the ears of the court, described in de
tail the offenses upon which indict
ments should be found and continued:
“Conspiracies maybe hard to prove,
but it is by no means impossible to
prove them, both by direct and cir
cumstantial evidence, and if you find
the evidence and indict those who en
gage in these conspiracies you would
get at a class of men most likely of
higher, or at least of more pretentious
grade, than their tools. This class is
far more dangerous to the community
ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1899.
and their punishment much more de
sirable in every way than the others.
However, both classes should be in
dicted.
“The highest duty is imposed upon
you to vindicate the law and you will
the more efficiently and commendably
discharge that duty if you shall probe
matters to the bottom, and without
fear or favor indict every man, how
i ever prominent or however obscure,
who has engaged in any conspiracy to
perpetrate the wrongs denounced by
the statute.
“The court also suggests to you
that it is by no means impossible for
officials of high or low degree to en
gage in such schemes. And where
that is the case the demand for pun
ishment is the more imperative, be
cause an example should be set in the
case of those who are charged with
the enforcement of the law who make
themselves the instrument of its vio
lation.”
BRYAN’S INCOME.
The Nebraskan Settles a Mooted
Question By Enlightening
His Enemies.
The New York World publishes the
following from its Lincoln, Neb., cor
respondeni:
“In the campaign just closed the
Republicans have charged many times
that Mr. Bryan made campaign
speeches for money, and it was de
clared that through his political work
he was making a fortune. It was also
said that he was not able to earn a liv
ing as a lawyer. In reply to the first
charge Mr. Bryan authorizes The
World to say that he does not charge
a cent for any campaign speech and
that on these trips pays his own hotel
bills and railroad fares unless he is
traveling on a special train. In reply
to the second charge, that he could
not earn his living as a lawyer, Mr.
Bryan also authorizes The World to
make the following statement:
“Mr. Bryan began the practice of
law in his native town, Jacksonville,
Hl., July 4, 1883, shortly after his
graduation. He was then twenty-three
years old, and for the next six months,
cr the remainder of the year 1883, his
fees at the bar amounted to S7O, but
for the next year, 1884, they amount
ed to $770.20. In 1885 they were
$1,085.27, and 1886 1,566.53.
“For the next nine months his fees
were $1,362.63, or at the rate of about
SI,BOO per year, and on the last day of
September, 1887, he moved to Lin
coln, Neb., and began business there
October 1, 1887, being then twenty
seven years old and without friends in
Lincoln.
“He did not even know more than
half a dozen persons in the town, and
in the remaining three months of that
year he earned in Lincoln in his prac
tice at the bar $72.55. He was then just
beginning to form an acquaintance,
and in 1888 he earned $834.41. In
1889 his fees rose to $1,998.28, and
were increasing in the following year
when he was nominated for congress
and entered the campaign. After his
election to congress he abandoned the
law for public life.
“Since the 1896 campaign he has
had several offers of $25,600 a year
from corporations to act as their attor
ney. One was a New York corpora
tion. But he preferred to decline all
these offers and devote himself to his
present objects.
“Mr. Bryan says he earn money
now in three ways, from his books,
through lectures and by writing arti
cles for magazines and tho press.”
ADDRESS BY M’KINLEY
At Alasonic Observance of looth An
niversary of Washington’s Death.
President McKinley has promised
to make an address at Mt. Vernon on
December 14th, when the Masonic
observance of the one hundredth an
niversary of Washington’s death will
be held. The address will be delivered
at the tomb of Washington.
GOV.BRADLEY
IS A FACTOR
In Gubernatorial “Squab
ble” In Kentucky.
LEGISLATORS CANVASSED
State Government Should Change Hands
December 12th-—Bradley May re*
fuse to Recognize Goebel.
A special from Frankfort, Ky., says:
Governor Bradley has the members of
both parties guessing what hand he
will take in the event of a collison be
tween Goebel and Taylor over the
governorship.
Bradley’s close friends say he will
not recognize Goebel as governor if
the state board goes behihd the original
returns in order to obtain for him a
certificate of election.
The governor himself will not talk,
but as he is in conference with Adju
tant General Collier almost constantly
rumors of this kind are worr/ing the
Democratic leaders. No governor
will be inaugurated December 12th,
the date-prescribed by law. The state i
election commission han not been con- '
vened to canvass the;r turns. The ’
law provides that it ti. meet not
later than December 4t’ r
Secretary >f--Sts.4fc*4fctJ.':r ■’’hfi. :e- '
ceived official returns from fifty conn- ‘
ties and is tabulating them for the
state election board. Candidates for
minor state offices on both sides fear
that the returns may show the head of
one ticket elected with candidates on
the other ticket faring likewise. While
Goebel carries Campbell county,
Burke, Republican, for superintend
ent of publio instruction, carries the
same by over 1,000.
Goebel managers assert that the
whole Goebel ticket will win. The
report that Chairman Pryor of |
the state election commission would
resign because of disatisfaction over
the Goebel county commissioners is
denied by Pryor.
Taylor’s friends have begun a pri- ;
vate canvass of the members of the !
legislature, sounding them as to how
they would vote on a contest if the |
state election board should throw out
Knox, Johnson or Pulaski counties
and also 1,000 votes cast in Nelson for
“W. P.” instead of “W. 8.” Taylor.
It is said four democratic members
of the house and at least six demo
cratic senators have been found so far
who will not vote to seat Goebel. This
movement on Taylor's side is con
strued to indicate the opinion that
Goebel will be given a certificate of
election from the state board. The
story that Goebel has decided to
abandon the fight and to enter a fight
against Blackburn for senator is pro
nounced absurd by friends of both and
is laughed at by both Goebel and
Blackburn.
SENATE RECONSIDERED.
Child Labor Bill Passed In Georgia
Legislature.
After taking up the Nesbitt child
labor bill on Tuesday and voting it
down, the Georgia senate reconsidered
its action Wednesday and on Thurs
day passed the measure by a vote of
24 to 15.
The bill as passed was amended so
as to except tho children of widowed
mothers and indigent fathers, who
may be dependent upon their child’s
or children’s labor for a support, and
by adding the following proviso:
“Provided further, that this act shall
not apply to cotton ginneries, saw
mills and fruit packing establish
ments.”
THE KENTUCKY SAILS.
Battleship Goes to New York For Her
Final Touches.
The first-class battleship Kentucky
left the shipyard at Newport News,
Va., Thursday morning for New York.
There she will go into dry dock for
final cleaning of her bottom prepara
tory to her official trial trip, which will
take place off the Massachusetts coast.
STEAMER BURNED;
PASSENGERS SAVED
American Vessel Destroyed By Fire
Off English Coast.
MANY SOULS ON BOARD
Crew of the Vessel Proved Them
selves to Be Heroes.
A London special says: The Ham
burg-American steamer Patria, Cap
tain Frohlich, which left New York
November 4th for Hamburg and passed
the Lizard last Tuesday, caught on
fire near Dover. All the passengers
i were rescued and landed at Dover,
i The Russian steamer Ceres sighted
I the Patria, showing signals of distress
and demanding immediate help, about
twelve miles from North Hinder light
ship. The liner was enveloped in
smoke. Putting on full steam the
Ceres soon reached the Patria and
I sending a boat learned that Captain
■ Frohlich was in urgent need of assist
ance.
The boats were got out and with
difficulty the Patria’s passengers, num
bering 150, were transferred to the
Ceres, which proceeded for Dover.
Among the saved are many ladies
and children, as well as six babes in
arms. The hurry of the rescue was
indicated by the fact that most of the
passengers were enveloped in blank
ets only.
They were rapidly distributed
among the hotels or sent to the sail
ors’ home and everything possible is
being done for their comfort.
According *o interviews with some
of the passengers, which elicited the
fact that most of them were American
citizens taking a vacation in Europe.
Crew Worked Heroically-
The crew, according to several pas
sengers, worked like heroes in their
endeavors to keep the flames under,
but the great quantity of linseed
among the cargo and the oil supplied
by this made all their efforts hopeless.
There was very great excitement
among the women and children, but
the example set by the coolness of
Captain Frohlich and the crew had a
calming effect on the passengers gen
erally.
The boats were promptly got over
the side, the crew working as if they
were at drill. The safety of the ladies
and children was the first considera
tion. As the fire had by this time
consumed the greater part of the pas
sengers’ belongings, they had to get
into tho boats as they had come up
from their bunks, and some were in
very light raiment.
POSTMASTERS FOR GEORGIA.
Department Gives Out a List of Re
cent Appointments.
A Washington dispatch says: Fourth
class postmasters for Georgia have
been appointed as follows:
Abernathy, Bartow, A. G. Mor
gin; Adgatevillc, Jasper, A. M.
Brandon; Annie Delle, Floyd, W. C.
Edmondson; Bayard, Harris, M. J.
Pate; Cobb, Sumter, W. J. Hill;
Corbin, Bartow, M. L. Findley; Dug
road, Pickens, W. D. Buddell;
Laston, Bulloch, J. A. Brannen; May
haw, Miller, J. E. Spooner; Nettie,
Forsyth, J. L. Hansard; Paynter,
Fannin, M. J. Gilreth; Pooler, Chat
ham, Joe Heidt; Rural Vale, Whit
field, Julia Cline; Schrenkville, Bryan,
Zackaria Shuman; Short-pond, John
son, J. T. Moxley; Stratham, Jackson,
W. J. Rose, Sr,; Talona, Gilmer, W.
V. Russell; Tybee, Chatham, V. H.
Wortham.
MEASURE IS UNCOMPROMISING.
Features of the Prohibition Bill Be
fore Georgia Legislature.
The Willingham prohibition bill,
which is now creating so much inter
est and excitement in the house, is a
bill providing that intoxicating liquors
shall not be manufactured or sold in
the state of Georgia. It is a complete,
uncompromising prohibition measure.
It was introduced at the last session
and prohibitionists in the house are
now awaiting an opportunity to have
the bill placed upon its passage. A
constitutional majority of the house is
apparently in favor of the measure and
the minority,those opposing the meas
ure, are now adopting filibustering
proceedings to keep the bill from
passing. 1
NO. 21.
JOUBERT SLAIN
IS A REPORT
News Comes From Durban
Announcing His Death.
REPORT NOT CONFIRMED
Other Belated Information From Seat
of War In South African
Republic.
A dispatch from Durban under date
of Sunday, November 12, says: "The
, Times of Natal publishes a telegram
J from Lourenzo Marques saying that
I General Joubert was killed in action
1 on November 9th.”
London advices of Wednesday state
that the most interesting, and, in fact,
the only news of the war now comes'
from the western frontier, the ac
counts of Colonel Baden-Powell’s bril
liant exploits at Mafeking forming
quite lively and encouraging reading.
Trench work is quite novel in Boer
tactics, and some curiosity is evinced
as to who may be directing and as to
what is still to be shown.
Nevertheless, both at Mafeking and
Kimberly, conditions seem altogether
favorable. So far as Natal is concerned
the British must possess his soul in
patience and trust to General Buller.
A bolata' 1 dispatch from Ladysmith,
dated Nov. Till, tetis or n iaugura oum
bardment and of a native rumor that
the Basutos are on the warpath, which
is supposed, according to one corres
pondent, to have had the effect of in
ducing some of the Orange Free Stat®
troops to abandon the siege and to re
turn to their own territory and also
to be accountable for the slackness of
the attempts of the Ladysmith de
fenses. Another correspondent says
that it is reported that in the attack
upon the Free States at Dewdrop th®
Boers had 300 killed and wounded.
If the reports that the Free Stat®
burgers are tired of the affair and are
going home should prove true, the
fact would be most important, as their
retirement would probably compel
General Joubert to withdraw north
ward. The statement that the Boers
are entrenched so closely to Lady
smith is held in some quarters to in
dicate that they are running short of
ammunition for guns.
All of General Buller’s arrange
ments for the advance from Durban,it
is rumored, are practically completed,
and news of it may be expected in a
few days. The war office has received
several dispatches dealing with mili
tary details, but it is not likely that
these will be published. The where
abouts of General Buller is not pub
licly known in London, but he is be
lieved to be up country somewhere.
Belated News of Boer Activity.
A dispatch received in Capetown
from Buluwayo, dat< d Friday, No
vember 3d, says an armored train pro
ceeded south close to Machudi, wher®
a culvert was found damaged.
The Basuto police, the dispatch
adds, report that a party of Boers has
been looting and damaging property.
A Fort Tuli dispatch, under th®
same date says:
“There is great activity in the Boer
camp south of here. A reconnoitering
party sent along the line heard heavy
firing in the distance. The party re
turned to Colonel Spreckley’s campon
which the enemy was advancing in
force. It was shelled at noon, stam
peding every horse and mule, but not
touching a man. The Boers number
ed 400. The Boers surrounded Bych
store, where a small party stubbornly
resisted, ultimately retiring to the
bush and gaining from Tuli. An offi
cer and five troopers are missing
from Spreckley’s force, which has beefi
out some days reconnoitering the ene
my’s force, and which had several
skirmishes on returning to fort Tuli.”
Fever Report For Miami.
Miami, Fla., reported eight cases
Tuesday and three Wednesday. Total
cases, 125; total deaths, 7. Neither
Key West or Port Tampa City sent in
reports for Wednesday.