Salt Lake Herald | 1894-09-19 | Page 7 | Star of Kentucky Has Forever Set

TAR OF KKNTUCKY hASuTFII F si Two Hundred and SixtyNine Is the Plurality of Owens WILLIES FRIENDS NOW CONCEDE DEFEAT A FINAL STRUGGLE MAY BE MADE HOWEVER Why Colonel Bain Anderson Went Bade on His Friend Gad SaIl i Vas the Women ofj fI > State That Killed the Colonel Alition of the Committee Applande All Will i Aow Pull For Owens Lexington ly Sept 18The official returns by counties show 269 plurality for Owens but Breckinridges manifesto mani-festo is understood to mean that the I district committee on Saturday will be empowered to go behind the returns made by the Democratic county committee com-mittee I The Breckinridge men had a majority of county commissioners but they were I not disposed to go behind the teturns from the precincts Here at Breckin ridges home today the Breckinridge and Owens men were equally divided on the Fayette county committee and the only Settle man had the balance of power The committee met today Settle telegraphed tel-egraphed his congratulations to W C Owens and Settles friends on the committee com-mittee umpired the count without going behindany returns The Owens men are openly Charging that the manifesto or declaration of contest con-test was not issued until late last night and not until pressure had been brought to bear on district committeeman aho were opposed to going behind the returns re-turns from the respective counties The Owens men claim that the frauds were against them instead of in their favor and that money was being used to get the district committee to reverse the returns of the county committee There Is over 300000 up in the disfiot in wagers and those who put up money on Breckinridge are anxious fir contest con-test proceedings I