Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — BRECKINRIDGE BEATEN. [ARTICLE]

BRECKINRIDGE BEATEN.

Close of the Contest in the Lextngton, Ky., District. The Breckinridge Owens campaign for the Democratic Congressional nomination in the Lexington (Ky’.) district, which has attracted national attention because o! the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, closed Friday night, Sept. 14. The primaries to decidb the contest were held on Saturday Sept. 15, and the scenes of excitement and disorder throughout the district were unparalleled. At Faywood a pitched battle between Breckinridge and Owens men occurred. No less than twenty men were implicated; One man received wounds that may prove fatal. Unofficial returns from_tlie primaries received by a Cincinnati paper late Sunday night, give totals for candidatgs as follows: Owens, 7,990; Breckinridge, 7.670; Settle, 3,405; Owens’s plurality, 320. Corrected returns will probably vary but little from these figures • Charges of fraud are freely made by the supporters of Breckinridge. They figure out a plurality for Owens* on the returns, of but 168. Their detectives are at wojrk and a contest may result. Col, Brekinridge was seen by a reporter but absohit“ly refused to talk. The Owens people field a great ratification meeting at Georgetown, Ky. Mr. Owens addressed the people briefly, saying that ‘'the work of the men and the tears and prayers of the women” had brought the victory, :