Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — TWO GOVERNOR! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO GOVERNOR!

Alabama Well Supplied With Executives and Other Officials. Kolb and Oates were both “inaugurated” at Montgomery, Ala.. Dec. 1. The State is embarrassed with two sets of State officers, both claiming legal rights. The do facto governor is, however, named OajMk, and Kolb so far ranks as a “pretends” Kolb and his cabinet were sworn in at a

notary’s office. Kolb delivered hfs inaugural from a wagon In front of the capltoi. Governor Oates and his cabinet were inaugurated in due form by the existing State government. Twenty-flve companies of State troops were In attendance. There was no trouble. Kolb, in his inaugural, charged Oates with asking office by fraud of the grarest character, and called Oates’ followers usurpers, and said that he would appeal to the general government. Gov.Oatos, in an interview, in reply to the denunciations of Kolb, stated that he bad no knowledge of the frauds charged and believed that he was honestly and legally'elected. James Stambaugh, on whose testimony JamesGraybeal was arrested for the murder of William Jones, at Michigan City, last June, while on the witness stand at Laporte, while the trial of Graybeal was in progress, confessed that be himself killed Jones. Ih his recantation Stambaugh claimed that his first testimony was given through fear of officers who promised him his liberty if he succeeded in fastening the crime on Graybeal.

REUBEN F. KOLB.