Evening Times Republican

An Ominous Outlook.

Serious Trouble Anticipated in Kentucky on Election Day.

Louisville, Ky., Oct. 28.--The prospect for fraud and violence on election day in Kentucky grows ominous as the campaign nears the end. With the election nearly two weeks off the city of Louisville trembles at the thought of what may be done under the Goebel law provisions--that temptation to unscrupulous and desperate men.

There is just one condition which encourages the hope of a peaceable 7th of November in Louisville--that is the intense earnestness of the anti-Goebel elements in the city. The Goebelites know whom to kick. They will be slow to arouse indignation of such men as are enlisted here in the democratic movement to defeat Goebelism. That is what may deter lawlessness.

"We shall carry the election by over 50,000," said an anti-Goebel democrat of Louisville. "The Goebel machinery will, by fraud, nullify 20,000 of that. The republican ticket will be elected by 30,000." He said it in all seriousness.

Every day brings from the interior of the State illustrations of what the Goebel law means. At Georgetown, in Scott county, the republican member of the county election commission was notified to attend a meeting. Immediately after his arrival one of the Goebel commissioners drew from his pocket a list, making radical and extensive changes in the precinct election officers previously appointed. The list covered the city and county. No heed was given to the remonstrances of the republican commissioner. The changes were ordered by the two Goebel democrats. The commissioners had some time ago made all of these appointments, and their work had been commended by the people. The new order substitutes for the efficient officers previously named men who are ignorant, ineligible and unfit for the duties. The intention is palpable, but the people of the county have no redress whatever under the Goebel law. The feeling of indignation is represented to be very great.

At Richmond, in Madison county, the election commissioners met and organized. The republican member presented a list of republicans for that party's share of the election officers. He was promptly informed that the two democrats had saved him all trouble and had already decided upon both republican and democratic election officers who were to serve. The republican protested, but was ignored. The democrats appointed as republican officers men who had not performed such duties before, and who, in many cases, were unknown. These are two of a number of counties from which like outrages under the Goebel law have within a few days been enacted. The law provides for a minority representation on the commission, but where they dare the Goebel commissioners are giving the republican commissioner no voice in the selection of even such election officers as the law specifies must be of his party.