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ienthe: of ichRHWI INT. r.RFFN KYJust a Part of the Play.The old story that the “plot to kill Senator Goebel was hatched in Louisville has again statted on its travels It is always hatched jus-t before the trial of any one of the innocent suspects Is approaching—a loul hatching from the addled egg9 of prejudice and j e hatred. The story sent out from Louisville, printed in the morning papers of yesterday and in all the Goebelite papers of Kentuchy, was sent to do duty on the approaching trial of Caleb Powers. It tells that United States Senator Deboe, former Lieutenant Governor Marshall, David W. Fairleigh, Alex P. Humphrey, Basil W Duke and John M. Atherton —names synonymous with honor—attended a secret meeting at the GaltHouse, Louisville, and that the plans were there laid to kill ,c jnator Goebel The gentleman nar. J, with pother equally distinguished lt;*nd honffable en.jj Republicans and anti-Goebel'* Deaio-cYats, have been sunimonerTto testify before the grand jury in Judge Can-trill's court at Frankfort to tell about the meeting and what was .there agreed upon. flThe names of some of the gentlemen are known beyond the coafines of Kentucky. John Marshall was elected Lieutenant Governor on the ticket with Governor Taylor, and was one of the Republic at* s ousted from office because of the rulings of Judge Cantrill. No name racds higher in the business and commercial world ot the Ohio and Mis-1 sippi Valleys than that of John M Atherton. General Basil W. Duke was a gallant Confederate soidied, a Democrat, and refused to consent to the iniquity of the Goebel election law William J. Deboe is a Senator from Kentucky, and not a man of them all woulfi, for even one moment, countenance assassins and not a man of them all wonld skulk behind doors instead of meet ing an enemy in the open and deliv ering fair and manly combat. Yet these are the men whose good names are sought to be dragged Into the mire for the purpose of making capi tal against Caleb Powers, and whose names, with the names ot others, are hauled before the public at each recurring trial of any one of the innocent suspects for the purpose of bolstering up the reign of hate and prejudice against any one selected as a victim injustice.But the sending out of the story again, and for the fourth time, testifies, as nothing else could testify, to the fact that the prosecution has no substantial case. The story Is a repeated confession that the prosecution la fishing lor evidence against somebody or against anybody, and that it does not know, and never did know, the party who mtirdeted Senator Goebel. But victims must be had, and prosecutions must continue for purposes of vengeance on the matt who ro4€ from the ranks and carried the banner of Republicanism to success in Kentucky—that man being none other than Caleb Powers.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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Hartford Republican
Hartford, Kentucky, US
Fri, Jan 10, 1902
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