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«)onI-i-r0I-10!•1OI-D07duoi*16nitainI-!•icI-I.rtk.i.rt6-ki FLA.YINO POLITICO jh | AGAINST MURDEti. !* (8L Loti* tilobe Dfiuoont.)“j On Jtnurj 30. 1000, William^Goebel «m Hhot at Frankfort. Kjr., I ri by noiue person unknown. lie died | font (lafa later. The assassin, said to hare been in ambush, should have Itocn identified and made to suffer the foil penalty of the law. Bat the troth ie that no effort haa hean made to single ont the morderer. Nearly two yearn hate panned and the world in no winer concerning the aaaaMin than it waa on the day the ahot wan fired. The anthorttiea that ahoald hare dealt ont atern juatioe hare played polition from the atart, and are atill engaged in the game. They would regard the identification of Goebel’* murderer an a calamity. Their achemo la to keep the caae open aa a mean* by which their poliiioal enemie* can be amirohed. They would like to haog or nend to prison for life aeveral hundred men, and chooac the number from thoee who stand in their light politically. Fire men hare heen indicted for the morder, tire hare been indioted aa acoeeaoriea before the fact, and an indictment waa returned against Governor Taylor on the ground that those who drive a man from the office to whioh he was rightfully elected are certain to pursue him with malignant hatred. There is no evidence against Taj lor. He ia simply wanted for trial by aliacked jury and witnesses coached by a notorious criminal lawyer. After sentencing him to life for the crime of receiving the most votes hia enemies would be mtiifled as far aa he is concerned, and turn to the next person they hate.This view of the osae is empnaaized by the revival of a story that the I Goebel plot waa hatched in Louisville Iclby a meeting attended by United le States Senator l)eboe, Lieutenant 111 Governor Harshall, David W. Fsir-1 |leigh, Alex. P. Humphrey. Basil W. n Duke and John M. Atherton. ThesaJ ie I well known men, and many other to prominent anti-Ooebelitea have been e I summoned to testify before the grand t. I Jury In Judge OantriU's oourt at I Frankfort to tell what was said and I what was agreed ’upon at the allegedmeeting. It is perfectly clear that ** I the identification of Goebel's murder-I er would stop this wholesale a»j«era-,0|tion of leading Kentncaiana who were opposed to Goebel and his meth-oils Bat the last thing the Goebel ** itea want is to single out the lndivid-I ual who fired #the shot. They have I covered up the trail of the 'aaaaasin ot I wherever they struck it. They gloat py over the opportunity to oast suspicion j upon every man *who ever ^protested le against Goebel ism with vigor and ne effect For two years they have been nR I feeding fat their tv /tonal political 1 grudges by this operation. Their I whole plan is to befoul those whom I they dislike, not to serve the ends ofon 1 justice.I* I Two years shonld have been enough aid I to narrow down the evidence oonoern* Qn I ing the villain who fired the ballet I that struck GoeqeL Instead of oou-I cent rat ing the proof, the coarse par-Isnedisto drag in a United States Jpr I Senator, a lieutenant governor elected with Taylor, several men of high character In the business work! and General Duke, the well known Con federate soldier and opjiooent of Uoe be I. When Caleb Powers, secretary of state elected with Taylor, waa placed on trial, sixty names regularly remaining in the jurors' wheel were excluded, and jurors were summoned fiom distant Democratic precincts. A notorious New York criminal lawyer ■baited the prosecution. Four men testified against Powers who professed to be in symjiathy with the plot, but could give no rational reason for turn-ing state's evidence. The country is sick of this farcical prosecution. It is not a murder trial in any sense of the wonl. It is merely an endless chain kept in motion to make political capital in its filthiest form.inerX-».missis»Nfolk--I
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Paducah Sun
Paducah, Kentucky, US
Wed, Jan 15, 1902
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